British Library now showing Charter 2010 archive
Update. You can now see the Charter2010.co.uk site on the British Library’s Web Archiving Programme [ here ]
Three more articles added to our resource series
Today we have added three further articles to our resource series. These include:
Binding techniques – there are many techniques to bind paper in pamphlet/brochure/book form and we try to cover the most common.
Finishing techniques – once your sheet is printed there are many other techniques you can specify to add to the design/improve functionality.
Page design terminology – when you lay out a page in a DTP program, there are certain areas you need to be aware of.
To read more:
#4 Page design terminology
#3 Finishing techniques
#2 Binding techniques
Page design terminology
The fourth of our technical/terminology articles. When you lay out a page in a DTP (desktop publishing) program, there are certain areas of the page you need to be aware of. Below are some of the common terms used:
What design is and why it matters
All the information you will find on this page is courtesy of the Design Council, the national strategic body for design.
There is Design in everything that your see (man-made), whether it’s been done consciously or not. So the question therefore isn’t so much ‘what is design and why does it matter?’ but ‘how can I use good design to make the world around me better?’
How is design different from other activities?
Design makes your ideas tangible, going from an abstract thought/inspirations into something concrete. A designer doesn’t just think and then translate those thoughts into tangible form, they actually think through making things. This ability to make new ideas real from an early stage in developing products or services means that they have a greater chance of becoming successful more quickly. Designers are sometimes caricatured as being self-obsessed, but the truth is they are passionate about the end user of the product or service and how they use/interact with it.
Finishing techniques
The third technical/terminology article. Once your sheet is printed there are many other techniques you can specify to add to the design/improve the functionality. Below are some of the common terms for these various methods:
Binding techniques
In the second of our technical/terminology articles we touch on binding techniques. There are many techniques to bind paper together in pamphlet/brochure/book form. Below are some of the common terms for these various methods; there isn’t a standardised title for each of them – printers do refer to them by different names – but here are the terms we use:
Who says nobody won?
The General Election that nobody “won” has been a landslide victory for Bournemouth-based creative agency CuCo.
Late last year, the Conservatives were so far ahead in the polls that few even considered the possibility of a hung parliament. But CuCo read the runes correctly and developed a hugely successful website for Charter 2010, a campaign group demanding stable government in the event of an electoral stalemate.
Maintaining political neutrality throughout, www.charter2010.co.uk was launched in January, quickly becoming established as a trusted, informative and entertaining web platform. And, as the opinion polls tightened, visitors were drawn in ever-increasing numbers by the site’s dynamic design and CuCo’s smart interactive tools. For example, voters were able to search by postcode for their candidates’ views on hung parliaments and related issues, while a clever Majority Builder widget enabled them to create their own “fantasy coalitions” based on projected and actual results.
Alongside strategic marketing driven by sister company Vicky Kenrick, CuCo has gained national exposure for Charter 2010, commanding top-level media coverage for the website and even earning it a place in the British Library Archives. The project has also resonated loudly with the social networking community, proving popular with Facebook users and the Twitterati.
CuCo managing director Tony Cook and creative director Christian Cutler are delighted to have worked so successfully on such a prestigious and prescient project.
