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Lay off the twirlie-wirlies

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

There’s been a very prolific trend of late to render almost any graphic look and feel in a flowery, organic way. Think of the latest Orange broadband billboard campaign, the sony-ericsson campaign for whateva phone it was. And now we have the me-too’s sure to follow in quick succession. You read it here “STOP THIS […]

New (artiste) kids on the block

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Well, we’ve just completed our move to trendy art and design hub Hoxton Square and all went really well, all things considered. Office moves can be quite a nightmare as you may know. We only really had a few hiccups - I think the most embarrassing being the van we hired from Sixt which essentially […]

Magazine action

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

You may have seen from our home page that we’ve been getting some really decent press action at the moment. We’ve had a good run of late, what with a number of pages in DIGIT magazine and now a designer profile on your’s truly within .net magazine.
DIGIT, magazine, press, PR, […]

So long soho ~ Firedog’s 4th birthday

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

It promised to be a delightful mob tied up in some verbal bondage and it certainly was. Firedog recently landed in it’s fourth year of trading so we decided to celebrate the occasion by holding an art exhibition in Frith street’s Tapestry Gallery entitled ‘So long Soho’, which will be running for the next week […]

Spiekermann, live and unplugged

Friday, March 31st, 2006

On Wednesday evening this past week I had the immense pleasure of attending a D&AD Congress 06 lecture by the great German designer and typographer Erik Spiekermann. He is a true ‘old school’ practitioner with a very impressive body of work that incorporates the redesign of The Economist, Audi’s corporate look & feel and many […]

Year of the firedog

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Now hear this! We knew there would be a good reason for our rather odd choice of company name somewhere down the line. And here it is: This is the year of the fire dog which commenced on the 29th January 2006 according to the Chinese calendar. Fraser was going to pen this article […]

Have a scratch

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I think scratching vinyl is great. Well, when it’s with innocent intention, I think it is; Less so for my neighbours cat having a go at my prize collection.
scratch mixing, dj, scratch video, vinyl