Surprise Me – Cog Design

Journal entries ordered by “Surprise Me”

9^th February 2017

We’re back in Hammersmith, chatting websites with the lovely team at Lyric. more

16^th June 2016

Heather and Dan from English National Ballet are here for the kick-off meeting about a new… more

18^th January 2021

It may be blue Monday but Ed’s still smiling. more

5^th June 2018

The Making Music team are here to chat about upgrades to the site we designed for… more

Crying Out Loud

When Crying Out Loud was formed, in 2003, we designed their branding, launch brochure and website…. more

30^th May 2013

Ross and Jonathan have been at the creative coal-face today. Tea goes in, ideas come out. more

10^th July 2019

It’s time for our speed design challenge of the year, Anna and Kristina are creating our… more

4^th May 2011

The Cog team celebrating our 20th anniversary, in Michael’s garden. more

16^th April 2020

We had a great chat with Rachael and Nicola from Tessitura Network this morning. more

11^th October 2012

Tonight was our monthly Cog Night, we boarded the “Necrobus”, for a ghost tour of London. more

Jack Renwick at Typo Circle

This straight-talking Glaswegian set-up her eponymous studio in 2012, quickly establishing it as serious contender in… more

6^th October 2020

Anna and Emma are chatting about some exciting design concepts they’ve been working on. more

Simon Schama

The event fell into two parts. The first was an illustrated talk by Schama about his… more

12^th November 2015

Jenny has just received the new Studio brochures in the post from The Marlowe Theatre. … more

25^th March 2020

Ed’s had to move room to get wifi for the morning meeting. He’s sharing a seat… more

27^th September 2019

Michael’s enjoying his new Cornelia Parker print. more

18^th August 2020

Our friend Jo Taylor (from Rambert) popped in to say hello. She couldn’t resist a quick… more

21^st July 2011

Michael was at the Arts Marketing Association conference in Glasgow and spotted this Cog designed stand… more

5^th May 2011

First meeting with our new client, Sylvia, from Arts Council England. more

20^th December 2019

Ed has taken on the annual tradition of defrosting the freezer before Xmas. It’s a serious… more

3^rd June 2014

Michael spent the day on a training session at UK Theatre. It was run by the… more

16^th December 2019

Ed’s launching our week-long Christmas project on Twitter and Instagram. Look out for our daily videos. more

27^th April 2018

It’s a big day.. Jack’s been here a long, long time. Unbelievably this is the first… more

23^rd November 2016

Michael’s received an artwork from Bob and Roberta Smith, made especially for the National Campaign for… more

Hamlet at Almeida Theatre

The brilliant Andrew Scott gives us his Dane in a new production directed by theatrical wunderkind… more

23^rd October 2020

Some of the team have met at the virtual ‘bar’ for a pre-theatre drink before tonight’s… more

10^th June 2019

Emily’s finished meticulously putting everything back on our shelves after the walls behind them were decorated… more

8^th October 2015

There’s no substitute for seeing things at full size. Here’s Anna working on a drinks list… more

Cultural highlights of 2020

Michael gives a month by month overview of his favourite cultural events of 2020… more

5^th November 2020

Anna’s catching up with her other colleagues. more

27^th January 2012

We’re working alongside Casson Mann on a museum refit. Mike and Michael were at their offices… more