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Authored opinions, cultural reviews and industry insights from our team, peers and clients.
Jack Renwick at Typo Circle
This straight-talking Glaswegian set-up her eponymous studio in 2012, quickly establishing it as serious contender in the world of branding...
Simon Esterson at Typo Circle
"Recently we've been using some big type and we've also been using some smaller type for text". Michael was at...
Mellor&Smith meet GFDA
Good Fucking Design Advice (GFDA) is an initiative from New York designers Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher. As part of...
Bruno Maag at Typo Circle
For his Typographic Circle talk, the outspoken typeface designer, Bruno Maag raced through a history of screen-based type design. Michael...
Carter Wong at St Bride Foundation
As a small design studio, Carter Wong have punched above their weight for three decades. In a talk, titled 60...
Tony Brook at Wolff Olins
In their reasonably regular 'Because' talk series, agency Wolff Olins invite leading figures from design and advertising to share their...
Ben Wright at Design Council
As part of their regular series of short talks, Design Council asked Ben Wright, co-founder of DesignStudio, to Take 5....
Daren Cook: Brand onions make my eyes water at St Brides
Talks about branding can sometimes be an unprepared monologue through the speaker’s portfolio. Thankfully, we were taken on a well-thought-out...
Andy Altmann at Design Council
In the second of their Take 5 series, Design Council invited Andy Altmann, one of the three founding partners at...
Hamish Muir: More Madness than Manifesto
The Typographic Circle, a volunteer-led organisation that brings together anyone with an interest in design and typography, host monthly lectures...
The Collaboration Economy
Established in 2006 as after-work drinks, Glug has since broadened its programme to include talks by some of the world's...
What was the point of the AGI Open?
Each year, a self-proclaimed, elitist club of designers descend on a major world city. This year it was London and...
Anthony Burrill at Wolff Olins
Once a month or so Wolff Olins put on an inspiring talk, under the title ‘Because’, at their studios in...
Michael Johnson at St Bride Foundation
In his Typographic Circle talk, Michael Johnson argued that Design Can Make a Difference. Our Michael was there to listen...
Intro at Design Museum London
The most recent event of the ‘Long Lunch’ lecture series saw Julian House, of the Intro partnership, visit Design Museum...
D&AD President’s Lectures – Hegarty on Advertising
We at Cog love a D&AD lecture, if only because they to generate such strong conflicts of opinion amongst our...
OMA at Barbican
An exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential architecture practices working today. Celebrated as much for their daring and...
Wim Crouwel a graphic odyssey at Design Museum
This exhibition spans his 60-year career and includes commercial work from some of the companies he worked with and founded,...