Every child dreams of being a superhero, and unsurprisingly I was no different. With a bin bag cape and underpants outside my trousers I was ready for anything, including the dastardly super villain that was next-door’s Jack Russell. The devil in dog’s clothing.

Not a lot’s changed really, I’m still cautious of very small animals, and often struggle to dress myself properly. But it was obvious that a career as Spiderman’s successor wasn’t calling me. Something I’d quite forgotten about until, that is, I popped in to the art gallery, Generation POP!

This kitsch little gallery situated in the Northern Quarter of Manchester recently paid tribute to comic book history – with a six week exhibition of the official Marvel fine art collection. As I strolled past the gallery’s long glass front (smeared with the steamy finger and face prints of excited geeks), my childhood excitement was quickly rekindled.

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At Red C we love letterheads. Which is probably a good thing since we’ve designed quite a few over the years. In some cases, a letterhead is the first thing that many a customer or client sees when dealing with a business, so having one that is aesthetically pleasing, impactful, memorable and professional is incredibly important. It’s safe to say, though, that designing a letterhead for a business is relatively a straightforward design challenge.

So imagine, for example, if instead of a business, we were tasked with designing the letterhead of say… the leader of the Third Reich. Or maybe a scientific genius, a film director, an animation company, a master magician or the Prime Minister. I wonder how we’d go about designing then.

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