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Our new design school has now been open for a few weeks. You’re very welcome to drop by LITFI.AC Thanks to HOWIES and photographer PAUL BLISS for the shot.

Chris and Vicky from the LOST IN THE FOREST INSTITUTE.

We were asked by LCC graduate, LUCY BROWN, to give a talk today. Each term, LCC’s Faculty of Design invites practitioners and theorists who have exemplary practices and /or processes to share their perspectives on the challenges, capacities and contexts of graphic design. The Autumn 2010 lecture programme contemplated the question ‘What is Graphic Design?’…

We’ve just come back from Switzerland where we went to a meet up about AR IN PRINT AND PUBLISHING. It was good to talk with like minded people to discuss some of our future projects with them. As it’s always good to learn, it’s important to meet new people too and for both those reasons…

Hello and Merry Christmas. It’s exactly four years to the day since Thoughtful was born. This Christmas Speech more than any other has been a test of one Thoughtful’s core beliefs: HONESTY CUTS THROUGH. For the past 3 years our Christmas Speech has been an open and honest account of our time in business. But…

We’re really bizzy at the moment, so we won’t be making any posts for a short while. We do hope you can drop by again in a couple of weeks when we’ll have something to show you. Thanks.

The students at Staffs Uni have launched a fund-raising site for their final degree show. Everything is hand-screened to order, and the prices aren’t too shabby. Here’s one of the tees we bought from WWW.GREYMATTERSTORE.COM

Howies are coming to town again. The Manchester sample sale will be held at: Triangle Shopping Centre, Exchange Square, First Floor, Manchester M4 3TR If you were there last year it’s directly above the unit we used. Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st May Trading times: Thursday 4pm – 8pm Friday 10am – 6pm Saturday 10am…

Here’s a peak at a project we’re thinking about. We’ve called it ‘AR t’. We’re also thinking we could extend the idea to ‘Street AR t’, too.

A few months ago LCC graduate, LUCY BROWN, visited Thoughtful. Lucy had a great portfolio, full of solid thinking. We sensed Lucy was a doer the moment we met her and not someone who is prepared to sit around and wait for the phone to ring. We were right. Lucy has just built her own…

Email is great. But it’s not without its pitfalls. We can think of a few occasions when we’ve offended someone when we hadn’t meant to and vice-versa. So we were wondering if all system fonts should have an extra cut which can be used to better communicate sarcasm or irony? (We’ve used the lovely KURSIVSCHRIFT,…

Thoughtful were invited to make a presentation at the 4 Designers Conference, at the Odeon in Leicester Square on Monday. It was lots of fun and we’ll stick some more pictures up shortly. What’s more important is to say thanks to lots of people who made it possible for us to be there. Thoughtful thanks…

The Thoughtful car has finally been sent to the scrap yard in the sky. Here’s two shots from the 2008 accident: If anyone knows a male driver of a silver Vauxhall Vectra Saloon with a bit of damage to the front near side of the car, who would have been on the M62 at 11.30am,…

Co-founder of the DO LECTURES, David Hieatt has written an inspirational piece for the Do blog. If you feel the same way as we do after reading it, please pass it on: The path of a Doer. Set yourself a goal. Set yourself a deadline. Define success at the start. Make a plan to make…

We’re 8 days into January now and most people will have already taken up (and given up) their New Year’s resolutions. We were never really any good at sticking to them to be honest, but 2010 is a fresh start for Thoughtful so we have made some of our own resolutions for this year, and…

Hello and Merry Christmas. It’s exactly three years to the day since Thoughtful was born. We weren’t too impressed with last year’s Christmas speech. We rushed it as we were working on other projects until late on Christmas Eve – our apologies. This year we started it early. We’re writing these first few lines on…

Here’s an idea we had last Saturday when THIS happened. We’ve found a spare minute to quickly visualise them based on THAT GREAT TEVEZ POSTER. And our fave, although more criptic… Disclaimer: This is a concept that is in no way connected with Manchester City Football Club.