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A tribute: How Issey Miyake changed the way we saw and wore fashion

Inside Retail

Miyake arrived in Paris shortly after Kenzo’s “ Jungle Jap ” clothes had made waves, with their bright colours and unexpected patterns based partly on Japanese artistic traditions. Calvin Klein had responded with hyper-masculine underwear and hyper-masculine advertising. Japanese fashion revolution.

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Dominic Cummings wants you to work at Number 10

Design Week

However the jobs advertised by Cummings appear to be special adviser roles rather than civil service jobs – meaning that they relate to the inner circle of Number 10 Downing Street. Moreover, Civil Service jobs are politically neutral.

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Remembering Vaughan Oliver: “I never like to take the easy road. I like to provoke, to be perverse”

Design Week

“Most of us accept that graphic design and certainly advertising is about bashing out the company message in a clear and unambiguous way – Vaughan would do no such thing,” says graphic designer and writer Adrian Shaughnessy, who helped compile, edit and publish Oliver’s two-volume Vaughan Oliver: Archive in 2018.

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Remembering Bob Gill: “There’s no such thing as a bad client”

Design Week

In a full-circle moment for the studio, Pentagram led the design on an immersive exhibition for the band at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2016. Speaking to Design Week in 2012 , Gill did not hold back. His suggested title for the debate? ‘The SIA is full of s**t.’ “We ended up calling it, ‘Why join the SIA?

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Protest by design: the creatives performing acts of political sedition

Design Week

Pretty Little Thing by Bill Posters “Using the same tools as advertisers” The process of subvertising, also known as – and associated with – ad-hacking or culture-jamming, concerns the deliberate subversion of advertisement messaging in public spaces. “We were inundated by responses,” says Posters.

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“Long Hours Don’t Make You a Better Creative”: Top Tips for Design Graduates

Design Week

You are not an artist. And so, in October 2016 my colleague Kevin Growick and I decided to set up Adloids, a satirical online publication focussed on ripping apart the ad industry that we worked in (think The Onion of advertising). Money and negotiation know-how are just as much of being a designer as having killer Figma skills.

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Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in January

Design Week

A Polish-Jewish émigré, Him fused European modernism with British design tastes in some iconic and recognisable work, such as his wartime propaganda for the Ministries of Food and Information, as well as branding for El Al airlines and advertising for brands like Schweppes and the Post Office. When: 27 January 2020, at 7:30pm.

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