24.06
“The thing that makes you a world class city is not the necessarily having this kind of opera house or this size of swimming pool it’s actually what you give the world. Manchester’s place in the world in the 21st century will be defined by what it gives the world.” – Peter Saville / 04/11
We recently interviewed Peter Saville for our People Project for Corridor Manchester. The project being a series of case study interviews showcasing the inspirational and influential people that live and work in Corridor Manchester. A positive portrayal of subjects both photographed and interviewed demonstrating the individual strengths, diversity and talent of chosen subjects and in turn validating Manchester as a world class location and destination. more…
Eskimo . Photography . Projects . Studio Culture . Thoughts?
Posted by Mark Janson
21.06
Select Colour – Select Black + White – Select Range
The latest master specifier for GF Smith paper designed by SEA landed in the studio this week. GF Smith have consistently produced high specification, desirable and considered design / print samples and have certainly lived up to the challenge with this new edition.
Housed in a Pale Grey one-piece Clamshell box, six books guide the user through the paper selection process focusing on selecting by colour, black + white or by range. more…
Design . News . Print . Studio Culture
Posted by Mark Janson
15.06
Percy Dean, editorial and documentary photographer, writer, editor, cinematographer, skateboarder, allotmenteer and all round nice guy has been part of the Manchester photographic community for what seems like forever.
We recently commissioned Percy to work with us on our latest projects for Corridor Manchester which required social documentation and real world portraits of our chosen subjects, matching Percy’s unique style of photography perfectly. Percy has a knack of capturing real, honest and gritty images portraying life as it really is, no bull, no gloss, just straight up reality… sounds easy, but it really isn’t! more…
Photography . Projects . Studio Culture
Posted by Mark Janson
10.06
Manchester Design Symposium was an amazing success, with a sell out day and evening event we were extremely proud of the input from the design community and everyones real hunger for these sort of events.
If you did miss out on attending or want reminding of how good the talks were we have now added videos to the website and have links to all of the talks featuring, Tom Dorresteijn from Studio Dumbar, Bruno Maag, Si Scott, John Walters & a Q&A session with everyone at the end.
www.manchesterdesignsymposium.com
Eskimo . Events . Projects
Posted by John Owens
09.06
Superdead are killing it right now, banging team, video footage galore, team riders popping up all over the place in the media and a new product range for summer 2011. Eskimo have just completed a microsite for Superdeads Summer 2011 range.
Check it… superdeadskateboards.com
Superdead Skateboards was founded in 2010 to combat all that is wrong in the world, they took Andy Scott, Eddie Belvedere, Harry Lintell, Chris Barrett, Josh Parr, Ben Rowles, Nick Remon, Awadh Mohammed and Denis Lynn as ambassadors of Skateboard Justice. more…
Brand . Digital . News . Projects
Posted by Mark Janson
02.06
Printout! is a an event curated by Stack Magazines and MagCulture that will feature an informal discussion about independent magazine publishing. Representing the North will be Alasdair Hiscock from Article (Sheffield), and James Griffin from Bonafide (Leeds) and our own Studio Manager, Bec Brown from Blanket (Manchester). Not only will it be an insightful evening into the world of magazine publishing and the people who produce them, there will also be a pop-up library of independent magazines from all over the world to smell and flick through.
Event details:
Thursday 9th June, from 6.30pm
The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester
Tickets are £5 each and can be purchased here
Events . News . Studio Culture
Posted by Mark Janson