Special Design Studio Blog

Near Field Norwich

Nania — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:37:06 +0000

Hot Source and Proxama are running a hack event to allow teams to get creative with Near Field Communications technology. We are entering a team – top secret of course! If you want to join in then click here!

Black Mirror

Nania — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:42:36 +0000

If you haven’t watched the second episode of Black Mirror on Channel 4 then you should!

4oD link here. Creative Review on the motion graphics here.

See what you could be….

Nania — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:01:48 +0000

Study with us and see what you could be!

The students at the Lowestoft Sixth Form college open day loved the badges we created! There was much laughter and swapping of badges after they randomly picked one out of a large perspex box which read, Study with us and see what you could be….

Hot Source Norwich

Scott — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:16:12 +0000

The Hot Source first year anniversary was a great success. The EDP came along, took a photo and wrote a piece. Although they prefer to call it Hot Sauce rather than Hot Source. !? Click here to read the article.

Bug Norwich Eye Opener

Nania — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:10:17 +0000

Saw the inimitable Adam Buxton do his Bug show in Norwich this week, him being silly and showing some crazy music videos. A brilliant Spike Jonze effort for Arcade Fire, The Suburbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euj9f3gdyM. My favourite was Everything Everything – photoshop handsome, 50 different animators took a few frames of greenscreen footage of the band each to do whatever they want with. I could watch it on a loop! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udfNIzRUX0

Hot Source… social (and video!)

Nania — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:05:36 +0000

The next Hot Source Social is nearly upon us. We’re meeting at the Rumsey Wells on Thursday 30th from 5.30pm onwards.
A chance to talk digital, creative or just natter with Hot Source folk! Add it to your diary and we look forward to seeing you there.

And if you haven’t seen the videos from May click here to watch!

Worth a look…

Nania — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:00:19 +0000

Fantastic show at Outpost Gallery, worth a look.
Click here for more details.

Poster Print for WREN

Nania — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:21:56 +0000

We have taken delivery of a great piece of print for our client WREN . (WREN is a not-for-profit business that helps benefit the lives of people who live close to landfill sites by awarding grants for community, conservation and heritage projects. Click here to visit their site)

The WREN annual report has to highlight the vast number of projects they support whilst giving detailed financial information, to really provide an at a glance illustration we turned an A4 document into an A1 fold out. We used their fantastic visual archive to illustrate their work. They financed 390 projects last year to the tune of around £14M!

WREN Annual Report

Virtual Holidays

Nania — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:12:31 +0000

Holidays from Home transport you on virtual adventures, currently to Australia, New York or on a worldwide chocolate voyage. Founder Claire Wade is using the new visual identity and website which we have designed and built as a springboard to explore new projects and holidays. Listen out for her on Radio 4′s ‘Wonderful Ways of Beating the Recession’ in May. In the meantime for a very cheap weekend in New York click here!

Hot Source – sneak preview

Scott — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:15:03 +0000

Just got a sneak preview of the Hot Source presentations for next week, got to say they are insightful and entertaining! Clever stuff about how Google does what it does and crazily revealing infographics. Be there! Click here for more info Hot Source 2