Handy.

I love a good hand drawn font.  Everything from working out how your font will look and feel not only on its own but applied to certain print based material. Take this new poster we have been working on this week, there is most definitely a really nice balance with hand drawn "schoolbook" font and the amazing flying circles that Clare has created. Hand drawn fonts help an audience realise that humans have actually worked together with technology to create such lovely visual matter. "Machines" (techology) can't actually make those straight lines as wobbly as the human hand can!
Next time you walk past a hand drawn poster or flyer, take a little time to appreciate just how handy we humans are. (even a garage sale flyer - they can be cool!)

I'll keep you posted - Em.
  

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Views (CEO)

The views expressed in this blog (eg Helen's Oprah rave which is a little funny...) do not represent those held by DPM Creative Group.

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. 

Logo and Brand Development

Earlier this year  we decided to freshen things up with a series of very distinct and vibrant illustrative flyers and posters. For the most part these were used in local mail drops. By local we mean the inner west of Sydney which is Enmore, Stanmore, Newtown, Petersham, St Peters and Erskineville. This place is a hive of activity when it comes to the arts and creative folk. There are many graphic design agnecies in the inner west and we love a healthy bit of competition! Even though we've been here (in Enmore), for almost two years, we still didn't feel connected to the community the way we did in Surry Hills. Mind you, we were in Surry Hills for 6 years so that does make a difference. The flyers were very well received and here is the 'fish' one. We'll get the other two up as soon as possible.

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.

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Helen

Wow, I've forgotten what it's really like to be a junior. Like a REALLY real junior. Multitasker, all-rounder, jack of all trades.  I am SO not used to being this dexterous.
But I must say the boiled lolly humbugs and san pellegrino aranciata are good compensation in the face of this.

Digging the new Dpm digs!

Good to be back, I must say we have all grown the wiser....

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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.  
 

Clare

Why haven't we heard from Clare yet? (RS)*

*RS denotes a note from Radi Safi MD.

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. 

What you wont see

Here at DPM we love design.
We love to design.
We love looking at design.
We love listening to design.
I myself fill a bath tub of design that I've found throughout the week and bathe in it just to feel closer to designer's I admire. Admittedly this tends to lead to a lot of unnecessary paper cuts but its well worth the pretty pieces of paper.
So taking this into consideration when we design for a client we like to over provide. Unfortunately this means that there are some pretty funky designs which will not see the light of day, until now!

Below are some samples of posters which were designed during the week (there are some coloured blocks covering some information so don't think that this is part of the design)

I have SOOOO much fun designing posters. I never tire of creating fun interesting imagery.

Also I was sent this lovely little website which made me smile... then want to make millions of animated gifs!

http://iamnotanartist.org/index.php



There is something so lovely about these gifs and so much scope for creativity in creating something that is not quite an animation and not quite an image.

Any way. Apart from that this week was a wee bit crazy for one reason or another- however we made it through another week! Huzzah!
My plans for the weekend involve hiking to Canberra to see the Masters of Paris at the NGA, which of course might not impress you till I inform you that I'll be going at 4AM IN THE MORNING! That's right the NGA is open for 24hours this Saturday, which excites me terribly! I want to go look at famous pretty oil paintings at some stupid hour in the morning, it will make seeing Monet for the second time EVEN MORE AMAZING!

Till Monday, have a lovely weekend and eat some raspberry licorice for me, I know I will.

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. 

OMG Run!!!!

The lovely Blur in the background shall be herein known as "Super Clare" (Think Super Ted- but far sexier). As you can see by this image she can move exceedingly fast, this is due to years of training and competing in underground layout battles which happen in the dark underbelly of the Design world. Generally these epic events are held down an alley way through the sewers over the Chinese restaurant in a secret level of an undisclosed building at dawn. You may not have heard of them- as you have to find the invite in a dumpster at a cafe, the whereabouts of which is only released the day before on "that really cool blog" that everyone is talking about- and before you get in you have to answer three of the door man's questions ....The point, my dear readers, is that Clare is awesome and is exceptionally good at digging out of previously mentioned flustered pickles, as she is doing here- putting together a run for printing.

The cheeky lass in the foreground (who happens to be your current articulate narrator) shall herein be referred to as "Junior", as it is far too difficult to pronounce her full name. For the purpose of this introduction I shall inform you that her full name is: George. See? Far to long to type and too many vowels to pronounce, so Junior it is.

I, that is the one in the foreground, and Super Clare shall be updating this blog letting you know the ins and outs of our tremendously interesting and dramatic lives here at DPM. The following blogs will have everything your intrigued little eyes could ever desire!

EXCITEMENT

ADVENTURE

ROMANCE

AND REALLY PRETTY SHINNY THINGS. (well mainly really pretty shinny things- but ill endeavor for the other genre's as well!)
Who knew Design was so similar to your favorite t.v show! So sit tight and stay tuned.







Until next we meet.



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.

Staff Blog

DPM Creative Group is a graphic design, web design, marketing and print management company based in the inner west of Sydney (Enmore to be exact), Australia. We're a very busy little studio with a focus on the fine arts industry and because of the nature of our work, there aren't two weeks that are the same. We think that makes for good reading.

This blog is intended as a week to week diary which is managed and run by the staff members of the studio. Enjoy.

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.