Author Archives: matt

Intersections 11 – A designers perspective

At the beginning of March two members of the team attended Intersections 11 – a creative business summit based at the Eden project. http://intersections2011.com/ Intersections, titled – re-designing the future of business spanned two whole days and required quite the commitment from it’s delegates especially those special few that stayed the night in the ‘Shelterbox [...]

Marion Case study

DESIGNER “I really had a lot of fun creating these newsletters & I think it really shows! It was great working with a client who had come to us specifically after seeing what was possible with our own mailer. Henrietta wanted an email newsletter that was ‘slightly different’ & that’s exactly what I tried to [...]

SD Labs & Rise of the QR Code!

You’ll probably have seen an increasing number of these strange looking bar codes potting up all over the place these days. If your unaware of their purpose, they provide a rather useful way of encoding a hyperlink into the physical world. Most if not all smart phones are capable of reading these codes and there [...]

What’s the ISSUU?

Hello and Welcome to Slightly Different’s New-Look Newsletter! Open publication This month we’ve started publishing not only through our blog but also Issuu ( a digital media publishing platform. ) But while your here… please feel free to browse the rest of our extensive back catalogue using the navigation on the right, alternatively you can [...]

Do typefaces really matter?

We certainly think so… I recently discovered an interesting article the BBC wrote as an introduction to typographic culture. Having both a professional & personal interest in typography I was intrigued to read what they had to say about it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10689931 “ The typeface matters because of its power to create a sense of recognition [...]