Hemsby & Newport
The seaside resort of Hemsby & Newport is on the beautiful Norfolk coast, 9 miles north of Great Yarmouth. Settled by Vikings in the late 9th Century, the name Hemsby is of Viking origin, (the suffix '-by' in Danish means "farm" or "home" or "village"), so presumably Hem's farm or home. Today, Hemsby has a resident population of about 2,500 people which can grow to about 22,000 in the summer.
As part of a drive to reinvigorate the resort’s appeal to potential holiday makers, we were appointed to create a new logo. The logo symbolises Hemsby’s new positivity and links its history with its status as a holiday destination.
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CRed (LCIC/UEA)
CRed is the Community Carbon Reduction Project based in the East of England. CRed is taking real action to address the biggest environmental challenge confronting everyone on the planet: CLIMATE CHANGE. CRed is building a community of partners who are deciding how they want to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide to meet a target of 60% reduction by 2025.
We were appointed to devise a concept for a new website for both the CRed community and for their business environment model. We produced a series of illustrations inspired by the Richard Hamilton collage ‘Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?’ (see below). We updated the image to highlight areas where carbon could be saved. We handed over the illustrations to their in-house web developers to complete the site.
Click here to view website:
www.cred-uk.org
White Digital Media
White Digital Media’s websites execdigital.com, execdigital.co.uk and execdigital.ca are new global portals for business executives in the US, UK and Canada. With news from all industry sectors, features and reviews for sectors such as cars, lifestyle, and finance and an online magazine with insider case studies, White Digital Media is based in Norwch, UK, Boston and San Diego, USA and Toronto, Canada.
Special Design Studio contributes creative direction, design and illustration to the Exec Digital Magazine and other White Digital Media titles such as Manufacturing Digital, Construction Digital and the Exec Digital Corporate Profiles.
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www.whitedm.com
Knock Down Ginger
Knock Down Ginger is an east London & online children’s store, an eclectic ensemble of footwear, clothing, traditional toys and gifts, catering for boys and girls from 0 – 12 years. Knock Down Ginger is a children’s footwear specialist stocking brands like Startrite, Elephantito, Birkenstock, Starchild and Footsie 100.
Special Design Studio worked closely with owner Rina Henry to help realise her ambition to create a chic boutique for children. The name comes from the game of knocking on a door and running away before its opened, hence the gang of running children throughout all the print and online material. We designed the whole brand, from the visual identity, signage, print, advertising through to the e-commerce website where you can order products online, including the ‘YES I CAN’ sweatshirt (see below) that we created for the store.
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www.knockdowngingerboutique.com
Haymarket Conferences
Haymarket Conferences is renowned for producing quality business-to-business conferences featuring high-level speakers. Haymarket Conferences produces conferences under the following brands: Marketing, PR Week, Campaign, Media Week, Marketing Direct, Revolution, The ENDS Report, Regeneration & Renewal, HR Magazine, SC Magazine, Third Sector, Children and Young People Now, Nursery World and MIMS.
We work closely with Haymarket Conferences, helping them deliver marketing material across printed brochures and advertising for print and web. Recent projects include Marketing’s ‘Media 360’ event and PR Week’s ‘PR On The Edge’.
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www.haymarketevents.com/conferences
Shaker
Shaker retails bespoke furniture; the great triumph of Shaker design and craftsmanship is that their furniture, conceived 150 years ago, is as beautiful and practical now as it was then.
We worked on the brochure shown with legendary designer, Tim Lamb, Proprietor of Shaker and design agency Lamb & Shirley.
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www.shaker.co.uk
MBMC
MBMC helps clients to unlock the enormous marketing potential of Europe's business and consumer media. MBMC works with a very wide variety of companies across many different industry sectors, including architecture, automotive, F1 and motor sport, lifestyle sports, clean technology, energy, medical technology and aviation & aerospace.
MBMC hired us for a re-brand of all its communications, starting with a new visual identity and resulting in a new website.
We are currently working in partnership with MBMC on a project entitled XMPLA.
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www.mbmc-uk.com
Brand Strategy Guru
The Brand Strategy Guru delivers easy-to-understand, strategic brand advice to businesses of all sizes, as well as charities and public organisations. In simple terms the Brand Strategy Guru will do two things, firstly ensure that your brand comes to life for your customers and secondly to help you establish a clear and positive brand strategy.
In keeping with the Brand Strategy Guru’s philosophy we created a clear, striking and strong visual identity and then applied it across stationery, promotional brochures and website.
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www.brandstrategyguru.com
John Harragan
John Harragan is a decorative artist with one of the most varied portfolios you will find anywhere in the country. With commissions from homeowners, businesses, architects and interior designers he has been transforming traditional and contemporary interiors using an array of specialist paint finishes, murals and decorative polished plasters for the last decade.
We designed a website for John that would put him ahead of his competitors by clearly demonstrating his talents and we used photography that emphasised the craftsman at work.
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www.johnharragan.co.uk
Norfolk 100
The Norfolk 100 aims to bring together one hundred of Norfolk’s leaders and opinion formers, to collectively support the small, grassroots community organisations who work hard to improve the quality of life for people across the county of Norfolk.
Creation of a logo that emphasised the exclusivity of the initial 100 members.
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www.norfolkfoundation.com/staging/norfolk100.html
Special Sound Unit
A collaboration between two friends with the express idea of promoting music that otherwise wouldn’t find a home. Special Sound Unit’s first release will be Huw Costin’s ‘Regrets’ album.
We created the brand from scratch and continue to produce all artwork and website design.
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www.specialsoundunit.com
Cotman Housing Association
Cotman Housing Association (CHA) is a non-profit-making housing association registered as an Industrial and Provident Society with the Registrar of Friendly Societies. The Association was founded in 1970 and was registered by the Housing Corporation in 1975. In 1981 Cotman Housing Association established a 'sister' organisation, Cotman Housing Services Ltd (CHS), to promote low-cost home ownership initiatives.
New visual identity, website and various print including annual report.
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www.cotman-housing.org.uk
MyNorfolk
Mynorfolk was one of the ten finalists in the Government's £7 Million Digital Challenge competition. Mynorfolk was Norfolk’s proposal for the competition with the aim to provide people and communities across Norfolk with revolutionary interactive digital services to support and enhance all our lives.
Illustrations designed to encompass the spirit of Norfolk, which were used throughout the campaign.
Click here to view website:
www.my.norfolk.gov.uk
Liz Hollis
Liz Hollis is an award winning freelance journalist with experience in writing (news, features and corporate), commissioning and editing. She specialises in psychology, work, lifestyle, health and culture. An NCTJ-trained journalist, Liz is a former staff reporter on a daily newspaper and features editor of a leading national press agency. She also works as a media consultant.
Liz needed a sassy new business card to help her stand out in various editors’ rolodex.
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www.lizhollis.co.uk
Centaur Media
Centaur Conferences produce high level, research driven conferences for the international business community. Centaur Conferences combines the power of some of the UK's most dominant B2B publication brands, including Marketing Week, The Lawyer, and The Engineer.
We have worked with Centaur on many projects that include logo design, brochure design and advertising for print and web.
Click here to view website:
www.centaurconferences.co.uk
City Silenced Records
Record label and home of The Kull.
"The renegades of the Nottingham music scene are fast becoming the toast of London. The achingly beautiful sound of sonic warfare" NME.
We design all The Kull’s sleeve art and posters.
Click here to view website:
www.myspace.com/thekull
