As Putin’s war against Ukraine continues, the world is looking on at the remarkable courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people and army. Designers in Ukraine have also been rising to the cause and producing powerful imagery to support the resistance. Read in full →
As promised, here are some shots of the amazing Ska’d For Life mosaic by Carrie Reichardt at Pool Meadow bus station in Coventry.
The Beazley Designs of the Year celebrate the best examples of designs in six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. The overall winner was the Teeter-Totter Wall by by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with Colectivo Chopeke Read in full →
Loved reading this story: how the centre for ageing better are using signage to challenge ageist stereotypes. Read in full →
The 4th and final selection of my personal fave projects from the Design Week Awards 202…in no particular order: Read in full →
Capital Foundation is an organisation set up to raise corporate funding for Auckland City Mission – a charity working with homeless people in Auckland NZ. The typical donation that they handle starts at $150,000 upwards.
They approached Simon Inc with a brief to design a gift for their donors. The gift was to say “thank you” from Capital Foundation, but also was to be something that the donors could then show to their stakeholders to show them where the funds had been used and why they thought it was a worthwhile charity to support.
Our solution was to commission documentary photographer Serena Stevenson to spend two weeks within the mission itself, meeting the people who use it as well as the staff and volunteers. She documented what she saw in a remarkable, sensitive and empathetic series of photographs which really reflect the warmth of the relationships between the homeless people and the Mission staff and volunteers.
As a realtively recent fifty-something, I am old enough to remember the bad old days of the UK in the late 70s and early 80s, a time of football hooliganism, race riots and bin-collection strikes. Read in full →
