Moscow planners have approved Lord Foster’s design for the world’s biggest building. The British architect’s £2bn “city within a city”, Crystal Island, will be built on the banks of the Moscow river, with a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres, making it the largest enclosed space ever to be constructed. This is approximately [...]

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Revolutionary microchip cat flap manufacturer Pet Porte, has chosen
Betley Whitehorne to handle its creative and marketing services, following a competitive agency pitch.
Betley Whitehorne will deliver consumer and business-to-business campaigns to extend the brand visibility of Pet Porte in the UK and beyond. The agency will assist in elevating the position of Pet Porte as a [...]

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Three dimensional design and modeling is for a massive revolution if scientists can successfully miniaturize their swarming robot prototypes. The tiny robots have no moving parts, but can reposition themselves to create nearly any form or shape.

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This wonderful font explosion is from designer Sebastian Wrong and manufacturer Established & Sons. It is a time and date flip clock that uses twelve very distinct typefaces in its display. It comes in three different sizes, the smallest only including the time section. Unfortunatly at a little over £800 I can’t afford one at [...]

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While in Manchester over Christmas I visted the Urbis Centre, an interesting building in itself but you can depend on it to have interesting exhibitions on. Not knowing what would be on this time round I was pleased to find the D&AD exhibition of 2008 award winners and an exhibition on the Hacienda club.
The [...]

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Ozannes, a leading Channel Islands based law firm, has recently appointed Betley Whitehorne to handle its ongoing creative and marketing services. The agency will work closely with the marketing team at Ozannes to provide intelligent and creative solutions for advertising, design and online requirements.
Chris Betley, Managing Director of Betley Whitehorne said: “We’re delighted that [...]

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BBC Three is having a rebrand and here is it’s new logo design. I like it, although at the moment it reminds me of something else that I can’t quite put my finger on. It has a bit of the Sky TV ‘see speak surf’ logo about it and I am sure those e’s are [...]

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I’ve discovered that a good way to find a place in the hearts of work colleagues is to bake them some biscuits. It shows a lot more love that just buying some cakes from the shop. As I started at Betley Whitehorne just before my birthday it was the perfect opportunity for me to don [...]

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If you’re a bit of a t-shirt fan like myself you’ll enjoy the Threadless T-Shirts site. It’s got a great range of cool tees for you to purchase, and even though they come all the way from the US of A they’re not too expensive and don’t take long to arrive.

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Helvetica is a feature length documentary about typography, graphic design and visual culture. It investigates the proliferation of one typeface - helvetica.
I don’t think there are enough design documentaries like this about. It is a very fascinating film which deals with the birth of the typeface and its 5o year journey so far.

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