Lowestoft Sixth Form College
Prospectus / Website
Following on from the design of the college's visual identity we were asked to design the prospectus for 2012/13. The previous prospectus had been created before the college was built so this was the first prospectus which could showcase their fantastic £25M facilities. We used a photographic led approach in order to show off the building and the unique spaces within the college. A group of students were willing models and we had a fantastic three day shoot with photographer Mike Harrington. 3000 were printed.
Once the prospectus was completed we used much of the content to design a website. Like the prospectus we wanted the site to showcase both the facilities and the experience. Once the prospectus was completed we used much of the content to design a website. Like the prospectus we wanted the site to showcase both the facilities and the experience.
To run alongside their open evening for new students we designed a set of badges for the prospective students to take home with them. We had three large perspex boxes designed which read, 'Study with us and see what you could be' which were filled with badges with a variety of professions on them such as architect, nurse, designer, international super star, journalist etc. The idea was that students put their hands in and picked one out at random to take home. There was much laughter and swapping of badges afterwards, a great talking point.
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www.l6fc.org
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www.l6fc.org
Lowestoft Sixth Form College
A brand new £20m sixth form college in the heart of Lowestoft, Lowestoft Sixth Form College engaged Special Design Studio to create a new logo/visual identity.
The brief was to create a visual identity which would introduce them as a new college with a fabulous new building whilst conveying the quality of education and experience students would receive.
The logo reflects the building using the windows to create a visual symbol.
We have gone on to create a Facebook profile and accompanying ad campaign as well as a bus advertising campaign announcing the new college and a direct mail campaign.
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www.l6fc.org
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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.
Brief: To design the 2010 Annual Review. Using WREN's rich photographic archive we created a poster format review, the A4 document opens out to A1. The challenge was to bring clarity to a very text and figure heavy document, to achieve this we highlighted interesting statistics such as the number of trees planted and playgrounds built using bold typography and illustrated with their photographs.
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www.wren.org.uk
Lucas Hickman Smith
Lucas Hickman Smith is a Norfolk-based architectural practice with a reputation for contemporary sustainable design across a wide range of industry sectors. Our brief was to refresh their logo and stationery and to design a website to showcase their portolio.
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www.lucashickmansmith.co.uk
www.lucashickmansmith.co.uk
Cotman Housing Association
Cotman Housing Association (CHA) is a non-profit-making housing association based in Norwich.
We saw an opportunity for Cotman Housing Association to use their annual review to highlight the human aspect of their work. Working with photographer Sophie Laslett we created a review which was built around photos of the people and communities they support.
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www.cotman-housing.org.uk
Capstone Wiley
Capstone Wiley publish a mix of inspirational business, self-help, personal development and lifestyle books.
Special Design Studio was engaged to design a cover for Beyond the Familiar by Patrick Barwise. The book offers a practical framework to help companies achieve long-term organic profit growth. It focuses on actionable customer insights flowing freely through the business and ultimately leading to consistently great customer solutions and experiences and a strong brand. The image of the tree reflected growth whilst playing with the familiar/unfamiliar proposition, it forces the viewer to look twice and re-evaluate what they are seeing.
We also designed the cover for Simon Middleton's book 'Build a Brand In 30 Days'. As the book is about branding, our brief was to create a cover which looked impressive, something cool, slick and contemporary that would speak directly to a buyer looking for a simple, direct, accessible and entertaining overview of branding. We also contributed to the book providing the expert view for Day 24 'Design Matters'.
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www.wiley.com
Charity Backroom
Charity Backroom is a unique behind-the-scenes support service for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. We had worked with their parent organisation in the past and were hired again to design a distinctive logo. We wanted to visually express the relationship Charity Backroom would have with its clients.
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www.charitybackroom.org.uk/
Holidays from Home
Holidays from Home transport you on virtual adventures, currently to Australia, New York or on a worldwide chocolate voyage. Founder Claire Wade engaged us to design a new visual identity as a springboard to explore new projects and holidays.
The solution ties together the ideas of home and travel by using a schematic style house to represent a luggage ticket. The tipping of the images suggests take off and points up, up and away! Special Design Studio also designed a new website showcasing the holidays and Claire's blog.
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www.holidaysfromhome.co.uk/
www.holidaysfromhome.co.uk
Wavelength Films
We designed the promotional material for Stephen Fry's 'Wagner and Me' produced by Wavelength Films in association with the BBC.
The material includes quad size film posters for cinemas in the UK, Europe and the US. Inspired by a scene in the film where Stephen Fry enters Beyreuth for the first time, the poster captures his sense of awe and the scale of Wagner's music. The film won the Viola M. Marshall Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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www.wavelengthfilms.co.uk
www.wagnerandme.com
A Squared Architects
A Squared Architects is a collaborative studio based practice focussed on a shared ambition of delivering quality design solutions on time and on budget.
Established in 2006 by three architects and a landscape designer, Paul Abbott, Rob McVicar, Mark Ashurst and Patricia Shepherd, A Squared brings together a team of highly creative individuals committed to delivering outstanding design standards.
We worked closely with them to create a website that would not only demonstrate the quality of their work but would also introduce the viewer to the actual architects themselves and convey their involvement with the buildings.
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www.asquaredarchitects.com
A Squared Architects
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 revitalise all visual communications for CRed. The first stage was the online interface that is used in-house at participating companies and organisations.
Stage two was to produce a 12 page guide; Making The Most of CRed. The guide explains how organisations can implement the CRed system. A series of posters were also commissioned.
Click here to view public website:
www.cred-uk.org
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.
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www.cred-uk.org
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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Leading to Change
Leading to Change is an imaginative learning and development consultancy providing stimulating, memorable and carefully tailored activities that enable individuals, businesses and community groups to be more innovative, creative and successful. The central ethos is based on experiential and collaborative learning – finding ways of thinking and behaving differently in order to transform
ideas and aspirations into real change and achievement.
We worked closely with Director Simon Delf to create a logo and brand identity that evoked the nature of the consultancy. We applied it across web and stationery.
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www.leadingtochange.co.uk
Case by Case
Case by Case is a media production company specialising in Video-journalism and Photojournalism for marketing and PR.
We created a brand identity and applied it to website, brochure, stationery and packaging.
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www.cxcmedia.com
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
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.
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www.myspace.com/thekull
