We’re looking for a well-organised and client-friendly Producer / Project Manager to join our expanding team in Nottingham.

You’ll work closely with the design team and will be responsible for developing and executing integrated projects of varying sizes and across multiple platforms including digital, print and motion graphics.

If you think you’ve got what it takes to join us, email your application with salary expectations, CV and any relevant work samples to michelle@studio-output.com by 5pm on Monday 6th February 2012. To download the full job spec, click here.

On Friday the 9th I headed up to Manchester to attend one of the Warehouse Project club nights. Set in railway tunnels underneath Manchester’s Piccadilly station these nights have become a regular fixture in the Manchester club scene for the past 5 years. Friday nights entertainment was curated by Modeselektor, with Squarepusher undoubtably being the highlight.

Part of what made his set so amazing was the live visuals going on as part of his set. Sporting an LED Daft Punk style helmet, animations and graphics moved between his helmet and the LED wall behind him. Creating a real sense of inking the artist with the AV set to create a more rounded experience. Everything had a very strong simple palette and a heavy 8-bit style to it, which all complimented the music and atmosphere perfectly without detracting from Squarepusher’s work.

If he performs this set again I’d definitely recommend trying to catch it to experience something both visually and sonically exciting.

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re very pleased to say we’ve just launched an epic trilogy of short promos for PlayStation®Store – to showcase the ‘Movies On Demand’ service from PlayStation Video Store.

Once again we were able to collaborate with some amazing creative talents in the FND Collective and MLF, who helped us to bring the campaign to life. All three virals use some exciting creative technology, combining projection mapping, 3D realtime tracking and ‘whizz-bang’ pyrotechnics. There are even some Morph-suited ninjas in there for good measure! We should have the making of video up later next week if you’re interested in seeing how these were made.

So far the films have had over a million views in just a week since their release, but we’re hoping this is just the start. Please take a look and if you like them, would it be cheeky to ask you to share them with your friends?

Most Insane Immersive Movie Experience EVER – Part 1
Most Insane Immersive Movie Experience EVER – Part 2
Most Insane Immersive Movie Experience EVER – Part 3

In anticipation of her new album we wanted to do something a bit different with the billboard space we had for Cher Lloyd. With the mix of press she is getting at the moment our aim was to create a piece which would make people stop and go ‘wow’, so we enlisted the help of the super-cool people at Paintshop Studio and came up with a design that was really going to get noticed.

With our design as a base, Dep and Tizer set in for a long day’s work covering the huge 96 sheet and adding their awesome style to the Cher campaign. The results are even better than we hoped for, these photos (big thanks to Jeff Metal for these) speak for themselves. If you’re in the area go and check it out!

In August, we went on a European tour with The Studio – taking in Norway, Germany, France, Russia, Holland and Portugal and ending up back in Blighty!

Out this month were static themes from Sicksystems, On Repeat, Mago, Mr Jago & Andrew McAttee and Roya Hamburger. Alongside these were dynamics from MVM, Bob London, Matthew Green, Check Morris, Jeffrey Bowman and our own Sonbr.

Shown on the left are a selection of this month’s Themes. For more in-depth information on the Themes and artists involved visit The Studio website.

July in The Studio saw a distinctly British flavour to the artists involved, mixed up with some really interesting themes from further afield.

Released this month were collaborations with Pete Fowler and Tom Hingston, left-field contributions from Maharishi and the artist Richard Woods, static themes from Mads Berg, Jody Barton, Hydro 74 and Tom Sewell – and finally, a really exciting stop-frame piece from Argentina’s Cherry.

Shown here is a selection of some of the themes, along with the Month 2 showreel. For more in-depth information on the themes and artists involved, visit The Studio website.

DanceStar PARTY turns your living room into a dancefloor. Using the PlayStation Move motion controller, players can perform dance routines individually or with up to 20 friends.

We developed a brand identity for the game, including the packaging and a comprehensive style guide. This included colour palettes, model photography and a suite of brand assets.

In January 2011 we were asked to help Syco Music develop a multi-platform brand and marketing campaign for Cher Lloyd, one of the most talked-about artists from last year’s X Factor. Deliverables for the project so far have included a branding device and visual assets, single artwork, mobile app, website, interactive digital media, flyposters, press shots and even her music video – which has had more than 10 million views.

The campaign builds upon the label’s positioning for the artist as ‘The Princess of Swag Pop’ and reflects a musical direction which has one foot in urban, one foot in pop. We created Cher’s ‘Urban Wonderland’ – where real life meets illustration, quirky props and fantastical special effects.

Syco were also very keen to distance Cher from the TV show, so we devised a strategy based on collaboration; working with only the coolest up & coming creative talent. This was obviously something we took great enjoyment from!

The roll-call of credits for this project includes Jared Ryder (NY) for sleeve photography, Sean Vegezzi (a junior at Annie Leibovitz NY) for press photography, the illustration collective Good Wives and Warriors (UK), stylists Ayishat & Louize (UK), videographer Kellen Dengler (US) and Punktilio (UK) who look after all social media for Syco.

Cher’s debut single, ‘Swagger Jagger’, went straight into the UK charts at number 1.

Last Saturday night I saw one of the most exciting live audio-visual shows I’ve ever seen. The one-off show at the Camden Roundhouse was a collaboration between groundbreaking music producer Flying Lotus and audio visual specialists the Anti VJs.

The show was dominated by large-scale projection-mapped animations, constantly playing and evolving whilse Fling Lotus went to work to provide the soundtrack. Leading the audience through an interstellar journey, past galaxies, meteors and strange worlds – all the while only using a limited palette of black, white and grey to increase the visual impact.

I can’t stress how impressive it was to see projection mapping live with such an experimental soundtrack. I’d recommend catching the show live, although unfortunately it’s only going to be performed twice more, once in Paris and once in LA!

When the nights start drawing in, office conversation inevitably wanders to talk of the Christmas do. (Usually along the lines of ‘but I thought you’d booked it?’) This sort of thing happens marginally less in May, when we started work in earnest on Pitcher & Piano’s latest seasonal campaign.

Drawing inspiration from Dickens novels and other Victoriana, we built on the recent branding work and created an illustrative composition for the Christmas menus, with assistance from the chameleon-like illustrator Martin Berry. The ensemble was then copper foil-blocked onto an uncoated board printed in rich purple, with subtle banding evoking vintage wrapping papers. The final attention to detail was to source copper wire for the saddle-stitching which binds the menus.

Merry Christmas everyone!