Everyday Cog

Michael and Ross are in Bristol. They’re on a tour round the factory at Apple Colour – our favourite West Country printers.

A contingent of graphics students, from Croydon College, are here to ask Michael some challenging questions about running a design business.

Sam’s at the Spektrix conference, giving a ‘lightening talk’ about how to get the most from your agency. Here’s the intimidating view from the stage at Lyric, Hammersmith.

Recovering from a foot operation, the rest of the Cog team have sent Becca their best wishes!

Sometimes it all gets too much – Ross is trying to get to grips with the dozens of wireframes he’s created for an international membership website.

We’ve had a sparkly new, bigger, better scanner. Bryony has found the perfect place to put the dusty old, smaller, worse scanner.

Anna and Michael have popped in to see Adam Fennelow at Design Business Association. Here’s CEO Deborah Dawton demonstrating just how bright the orange is on the brochure we’ve just designed for them.

Sam and Michael are at a kick-off meeting with a new client. They’re in a fancy wood-lined room in the Royal College of Music, with faces from history staring down from the walls.

Jenny has just received the new Studio brochures in the post from The Marlowe Theatre. She’s blown way by the neon colour.

One of us is having a good day. It’s Sam’s birthday so we’ve bought her a big plate of macaroons and profiteroles.

It’s a chilly day. Sæunn, Anna and Jenny are wrapped in their winter woollen scarves.

Chris ‘two computers’ Williams is here for his monthly check over our bookkeeping.

Can you fill in the caption for this photo of Ross? (He’s out taking photos for a new client brief by the way.)

Anna is telling Michael a lovely story about typography.

Bryony is deciding the best way to chop lemons for our lemony water: chunks, slices or half slices?

Anna and Sam are meeting Céline from Akram Khan Company to go over our designs for their new website.

Anna’s at a kick-off meeting with a new client.

There are lots of dictionary stands and wrapped up Peroni boxes behind the scenes at our Christmas shoot.

Michael’s at a Typographic Circle talk from Bruno Maag (Director of the type company, Dalton Maag).

Jenny got a big box of USB samples today. There was lots of excitement, so many wonderful choices.

Michael’s at a board meeting of the National Campaign for the Arts, talking about the recent ‘increase’ in arts funding, announced at last week’s Government Spending Review.