• A New Hope

    Play Chart Wars now on Facebook! Dean Vipond has produced the logo and visual design for Chart Wars – a music charts prediction game, for entertainment production company SomethinElse.   The game is for The Big Top 40 Show, the…

  • Misfits wins award!

    The Misfits online experience won a prestigious British Interactive Media Association award last night!   The experience, created and produced by Six To Start (and on which Dean Vipond was visual designer) won the Multi-platform award at the BIMA event…

  • Share and discuss local information with Vixles

    Exciting new project launched! Vixles is a new location-based news service, allowing people to share and discuss location-specific information, by attaching it to a city, or a specific point on a map.   Dean Vipond provided interaction and visual design…

  • Dissecting dConstruct – part 2

    Part two of my report from dConstruct’s one-day conference in Brighton. Following a lovely lunch in the sunshine in Pavilion Gardens, we re-entered the theatre for part two of dConstruct. Auteurship First up was blogger John Gruber, who received whoops…

  • Dissecting dContruct – part 1

    Part one of my report from dConstruct’s one-day conference in Brighton. With a pleasantly varied range of talks and speakers, down by the seaside in Brighton, I was rather excited. The Designful Company Things started very well with Marty Neumeier,…

  • Culture Hack Day logo

    Dean Vipond has designed the logo for Culture Hack Day – an event taking place in London in January 2011, in association with the Royal Opera House.   It’s a weekend for the arts, software and hardware hackers to get…

  • Vodafone Travel app now launched!

    Vodafone UK has just launched its Vodafone Travel app, for its signature 360 handset, as well as for iPhone. The app is an all-in-one travel companion, providing live flight status updates, information on using your mobile abroad as well as…

  • You beauty!

    Is data visualisation getting a bad name? I was pleased to see graphic design in the news this week, for reasons other than the usual public and tabloid outrage over massive fees for ‘just a logo’. Data visualisation was the…

  • Making things for real people

    Dean Vipond will be speaking at the O’Reilly Ignite event, in Leeds on 19th May 2010. It’s a great event, with a series of super-fast, five-minute talks on a huge range of subjects. Entitled ‘Making things for real people’, the…

  • Can we ruin it? Yes we can!

    The new, CG series of ‘Bob The Builder’ is a triumph of expense-saving over art and craft. As a father to a young family, I see more than my fair share of TV shows aimed at the under-fives. As has…