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Simon Charwey

Book Review — Identity Designed: The Definitive Guide to Visual Branding by David Airey

Reading changes everything; it holds you spellbound to rare ideas and experiences of people you wouldn’t have had the chance to learn from…

4 min readJan 20, 2019

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Book Review — Identity Designed: The Definitive Guide to Visual Branding by David Airey

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Simon Charwey

A Conversation with Ashesi Students and Staff

A conversation I almost had this year 2018 with Ashesi University students and staff… For the past three years, I have been having the…

8 min readDec 31, 2018

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A Conversation with Ashesi Students and Staff

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Simon Charwey

Push Your Grown-Up Child to Learn a Skill — Every Long Vacation

Long, long, long time ago, after graduating from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as a student of design, at…

6 min readDec 12, 2018

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Push Your Grown-Up Child to Learn a Skill — Every Long Vacation

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Simon Charwey

National Folklore Board Seeks Compensation for the Use of Ghana’s Folklore for Commercial Purposes

Interesting...

3 min readDec 5, 2018

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National Folklore Board Seeks Compensation for the Use of Ghana’s Folklore for Commercial Purposes

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Simon Charwey

Book Review: Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler — 5th Edition

Every designer worth the salt will appreciate the fact that, “If branding was a religion, Alina Wheeler would be its goddess, and Designing…

4 min readDec 5, 2017

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Simon Charwey

Direct Response Marketing vs Branding: They’re NEVER meant to be separated!

After posting a strong brand thought—“Branding is NOT Marketing: I Think You Should Get That Straight”—on LinkedIn, September 11, 2016…

3 min readSep 20, 2016

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Simon Charwey

Can Visual Listening Change the Way We Design Logos?

In a post shared by Collette Doyle — “Images are the new Conversation. Are you Visual Listening?” — on LogoGrab™ blog, Collette shared some…

3 min readJun 20, 2016

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Can Visual Listening Change the Way We Design Logos?

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Simon Charwey

Design for Research

Victoria Young wrote and shared a post (on Digital Telepathy, November 20, 2014) that answers the question, “Does Research Make Design…

2 min readApr 8, 2016

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Design for Research

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Simon Charwey

5 Things Logo Designers can learn from Dixie Allan — Clip Art Expert

Ideas are everywhere — try it now.

5 min readAug 13, 2015

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Simon Charwey

Medium OS App for Android: Experience worth sharing

Now you can see my cursor blinking right in front of me, you had no idea how happy (and in fact, tickling) I am to finally install and…

3 min readJul 2, 2015

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Medium OS App for Android: Experience worth sharing

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Simon Charwey

Simon Charwey

→ Design is a cultural response. Working with African creative people in uplifting indigenous African design systems, design sensibility, and craftsmanship.

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