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The Outer London Fund
As you may have guessed, we have been busy. Too busy to update our blog, finish our logo and identity and get our web site up and running. This is because we have been involved with Design for London,...
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WHEN HIGH STREETS HAD PRIDE IN APPEARANCE
Once upon a time shops would look proud of themselves. Shop owners would stand outside of their shop with a look of pride on their faces. Goods would be beautifully displayed. Sign writers, sign...
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GREYHOUND WALL COMPETITION
Greyhound wall mural Designed By Good People The Greyhound Pub in Sydenham has been empty for a few years and is now being developed. A competition has been run to add some public art to the rear wall...
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WHAT IF RUISLIP MANOR
Hello!. We have done a lot of work for small brands (much of which hasn’t come out yet so we can’t show anyone what we have been up to!). But alongside branding and packaging we have been doing a lot...
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A VERY VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, Designed By Good People 2012
We don’t give out Christmas cards. But every year we have a Christmas story. This is our third year. In the first year we bought gifts through Oxfam, buying mosquito nets, medicine, livestock and...
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IN MUSWELL HILL
As part of the Outer London Fund we are asked by The Muswell Hill Traders Association to create branding for Muswell Hill. They hold various events, many of which already exisited and had logo’s that...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LONDON UNDERGROUND
On 9 January 1863 the world’s first underground train pulled out of Paddington station to make its 3.5 mile maiden journey to Farringdon. Today the tube is 150 years old. We love what Google have done...
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WHAT CAN HIGH STREETS LEARN FROM SHOPPING MALLS?
High streets are important, both for community and for place. They help define an area as being more than a collection of homes, but over time many they have lost their way, and yet shopping malls...
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Our latest Kiva loans. Want to chip in?
As you probably remember last Christmas we made a few loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries across the globe through Kiva. We’ve been paid back on time by everyone, which means that we’ve...
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WISE WORDS FROM A BLOKE WITH AN ITCH
Image from http://deepartnature.blogspot.co.uk/2008_08_01_archive.html “It’s absolutely stupid to do something you don’t like in order to carry on living doing something you don’t like. If money were...
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A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, Designed By Good People 2013
Every Christmas we try to live up to our name. For our first Christmas we bought gifts through Oxfam, buying mosquito nets, medicine, livestock and school books etc based on the 12 days of Christmas....
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GOOD THINGS: KIVA
Over a year ago we invested $1500 in Kiva to help people invest in their future (SEE HERE), instead of printing a Christmas card that our clients would throw away, causing waste. We are big fans of...
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WHY DO YOU GET OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING?
Do you love what you do? More importantly, do you love who you do it for? If not, why? These were questions we asked ourselves 4 years ago. We worked for another agency and most of the work we did and...
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KIRKDALE BRANDING & GHOST SIGN MURALS
We were commissioned by Tony Buckley of SEE3, the Portas Pilot in Sydenham, Kirkdale and Forest Hill, to come up with ideas to help regenerate Kirkdale. Kirkdale is rather long with two distinct...
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THE GREYHOUND MURAL LATEST
The Greyhound mural is finally installed, although no-one told us and you can’t see it! The building hasn’t been finished and is derelict, but strangely the mural has been installed and is covered in...
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WHY YOUR BRAND NEEDS A STORY…
In 1902, US President Theodore Roosevelt went on a hunting trip in Mississippi. One day he went back to camp and his party went on and cornered an American Black Bear before calling him back to take...
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WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH TESCO?
We have worked for a lot of agencies over the last 20+ years working in design and branding before we started Designed By Good People back in 2010. During that time we have worked with Waitrose,...
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BE YOURSELF
By British Cartoon Prints Collection [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAt a business lunch we were asked about trends in design. We said ‘ignore them and be yourself’. You never get anywhere trying...
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50/50 Christmas
7 years ago (before we started Designed By Good People), Lee and I were getting married just a few days before Christmas in Suchitoto, El Salvador. During the wedding service it is traditional (in...
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