A new home has emerged in Notting Hill created by Grain Creative. After extensive renovation and extension works we are delighted to show the first picture of this fabulous maisonette flat not too far from Westbourne Grove. Grain delivered all the architectural and interior design services, including planning permission, conservation area consent and building control … Read more

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

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

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.

The UK high street chains HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster have not had a very rosy start to 2013: they have all gone into administration. Interesting that the decline of all three businesses is due to the takeover of digital, from imagery to music and video downloading and streaming. A stark reminder to all of us … Read more

  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

CES is the massive Consumer Electronic Show held in Las Vegas every year. Past CES debuts include the VCR, camcorder, CD player, plasma TV, Blu-Ray DVD…you get the gist. For the past 12 years, Microsoft has been delivering the keynote. This year was different: it was the CEO of Qualcomm, Paul Jacobs, who took the … 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

Maybe I am not up-to-date with urban developments but this is a first for me. I have seen many multi-storey car parks and one looks just as sad as the next one. But this is positive urban sprawl. London has so many cyclists nowadays that they need – multi-storey bike parks. I love it. I … 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

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

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