The design of campaign posters is important, but in the grand scheme of what the elections represent, the importance is quite small. What I have noticed over my time living in Ireland for over 20 years is the lack of design in the creation of policies.  Now what I mean by design is the User Centre approach to problem solving. So for example if we are creating a policy are we as Politicians involving the user in the creation of these policies? 

There are many parts to a brands identity and it is something that is evolving all the time. Brand identities have to exist in many places. Most of what you see of the brand identity is visual, above the surface. What underpins or exist below the surface is the service itself. How the school is run day today.

don't think Skynet is going to take over anytime soon. And I don't think you have to worry if your name is John Conner, but these advances in Artificially intelligence are really moving fast. The tech report highlights many areas of design and related areas. One section of the reports stated that 88% of Designers surveyed believed that it will be at least 5 years before visual Designers are replaced.

I say this because of Amazon's venture into the supermarket retail space with Amazon Go. Amazon go has recently opened a store in Seattle with no check out staff. The staff that would have been working at the checkout are now standing around waiting to see if people need help using their phones to enter the shop or to check ids for alcohol purchases.

I think what is really striking about this mark is its solid foundations as a concept and the process of creating it. There is something lovely about inking up the oak cut off. 

The capacity of the Leeds Football stadium at Ellen road is nearly 38,000. Now the petition online for the removal of the new logo is 75,000 and counting. Its probably going to double the stadiums capacity. Why does this keep happening? If it's not a football club it's a University. Whats happening to the craft of logo design? 

Have you ever received a set of broachers back from the Printer only for your heart to skip a beat because they were just not what you asked for? You thought that what you had articulated to the guy or girl in the print shop was enough to get the branded broachers that you were after. This is a scenario that happens often where time and money are wasted because the Designer in the print shop had no reference to work from, nothing to spark inspiration, no visual identity to work from. 

You could change UX to RX (Renters experience) Over that period of time renting in Ireland, I have noticed some common traits in the design of houses, particularly those which I have rented. What I have noticed is that it tends to be the most frequently used areas that just don't quite hit the spot for a good living experience

Established in 1992, the Premier League is, not to be redundant, the premier English professional league. As a corporation, it is owned by its own 20 member clubs that act as shareholders and gives them the ability to negotiate their own broadcast licensing and sponsorship deals independent of the Football Association, which is the governing body of association football in England.

Just seen this video from Invison which gives a quick peek at their new documentary Design Disruption.

IBM Opened a new studio in London back in February, one of their many emerging design centres. The studio will employ around 40 Designers. There will be more of a focus on design thinking then engineering. 

Some interesting advice for early stage start-ups from the guys over at moving brands. Branding particularly in the start-up world is seen as something to do or tick off later down the development cycle of a start-up.

Using design thinking and service design tools, the groups had to profile their user and the customer journey, and then go out onto the street and interview the customers and also the staff working in the coffee shops

Loughborough University has temporarily halted the rollout of its new identity as a result of a petition set up to revoke the logo.

The new logo was developed with the aim of bringing the branding and visual collateral of the university – which has not been changed since 1996 – up-to-date, says Emma Leech, director of marketing and advancement at the institution.

The identity was created by Paula Scher and her team at Pentagram.  As with most identity projects of this size, the research was extensive, and spread across many teams and departments. 

The founders have a good sense of the benefits of a well thought out customer experience, and how to use design to create that emotional connection.

GF Smith are master craftsman, producing some wonderful pieces of work.

There is no doubting the man's contribution to modern Graphic design, but can our great design mines keep producing standout identities?

Maybe one day you might have people queuing for two days outside one of your shops for one of your products