Knee-deep in 3rd-party Cookies

Before I start this post, I need a disclaimer:

We’re not hardcore deveolpers at Debut, wer’e designers, or to be more specific print designers but, as with any design business we need to be in touch with the digital side of design. We design websites and work with a team of developers who make them work for us although we do have some knowledge of HTML and CSS which is how we created our own site and integrated this WordPress blog.

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CreativePanes

CreativePanes, daily creative inspiration for visual artists.

CreativePanes is a website that showcases illustration, graphic design, photography, print, apparel, logo and website design. Each post is an insight or window into the work of the most talented creatives on the web.

We set this website up in February 2011, as a place to list all the inspiration material we found or were forwarded through social media.

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Creative Wolverhampton

As the name suggests CreativeWolverhampton.co.uk is a website about the creative industries from in and around the Wolverhampton area.

We set this website up in 2006 to highlight the great work we felt was being produced in the local region by designers, photographers, artists and makers.

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Skoda Isn’t a Joke Anymore

First off, I have to admit that I know next to nothing about cars. Mine has 4 wheels, 5 forward gears and it can move in reverse. Every so often I put petrol in it, once a year I tax it and at every opportunity I avoid running into anything or anyone.

So why the post about Skoda? Well, this was prompted by the most recent Skoda TV advert, which got me thinking about how I perceive the brand now, compared to how I did 20 years ago.

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Choosing A Colour

This post is part of a 6 page article we wrote for Computer Arts Projects in 2009, in it we discuss the positive and negative connotations of colour choices for your brand.

There are 11 basic colours, each of which has their own positive and negative connotations, regardless of the shade or tint. The most common connotation, for Western cultures are listed here although this is not a definitive guide.

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Mind The Gap

Ok, so GAP have launched a new logo and the inevitable has happened – everyone hates it. The new design is below and can be seen on their website. Incidentally the old logo is still showing as the site favicon, either it is still cached on my Mac or they haven’t updated it yet.

I don’t normally like jumping on the bandwagon and slating a new design or a redesign of an existing brand but I couldn’t contain myself this time. The new design isn’t in the same league as the 2012 logo ‘bright pink Lisa Simpson’ but it is as bad as the recent Pepsi re-brand, in so much as it doesn’t really do anything. It’s just bland.

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Television Identities and Sub-brands: ITV

In the previous blog post we looked at the identities and sub-brands used by BBC TV to promote their channels and services. In this post we’re taking a look at the designs used by ITV.


ITV channels and services

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Television Identities and Sub-brands: BBC

With the recent introduction of satellite, digital and HD television, the terrestrial channels have all branched out with additional services and each of these new services needed a presence that was sympathetic to the overarching brand, but could also forge a standalone identity. Some channels have embraced this and produced some great sub-brands, while others have played it safe and simply re-coloured their existing logo.

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