graphic design

Graphic Designers, create for yourself… not just your clients!

By Dan Summers | 13th August 2025 |

As a graphic designer, it’s easy to get caught in a cycle of back-to-back client projects, revisions, and deadlines. While that work is super important (and often pays those relentless bills), it’s just as crucial to carve out space to create for yourself – without briefs, boundaries, or external expectations. Designing for yourself isn’t just…

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Did they know it only takes one word?

By David Kightley | 31st July 2025 |

Churchill penned more words than Dickens and Shakespeare combined. In this post our guest author, David Kightley, explains how in graphic design it takes only a single word to create a lasting legacy. That’s quite a claim. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), statesman and wartime British prime minister, produced a staggering volume of words. In addition…

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Graphic design is like being in the theatre…

By David Kightley | 11th October 2023 |

When Lord Rose (better known as Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman and CEO of M&S) first penned his well-used analogy between being in business and being in the theatre he touched upon a rich vein of theatrical traditions and practices. In this post our guest author and former amateur thespian, David Kightley, delves back in time…

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