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		<title>Writing elsewhere: A good website helps your business</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-news/writing-elsewhere-a-good-website-helps-your-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently wrote this guest article for Manage My Website&#8217;s journal: &#8220;5 reasons having a good website helps your business&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>A really basic guide to social media</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/a-really-basic-guide-to-social-media</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many social media guides and blogs out there right now, it&#8217;s almost a whole industry. But I&#8217;ve always found it takes quite a bit of reading before you can really get a sense of what each of the major network is about. I wondered how regular users summarise them to non-users? So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 simple tips for your homepage</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/5-simple-tips-for-your-homepage</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own or manage a website, the one page you need to get right is your homepage. For new visitors, this page will make or break their visit. For regular visitors, it will tell them how well kept and up to date your website is. Here are 5 simple tips to help get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why big brands cannot afford to ignore social media</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/why-big-brands-cannot-afford-to-ignore-social-media</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/why-big-brands-cannot-afford-to-ignore-social-media#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Paperchase incident is a good example of how big brands cannot afford to ignore social media today. What happened? If you didn&#8217;t hear about it, basically they were accused of plagiarising a young UK artist&#8217;s work for a range of products. They apparently ignored her requests to remove the products and she could not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make online scrapbooks</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/how-to-make-online-scrapbooks</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/how-to-make-online-scrapbooks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as I&#8217;ve been a designer, I&#8217;ve tried to keep scrapbooks and scraps of things I like, find inspiring or just want to keep for future reference. Here&#8217;s a quick guide to how I&#8217;ve set up some online ones. The old way The trouble with traditional scrapbooks (or collections of any kind) is they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A really good logo should be memorable</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/a-really-good-logo-should-be-memorable</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/a-really-good-logo-should-be-memorable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two of my series on what makes a logo really good. Here I’m going to talk about why a logo should be memorable.]]></description>
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		<title>A really good logo should be iconic</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/a-really-good-logo-should-be-iconic</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/a-really-good-logo-should-be-iconic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bowleydesign.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part one of my series on what makes a logo really good, which I introduced in a previous article. Here I’m talking about why a logo should be iconic. What do I mean by this? Sometimes logos can feel a bit awkward, or look like a number of elements have been forced together. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should value good design</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/why-you-should-value-good-design</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/why-you-should-value-good-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reminded of this brilliant quote from the late Paul Rand, a design legend and one of my personal favourite designers. I realised it actually relates to the modern debate on the value of design &#8211; a hot subject these days as it&#8217;s become quite hard to get some people or businesses to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brawn GP branding</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/brawn-gp-branding</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/brawn-gp-branding#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been much more into F1 this year. Not just because it&#8217;s been an unusually exciting year for once, but also because there have been different teams leading the pack so far. As well as the obvious, one of the things that appeals to me about the sport is the massive part branding and design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a brand survive with a bad logo?</title>
		<link>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/can-a-brand-survive-with-a-bad-logo</link>
		<comments>http://www.bowleydesign.com/our-thoughts/can-a-brand-survive-with-a-bad-logo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly launched Microsoft search engine Bing (sorry, ‘decision engine&#8217; as they call it) seems to have been universally panned in the creative world for its poor logo. Microsoft doesn’t have a good track record in this department anyway, but as this was a crucial re-launch for them we were expecting something more. After all, [...]]]></description>
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