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Thursday, October 25th, 2007It’s good to be Glorious, which is why we were chuffed to win two awards at this year’s Roses Design Awards, held at Manchester’s longest building, Beetham Tower. We got two nominations and both got prizes, bronzes; one for our diary (best use of photography) and another for Temperature Control (best website), which wasn’t bad [...]
Teacher’s pet
Thursday, October 25th, 2007It’s always satisfying when a plan comes together, especially when it’s an 18 month project to rebrand one of the most well known names in private education.
So, when the new signage went up at Merchant Taylors’ Schools in Crosby, our design team made themselves a brew and cracked open the Hob Nobs.
‘Merchants’, for those who [...]
Tate in 08
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Time to get yourself down to Albert Dock.
The Docks are packed with the 68 foot Round the World Clippers, while the Tate is refurb-ing the gallery in preparation for Capital of Culture year.
Lots of colours, and we’ve played our part in it. We’re designing all of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition graphics and the 100-page book [...]
‘Bog Doors’
Thursday, July 19th, 2007The Brief: Come up with an interesting design for the ‘bog doors’
The Solution: Paris Bordones’, ‘Venus and Mars’
What’s the deal?
Friday, July 13th, 2007Who needs a mailer when you can have a poster?
When top dealmaker Dow Schofield Watts wanted to tell everyone about its move, we came up with a nifty wee line, and then decided it should be big, no, bigger, no bigger still.
Night time reading
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007We’ve just completed a Talent Year Book for North West Vision – the film and TV agency – celebrating the finest new talent from the region.
It’s their first Talent Book, so it was important that we got it right, particularly as the target market was producers and agents, who are inundated with CVs and scripts.
It [...]
Country culture
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Two of our designers had a day out in Kendal to support our lovely clients at the Arts Council.
It was the first stage of the annual art07 event and we had designed and produced all of the branding and marketing material. It was a good day out, with a rather heated debate on city v. [...]
Top of the Pops
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Well, in certain areas of the North of England Design Consultancy of the Year poll we did come tops.
We came first in strategic thinking within the client poll (one of the three polls which goes to make up the final table), and third in the client satisfaction poll and fourth overall.
Not bad going, considering we’ve [...]