Design Crimes : No. 18 : Are you really being sincere?

After working in the creative industries for almost 20 years I feel like it’s time to give a little back. I feel like I have a responsibility to creative folk out there.

To designers, dare I say it, that might be looking up to me for some kind of guidance. I do want to give. I do want to help you out as you strike out in this scary world. A truly wonderful thing, is that today – we have the internetz, which means I can spread my advice far and wide to all those fledgling designers out there.

Firedog rank 79th in The Drum Design 100

For the first time in our near 10 year history, Firedog have been included in The Drum Design 100.

Our new entry as 79^th on the list highlights our growth as an agency and makes us very proud indeed.

The Design 100 list is a nationwide list of the top 100 design consultancies in the UK, ranked by fee income from design activities for the 2011 calendar. This is essentially a guide to the UK design industry for 2012 and gives some great insight. The vast majority of design consultancies in The Drum Design 100 now identify digital as one of their specialisms – which shows just how important digital has now become for any company. We’ll be working hard throughout 2012 to make sure we can our way up this list for 2013.

Take a look at the full Design 100 list on The Drum website.

Fancy yourself a Lord or Lady?

Then this design competition on Don’t Panic may be of interest to you?

The winner will have their design made into a wall hanging and will receive their own plot of land in Scotland, entitling them to become a Laird, Lord or Lady! Plus the winner takes home an iPad.

Firedog talks Virtual Identities

Vote for Cliff from Firedog to talk at Digital Shoreditch 2012.

The proposed theme of the expert talk is ‘Virtual Identities – the future of digital branding’ but we need your votes. The number of votes we get will determine whether the talk goes ahead and if it does, the prominance within the programme of Digital Shoreditch 2012 events.

Imagine a world made of Lego

Just stumbled across this lovely print campaign for Lego by German ad agency Jung von Matt. The campaign is called Imagine and its clear to see why, it’s absolutely delightful.

Have a look below to see if you can guess which popular characters have been immortalised into minimalist Lego.