graphic design
One Year On: Sienna’s Impact on the Studio
As May approaches, it will mark a year since Sienna joined DSD as a Junior Graphic Designer, and it feels like the right moment to pause and reflect. Looking back, it’s hard to believe how quickly the time has gone, and just how much the studio, and I myself, have evolved in that short space…
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Doing your own thing and why it matters
As designers, we love to obsess over the small things, nuances that no one else might notice but somehow make the work feel ‘right’. Yet for all our attention to detail, we’re oddly susceptible to one big, messy distraction; what everyone else in the industry is doing! Everywhere you look; Instagram carousels, TikTok ‘day in…
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Graphic Designers, create for yourself… not just your clients!
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 a…
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Did they know it only takes one word?
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…
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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