President’s Dinner – an unchosen concept
July 29, 2025
A recent episode of HBO’s Succession features a cringe-inducing scene for designers.
Watch it and weep.
TLDR?
A design team tries to present logo options (online) to distracted, late and disinterested family members.
Have you ever heard ‘Change a logo by 10% and then you can legally use it’? We take a look at 2 examples involving Taylor Swift and Tabasco and explain why this is a myth.
Whatever the brief is, it’s exactly the same. Every project. Every time. Every design. It‘s just one word.
It’s that time of year when we start looking forward to the end of the working year, changes in the seasons, and celebrations over the New year…
Sometimes it can be hard to think of Christmas Cards (especially when the holiday season is months away). So we present a few ideas to get your creative minds sparking…
For the 2024 President’s Dinner event at State Library Victoria, we created two visual concepts.
This is the concept that didn’t make the cut, and we share some of the additional printing and finishing details.
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2. Usable
3. Quality
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