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Movie studio does the right thing?

After opening my copy of Day Watch this evening, I was pleasantly surprised to find something you really don’t see all that often… a thank you note.

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State is one of the best-designed magazines out there

Sometimes I’ll drop into a newsagents and have a look over the magazines for design inspiration and, if I find anything I like, I’ll buy it to pour over later.

The first issue of State caught my eye immediately. It is beautiful.

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The real cost of an iPhone in Ireland

A guest post mostly by Des Traynor : Never have I seen such nonsense printed regard a product price, as I have these past 10 days. It’d be one thing if it was just the usual luddites masquerading as technically adept journalists, but it’s everywhere. From 140 character rants on twitter, to lengthy essays about PaddyTax and the ridiculous premium we pay for living in this country. I am not going to speak out in favour of Apple or O2 here, but I would like to inform the debate that surrounds the O2 iPhone in Ireland.

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Didn’t you hire me to design?

As designers, we’ll sometimes get requests from clients that we don’t believe work, or will find our work micro-managed to the point of our role changing from designer to Photoshop technician. We all know why we don’t like situations like these, but I’d like to talk now about why this is bad for our clients. Hopefully this entry will be useful to my fellow designers when raising these concerns and for clients looking to understand why we need to question them. It is adapted from an email.

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