christmas

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 ...

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 ...

Once again Dusted was asked to produce the Christmas E-card for PRO Insurance. This year we went for a snow-themed typographic treatment. See the full animation after the break.

Well it’s that time of year again but as you get older it does seem that Christmas loses a bit of sparkle. I remember lying in bed hardly able to go to sleep with the excitement and anticipation of what I will wake up to the following day. Well that and being slightly frightened of ...

Instead of delivering the expected Christmas communication, Terra Firma have again decided to underline their contrarian positioning by sending the controversial, and thought provoking environmental book by Al Gore, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.