Where were the great British designers?

Posted by on Oct 18, 2006 in Uncategorized | 5 comments This is the snazzy winning logo which beat off 1,700 others to mark the 50th celebrations of the European Union. It was designed by Szymon Skrzypczak (pic), from Poland. It very cleverly picks on different type faces from different countries – I guess the UK is represented by the very arch and angular T from The Times, it denotes the very stiff British upper lip. But why didn’t any...
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Dell investigates my nightmare laptop

Posted by on Oct 18, 2006 in updates | 16 comments Six weeks after describing my nightmare laptop which has been bad news from almost day one, Dell has picked up the link and contacted me. It is now out of warranty, is still overheating and cutting out and we have added an exterior keyboard as that packed up too. Yet it has hardly been used and still looks brand new, a totally different experience to my workhorse Dell desktop which I bought...
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