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Dec 18, 20244 min read
69% Chilly!
Julia chats with this year's Christmas card collaborator, artist Thomas Oldfield about the project and his processes.
Dec 9, 202414 min read
A labour of love
Julia chats with three design industry creatives, Jamie Ellul, Louise Kyme and Rob Howsam, about their music projects.
Jul 12, 202414 min read
Reinventing the wheel?
Julia chats with five graphic designers about their strategies when tackling recurring creative briefs.
Apr 8, 20247 min read
Play at work
Julia chats with four graphic designers about the process of play within their work.
Dec 19, 20232 min read
69% Gingerbread
Julia chats with artist Joseph Brown, who collaborated on our 31% Wool Christmas card this year.
Dec 1, 202314 min read
Green graphics
Julia chats with five graphic designers working across a variety of disciplines about their views on sustainability.
Jun 26, 202314 min read
Ideas XYZ
Julia chats with six designers, spanning Gen X, Y and Z to hear how their ideation processes differ and how technology aids them.
Feb 10, 202321 min read
Discussing Diversity in Graphic Design
Julia chats with creatives, Ravista Mehra, Pali Palavathanan and Katherina Tudball about diversity in graphic design.
Dec 15, 20225 min read
Christmas Skye
Julia chats with illustrator and educator Skye Baker, who worked with us on the 31% Wool Christmas card this year, about our collaboration.
Oct 31, 202214 min read
Shades of grey
Julia chats with six branding designers about their experience of making a difference to an organisation through a visual identity evolution
Jul 21, 202215 min read
Flexible and free: the future of fonts?
Julia chats with six creatives who work with type, to find out their thoughts on free fonts, typeface accessibility and variable fonts.
May 12, 202211 min read
The colour wheel
Julia seeks out six different design perspectives on brand colour.
Feb 7, 202210 min read
The chicken and egg of words and pictures
Julia chats to five writers about the intrinsically linked communication forms of words and pictures that make up a brand identity.
Nov 3, 20218 min read
Accessibility and aesthetics
Julia chats to clients and collaborators about the importance of accessible graphic design and whether aesthetics can compromise it.
Sep 16, 202118 min read
Practise. Design. Teach.
Julia chats to ten creatives who both practise and teach design, to hear their views on how the two roles influence each other.
Jul 1, 20216 min read
Celebrating a town’s musical diversity
Julia chats to four of the artists who are part of Croydon's music-themed art trail in Whitgift & Centrale shopping centre.
May 12, 20217 min read
Design It Yourself
Julia chats to three collaborators to find out their perspectives on how non-designers can effectively implement branding and design.
Mar 8, 202117 min read
Challenging the gender of creativity
Julia talks to six successful women at varying stages of their design careers about whether they feel hindered by their gender.
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