BADGES - Em.

Who doesn't love a good badge? Ever since your first birthday you can remember I am sure you received a rad card from someone with a badge!  You wear it so proudly on your birthday, everyone notices and goes ohhhhhh birthday badge!!!
Attention seeking?
No!
Just pure badge wearing bliss. They can be a little bit cheeky and cause a reaction at the best of times.
I hope that our 'Sly Fox Happy' badges give some people a bit of badge happiness. You don't want to miss out on these little beauties, because it may be a loooooong time before someone gives you a birthday badge :)

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Branding made easy with DPM...

Working on the new 'Happy' campaign last week got me thinking about how simple things can bring people happiness.  Sifting through photographs of beautiful vietnamese, balinese and cambodian folk reinforces the idea of 'simple happiness' - small things in life can make you the happiest.
At DPM there is so many things to keep the happiness levels up. Designing and being creative everyday, seeing the hard work pay off when a job is printed and we get to see what we have designed and send it off to our happy clients, and working with other happy people is always a plus :)
Whatever it is that floats your boat and puts a smile on your face then don't lose that, I think your onto something :)

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lack of audible sound - Emma

There is an underground call center known as ''The Phantoms'' 
I'm sure of it.
You know the people that ring you up and you say ''hello'' and they say '' (silence) '', so you say ''hello...'' again just to make sure and stil ... silence. (sometimes a little bit of static fuzz ) They can leave you hanging, especially if you are expecting a call and 'The Phantoms' call instead leaving you with nothing but nothingness...
They are always so patient, no matter how many times I say "hello, hello, hello, hello", they never hang up - but we always hang up on them. Are they just messing with our heads? Do they sit there with stop watches trying to beat each others records on how long someone stays on the line? Do they find it funny – or is this a job? for real. How do they make money if they aren't selling me anything? I really need to know.
If anyone works for this silent crew – don't leave me hanging, cough, sneeze, burp, say hello, theres nothing wrong with a bit of word vomit every now and again.
i'm friendly I promise :)

P.S. did anyone know spray paint underwater was possible??? cool.

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Recent Folio Pieces

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Not much of a blogger - Clare

Its not that I resist these wonderful growing social networking trends... I'm just not much of a blogger. But... there is a first time for everything! 

If you were to give me a glass of red wine I would babble on for hours and if you're lucky maybe throw in a few bad jokes. If you were to give me one of those big yellow foolscap (what a pointless size by the way) note pads and a smooth writing ball point pen, i could write you a book report on a book i haven't even read (flashback to  high school English) But for some reason typing out my thoughts in this little text box doesn't feel... well, natural! If this was facebook I could probably get away with writing 'Clare is writing a blog' and call it a day.

Im sure im not the only one out there who feels this way, so to help you all overcome this small obstacle, here are a few handy hints to help you pad out your blog entry:

1. COURIER  

Using Courier as a font is a rookie trick that dates back to my high school essay writing days. I remember the first year at school that I had a computer, god was I happy to discover Courier. With its fixed width characters and generous kerning, the letter 'i' all of a sudden becomes the same width as the letter 'w', turning your measly two paragraphs into a page of text with a click of a button! And the best thing is its a standard web font so it will always be around to make you look like a word-smith no matter where you are!

2. IMAGES

Nothing like a random pointless image to take up some space and create a visual break from all the Courier type on the page (see point 1). Now here's your chance to get creative kids  - there are plenty of images available on google images so you have no excuse.

Today I have chosen this image only because its freakin' awesome and I love beautiful typography. Its been sitting in my 'inspiration' folder all year and I have been dying to use it somehow, take a look and bow down!

If you want to check out some more fabulousness i recommend a visit to welovetypography.com

3. DON'T JUST SIT AROUND

No one wants to read someone's over-opinionated blog entry who sits around all day doing nothing. Try new things, get yourself out there - it makes for excellent conversation starters! Lucky for me, working at DPM  there's never a boring day! We are constantly working on exciting creative projects from logo design to books, packaging, marketing campaigns and beautiful print jobs, I would love to run you through some of them but we will save that for my next entry (yes, there will be a next entry)

So there it is folks! I think i could get use to this new and strange world of blogging! Will keep you posted!

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Playing Tetris at Work - Adrian

The process of fun here at DPM:

1. Book your job into Production
2. Get a proof
3. Send your "approval to print"... and...
4. KNOCK - KNOCK - KNOCK The posty's at your door with a box of printed goodies.

Is it really that easy?? Of course it is - we are fantastically brilliant at what we do!!

Well actually, it's a lot more fun than that because once we get your "approval to print" - the team here at DPM get to play a game of Tetris with all your beautiful artwork. Brochures, Business Cards, Invites, Postcards, Posters etc all come in different shapes and sizes and the fun part of my job is to make them all fit together onto one really really big sheet of paper to print from.


Flip. Rotate. Flip. Flip. Rotate... Until all the diff shapes fit together and the paper is full.
(And then we print... and then we dry... and then we trim to size... and then we pack.... and then the posty's KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKING at your door!)

I love it when you send through your different shapes and sizes and I can start playing Tetris!

Keep em coming folks!

Making Suits Look Cool - Radi

This is all about marketing... And yes, marketing and promotion when you run business is really important important in this world of ours. We have to do it just as regularly and just as aggressively as the next person. We’ve all heard about the three-second-rule. Something like a fish’s memory maybe? Fish aside, we would hazard to say that marketing is more important than the quality of your product. Now don’t get us wrong, we’re big on quality and sometimes that’s even to a fault but when you think about how much money is spent on selling toilet paper or toothpaste you kind of start to understand where we’re coming from. Perception is nine tenth of the law. So, with this simple philosophy in mind, we developed a nifty little campaign that we sent to a few local suits…

It’s funny right? And you know, apart from the one guy who wants to now sue us, it was really well received! We try our best to do at least one of these e-zines a month and we try our best to target them to specific  industries. It’s hard work and it takes a lot of time but it’s worth it. Phew, time for a tea break… and yes, all design and illustration by DPM Creative Group

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Lately... - Emma

It's August! Which means farewell to cold, icy July and hello to sunnier days and the defrosting of our toes. Last week at DPM we have put together a lovely photo of all things print that the team in the studio have been producing lately. If you are lucky, your letterbox may even have a nice little DL of this photo and some helpful info about what it is the crew at DPM can do for you and your business!

logo development and logo design as well as graphic design by dpm. circle is a sydney band or rather an australian band based in enmore and enmore audio is an awesome recording studio.