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09 Jan 2008

Blog Makeover

Happy New Year to you all! Hope you all had a fun time.
As always at the start of a new year, it is a time for reflection, taking stock and starting afresh with new ideas. I am hoping that 2008 will bring new exciting challenges and adventures for the Deckchair team. One of the main things on [...]

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21 Dec 2007

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Hope you all have a fun and relaxing time! Look forward to seeing you all next year!
From all of us at Deckchair:

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10 Dec 2007

Advertisers cash in on Tattoo trend

Tattooing has been used throughout history for many different purposes and has strong roots in many cultures. Recently there has been a surge in the popularity of tattooing in Europe and the USA, mainly as a form of self expression. These modern tattoos take their artistic influences from many places. I find the Japanese style of tattooing [...]

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04 Dec 2007

Design Deadlines – Do they compromise the quality of your design?

 
The short answer to this question is NO, they certainly shouldn’t! For a web or graphic designer there are always going to be deadlines. They are a part of any brief; a client always has a timescale in mind. The question is whether the client’s idea of a realistic timescale matches the designers and their [...]

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28 Nov 2007

How green is your design?

 
I know that I am not by any means the first to raise this issue, nor will I be the last. But I do think that it is always a worthy topic for discussion. There are many areas of design where a greener solution could be chosen. The first and most obvious one for me [...]

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14 Nov 2007

Introducing the work of James Starr

 
Every now and then I come across the work of a talented artist, designer or photographer, and it’s always a great inspiration. James Starr was exhibiting at Room 212 in Bristol a few weeks ago and I have to say he is one of the more impressive artists I have seen there.
James is a painter, [...]

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17 Oct 2007

What a nice guy!

Last night, when I got home from work, all hell had broken loose, my daughter (aged 3), had stuck her hand onto a hot light bulb and was screaming the place down. After putting her hand under the tap for 5 minutes I rushed at top speed to the chemist round the corner.
The pharmacist recommended [...]

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08 Oct 2007

Ethical Design; a moral dilemma

As a web design company, we have clients from a whole range of different businesses. We have been approached by all sorts of companies; some of which we have found to be ethically unsound. Either the line of business is unethical or they have wanted us to do something we don’t agree with, in either [...]

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02 Oct 2007

When is good design not good design?

Well, let’s try to define what makes a design good; I suppose a design can be ‘good’ if someone says that it is – so a validation of approval means that it works for that individual. But does approval from the right person makes it good? Think about controversial works of art like a Damien [...]

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28 Sep 2007

Graduating into the Real World

When studying graphic design, should part of a university’s role be to prepare you, the student, for the “real world” industry, or should university just be an outlet for your creative experimentation, whilst you still have the chance to reside in its liberal environs?
Working within the industry, and looking at students and their degree shows, [...]

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