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We’re bursting…

We’ve always had a strong portfolio of ambitious small brands that can’t afford large ad budgets. They tend to see their packaging as media they own and come to us because we create campaignable ideas that they can make noise … Continue reading

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Enter Verismo from Starbucks, announces Guy Lambert

“I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man’s”. 200+ years after William Blake wrote those words they still remain one of the great maxims for life. They also (and Blake would hate this) are some of … Continue reading

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We’re pleased as punch!

At the Marketing Design Awards yesterday, we picked up the top award in the category of Home Shopping and Retail for our work on creating KNOWHOW™, the entirely new and since launching, phenomenally successful and game-changing service brand for Dixons … Continue reading

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The new cheap premium age – by Richard Williams

The health of the economy is always reflected in the products that we buy and how they’re packaged. Design is a great mirror on life itself. In these recessional times, extravagance and overt shows of wealth are ‘out’ and sackcloth … Continue reading

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Keep on cooking with Jamie Oliver

We continue our work with Jamie Oliver by designing the latest graphics and brand identity for the chef’s flagship retail store Recipease, due to open in London’s Notting Hill Gate mid-August. Set over two floors of prime retail space on … Continue reading

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Impact finds its calling, says Sarah Benson

You know the ones: you start seeing them everywhere; on t-shirts, Tube posters and telly ads. Then, like last year’s X-factor winner, they fade into obscurity. I’m talking about typefaces, the dernier-cri fonts that gain a spike in popularity and … Continue reading

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The not so humble placement, from Craig Kirk

It’s graduate time again! Here at Williams Murray Hamm we love graduates and not in the Mrs. Robinson way. We have placements all year round, usually for between 2 – 4 weeks each, and we pay them. For us it’s … Continue reading

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Heatherwick makes things wearing green trousers, says Guy Lambert

I spent a muddy Jubilee Week at the Hay Festival. No, I don’t vote Liberal Democrat. Amongst a swathe of celebrity authors a big, unexpected highlight was Thomas Heatherwick talking about his career and new book, ‘Making’, with Mariella Frostrup. … Continue reading

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WMH puts clear and optimistic design at the heart of the NuMe range from Morrisons

Proud to say that the first products from ‘NuMe’, Morrisons’ innovative own brand health range, are now on shelf. 315 brand new lines will replace the Eat Smart range and offer new lines across chilled, frozen and ambient, promising great … Continue reading

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Own Label 4.0 – a new way forward says Wybe Magermans

From the earliest generic own brand ranges, to German discount giants copying branded products shamelessly as price fighters and the radical launch of Tesco Finest, retailer own brands have run rings round traditional brands. Indeed, in the past decade supermarket … Continue reading

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