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• Bisqit go Dutch

  Posted 1 June 2011

  A lucky few from Bisqit managed to pop out of the studio on a lovely sunny morning to check out the fantastic 'Wim Crouwel — A Graphic Odyssey' exhibition at the Design Museum. Crouwel is arguably most famous for the space age designs he created in the 60's, with his typography making a comeback in the late 80's and 90's, seen on album covers and club posters galore.

  I personally found great delight in some of his later work, the first corporate identities created by Crouwel and his colleagues at Total Design. Identity systems for companies such as Makro and Randstad that Total Design created nearly 40 years ago still remain untouched today. Loving this shot of the members of the Total Design group, 1982, you know these guys mean business. 

  Strictly no snaps allowed inside the exhibition so you can't see any exciting pictures of Bisqit purring over Crouwel's and Total Design's awesome back catalogue. We did still need evidence that we had left the studio so we got a shot of these ancient coke guidelines at the small coke promo pop up outside the gallery!  

   

  Posted by Daniel Holmes

  

  Filed under // Branding   Culture   Exhibitions   Type  

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• Talkin’ about my generation

  Posted 9 May 2011

  We’ve just created the event branding for the annual Hill & Knowlton Charity Day. This year’s Charity Day takes place this Friday 13th May, with over 200 H&K’ers leaving their desks to support Age UK London.

  The teams will spend the day facilitating messaging and communications workshops as well as kick-starting a new campaign drawing attention to how elderly people are treated on public transport. The team at Bisqit are also mucking-in by running a brand workshop for one of Age UK’s new initiatives.

  This year’s event theme celebrates the coming together of generations, expressed via typefaces reminiscent of decades past.

  The event theme will stretch beyond the day and will help inform the dressing for the obligatory after party!

  Posted by Daniel Holmes

  

  Filed under // Culture   Hill & Knowlton   Miscellaneous   Type  

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• Where there’s type there’s brass

  Posted 11 November 2010

  Many thanks to Monotype for inviting team Bisqit to their Soho Webfest last night. The night was to celebrate their Webfonts service, which allows any typeface in any language base from the Monotype / Linotype / ITC catalogue to be set as HTML text. System fonts have been the bugbear of the type-savvy designer for years so this is a great step forward.

  The system is explained on the Monotype site.

  However, after a few glasses of wine I had a strange recollection that there used to be a Monotype brass band. Indeed, a bit of research today testifies I wasn't imagining it. I love the fact that type used to be proper man's work — A day spent labouring over hot metal and an evening playing in the brass band. Apparently the Monotype band was very popular with the workers of the time as you could get time off work for practice! – Maybe we need to start a Bisqit band?

  Posted by Matt Cridland

  

  Filed under // Digital   Miscellaneous   Type  

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