After working on a project for the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, the idea of being an entrepreneur has been swilling around my brain for the last few months. The idea of having a small unique business is an exciting and seemingly very satisfying one. With a bigger push from the government for people to start … Read more

During our ongoing research on apps, we stumbled across this beautiful one from Nasa called Earth Now. Try making the world spin as fast as it can go.  

Our resident future branding expert (now 6 years old) is trying his hand at advertising. The latest is this poster for the “Best shop in town” with enthusiastic customer endorsement.  

When we moved office last year, I took a fresh look at some documents we had issued and received over the past years. Reading the language which is used day-by-day in our branding world, I find a lot of it to be militaristic. We talk about “targeting” our market and we “bullet-point” our recommendations. We … Read more

A wonderful collision of bananas and Pac-Man…eating lunch and the Star Spangled Banner…playing piano on stair steps. It’s MaKey MaKey. Check it out!

Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly popular nowadays, as fewer companies want to pay big money for good design. By crowdsourcing a design, a company can cut out trying to find a design team to suit their needs and offer a project to the masses with them competing with one another to complete the project. Once completed … Read more

A recent experiment with my kids at the weekend reminded me what is at the heart of our creative work: curiosity, discovery, delight and wonder! This came from a book on water experiments: put a vial full of warm water mixed with food colouring at the bottom of a large glass or plastic bowl full … Read more

Check out this short video on children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers to add a little bit of loveliness to your day! Oliver Jeffers Author Film 2013 from Oliver Jeffers on Vimeo.

Amidst the excitement of hitting the ground running in 2013, we are taking a quick look back at our highlights of 2012. Just click on the image below to download a PDF showing some of our naming, luxury branding, packaging, identity and digital projects. Recently we have been talking about what makes us different and … Read more

Together with our friends at Spring Bank community bank we have developed the identity for the newly named bank. We developed their website, the stationery, the branch interior and the branch signage. Above you see the branch in the Bronx, New York with its new cloths being fitted. The all new Harlem branch is following … Read more

I absolutely love this video! I want to watch it all day and tell our clients that it will solve all their problems. Tash is designing her way through her third year in the BA (Hons) Graphic Arts course at Bucks New University. She won’t lie for a custard cream. In a nutshell from Tash … Read more

In the Don Draper days – despite the fact you couldn’t see your hand before your face for cigarette smoke and whiskey fumes – life was smoother for the ad man. But here we are, forty odd years older and wiser and advertising as well as branding have moved on in ways unimaginable back then! … Read more

One of our designers showed me a really cool feature in Firefox  – right click the screen to inspect element, then click ‘3D View’ at bottom right and you see – ta da! – all of the layers of code on a site. This is the kind of thing that I love.  

Yes you can! 1% for the Planet, through which we donate 1% of our turnover to the Woodland Trust and the Centre for Alternative Technology, has put together an album of 41 tracks. All proceeds go to environmental charities. Contact us to get your code to download the album for free (we’ve paid for it … Read more

My love of colour has recently expanded to include my nails…and a discovery of Nails Inc. The name of the shade which matches Grain’s orange is called Westbourne Grove, which is a stone’s throw from our old office. Our new location in Marylebone corresponds to a pink glitter concoction. Don’t expect a change to our … Read more