Greengaged

Greengaged

Words by Alex Bec, Wednesday 10 September 2008

thomas.matthews have been busy co-organising and co-curating a fantastic mix of speakers for the new event ‘greengaged’, launching at the Design Council for this year’s London Design Festival. Running from the 15 – 23 September the programme is jammed packed with debates, seminars, master classes and the odd excursion – and it is all free to attend! For anyone who is interested in sustainable innovative design and good practice we think attending greengaged is a must, but sign up now as places are limited.

Work / Events London Design Festival: where to go and what to see

London Design Festival is one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of design, in all disciplines, and there are hundreds of events to see, from the landmark installations at the V&A and this year’s inaugural London Design Biennale, to smaller, hidden gems around the various districts: Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Islington, Chelsea, Brompton, Brixton and Bankside. If you’re not sure where to start, you’re in luck because the It’s Nice That team has picked out the top ten exhibits you won’t want to miss.h3. What Ho! Andrzej Klimowski’s illustrations for P.G. Wodehouse
London Print Studio,  8 September – 12 November 2016

It's Nice That — 16 September 2016
Work / Graphic Design “Ideas are as important as execution” and five other wise creative nuggets

Whether it’s identity projects, graphics, print, animation, film or illustration you dig, we’ve picked out some wise nuggets and broken them into easy to read, bitesized chunks. These insights were gleaned from Offset festival’s inaugural London conference, which kicked off yesterday with some superb and inspiring speakers.

Emily Gosling — 13 November 2015
Features / Graphic Design Last night a VJ saved my life: It’s Nice That’s music-fuelled gif workshop at GDFS 2015

Gif parties, poster competitions, panel discussions and live performances – last week It’s Nice That took part in the annual Graphic Design Festival Scotland for the second year running. This year there were almost 3,500 poster entries from 83 countries, including work from Think Work Observe, Studio Mut, Eva-Maria Offerman, Lamm & Kirch, La Direction, Roosje Klap and Christophe Guard.

Jamie McIntyre — 29 October 2015
Work / Events The best of the best – This year's D&AD Black Pencil winners in full

And so the crème de la crème was announced, with five of D&AD’s highest honour – the Black Pencil – awarded this year. From radio advertising to branding it’s a diverse selection that’s sure to get people talking. It’s great to see some of our favourite projects from the last year recognised, and some we weren’t familiar with (the brilliant radio station for dogs, for instance) being celebrated. Without further ado, here they are!Made Thought’s comprehensive rebrand of paper manufacturers G. F. Smith aimed to “better reflect the legacy, stature and future ambitions of the company,” using a new Humanist Sans typeface designed to reflect both machine printing and calligraphy. As well as creating the new identity, Made Thought has also revamped G. F. Smith’s websites.

Emily Gosling — 22 May 2015
Work / Events Design that makes the world better – the D&AD White Pencil winners

D&AD has awarded White Pencils in a category of their own since 2013, and these recognise design and advertising projects that “demonstrate that marketing and marketing communications can be a force for good,” in the words of D&AD CEO Tim Lindsay. Four projects have been awarded the philanthropic pencils this year, two for brand and two for not-for-profit advertising and marketing communications. Here are the projects recognised this year… Lowe China used very powerful images of road traffic accident victims holding signs in the Human Traffic Sign campaign, which takes a straightforward idea and executes it brilliantly. Created as part of car client Buick’s wider road safety campaign, Human Traffic addresses the fact that one person dies every ten minutes in China – a terrifying statistic indeed.
www.lowechina.com the infuriatingly catchy LEGO Movie song Everything is Awesome for good, Don’t Panic London’s video (which went viral almost instantly) showed a beautiful LEGO Arctic scene being destroyed by oil. The campaign was a protest against LEGO’s alignment with Shell, the upshot was that in July last year the toy manufacturer announced it wouldn’t be renewing its contract with the oil giant – a true success story.

Emily Gosling — 22 May 2015
Work / Events Category winners of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year are out

The category winners for this year’s Designs of the Year have been announced, including a nod to one of our favourite projects, Marcel’s Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables campaign, which scooped the graphics category nomination. The campaign was nominated by our very own Alex Bec, and was created to champion the beauty within misshapen fruits and vegetables, which are sold at Intermarché for 30% cheaper than their more traditional-looking counterparts. The overall Design of the Year from the six category winners will be announced June, and all are on display at the exhibition alongside the other nominations (read our thoughts on it here) until 31 March 2016.This crowd-funded project develops ways to efficiently remove plastic pollution from aquatic ecosystems on a large scale.
www.theoceancleanup.com university building in Santiago was designed to create “the right environment for knowledge-creation.”
www.elementalchile.cl car that drives itself! No wheels, no pedals, just a button.
www.googleblog.blogspot.co.uk little chips were developed by Harvard University students and use living human cells that mimic the complex tissue structures and functions of entire organs, aiming to help advance the creation of personalised medicines and aid drug discovery with lower development costs.
www.wyss.harvard.edu Central St Martins graduate’s designs were chosen for their demonstration of technical skills and aesthetics, showing combinations of colour, cut and materials “with vision and confidence,” according to the Design Museum.
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Emily Gosling — 18 May 2015