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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The political hot potato that surrounds the arrest, custody and legal battle of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is set to run and run and I’m sure by Christmas, the story will still be headline news. I’m not about to debate whether ‘his’ site is morally right or wrong (personally I believe some things are probably ...

So the FIFA World Cup has come to an end — but what’s more important than Spain beating the Netherlands and lifting The Cup for the first time? The Dusted Studio Fantasy Football League of course. Congratulations go to Jamie for winning (some might say predictably, but Paul the Octopus didn’t see it coming). The race ...

It may well have been the hot weather but more likely the fact Design Week called asking for a Voxpop quote, but last week debate in the studio raged over designing the perfect voting system for the next General Election. Here’s my response which Design Week printed, followed by the suggestions from Dusted staffers. See ...

On my MA seminar debate last week at Goldsmiths we discussed the ‘author function’ in relation to value-creation in the economic context, interrogating the notions of originality and distinctiveness posited by Foucault in his essay “What Is an Author?’. Curiously, that topic led the group to challenge the definition of brands, in the classic sense, ...

As we await in anticipation for London Fashion Week, I felt it was necessary to promote a major exhibition staged at London’s Somerset House with ShowStudio. Fashion Revolution is a retrospective of nine years of online innovation, invention and creation. Based around the themes of ‘process’, ‘performance’ and ‘participation’, the exhibition showcases a retrospective selection ...

It was the eclectic range of speakers and associated subject matters that convinced me to return to Brighton having attended dConstruct in 2007. If you didn’t know dConstruct was a conference aimed at web designers and developers you certainly wouldn’t have gleamed that from looking at this year’s schedule. We were to have talks on ...

I had the pleasure of being invited to the Rankin Private View at The Truman Brewery a couple of weeks ago and was astonished by the array of amazing work displayed at the exhibition. As I entered the building a strong security presence made sure that it was only a selected few managed to enter ...

The British Film Institute (BFI) have a fascinating collection of footage from bygone days that I always enjoy watching. It’s rare that you find a film from the past that was recorded pretty much on your doorstep though. If you’re familiar with the Dusted offices you should take look at this clip and get a ...

As a recent employee at Dusted, I thought I’d make my first blog post about my current MA Group Exhibition at 65-67 Broadwick Street. I’m currently studying part-time at the London College of Fashion for an MA in Fashion Curation and wanted to help spread the word. Hopefully bringing a new dimension to the Dusted ...

Having just recently installed Live Sync, after a long and hard thought whether to indulge myself with Windows products. I begun to enjoy my first steps in exploring the capabilities in which cloud computing could help improve the way that I work. Cloud computing is here and is spreading fast, while an ongoing battle for ...

The Onion News Network has reported on a revolutionary new Apple product called the MacBook Wheel. A must-have for any Apple Fanboy, this exciting laptop has no conventional keyboard; it has been replaced with the familiar clickwheel from the iPod. Everything is just a few hundred clicks away. Seeing is believing so make sure you ...

Sam here at Dusted asked me “What Blogs do I read?”. I said, “Where do I start‽” Strictly speaking I visit very few Blogs, but I do subscribe to several Blog RSS feeds. So for Sam’s enjoyment, and hopefully yours, here is my list. Design A List Apart | RSS Boagworld | RSS Brand New ...

I think everyone would agree Christmas just seems to get earlier and earlier. I’m sure when John Horsley designed the first commercially available Christmas card in 1843 (yes, I did have to Google that top fact…) he wasn’t thinking about it as early as September! Around mid-December, when the BBC are showing re-runs of The ...

A photographer friend of mine told me today he didn’t want to be a photographer anymore, but instead, was going to be a ‘digital imaging poet’. Sounded like a great idea to me and we arranged to ‘touch base about it offline’ later (during one of our regular ‘idea showers’). We’ll no doubt be ‘getting ...

Everyone should be feeling that little bit more relaxed today as yesterday we all had our first session with Melina Di Carlo of Relax & Revive – a fully qualified on-site massage company. Much to Jack’s disappointment, the sessions were fully clothed, but to everyone’s delight, the sessions took place outside on our rather under-utilised ...

The use of hardcore marketing tactics during political campaigns is notorious, specially in a country like U.S. But what role have graphic design and visual identity techniques been playing in setting the cues to support communication strategies for potential candidates? If you had a glimpse at the US presidential elections campaign recently (like our Dusted. ...

How do you like your coffee? Extra shot, Venti, cream on top or without human interaction? Well imagine an application on your iPhone/iPod Touch that would allow you to select your java-juice of choice and pay for it all on your tiny shiny screen. Phil Lu has come up with a concept called QuickOrder that ...

With all the fuss over Apple Air and Adobe Air I wondered if anyone had frequented the public loos at Waterloo station recently and encountered the new Dyson Air? Dyson Airblade to be precise. I have and I have to say they are fantastic – the Dyson, not the public loos at Waterloo… Finally, someone ...