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		<title>an accidental education: old news</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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Randomly chosen newspaper spread with stories grouped under two page headings. The wide field of vision allows many other connections/reasons-to-read
The Death of Print is a phrase regularly bandied about since the invention of TV (and probably radio before that), appearing with renewed vigour with the arrival of every new communications platform. The actual death of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>of biscuits and Bidies: Anna Steinberg interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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An illustrator, teacher and member of the editorial board of award-winning contemporary illustration magazine Varoom, Anna Steinberg creates beautifully drawn, witty and thoughtful images, some of which were recently selected for Images &#8211; Best of British Illustration and the London Transport Museum/AOI Cycling in London competitions. In this email interview she reveals the significance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>inside out: designing sustainable brands</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/information/inside-out-designing-sustainable-brands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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You don’t construct a building façade-first, then install services, framework and foundations. You don’t build a car by starting with the bodywork. We don’t (unless recovering from a big night out) dress coat &#38; shoes first.  So why are some brands designed from the outside-in, imposing personality at odds with experience? Outside-in brand design can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>too much information?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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This is my favourite road sign.  I like it because it treats me as a sentient human being rather than a mindless drone incapable of independent thought.  It encourages me to consider the possible hazards of my situation and trusts that having so reflected, I will make good decisions.  Were I not barrelling along at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>charm/offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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The matchless charm of 1950s/60s comics, which comes not only from the artwork but also the basic (but cleverly exploited) printing technology and cheap uncoated paper (pic via Half-man Half-static).
Forty years back (in the Life on Mars era) the fashionable aesthetic is an informal, natural look.  There is lingering hippy talk of ‘getting back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>original sins?</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/visualisation/original-sins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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Why do so many brand logos appear unoriginal?  Reading some press you’d think that graphic designers sit around all day either copying each other or channeling Vic Reeves: ‘that was my idea’.  Are we running out of ideas?  Is the media running out of stories?  Are strangely familiar logos coincidences, remixes or ripoffs?
Tempting as the brand theft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>product, Paolozzi &amp; Prima: David Keech on design &amp; music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multidisciplinary designer, musician and teacher David Keech was an Associate with architects Foster and Partners, the first non-Japanese designer at Yamaha Design in Japan, and now runs his own product and interior design practise, Keechdesign.

Kumu chair by David Keech with James Johnson. A Japanese word meaning to join together or assemble, Kumu has only five components, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what’s in a name?</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/distillation/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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British Airways in a proposed merger with Iberia is to list on the London Stock Exchange as International Airlines Group. Boring! When I communicate with power utility E.on, the name always gives pause for thought (am I writing it/saying it correctly? what does it mean?).  The two airline companies will continue to trade publicly under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a conversation with Cathie Felstead</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/inspiration/a-conversation-with-cathie-felstead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alembic.co.uk/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning illustrator and creator of book covers for novels by William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Isabel Allende and Alice Walker, Cathie Felstead has illustrated numerous childrens’ books and worked for big-name clients like British Airways, Channel 4, Ballet Rambert and Oxfam.  An RCA graduate, she also teaches final year Illustration at University of Hertfordshire.  She talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bottling decoration?</title>
		<link>http://www.alembic.co.uk/blog/inspiration/bottling-decoration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanmiller</dc:creator>
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Functionality, clarity and rationality reign supreme in contemporary design.  The Bauhaus casts a long shadow and analysis of function, distillation of meaning and removal of the inessential gives us the calm spaces, ordered structures and clear interfaces that we need to navigate our complex modern lives.  It could be argued that decoration is anti-design.  Style is [...]]]></description>
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