Well it’s been a long time in the making but all good things come to those that wait. However wait is still what’s required because we aren’t revealing the new identity for laser cutting specialists, Lasercraft just yet. With Design Week lined up for an exclusive advance screening of the identity and interview with Richard Dyson of Lasercraft guru fame we didn’t want to steal their thunder. So in the meantime here’s an annoyingly obscure fpicture to wet the appetite.
As always our work for cog records always goes down a storm and apparently this one was no exception. Danny Spice presented another sell-out night of slamming UK Hip Hop to coincide with the release of his highly anticipated new single ‘money’ and as always me&him were there to offer top-class design support.
Stay tuned for more Cog Records niceness and Leicester print Workshop collabs in the future…
Working with IDP Architect’s own in house designer we have recently launched their new website. It’s not often you get to work fully in Flash these days so it was great to find a client not totally fixated by search engine results and Google Analytics. I guess it all depends on your marketing plan really… that’s another, much longer blog post I’ll get round to some day.
The site is fully content managed with a custom built admin allowing IDP Architects own team to update the site easily and quickly. Check it out here.
Literally looking back at last season one last time and showing of the poster for ‘Look Back In Anger’.
‘Look Back In Anger’ (A ’strong, poignant drama’), by John Osborne and directed for the Little Theatre Leicester by Judy Price has been and gone in case you were wondering! One more to come in our round up of last season’s theatre posters.
Now, there’s a whole heap of work that gets done here at m&h towers but never ever get seen. Why not? Well mostly it’s because it doesn’t get chosen and another route wins the day. Those are the ones that normally make it to the blog. Well we were wondering why that was the case… nobody knew. So lets change that and show you a few more things that, for whatever reason didn’t make it into print starting now.
A little while back we were really fortunate and very pleased to be asked to take part in the Arts Depot’s reworking of their communications. Shown above are a few pages from one of the routes we put forward for the depot’s Season, Performance, Family and Exhibition Guide designs. Alas it didn’t win the day but we are still very proud of it! Who knows if anybody out there likes it we could even do a cut price deal, the design is done but gathering pixel dust on the server…
We’ve been working with the amazing Opera Show for a few years now and I don’t think any of the work has yet to make it to the blog. Well we’ll sort that out in due course. For now though here’s a preview of the initial work we presented.You can find out more about the Opera Show at the website we also designed and built with the chosen identity. More on that soon…
Our response last night to the question posted on LinkedIn:
100% yes. We recently went into the local Fiat garage to look at the 500, asked for a brochure and they had run out. They started out with thousands. The car is popular of course hence the demand but all that information is available online and probably in more detail. But, it’s much easier to sit down and flick through the brochure then to keep loading up new pages on a website.
I wanted to plan a trip to Wales, mountain biking. They have an excellent website with heaps and heaps of information. After 5 minutes of flicking through the site I thought great this looks good now where’s the brochure. Found a link, ordered it. The brochure arrived a day later. It’s also great, the feel of it really communicates where the website couldn’t do. The paper was great, uncoated and bulky. The images, didn’t take 5 seconds to load each in turn, the text didn’t strain my eyes. I could flick through the brochure from start to finish in 5 minutes, you couldn’t do that online.
There is a place for all media platforms from the traditional to the cutting edge. Everything should be embraced and nothing completely discarded. What’s better than the sunday papers outside a cafe with a coffee? Substitute, papers for a laptop? Nah, doesn’t work. Can;’t see the screen for a start!
I’d love to write more but my eyes are really starting to ache so it’s time for a good book and another flick through that Wales mountain biking brochure…
Straight and Narrow, a play by Jimmy Chinn that was first shown in the West-end on 18 March 1992. The play is set in Manchester, and follows the rocky relationship between the play’s pleasant and naive narrator “Bob”, his family and his partner. Directed for the Leicester Little Theatre by Alan Chambers, artwork by me&him’s own Josh Baker.
Worrying about what to do with the kids this summer? Well if you live in the EC1 area of London you can now reference our fold out guide. Commissioned by fab long term client EC1 NDC to create an identity for this summers ‘what on earth can I do with kids for all that time’ holidays we created the summer (where’s that gone now?) inspired graphic language and rolled out the pocket sized flyer in their thousands.
Number… something in our latest update of Little Theatre posters… hope you like….
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