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With 5 category nominations, Design102 makes the shortlist

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Text reads ‘Shortlisted. Inside Out Awards 2020’ alongside a simple cartoon illustration of a hand with fingers crossed. The image uses Design102 brand colours – navy blue, a lighter blue tint and orange

The Inside Out Awards recognise outstanding in-house creative teams, so as the government’s in-house design service, we thought we’d enter some of our projects and people. Now the shortlist’s out, find out which awards we’re up for.

Creating a rich picture and animation to illustrate Smarter Working

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A still image from the animation framework showing the ‘bare bones’ of the character rigging used to animate the action of movement in areas such as arms, legs and walking so our characters could go about their smarter working day. The rigging is comprised of different coloured sticks connected by dots that represent limbs and joints the limbs and joints of three humanoid shapes, two sitting and one standing. The sticks and dots can be manipulated to portray movement when illustrative graphics are overlaid

Follow the process we used to create the engaging ‘rich picture’ visual illustration of smarter working scenarios and principles within the Civil Service. Also view the short animated film we created, featuring those illustrated scenes, to further expand on details.

Designing sensitively: how we presented the MoJ stillbirths consultation

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Image featuring the words 'Take part in the consultation' in white against a pale green background, above a graphic of an origami bird surrounded by clouds

Thoughtful design is essential when dealing with a sensitive topic. Ministry of Justice called for responses to a government consultation on laws around coroners investigating stillbirths. Here, we discuss the social media assets we created to support the consultation.