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Footprint Scenery

2011-01-21T15:10:56Z

What better way to launch into New Year than with a new brand campaign for our client Footprint Scenery. See our earlier blog post: ‘Building worlds within worlds’. Footprint’s new visual identity really comes together in the thinking behind the design of their new website. Our goal was to find a clean and simple solution but yet [...]

Sketch Book 1 – Matt Kay

2010-11-14T23:17:55Z

Open publication - Free publishing - More sketch

Retouching for good

2010-11-05T16:11:09Z

One of our favorite collaborators is ‘Design and Purpose‘ Art Director, Alison Eddy. She brings very varied projects to our studio, including some really interesting magazine cover work. These visuals from Global Witness are examples of how image manipulation can transform some simple key photography into an impactive front cover visual message. NGOs often need [...]

Creative Profile: Take 2D (Chog Zoo Animation)

2010-11-05T15:21:27Z

In case you missed it on our Facebook page, we’ve recently started supporting The Watermark by creating feature blog posts about its fabulous creative sector business residents. ——————————————————- Reproduced from: http://thewatermark.co.uk/2010/10/2d-tales-chog-zoo-animation/ Take 2D: Chog Zoo Animation Award-winning animation duo Kyle Webster and Andrew Jolly, founders of Chog Zoo Animation have joined The Watermark party and we’re just a [...]

Creative Profile: Cushion Couture

2010-10-22T12:15:13Z

In case you missed it on our Facebook page, we've recently started supporting The Watermark by creating feature blog posts about its fabulous creative sector business residents. ------------------------------------------------------- Reproduced from http://thewatermark.co.uk/2010/10/cushion-couture-judy-holme-ltd/ Cushion Couture: Judy Holme Ltd

The Red Queen Effect

2010-10-01T19:09:34Z

These Alice-inspired images were created for Armadillo Medical Communications to illustrate an evolutionary hypothesis known as ’The Red Queen Effect’ Its name is of course inspired by the Red Queen’s race in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. The hypothesis refers to the constant evolutionary arms-race between competing species. Penny MacDuff, Director of Armadillo: “I have no [...]

Creative Profile: Micro means business

2010-09-24T13:15:23Z

Personal branding has never been more important for independent creatives and niche small businesses. You know that you need to have an on-line presence but the virtual marketplace is a busy one, so how do you avoid being crowded out? How do you communicate your originality before someone else claims it as their own? How [...]

No Half Measures. No Can’t Do.

2010-09-14T10:19:05Z

The energy drink sector is literally fizzing right now and not just in the carbonated sense. Relentless and SUSO aren’t just crashing the party; they’re each having a lock-in of their own. Never mind brand loyalty; this is brand community. Piction has been working with the fabulous Fabio Antinori over at Erasmus Partners Ltd, squeezing [...]

Do not Disturb until 2010: Looking back at looking forward.

2010-09-14T10:18:44Z

It’s amazing what you find when you’re moving studio. In an archive box from the nineties we’ve just rediscovered a series of editorial illustrations depicting the digital future by Piction Media’s very own honcho Matt Kay. Did we really think we would all be wearing virtual reality helmets by now? The brains at PC Review magazine [...]

Sheep Tales

2010-09-14T10:18:02Z

From Grizedale Sculpture Trail to Grasmere and the Castlerigg Stone Circle, every escapade on our recent mini-break in the Lake District National Park would have made Bo Peep proud. There are over 50 pieces of sculpture dotted around the Grizedale Sculpture Trail. Some are musical sculptures, others slightly bizarre and there is also the famous ‘wall [...]