I’ve been fascinated by type ever since my childhood friend and I used to cycle our bikes into the art and technical drawing supplies shop (the name escapes me) in Charles Street, Cardiff, to buy sheets of Letraset. Get back home and furiously, but carefully, rub the sheets to create works of art (in our minds that is; though Michael was a gifted artist who sadly passed away well before his time).
When discussion with friends turns to books, when I let people know that I (amongst other genres) enjoy sci-fi novels, I get a certain look. A look that says either ‘grow up’, or ‘start reading proper books’… or just, ‘he’s a graphic designer, what do you expect…’
I’m not usually one for the “Quote”. You know, the deep, meaningful quote about some subject or another that somehow always carries a little too much weight with some individuals and they end up basing their entire life’s philosophy on one or maybe a few of them.
Sitting within Cardiff Castle, Firing Line are a regimental museum that pride themselves on engaging storytelling though their exhibits and artefacts.
Part of the Park Plaza Hotel in Cardiff, the Laguna Spa is a city centre spa with a customer centric approach to their clients. Each client enjoys a particularly carefully planned journey through their chosen spa package.
We recently had the pleasure of meeting with Welsh Cycling and successfully applying through a competitive tender process to become their new creative design agency.
Caffeine Creative Limited will become the National Governing Body’s dedicated agency to collaboratively help create engaging content and meaningful visual communications from branding, graphic design, social media assets and more to help Welsh Cycling bring their campaigns to life.
Welcome to a new series where we pour out our somewhat obsessive overreaction to small-but-hugely-irritating-to-us design decisions. They could be graphic design, product design, or anything that bugs us.
A third sector organisation that needs no introduction came to us frustrated at their existing external designer. We looked at the original brief that was given to the incumbent agency and we laid out a selection of options to get them to their goal.
In between the showers that have been constant partners through August 2020 we did a very quick photoshoot for Fabulous Welshcakes.
I’m really not picking on Mini (see our other Mini based rant), but for this US version, what’s going on? The UK version has normal indicators set into the light cluster in a fairly normal manner. But with the US version, we’ll as they use the tail light as an indicator, things get a little weird…