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99 problems but amends ain’t one… 14 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
We have opinions on budget logo design which we’ve aired in the past. We’ve questioned the ‘pound shop’ mentality of flogging logo designs for as cheaply as possible and whilst we feel that there may ...
Leo Burnett already said it better than us… 7 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
It’s all too easy to get carried away with design. We’ve all been guilty at some point of adding a slightly unnecessary effect or one too many ‘finishing touches’. Knowing when a piece of design work ...
Creativity Decoded 18 Jul 2013 | 02:48 pm
We all have differing opinions, and with good reason. Life would be pretty dull if we all goose stepped along to the same thoughts and views. But surely there’s some things we have to agree on, so tha...
Ten Questions 037 – Laura Barnard 2 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
Laura Barnard is a Peterborough-based illustrator, who’s complex patterns, highly detailed cityscapes, quirky typography and characters caught our eye quite a long time ago. We love her work and, evid...
Making A Mess 26 Jun 2013 | 05:15 pm
In maths lessons at school we always had to ‘show our workings’. Clearly demonstrating how we solved the problem to let the teacher know that we had worked it out for ourselves, rather than simply cop...
One Thousand, Four Hundred and Sixty Days 18 Jun 2013 | 03:05 pm
Four years ago today, Mat Dolphin was officially launched as a company. Happy Birthday to us! In that time we’ve learned a lot, produced some work we’re hugely proud of and been lucky enough to work w...
Ten Questions 036 – Jordan Metcalf 6 Jun 2013 | 02:46 pm
We came across the work of Jordan Metcalf quite recently. His beautiful lettering for a recent Adobe campaign caught our attention and after checking out more of his work, we immediately got in touch ...
Behind the Design 29 May 2013 | 04:20 pm
As you may have noticed from previous blog posts, we’re quite interested in design. We like looking at it, we like talking about it and questioning it. We like learning and discovering new things abou...
Ten Questions 035 – Si Scott 22 May 2013 | 02:46 pm
Si Scott is an illustrator best known for his amazingly detailed and elaborate typography and decorative hand-drawn renderings of animals. His work has a unique style of it’s own and his reputation ha...
Saul Bass already said it better than us… 8 May 2013 | 02:15 pm
“Sometimes it simply doesn’t matter how good the brief is, how good your idea is or how well the project seems to be going. Design is a creative pursuit and definitively ‘right’ answers simply don’t e...
