Graphic Clinic

Category: Work

  • Picking even sides is a hassle no longer

    Picking even sides is a hassle no longer

    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:

    01 Intro and load

    Your team screen, say who’s there and rate each player on your team:

    02 selection screen

    Pick those sides – a nice BIG button!

    03 selection screen complete

    Adding a player is a simple tap or two:

    04 adding a new player

    Edit your squad easily:

    05 editing squad

    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.

    06 Picked teams

  • Graphic Clinic and Original Designers Workbook iPhone 5 wallpapers

    Graphic Clinic and Original Designers Workbook iPhone 5 wallpapers

    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.

    Graphic Clinic iPhone 5 Pantone 427 wallpaperGraphic Clinic iPhone 5 Pantone 485 wallpaperGraphic Clinic iPhone 5 Pantone 433 wallpaperOriginal Designers Workbook iPhone wallpaper Pantone 433Original Designers Workbook Pantone 2925 iPhone wallpaper

  • Original Designers Workbook App

    There’s an App for everything, apparently.

    Well no there’s not, there’s not an Original Designers Workbook App — yet! So we thought we should rectify that and get designing and planning. And we did.

    With clear ideas of functionality that will be invaluable to the creative industry our planned digital Workbook will let users create notes that they can search, track, share, edit and assign. We are now seeking a digital partner to help us get the Original Designers Workbook App to market on both iOS and Android who will share in the success of this unique and proven product.

    There is more information on our dedicated ODW App page, with a couple of sneak preview visuals. If you are an iOS or Android developer and interested in a partnership agreement, please get in  touch.

  • English Heritage timeline concepts

    I was recently invited by Glasgow based Digirati to submit designs for a timeline they’re producing for their client English Heritage. There was quite a lot of information required to create a flexible timeline that can be used for all the organisations properties, allowing for multiple timelines within the main timeline and a global timeline and scaling options. The solution was to extract elements from the EH logo to form the main red timeline and try to indicate on the global timeline where clusters of information were thus helping guide users to points worth exploring. Visually it’s all kept very much on-brand with the EH guidelines to ensure the timeline sits comfortably into the website. The brilliant guys at Unwrong in Brighton will be doing the build in Flash.

  • Naomi Campbell 40th birthday DVD

    Naomi Campbell 40th birthday DVD

    Naomi Campbell DVD cover Can she really be 40? Well, it would appear so, and in true Supermodel style she threw a big party, filmed it, and then needed a nice cover that was a stunning as she was (er, is!). Not a bad brief really. She, and her partner, apparently loved it. Printed onto gold paper for the extra super shine.

  • New ad campaign for Sugababes

    We were asked in the summer to help Rachel at Rebel State pull together an ad campaign for the new Sugababes fragrance collection. We worked alongside the photographer, retoucher, client and her clients (the Sugababes, their management and the fragrances company) to put together a classic design for the girls working with the packaging designs already produced.

  • New office

    I was worried when I considered moving out of London that clients wouldn’t want to keep working with me/us, fearing their preference to work with an agency inside the M25, but then one of them said “Brian, I couldn’t care less where you’re based..”. I guess we can take that as ringing endorsement that distance is no longer an object in these digital times — and a bit of it is hopefully because they think the service they get is so good they’re happy to work with a designer “elsewhere”?

    So, with that in mind, please note that for the time being (until office premises are found) we can be reached at 01225 480900 which is a Bath number.

  • No sun for us. We’ve had a busy summer.

    It’s been a while since we added some new work to our site, which is a shame, but we’re snowed under at the moment so the chances of getting anything online soon are slim. Of course being busy is good, and we’re delighted to be so. So here’s a quick overview of the last couple of months here at Graphic Clinic.

    We completed a set of album, single and promo designs for 100% Records artist Matisyahu for the UK release of his US hit album “Light” in May.

    In June we produced a gorgeous DVD cover design for Naomi Campbell in gold and silver to celebrate her 40th birthday celebrations.

    July saw us working on the development of our own iPad application – more news will follow soon we hope. We also finalised some logo designs for The Remedi, a designer clothing e-commerce site, and helped them implement the new ‘branding’ into their online shop. We also revamped our client Goldrealm Properties website for Coodham Estate in Ayrshire, a stunning redevelopment of a stately home, and we’ve continued to deliver ongoing design and marketing support for our more regular clients in the financial sector.

    Nucleus, for whom we created their brand over 4 years ago, hit a major milestone in their business aims by reaching a massive £1.5bn + of assets under management on their WRAP platform. A figure that means the business is now profitable, which for a financial services start-up is rather impressive, and we’re delighted to have played a part in their success.

    We also started working for Easy Gourmet, an established ‘high end’ catering and events company based in East London. More new to follow once we finalise their brand strategy and get a new identity developed.

    And that’s not all. We’re putting the finishing touches on an ad campaign for a major pop groups’ new business venture and will be helping the further development a new sports management system with Rocket Sports. All very exciting.

    Phew. Now, back to work!

  • World Cup chart competition entry

    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 was the way forward. We’re so pleased with it we thought we should share it beyond the competition — after all, it might not win — so we’re putting it online here for you to download and print off yourself.

    We plan to update the chart as the tournament progresses with scores, final group tables, last 16, quarter, semi and final scores and teams, giving you a full picture of the event as it progresses. Can you tell we love our football?

    We should point out that this is an unofficial item and is in no way endorsed by FIFA. Any infringement of copyright or naming rights is purely accidental.