Design for print, digital & experiential.
The Corridor People project is a series of short films showcasing the inspirational and influential people that live and work in the Corridor Manchester (Oxford Road) area. 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 city and destination. more…
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Absolutely chuffed to bits to make it to the top 3 for the ‘Best Use of Visual Design’ award at this years Roses Design Awards.
We’ve been nominated for our branding, design and web work on this years inaugural Manchester Design Symposium. The event was a great success, let’s hope we can continue the love and come home with gold…
fingers crossed!
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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…
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Our good friend and soon to be studio buddy has only gone and created this little piece of awesomeness!
Crayate, a fun, crayon-based colouring app for children of all ages. Choose from a wide range of scenes and animals, colour the picture using a selection of crayons then save your pictures for use as iPad wallpapers or email to friends and family. Simple and looking fantastic with beautiful illustrations courtesy of Ben The Illustrator. And a great way for kids to get there grubby little mitts on your lovely shiny iPad.
Enjoy!
Design and Build Matt Booth – mrbooth.co.uk
Illustration Ben The Illustrator – bentheillustrator.com
Click here to download Crayate from the iTunes App Store.
Design Week blog article, If you’re appy and you know it.
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We have recently completed a project for Ringspun Clothing working on photoshoot production and design for there Autumn/Winter 2011 sales look-books.
To minimise design time we worked on location completing image post production and designing books for both the girls and boys clothing ranges on the fly. This worked really well for us, with the client, photographer, model, clothing designers and graphic designers etc all in one room decisions were made quickly and pending a few hours of tweaks the next day we were done. Photos we’re expertly taken and Art Directed by Pip Rustage. Studio used was Kraak studio in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. more…
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Santa Cruz, Independent Trucks, Slime Balls, OJ Wheels, Roksopp, Natas, Olson, Hosoi…
So many memories of so many graphics and logos. I’ve been skateboarding for over 20 years and had the good fortune to work in the skate industry for large portion of that time. Jim’s artwork has always been present and reminder of skateboarding’s colourful and influential art scene. Check out Jim Phillips Artist Series Insole with Remind Insoles on vimeo, links below.
Remind Insoles- Jim Phillips “Brief History” 1 of 3
Remind Insoles- Jim Phillips “Eyes” 2 of 3
Remind Insoles- Jim Phillips “Skateboard Art Progression” 3 of 3
Remind Insoles- Jim Phillips “Phillips Studios” 4 of 3 Bonus
Happy New Year all hope 2011 is a cracker for everyone!
Enjoy.
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Check it out, we’re sponsoring Northern Digitals awesome Blab night.
Blab #5 takes place 6pm Wednesday 20th October 2010, held at Matt & Phreds in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Guest speakers on the night are Si Scott and mills™ of UsTwo.
As if that wasn’t enough, there are chances to win ace prizes on the night provided by our good selves and long time Northern Digital supporters Orchard; you just have to be there. The BBC are also very kindly funding the filming of the night and will be available to discuss opportunities and positions available in relation to departments moving to Manchester in 2011.
A few tickets still left, so get on it! www.meetup.com/northerndigitals
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Berlin is the nuts…!
A cool city with cool people. As mentioned in our previous post we were there for a week working alongside NoChintz on an exhibition stand to launch a new fashion range for global sports brand Canterbury of New Zealand at Bread & Butter Berlin – 07/09 July 2010.
I’m not going to dwell on this post, just to say that if you have the chance to visit Berlin in the summer, do it. It’s an amazing city, good people, fun, clean and loads to see and do. Here’s a run down of our week, check our flickr feed for pics… more…
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