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How The Designers Foundry went from side project to global type provider

Creative Boom

Bisel by The Designers Foundry The New Zealand type foundry has been offering quality, accessible and interesting typefaces to designers since 2012. The company was launched by Daniel McQueen as a side project back in 2012. Looking back now, that launch year feels like a different era. "So

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BBC unlocks iconic design archive with new platform, BBC Playback

Creative Boom

all by entering a three-digit number on our remote. It was launched in 1974 and operated until 2012. The service was eventually discontinued due to the digital switchover and replaced by the BBC Red Button service. If you were someone born after 2000, you would never have seen or heard of Ceefax.

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Alan Kitching: London's Building Blocks brings letterpress mastery to Madrid

Creative Boom

Alan Kitching, one of the most celebrated letterpress printers of our time, is bringing his work to Madrid for a new exhibition that explores heritage, craftsmanship, and the evolving role of print in a digital world. These typographic maps are both documentation and design objects, celebrating London's literary and printing heritage.

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David Hockney is brighter and bolder in new Kings Cross dynamic art space

Creative Boom

Last autumn, HERE at Outernet opened as a new purpose-built music venue beneath the streets at Tottenham Court Road and the largest digital exhibition space in Europe. The seamless digital projections cover all four walls and often the floor. We look closer at the artist's much-anticipated new show at London's latest venue, Lightroom.

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Wildish & Co. rebrands Spacemade, a flexible workspace company

Creative Boom

on the strength of its experience in creating brands which had to flex across digital applications and real-life physical spaces. is an independent creative studio established in 2012. They initially contacted Wildish & Co. One example of this had been their work for Curve Club , which we covered in May last year.)

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Regular Practice rebrands online estate agency Purplebricks over a decade after launch

Creative Boom

Founded in 2012, Purplebricks launched to empower homeowners to sell their property themselves. We aimed to modernise the brand for today's more digitally native world. Motion is a key design asset for any digitally-driven brand." Online estate agency disruptor Purplebricks went from being worth an estimated £1.4

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F5: Gina Nadal Shares a Favorite Movie, a Memorable Project + More

Design Milk

” After graduating in 2014, she went on to receive her MA in Fashion Graphics from Manchester School of Art in 2015, exploring ways to synergize weaving with digital coding in order to create products that hold emotional value for their owners. Apparatu: Lesson, 2012, Apparatu 4.