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1 week ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
Hi! It’s Rich here,you’ll have to forgive me, this is a rare one-off message to the studio owners (and soon-to-launch studios) that follow BP&O. I wanted to introduce you to something that I’ve been working on over the last year, something that I think you might find useful. My co-founder Christian and I found a gap in the market for a new Applicant Tracking System (ATS), software that helps studios post jobs and collaboratively manage applications.
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2 weeks ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
Estonia’s Siuru plays with important questions, subverting and, at the same time, fulfilling expectations. Is it an art museum? A library? A cinema? Or a cultural institution?
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3 weeks ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
When I left the UK and landed in the Czech Republic – my home between 2010 and 2018 – I found a notable difference in advertising and branding between the two countries. Specifically, I saw an abundance of brand mascots. Now, of course, mascots were also used in the UK and have a global historical precedent, but I was struck by how regularly they appeared, and how they were applied across a wide variety of industries and markets.
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3 weeks ago | 
logohistories.com | Richard Baird
This post is supported by LogoArchive – The home of historical logos. Discover over 4500 of history’s best designs from the world’s finest designers. Always find the logo inspiration you need for your next project here. Increasing volatility in the markets of the 1960s, and the general mood in American and elsewhere was enough of a provocation for the leadership at Ford Motor Company (Ford) to look at ways of improving their position.
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1 month ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
How do you bring the fans, teams, and stadiums of the northernmost league together under a shared identity that captures the energy and passion that defines it? For Bond, the answer was in plain sight… the scarf – strewn across the terraces, held high, no matter the team or the weather. Veikkausliiga is the highest tier of Finnish football, consisting of the country’s 12 top clubs.
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1 month ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, the Ambassaden’s angular modernist stature holds a striking presence in the heart of Oslo. When it opened in 1959, it functioned as the US embassy until its closure in the early 2000s. Fast-forward to today – the building has been reopened and its programming altered. It now operates as a multi-functional space that includes music venues, restaurants, coffee and wine bars, offices, a gym, co-working spaces, and a rooftop terrace.
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1 month ago | 
logohistories.com | Richard Baird
This post is supported by LogoArchive – The home of historical logos. Discover over 4500 of history’s greatest designs from the world’s finest designers. Always find the logo inspiration you need for your next project here. Polaroid was founded in 1937 as a manufacturer of polarised sunglasses, which came from the research conducted by founder Edwin Land during his studies. Later, after returning to Harvard and continuing his research, Land and co-founder George W.
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1 month ago | 
bpando.org | Richard Baird
Since 2020, engineers-turned-mushroom entrepreneurs Vathana Len and Daniel Vogt have been growing the fanciest mushrooms I’ve ever seen, from their shiny urban greenhouse in Montreal. From Pholiote adipeuse to King eryngii (I don’t know what those are either) and everything in between, Full Pin’s mushrooms are cultivated with meticulous precision and at an impressive rate – over 700 pounds per week.
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1 month ago | 
logohistories.com | Richard Baird
This post is supported by LogoArchive – The home of historical logos. Discover over 4500 of history’s greatest designs from the world’s finest designers. Always find the logo inspiration you need for your next project here. The growth of commercial international air travel afforded countries the opportunity to project aspects of their culture into foreign lands. This was particularly true for those national airlines known as ‘flag carriers’.
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1 month ago | 
logohistories.com | Richard Baird
This post is supported by LogoArchive – The home of historical logos. Discover over 4000 of history’s greatest designs from the world’s finest designers. Always find the logo inspiration you need for your next project here. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York and later came to be known as the First National City Bank of New York. The creation of Citicorp, a holding company, in 1968 began a trend amongst the larger banks as they expanded into new areas of business.
