Saturday 18 June 2011

Design Business Association

`The Design Business Association exists to promote professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design which improves the quality of people's lives.`
DBA works with business out there to help other companies looking fro designers that they can trust to work with. 
Helps to bring business in to design, they have a programme that offers training courses and workshops which inspire you and your teams and lead to more potential for client contact. 
They demonstrated  the benefit of effective design as an integral part of your client's business mix.
 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards has been repositioned to be far more business focused.
Becoming a member of DBA have benefits they help making your performances, portfolio and you business skills more sharper/professional.


DBA Design Effectiveness Award 2011



WAITROSE LIMITED
AGENCY: Waitrose Graphics Design-Packaging Team

The launch of essential Waitrose delivered the most impressive results in the company’s history. In the first 12 weeks like-for-like sales grew by 16%. After 12 months essential Waitrose had become a £1/2 billion brand accounting for around 17% of sales, leading one commentator to 
suggest that Waitrose had “simply shrugged off the recession”.



CADBURY BUTTONS
AGENCY: Pearlfisher
CLIENT: Cadbury

Since relaunch, sales of Giant Buttons have gone up 46.2%. Cadbury has achieved its desired growth in the bitesize sector, with a 44.6% leap in market share, and Giant Buttons is now the number two bitesize brand for customer loyalty.

Design Council

`We place design at the heart of growth and renewal in Britain.
As CABE and the Design Council come together, we’re well placed to give a strong voice to architecture and design. Our aim is to promote design and architecture for the public good.`
The Design Council is a charity incorporated by Royal Charter and now includes CABE. Our funding comes from various sources including the Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Communities and Local Government (DCLG). 
The Design Council started life in 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design. Over more than 60 years Britain has seen massive social, economic and technological change. We've changed too, though we've always fought to make design central to Britain's well being.
Design council has different section and areas as a designer and organization can benefit of it.
Helps you setting up your business, giving advice and mentoring on what is best. Design Council  Offers grant for organization to motivated new ideas to continue to be put out there. 

D&AD

Professional bodies they exist in different areas of work, they are here to help to promote and to maintain our work in the professional pathway.  The next Organization that I will speak about one of their goal is to help us promote our work.

Starting with Design and art Direction (D&AD)
This is a British educational charity that promotes excellence in design and advertising, their logo is “Benchmarking and rewarding great ideas that are well executed and appropriate”.
D&AD is helping the design community to discover new talent by advertising talented young people work.
D&AD helps to develop your skills in any area of arts from performers to designers day have work shops all year around for individuals from all stages of their careers  and groups to inspire creativity and develop new ideas.
D&AD workout sessions
There is a ready made, on a year long rolling programme of timetabled sessions. All you need to do is book on and turn up. Or for larger groups, might like to consider the bespoke option in which courses can be made to measure to meet the specific needs of a group or team.
Student of the year D&AD:
A team from Kingston University has been awarded Student of the Year for their colourful idea for brief sponsors IKEA.
This show by been involved in competition with D&AD any individual can have their work advertised and published. 
D&AD make you dream come true, you just need to work hard..

This is successful people, organization and work that is involved with D&AD:   

Robin Wight is President of both Engine and WCRS, but despite his elevated career in advertising he has always maintained a firm grasp on the challenges for those entering the industry.His interest in diversity (or the lack of it in advertising) led him to set up the Ideas Foundation.

Coca-cola
It ha s won the design Grand Prix at Cannes, two D&AD yellow Pencils for design and advertising, plus the 2009 Emmy for an Outstanding Commercial. Most recently it has recognised once again as the top performer in Bes Global Brands 2009, the annual report from brand consultancy Iterbrand.



Monday 13 June 2011

Professional Bodies

A list of professional Bodies that help the Designers out there to make your name be recognize, some of them have awards for new creative blood.
Give a look they can be your way up to your future...
http://www.dandad.org/
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk
http://www.istd.org.uk/
http://www.dba.org.uk

Thursday 9 June 2011

Searching for the right Font ( Packaging Design )

Lux
Algerian
Lux
Bernard MT Condensed

Lux
Bodoni MT Condensed
Lux
Colonna Mt

Lux
Edwardian scrip
Lux
Engravers Mt
Lux
Goudy stout
Lux
Hobo std
Lux
Lucida Calligraphy
Lux
Magneto
Lux
Wide Latin

Tuesday 7 June 2011

Smart and creative packaging design

Smart and creative packaging design that I found on my search for inspiration.














 





 



























Search engine used Google.

Saturday 4 June 2011

My search

This process was long, but finally came to some middle ground and I found my identity this still a work in progress but finally can present my self and my work..

D.Art
discoveryart@live.co.uk Facebook page.

Friday 3 June 2011

Advise

Hi, a small a advice if you opening a website looking for some help, give a look to this website that a friend tall me about to help me.... give a try http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/portfolio

Website

For information check my website www.disocveryart.org.uk
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