Creative Choices
Posted on 04/04/11.
After several months of planning, designing, user-testing and building, our largest web-project to date went live on Friday! Several hundred articles and 20,000 members have now been re-homed in a totally new site, running on a publishing system that makes it easy for the editorial team to keep the site up to date.
We worked with the brilliant team at Creative & Cultural Skills to totally re-think, redesign and and rebuild the Creative Choices website, which is aimed at helping anyone in the creative industries to further their career or develop their business. It’s been a fantastic project and we’ll be enhancing the site as time goes on.
Link: http://www.creative-choices.co.uk
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Catalogues for Rudi
Posted on 16/02/11.
Although Rudi has moved the majority of his business to the new online store he still needs printed catalogues for more established customers and to direct people to the website. For this we designed a format and templates that can be updated regularly. This is a one colour print, just process black with matching black staples as an added detail. 3 paper stocks were used; a cream uncoated for the interior, pale grey for the cover, and stone for the belly band. The belly band has a centred circle die cut to suggest an old record sleeve and the logo on the cover sits perfectly in the circle as would a record label.
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New branding project
Posted on 16/02/11.
Buenos Aires based Rudi B. Sazunic has been trading vintage 78 records since 1957 and has the largest collection in South America. His name is well known internationally. Rudi came to us looking for a new brand that would not only reflect his unrivalled experience and professional service, but also that would reflect the visual style associated with his area of expertise; records from the 1930s. We were provided with a selection of records typical of his collection and an old Victrola gramophone to play them on to get into the spirit of the period. We based the logo on record label designs combined with the shape of the gramophone needle both of which are instantly recognisable by Rudi’s audience. There is also a subtle hint of a magnifying glass in the logo which suggests the ability to search the collection (which is of course possible on the new online store we also designed). The logotype and strap line are written in two variations of a condensed font which is a reworking of the original designed by Adolf Behrmann for the Berthold type foundry in 1928. The font is ideal for projecting the look and mood of the 1930s. The branding is clean and modern but gives a hint of the romance associated with vintage records.
Link: http://www.seventyeights.com/
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Sea Gems launch
Posted on 08/02/11.
This week saw the launch of a big project we’ve been working on for Sea Gems, a local silver jewellery wholesaler. We’ve built them an online catalogue from the ground up, allowing their customers unlimited access to view and order from their complete product range.
This was a complex build, migrating their customer database and importing 1000s of product lines into a site that will hopefully make a huge difference to their business.
We built the site using Expression Engine and employed the fantastic Cartthrob module to handle the shopping basket functionality.
Link: http://seagems.co.uk
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New mailer
Posted on 26/01/11.
Our new mailer is back from the press and ready to go in the mail. This is a two colour print on cream uncoated stock with die cuts and scores used to create various structures from the two dimensional plane.
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New poster book for Dorsch Gallery
Posted on 02/12/10.
Following on from the poster/booklet we did earlier in the year for Dorsch Gallery, this new print for the exhibition Orchestrated Gestures uses the same format and die, but is printed full colour on white stock. The exhibition runs until Saturday, January 29, 2011.
Link: http://dorschgallery.com/exhibition/134/
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Richter Scale poster
Posted on 01/12/10.
We recently finished this poster for the new exhibition Richter Scale at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. A folded mailer edition included press release written by Pulitzer Prize winning Art Critic for the New York Times Holland Cotter on the reverse. A second run was printed one side on heavy stock. The show runs until December 30.
Link: http://bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/current.html
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