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Possibly the most abrupt 'no parking' notice about...

Some kind of magic

I saw this woman at finsbury park today just walking onto the tube. How utterly amazing would it be if we all learnt to carry this way, it's not something you see very often.

Branding 2.0

It was another of d&ad's talks yesterday with the future of 'branding' at the forefront of conversation. Mr no logo, Simon Manchip
hosted the evening whilst an array of guest speakers including Michael Johnson, spoke in a pecha kusha style format about branding. There seemed straight away to be an agreement that branding had 'changed', moved on and become more than simply a logo. Branding they said, was now about integrated thinking, developing systems that can be transferable, diverse and reconizable without having to stick the logo in the bottom right hand corner. Yet one speaker from SomeOneElse, talked about branding being more about customer experience, about fundamentally re-engineering a brand, not simply re-styling.

It was an interesting set of questions as I haven't really studied branding. But one thing Michael Johnson said at the end really stuck...

"The only limit to branding is your imagination"



Branding?

Pizza

Saw these man hole things yesterday that really do look like pizza!

Design museum

Was Wim Crouwel's exhibition really that good? Well if I'm honest i found the design awards on the floor above far more exciting. Undeniably Tony Brook had done an amazing job curating the exhibition but I found it hard to relate to the work. It seemed to be lead by style rather than ideas and his work for me lacked a human touch. But maybe I'm just
missing the point or at least I was distracted by the selotape buildings, magnify glass tables and spinning chairs in the floor above?

26.2

This is exactly the distance I will be running this Sunday for the London marathon! Exciting, but really nervous as well