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Some great advice here from industry figures on how to thrive as a freelance designer bit.ly/2yZys8r
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Environmental charity @PlasticOceans teamed up with @ladbible to launch a campaign to tackle a country-sized problem facing our 🌍: an area of trash equivalent to the size of France floating in the North Pacific Ocean bit.ly/2xUdOlI
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Freelance illustrator Ben Tallon won’t pay 39p for a tin of beans but will happily fork out £350 for a 3D print of his own head. He explains how this attitude helps further his career: bit.ly/2sR4Ntm
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Strategists who have no interest in design and designers who have no interest in strategy are missing a trick bit.ly/2z1sMHR
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Royal Mail recently began trialling a new postbox, the first major design change in its 160-year history, prompting us to look at how it has developed bit.ly/2xIUOYg
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We speak to @kellyellen, founding director at @WhiteBearRoarrr, about new initiative SHAPE, how hard it is to break into the industry without connections, and the need to broaden the workforce bit.ly/2pwAvJO
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.@DixonBaxi has rebranded @FOXSportsnl, the sole broadcaster of the Eredivisie football league, and has introduced a visual language inspired by “total football” bit.ly/2NxjRIy
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“I was at a pretty shitty school – but it had an amazing ceramics department,” says @TomDixonStudio. “I really took to converting raw material into something of value. In hindsight, that’s probably made the difference to my career.” bit.ly/2I8038i
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From the archive: @studionorth has rebranded the Science Museum Group to bring together all five museums across the UK “under one visual language” rather than “focusing on London” bit.ly/2wMx43P
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.@MukDesign is a mother-daughter studio designing for creative minds. They'll be showcasing their work from tomorrow until September 23rd at the London Design Fair (@L_D_F) bit.ly/2O5wk2p #sponsored
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We visited Bang & Olufsen's headquarters in Struer, north west Denmark and spoke to head of design Marie Kristine Schmidt to find out more about the design-led business: ed.gr/fe2z
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A set of commemorative Royal Mail stamps celebrating the Old Vic theatre’s 200th anniversary has been released bit.ly/2POB4Kj
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Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? is a new book published to accompany the exhibition currently on at London’s Wellcome Collection. We speak to co-editor Lucienne Roberts about the power of graphic design in healthcare bit.ly/2xAV8Go
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“The story of women in 20th century graphic design has been criminally neglected,” says David Bownes, curator at the London Transport Museum. bit.ly/2xDE4zB
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Freelance illustrator and columnist Ben Tallon meets ad guru Sir John Hegarty and talks about why taking risks is so important in the freelance world: bit.ly/2vtsUwK
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From the archive: Monotype launched a font for Dubai, as part of a collaborative effort with the city’s Executive Council and Microsoft. We speak to the type foundry’s UK type director Nadine Chahine about the project: ed.gr/ffdj
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Pentagram partner Paula Scher has rebranded the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library based in the US capital city, Washington D.C bit.ly/2QsNgS1
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We asked designers for their favourite examples of design in the public sector? bit.ly/2rt9olr
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Design business advisor John Scarrott shares some tips for managers and leaders to get the best out of those who sell the services of a consultancy: bit.ly/2xa2K2w
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