Insights Michelle Barnett

How to beat your Creative Block
We've all suffered with creative block. That moment when all the ideas feel like they've run dry. But there are tried & tested methods to beat it - Michelle takes us through.
Our favourite projects
Taking a look at some of our favourite projects. Jo – National Counter Trafficking Service Developing the brand identity for the newly launched National Counter Trafficking Service at…

Do I need a logo or a brand?
What is a brand? What is a logo? One of the key questions within our industry, and one that is fundamental to establishing a brand that works.

Things in store for 2017
2017 is looking to be an exciting year for a dozen eggs, with things getting bigger in more ways than one. Newest member of the team – Beth The new…

Trends of 2017
Predicted design trends of 2017, including Material Design, Customised functionality, Irregular module grids, Gifs & cinemagraphs.

Behind the scenes
a dozen eggs in action; designing and developing. The design process and how the team gets to creative solutions that work for the client.

London Design Tour
All designers know that a bit of research and keeping up with the times goes a long way. So this week the studio headed down to London to visit some…

Animation in Design
Video is on the rise. Partly as it works well for ranking in Google, and partly as storytelling works well to extend a brand.

Rise of the Gif: the mini-animation
What are gifs? And how do you use them for your brand - utilised on social media, email and websites - they are rising in popularity.

Recommended Reading
In which I discover that my bookshelf is almost exclusively fiction… The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt This novel follows the relationship of a prodigy mother and son, and…

Favourite Illustration Books
An Illustrated Life Anthologies and collections are always excellent for showing the huge variety in the ways illustrators visually describe things. A lot of this happens online now, and…