Tetley Team Tea Poster

The lovely people at Tetley Tea Folk found my motivational team tea poster on my website, and they liked it so much they shared it on their Facebook page! The poster has also been tweeted by Strudel, a design company based in London. I had fun making the poster and I'm glad other people are enjoying it also. 

It can be viewed by clicking here.

Tips for getting a design job

There's so many articles available on the web with help tips for graduates and people looking for jobs. With so many people applying for each job, it's important to stand out and use blogs, websites social networking etc to your advantage.

I recently came across this article on graphicdesignblog.co.uk which outlines the steps that are needed to successfully get that first job in the design industry. It's worthwhile reading the tips from articles such as the one linked, because as a student or graduate, there's still a lot to learn about the industry,

Bic For Her - just what I've always wanted.

It's ideal to know about your target market when creating and selling a product, but sometimes it can go a bit far. Bic is a huge seller of pens all around he world and so must have done a lot of market research, and had some success stories and also failures. Well I can show one failure.

Bic have created a Bic Cristal 'For Her' range. These pastel coloured pens are described as has a 'thin barrel to fit a women's hand', and an 'elegant design - just for her!'. Why do women need a specific pen? Surely as long as the pen works it's ok? I can understand why there are different lengths of pens, different types, ink, biro, pencil etc, but why have these pens been marketed at women? I'm sure there are men out in the world who would like to use a thinner pen. A more successful brand would have seen it being sold as being a slim version, useful for both men and women. I've come to wonder if Bic are running out of ideas for their products.

There have been many hilarious reviews of this product on the Amazon site, both in the UK and USA. Very sarcastic, witty, and tearing apart the product which may be useful but marketed badly.

The reviews on the Amazon.com site can be found here. The Amazon.co.uk site and more reviews can be found here.

Clients From Hell

I stumbled upon the website Clients From Hell when I was doing the Reveal brief whilst still in university. Some of these clients are insane! Realistically, a lot of them probably don't have a very good knowledge of design, or anything related to design, which is why they have someone creating the work for them. I do feel sorry for them, as some really don't have a clue and try their best to get their heads round measurements, colours etc, but some clients just don't want to admit that they are wrong and get defensive and rude!

Still, it's not putting me off looking for work in the industry. Dealing with these people may become a source of humour throughout the working day!

Keep Calm and Stop Making Copies!

I'm getting so very bored of all the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters, mugs, aprons, bed quilts, pillows and practically anything that can be given the 'Keep Calm..' make-over. Ok, so maybe it's not about the original poster, because in some ways it has become a design classic of morale boosting posters. It's more about all the variants that have sprouted from the phrase. Keep Calm and Eat Cake, Keep Calm and Make Tea, and even Keep Calm and Fuck Off. It feels like there's no creativity, and I doubt that most of the people who are creating this rubbish have a clue about the history of the poster.

Keep Calm and Move onto the Next Fad.

Google - Let It Snow

Once again, Google are getting involved in festivities. This time, by typing "let it snow" into the search box, the window starts to snow and mist up, until the page can barely be seen apart from a box with the word "defrost".