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...simply our chance to post up things that we find inspiring, interesting, amusing or informative. There are no hard and fast rules, we just hope this page changes and evolves into something that gives you an insight into what makes us tick.

More4 Flips Out with New Brand

03 February 2012
Article by: Brand New
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London 2012: Olympic art recreates French masterpiece

01 February 2012
Article by: BBC News
A photo of Olympic Park workers posed to resemble a famous French painting was "triggered" by similarities between the two landscapes, the artist said.
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DC Entertainment Reveals Its New Identity

20 January 2012
Article by: Fast Company’s Co.Design.
DC Entertainment serves up a sneak peak at the next step in its evolution as a multimedia entertainment company, with a new brand and interactive logo that celebrate its long history of secret identities, superpowers, and storytelling.
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Waterstones –  ‘A step in a new direction that begins by using what was familiar’

16 January 2012
Article by Simon Manchipp for Design Week
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Sherlock to return for third series

16 January 2012
A favourite within CBA. If you haven’t seen this series make sure you catch up with it on the BBC iplayer. Read about Sherlock series 3.
 

 14 0f the year’s best ideas in interface design

January 2012
Article by: Fast Company’s Co.Design.
Nowadays, our gadgets meld seamlessly into our lives straight out of the box. Once charged up, we can make sense of them after a few minutes of exploratory button-pushing. The horror of VCR programming seems like a faint memory...
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This is what happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids

January 2012
Article by: Colossal Art & Design
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color.
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Carved book landscapes by Guy Laramee

January 2012
Article by: Colossal Art & Design
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures.
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An interesting design for getting around!

January 2012
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