My first design job was at 'Images', the in-house design team at Bolton Council. A brief came up to design the Bolton 2000 millennium logo. One of the routes I came up with involved a '2' followed by three balloons to denote the zeroes. My boss liked it but suggested we needed to get the idea of ethnic diversity in there. The rest of the job unfolded like a slow-motion car crash. We ended up with three balloons - white, brown and black - with an ethnically representative face hand-drawn on each one. I wish I still had the visuals. They are probably locked deep in a vault somewhere in Bolton.

Sue Asbury @asburyandasbury