ABC Logo Quiz

Logo Quiz with Ecole Bleue students to evaluate visual culture, observation skills and memory. One logo for each letter of the alphabet.

Over 12 000 views of my Slideshare presentations

Our UNHCR Syria's children posters

Seeing Eye People service launched in NY

To enable people to safely text and surf while walking the streets of New York, the Seeing Eye People service has launched. Tether up and be safely guided to your destination whilst never letting your eyes leave the screen.
Via Improv Everywhere.

Monop' review published in Australia

My Monop' review for Brand New is published in Australia at design agencies.com.au

Bonjour Monop' brand review published

My review of the new Monoprix and Monop' branding is published in Brand New.
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/bonjour_monop.php

Syria Child Refugee UNHCR poster at airport

Help Syria's Children

Our Help Syria's Children poster. All aid to www.unhcr.org
http://bit.ly/ZODvxC

Worlds Greatest Graphic Designers posters

Poster design by students from the Ecole Bleue - a tribute to 50 of the worlds greatest.
Marine Cabasse, Vinciane Klein,
Romain Manesta, Chloé Ambrogi

The Next Day

Subversive design and viral campaign by Jonathan Barnbrook for Bowie's The Next Day album.

Kröller-Müller Museum brand typeface

Great typeface developed as part of the new branding and identity for the Kröller-Müller Museum Amsterdam by Edenspiekemann.

Coca-Cola happiness!

Great Happiness poster for Coca-Cola by McCann Germany. With a nod to Amazon. smile.

Updated portfolio on The Creative Finder

http://thecreativefinder.com/portfolio-broad.php?username=paulvickers

Two new Great British brands launched

New brand identities for British Athletics by SomeOne London and Great British Chefs by Hat Trick Design. Paralympic sports players are included. The Chefs brand allows for different chefs tools to be used to create the C.

Meanwhile the UK promotes itself as the Great business destination

The Great Britain campaign - Great technology, Great entrepreneurs...

A design disaster 'Made in France'

The total disaster Made in France logotype by Arnaud Pigoudines of Jak, Paris. He describes it as ‘a logo-picto to put onto products and labels, at a small size, where space is limited’, ‘the principal was to be easily recognisable on a pack’. 
Some joke! This does not work in small sizes, is hard to print, has colour registration issues, requires CMYK or special colors, will be a lot of fun to embroider on textile labels. The hand drawn A is just a joke - oh and the clever Eiffel Tower reference! The lock-ups are bizarre and the 'Made in' changes position, size and weight.
This proposal seems to discredit the design profession by its amateurism and is sure to do strictly nothing to help promote and dynamise French business. Merde!

Misplaced manhole covers!

A graphic nightmare. Once you start noticing them you see them everywhere. Via partickmaloney.net

Sculptural book cover by Phaidon

Great pop-up sculpture book cover.

Open Days Ecole Bleue Paris

22 23 24 March are the Open Days at the Ecole Bleue. The occasion to discover the global design work of the students from the Preparatory Year to 5th Year diploma class.
Top Marine Cabasse, bottom Benjamin Lina

Cocoricoo typography

Interesting graphic Cocoricoo typography on the ad hoarding in front of the Café Français, Place de la Bastille. Under renovation by the Café Costes.
Design India Mahdavi.

iWork

View from my desk with ongoing work and, of course, Mac, iGadgets and a bottle of wine.

Debossed concrete type on the Bar des Touristes

Superb debossed cast concrete type on the facade of this microscopic disaffected bar. 1950's I would estimate but with a distinctly art deco feel - short top bar on the E and geometric B, R & S. Thiviers 24.

Joe in Australia

My Joe mobile article is also published in Australia at designagencies.com.au

Alliance Française des Designers listing

I am now listed on the Alliance Française des Designers annuaire and website.
www.designers-france.com/fiche-416/paul_vickers/

Joe mobile review - full article

Original car park facade sign

Great facade 'accident' on the Cours Victor Hugo car park building in Bordeaux. The racing green Jaguar Mark II hangs precariously balanced in space over the street. No need for a big blue P here.

Blue and white mosaic tile typography

Superb typography and facia signage in Bordeaux. The combination of the mosaic tile sans serif caps in blue on white with the cursive script in white on dark field is excellent. The metro style tiling adds to the art deco feel.

Joe logotype review on Brand New

My review of the great Joe mobile branding and logotype is on Brand New.
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/go_joe.php

More of our work featured on Designspiration

Think Big by Leg

Brilliant poster campaign by Leg Agency, Paris for Eurostar. Leg are behind a lot of creative campaigns as well as the clever humoristic Eurostar work.

AA joins BA & AF with a red swoosh

American Airways is the latest airline, this month, to launch a red swoosh brand. Following on the groundbreaking British Airways ribbon by Newell & Sorrell 1997, then the Air France accent by Desgrippes Brandimage in 1999, we now have the red eagle, A or star by Futurebrand 2013.
The jury here is still out on its success. OK, but innovative?

10 000 visits on SlideShare

My design presentations have hit the 10 000 visits mark on SlideShare. The most popular presentations are 'Packaging Design', 'H2O - ecology the new luxury' and 'Organic Cosmetic branding'.

Malala for Noble Peace Prize

Our poster in support of the nomination of Malala Yousafzai for the Noble Peace Prize.

Easier to buy a machine gun than a French cheese in the USA

Unpasteurized milk cheeses that are matured less than 60 days are illegal in the USA. Machine guns are no problem. This graphic highlights the situation and supports Obama's gun control legislation, following Sandy Hook.

Oliver Grant packaging

The Oliver Grant sale is on and I am pleased to see they are still using the special sale packaging we designed.

Snohetta for Lascaux

Norwegian agency, Snohetta and Duncan Lewis have won the Lascaux visitor centre design project, just down the road from us here. Opening 2015. At the same time Repetto, based in our town, have opened a new €4.3 million factory extension to boost production of Repetto shoes, with the creation of 150 new jobs.

Paul Vickers Design is on Pinterest

Find us on Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/paulvickers/paul-vickers-design/

A Quarter Century of Design retrospective

I am working on a retrospective book  'A Quarter Century of Design', landmarks in my creative work from the 1980's to today. To be published in 2013.

British designers knighted in New Year Honours

British designers knighted by the Queen in the New Years Honours: Sir Kenneth Grange, with whom I worked at Pentagram, for Industrial Design and Sir Quentin Blake for Illustration. Last year Sir Jonathan Ive (Apple) and Sir Marc Newson for Industrial Design.

Our 2011-2012 Annual Design Review published

Our annual review highlights some of our major work over the year.

NY XIII on Designspiration

Snow art by Simon Beck

British artist/designer Simon Beck from Les Arcs, Savoie creates these stunning pieces of snow art overlooking Mont Blanc.
Christmas Greetings.

Xmas & New Year 3013 card in Designspiration