We honestly can’t get enough of baking it would seem, jumping on any excuse to pre-heat our ovens and flour down our sides. So with the arrival of the Easter holiday season we once again decided to pit our baking wits against each other in another bake off! This time round it was decided that ...

After the success of 2011’s Dusted Bake Off, which saw us competing for mince pie glory, we decided to repeat the event. This year though we settled on gingerbread as our weapon of choice. So, in a similar vein to last year, we were to bake and construct our own creations of gingerbread. These ginger ...

Here at Dusted we can be a little geeky about typography. We like to think pretty carefully about what your typeface says about you. After all, in these digital days we rarely get the opportunity to scrutinise handwriting as we used to. Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’ is Simon Garfield’s Just My Type. A ...

On my day off I decided to reproduce the Dusted logo through CSS. CSS3 properties have allowed us to reproduce some images and icons purely with code — whilst it is pretty cool, it also has some disadvantages. From left to right: The original JPG, CSS and CSS — but without border-radius. As you can ...

Students completing degrees in creative subjects could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic about their chances of getting a job straight away, particularly as most are expected to undertake work placements for very little or no money, just to obtain the experience they need to get an actual job. So why aren’t universities teaching the skills ...

The iconic luxury brand, Orient Express, launched its first Stateside digital awareness campaign last week and Dusted were responsible for a key part of the development. Working alongside Chandelier Creative and Criterion Global in New York, Dusted built and integrated a microsite and various social media channels, featuring nine short films, which follow the travel ...

Google Plus is the new social network from Google. This post looks into the real reasons it has come about, and outlines exactly what it does – analysing some of it’s main features and comparing them to existing social networks. Why has it come about? Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering boss believes “online sharing is broken. ...

Dusted were in Wales last month, assisting Harrison Catering with their ISBA (Independent School’s Bursars Association) conference stand. Spanning two days, this annual event is an opportunity for catering companies such as Harrison, and other services relevant to the independent schools sector, to exhibit their company and network with clients, prospects and competitors. Last year, ...

IBM are currently celebrating the success of their latest super-computer. Its name is Watson and it won Jeopardy. Jeopardy, for the non-US based amongst you (and the rest of you that haven’t seen Groundhog Day) is a long-running gameshow where contestants are given the answers. Their challenge is to guess what the question is. Watson’s ...

Dusted USA continues to gain a foothold in the American market and just before Christmas, saw the launch of Donald Haack Diamonds & Fine Gems (DHD) – the highly respected jewelry store based in Charlotte, NC. Dusted were commissioned to redesign and build a new site for DHD, who were looking to update and drastically ...