Our Creative Director Brian is a massive football fan and an even bigger fan of one of Edinburgh’s sides – so much so that he couldn’t resist this. Below is an iPhone 5 wallpaper for free download for my fellow Hearts fans. Simply view this page on your phone, press and hold on the image and save it to your camera roll. You’ll then be able to set it up as your wallpaper. Note: please switch off the parallax scrolling nonsense for this to look ok.
A few years back we were asked by the lovely Dee-Anna from Remedi for a new identity for their boutique clothing label. We went back with several options, but we think the one above was the best. Super simple.
Unfortunately Dee-Anna’s boss didn’t select it because she really wanted something more gritty. But we still like this solution with it’s redrawn “r” with leaf.
Their final logo is below demonstrating that the client has the final say — they have to live with it after all, not us.
It’s no secret that I love my football, but every week we have the same dilemma on a Monday night. Working out who is coming is a doddle thanks to RocketSports, but picking the teams is always a headache. If you have even sides, it’s usually a bit easier, but when it’s odd numbers the problems are increased. Who to side with whom?
Luckily technology can help us with that problem and we’re super excited to be working with Keiran from IntoHand in Bath to develop a prototype Team Picking app for iOS and Android. Current offerings are hideously ugly and unbelievably bad to use – as if the people making them have never hear of UX or UI design.
Below are sample screenshots of what we hope to launch in the January.
The Load screen:
Your team screen, say who’s there and rate each player on your team:
Pick those sides – a nice BIG button!
Adding a player is a simple tap or two:
Edit your squad easily:
Voila! Your teams, picked based on your ratings. Get your ratings right and you’ll never have an uneven game again. It’ll work for any sport or occasion.
The end of November 2012 marked 7 full years of trading at Graphic Clinic. We started out as life as North & East in the winter of 2005, rebranded in 2009, and are delighted to still be here thanks to some fiercely loyal clients who seem to like working with us! A huge, huge thanks to all of you who have made the journey this far a delight.
We look forward to 2013 with excitement with some new work to be published in the new year and some great developments for our clients.
Our Creative Director Brian continues his hard work with the design lecture series LongLunch and has arranged a talk at the Design Museum on the 12th from one of the UK’s most prominent design agencies of the last two decades.
Intro’s Creative director Julian House will be talking about his design philosophies to a packed Design Museum, and then three days later will be flying to Edinburgh to do it all again for the Scottish Design community.
There are still a few tickets left for both talks, available via www.longlunch.com.
There will be free posters to give away, designed by Julian himself, and screen printed by Dan Mather.
For the last year or so I have stuck rigidly to a really nice iPhone 4 skin produced by the guys at Effektive in Glasgow. I liked the dark grey one.
Today I upgraded to an iPhone 5 and they’ve not yet created a new grid, so here’s my homage to their initial idea. Pantone’s have been turned into hex colours using this site. They use the Graphic Clinic Pantone’s of 427 and 485 plus – because I really prefer the dark grey one Effektive did – Pantone 433.
I thought I’d share them. You’re free to download them and use them. If you do I’d appreciate a tweet to let me know @GraphicClinic. Thanks.
I’m happy to do a specific Pantone version, should you wish. Requests on Twitter to @GraphicClinic.
Our creative director Brian, in his work with design lecture series LongLunch, has confirmed two up-coming talks this autumn. Moving Brands will be talking in Glasgow on the 4th October with a few minor details to be finalised and tickets due to go on sale sometime in the coming weeks.
The second talk will be in London at the stunning Design Museum, where LongLunch have already held four sold-out talks since their move from the Westbourne Studios venue. UK design industry behemoths Intro, in the guise of their creative director Julian House, will be taking to the (small) stage on the 12th November. Tickets will be on sale via the Design Museum in the not-to-distant future.
Local (to me) web developer Paul Leader has created a 21st century way to find your lost pet, using a web app to notify you of lost pets near you that are added to the site. He’s a great developer but not-so-good designer so he asked for our help. This is what we did for him and what he’s currently re-skinning the site to look like.
The last week or so has been dominated by a large piece of work for our client Nucleus, however we still found time to create a map of Plymouth for this years Half Marathon in the city on the Queens’ Jubilee weekend.
A new look for Englands “riveria” half marathon
We were approached at the end of 2011 to work with on some interim designs for the Plymouth Half Marathon in anticipation of a full rebrand for the annual event, this year taking place on the Queens Jubilee weekend. We took our creative lead from old postcards promoting the area as a holiday destination, picking out key landmarks on the marathon’s route such as the Tinside Lido, Smeatons Tower and the Hoe.