Category: Portfolio

World Cup chart competition entry

13 May, 2010 (11:48) | News, Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

Wallchart updated 30/06/10 to include all results to date and Quarter final ties

Our friends at The Drum magazine are running a competition to design a World Cup wallchart to help follow the up coming tournament this summer. We spent hours looking at other wallcharts out there and decided that a clear, crisp and typographic solution [...]

More V&A exhibitions images

25 March, 2010 (16:25) | Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

The stencil produced for the ‘materials’ wall

The ‘materials’ wall, otherwise known as the “How are seats made” section of the exhibition

The “play” section of the exhibtion

A Tripp Trapp highchair, something I will be buying for my baby thanks to discovering it during this project

Some nicely typeset Rockwell. It’s a nightmare font and every headline, and [...]

V&A Museum of Childhood images from the exhibition

15 March, 2010 (17:47) | News, Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

If you can’t make the time to take a trip to Bethnal Green in London’s east end before September here are a whole load of images we took at the exhibition we designed (in partnership with Wells Mackereth Architects and commissioning Emma Houlston) for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Museum of Childhood temporary exhibtion on [...]

Ignite – designing a sub-brand

3 March, 2010 (14:42) | News, Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

We’ve just completed a logo design for one of our long-standing clients, Nucleus, for a new sub brand of theirs called Ignite. Taking into consideration all the factors in a sub-brand design, we’ve produced the shown logo (below). We think it’s spot on and sits perfectly into all their existing marketing material. They think it’s [...]

In the midst of darkness another Nucleus Christmas card persists

22 December, 2009 (15:20) | News, Portfolio | By: Brian

This year, after discussions with the client, we decided to resurrect an idea used three years ago – whereby we made their Xmas card a year long calendar too. So, armed with another inspiring quotation from Ghandi “In the midst of darkness, light persists”, we created another seasonal mailer that reinforces their brand values.

Barclays Wealth Protected Investments site goes live

21 July, 2009 (19:10) | News, Portfolio | By: Brian

It’s been a year in design and development, so we’re only just a little bit proud that we’ve finally launched the new website for Barclays Wealth Protected Investments. The site features pricing feeds, a back catalogue of their investment products and a much improved design and user experience. Next up a second printed guide to [...]

Coodham gets an update

3 June, 2009 (15:11) | News, Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

Coodham Estate

We’ve recently finished an update to the award commended website for property development Coodham Estate, in leafy Ayrshire. The development of luxury properties south west of Glasgow from Goldrealm.
We’re working in partnership with other creative agencies (as we regularly do) on this project, with our good friend Mick Dean at Various and Grant Dain, [...]

Original Designers Workbooks delivered!

25 February, 2009 (19:40) | News, Portfolio | By: Brian

http://www.originaldesignersworkbook.com/
We now have them in our grubby little paws, yes the ODW has finally made it to N&E Towers (well, the office)! They will be available from Friday via Analogue Books once we get a batch delivered to them. If you are a retail outlet interested in stocking them, please contact us at North & [...]

Online advertising campaign launched for Barclays Wealth Protected Investments

19 February, 2009 (15:55) | News, Portfolio | By: Brian

We’ve recently finished the creative for an online ad campaign on www.ifaonline.co.uk for our client at Barclays. The main subject is their new Target Growth Plan, with a secondary protected investments message. The campaign will run till the end of Feb and should drive traffic levels up further.
You can view all the ads here ››
We [...]

Traffic levels up 100%

18 February, 2009 (19:23) | News, Portfolio, Work | By: Brian

Our work in the last year for Barclays Wealth Protected Investments has resulted in an over increase in traffic to their website of over 100% by using a combination of email news, online advertising and PR (by MRM) and content worth looking at. With a new design planned for the website launching soon, we’re aiming [...]