DESIGN CRAFT: Craft - Incorporating: Photography, Typography, Illustration, Copywriting

Notes from Linn House

Award

Creating a luxurious keepsake from Speyside, Scotland. Having collaborated with Chivas Brothers on a number of whisky projects, we proposed producing a seasonal journal that could be given to VIPs, dignitaries and other special guests as a memento of their time at Linn House — a Victorian lodge and the spiritual home of Chivas Brothers in the heart of Speyside.   Working in collaboration with our client, we developed the editorial direction for the publication — commissioning a broad range […]

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Bature Brewery Can Design

Commendation

Bature Brewery are the first craft brewery in Nigeria and pioneers of their trade in West Africa. With an ever evolving range of beers and ales, we have been working closely with their team in Abuja and Lagos to begin a strategical approach to their brand, packaging and overall place in a heavily populated market. Starting off as a small brew making taproom in Abuja — construction has now started on a large scale brewery in Lagos. With the expansion […]

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Glasgow International 2020

Commendation

We first established the Glasgow International identity in 2018 which prominently featured the typeface Lacuna by GSA alumni Imogen Ayres. This time round we developed the identity in collaboration with Gabriella Marcella of Risotto Studio. Her striking, bold and playful abstract illustration work was the perfect fit. Once the colour palette was defined we tasked Gabriella with creating nine unique graphic tiles. Chopping, scaling, flipping and rotating the tiles gives us infinite random options with no two brand touchpoints ever […]

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Heritage – Dear Green Place and the Emerald City

Nomination

Heritage is a collaborative piece we undertook with Seattle based photographer Ken Dundas in order to promote our studio and the services that we can offer. Ken was the perfect portrait photographer for this project because we felt his distinctive style was a perfect fit for the tone of the concept and how we wanted to promote ourselves with this project. His gallery includes James McAvoy, Emma Thompson, Sam Heughan, David Lynch, Robert Carlyle and Alan Cumming. His work was […]

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MagicFest Campaign

Nomination

MagicFest started 10 years ago and has seen world-class illusionists, thousands of children attending Magic School and even magic shows for blind and partially sighted. To celebrate their 10th year they wanted to create something a little different. We knew it had to be visually stunning to capture attention. The media budget for the charity was small. We came up with the notion of using an illusion to sell the show. Magic to sell magic. We created a series of hero images using seemingly random objects creating […]

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City of Aberdeen Distillery

Nomination

75 years after the last Aberdeen distillery closed its doors, the new City of Aberdeen Distillery (CoAD) aims to restore the Granite City’s distilling tradition. Located under a railway arch near the city centre, it’s home to Aberdeen Gin School – a truly authentic gin-distilling experience.      The CoAD brand needed to be steeped in civic pride – celebrating the traditions of hand-crafted produce and the stories, told and untold, of the city’s economic and industrial histories. The client wanted […]

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