Alice Barnard, Chief Executive of the Peter Jones Foundation, has announced that 2013 should be “the year for growth and the year for opportunity” in her Huffington Post article. We are proud to have created some of that momentum by working with the Peter Jones Foundation and Peter Jones Enterprise Academy on the naming and … Read more

For the official launch of Spring Bank’s new branch in Harlem, NBC New York came along for the grand opening and did an interview with the Vice President Brian Blake and the Business Relations Manager Jason Ohene. Not only did they talk about Spring Bank’s amazing approach to banking they also showed off the logo … Read more

Fantastic video from our friends at GrantTree: the kids’ view on how to get grants and R&D tax credits. GrantTree work with start-ups, tech, green tech, and the new Patent Box. Watch it to see the forty-thousand-pound boogie! Image credit: Japanexperterna.se on Flickr

  Anthemis advise, transform and invest in businesses that are building better ways to design, produce, consume and distribute financial services in the Information Economy. Anthemis is a dynamic growth company focused on re-inventing financial services through technology for the 21st century. Grain teamed up with the film production company Motherlode and designed the Anthemis … Read more

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

Thingamajiggy? Whaddyacallit? Just a couple of good names for that thingy you just invented. Here at Grain we really enjoy our name creation projects, from work for Tesco to Main Squeeze, Floreon and some top-secret work in progress. Our good friends at GrantTree have just written a great post on ‘A new use for patents … Read more

What better time to come across a new website called Make It British: passionate about products made in Britain. As of this moment, Team GB currently stand at 3rd in the Olympic ratings with 25 gold medals. I am sure that founder of Make It British, Kate Hills, would be happy for that pro-GB spirit … Read more

We are delighted to announce the launch of the website for Main Squeeze. After having named the new brand, designed its brand identity and designed orange juice and apple juice packaging the brand needed a distinctive online presence. The website has been launched in English and Chinese and is expecting further products to be added … Read more

Facebook has had a lot of press over the past couple of weeks because of the IPO. This story from May 2009 has been popular lately and I thought I’d show a few more original Facebooks from Exeter, illustrating where Mark Zuckerberg’s idea for the name probably originated. And yes, I can admit that I … Read more

We are delighted to share one of our latest projects: the naming of a new Chinese brand of fresh juices. It’s our new Main Squeeze! We have designed the packaging of the freshly squeezed orange juice in 2 sizes, with lots more in the pipeline…or should I say the straw?  

Our response from across the pond to Adam Ladd’s brilliant video – our own 5-year-old’s impressions on brandmarks. Original soundtrack by Anthony Postman.

Refuse to Choose!: A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love. Scanners unite! Barbara Sher has defined a category of people who have many interests as Scanners. She explains why Scanners may flit from one project to the next without ever completing anything, and provides a host of tools from the Scanner Daybook to … Read more

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence. This is one of those books which can really change your life if you take it to heart. The basic premise is to follow your dreams – sounds lovely but difficult in reality, right? The first step, like in … Read more

Berries are wonderful and delicious and so are pies. Raspberry pie as the combination of the two is no exception to that but this new product called Raspberry Pi is unbelievable, inspiring and simply awesome. Forget the $100 computer which did not quite make it despite computer industry heavy weights being involved. This ‘naked’ computer … Read more

As the officially coronated Spreadsheet Queen (with the recently bestowed adjunct title of Micro-Managing Brand Freak), I thought I would really like the system set out in Getting Things Done by David Allen. But in short, I hated it because it is so prescriptive. Rather than teaching a man to fish, it tells him exactly … Read more