A curious collection

Has Mandeville wet himself? Is gender bending ok for brands?* Do we want to be delighted by a cash machine?

The Blue Lady's New Look and Other Curiosities
The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities

No, the Design Week office hasn’t overindulged on the sherry just yet. This bizarre line of questioning arrives courtesy of Jones Knowles Ritchie design consultancy, whose anthology The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities will hopefully answer these, and other, pressing uncertainties.

Inside the book
Inside the book

Following on from last year’s ‘Is Brad Pitt a Fishfinger?’ (the DW office, is, by  the way, as yet undecided on this one), the anthology brings together the JKR Design Gazette Anthology from the last year, giving us an insight into the world of branding, marketing trends and design.

Inside the book
Inside the book

Alongside an essay which ‘endeavours to discuss our post-modern design era without getting too intellectual’, the pages of the neat little tome are packed with illustrations ranging from birds, to Public Image Ltd albums, to cigarette packaging. Something for everyone, then.

* it seems so

The Blue Lady's New Look and Other Curiosities
The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities

‘The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities: Posts from the crossroads of design and marketing ‘ by Silas Amos will be available

from tomorrow on Amazon, priced £7.99

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