Some recent TPW social marketing campaigns we’ve been working on are now up and around the streets of Blackburn.

the best things come in bunches

‘Bastardised’ Bunch’s book celebrating 289 Bunchisms is nearly here! Nearly a year ago Bunch, a branding and design agency with studios in London, Zagreb and Singapore, asked respected creatives to take their logo and produce a visual reaction to it, in order to form the basis of the Bunch identity. The launch of the book will be in London at the end of the month and will be available from all the ususal design bookstores, no doubt. It will feature ‘Bunchism’s’ from myself (pictured), amongst other notable image makers like BB Saunders, Build, Ed Fella, Ben Casey and Stephan Sagmeister.

shut up and drive

Some work in progress for Drive™ – a bold, bold slab-serif typeface we’ve been chiseling away at over the last few weeks.

Still not there yet though. As you can make out we’re struggling with the G’s and Q’S and as of late I’ve been trying to get these awkward ’slants’ out of my system to counteract the seeming illegibility when the letterforms are arranged together. Any thoughts?

judge a book by it’s cover

Some work in progress for a self-promotional A5 book we’re producing in-house. More to follow.

here’s one we made earlier…

As most you might know, our bi-monthly online newsletter went into circulation in May of this year and thankfully has so far generated some positive responses from everyone who it went out to. We aim to continue it’s success by keeping you all up to date in the coming months. What the readers didn’t see is the original prototype, which took the form of a full-colour, 8 page newspaper, which we intended on printing in-house on recycled newsprint. It wasn’t until we attempted to feed the stock through our laser printer and spent the remainder of the afternoon peeling it from the rollers – that we realised this wouldn’t yet be quite feasible! However, the mock-ups shall remain safely tucked away in the drawer; ready to re emerge one day. In the meantime you can check out some of the early visuals we produced on our Flickr page.

hive

It’s been a hive of activity at TPW Design Consultants having won the latest paid pitch for Lancashire County Council’s Creative Lancashire project with our ‘HIVE’ concept. Creative Lancashire invited several creative design agencies to develop a brand for a new Pennine Lancashire Creative and Digital Industries Network. We were successful in scooping the account with a cutting edge and highly original brand proposal, and have since undertaken the brand design and a series of promotional e-flyers to market the network to a wide range of creative and digital industries throughout Lancashire.

bringing sensual textures and indulgent drama back to the bathroom

Armstrong Woodhouse now have an impressive list of retailers, including Harrods and Fired Earth thanks to their pro-active marketing with us. After being highly recommended to Armstrong Woodhouse we then presented the client with a bespoke mood board and concept book showing the direction for the future development of the brand, both in the short and long term.

This was used as a basis for the photography and art direction for a bespoke pressroom website produced specifically for a Fired Earth product launch, presented by Kevin McCloud from the Channel 4 series Grand Designs.

In fact he was so impressed by their foil-blocked business cards made from bespoke and duplexed papers that he’ll no doubt be requesting something similar in the future!

HIVE

Welcome to HIVE, Pennine Lancashire’s latest Creative and Digital Industries Network. This event is all about you. Come and meet the rest of your creative community and find out who else shares your dreams and challenges. Come and start to make new relationships. Launch event takes place on Thursday 24th April 2008 5.30pm – 8.00pm at KoKo’s Club, Burnley. Places are limited, please contact mary.msl@btopenworld.com or CALL 0800 977 6027 for more information.

ian mcmanus photography

After much perserverance and debate over the PANTONE colour (camp or non-camp?), Ian McManus finally gave us the go-ahead to get his new stationery off to the printers; sporting his new, vibrant and youthful identity. In the end he agreed on this offset yellow – we like. Ian is a commerical photographer you just lurves to take photos of anyone and everyone! He’s always always looking to photograph people and objects for his portfolio in a creative and even surreal style. Any creatives, stylists, models or everyday folk out there if you have an idea or would like to work with Ian and get it on, then you’ll be able to get in touch as soon as the new site goes live!

top drawer

 

With the end of the year drawing close, the crew here at TPW will be able to remain calm throughout the next few days, filled by last minute christmas shopping; with the soothing notion that 2008 looks to be a great year for new business. After a string of recent successful presentations and pitches we can all drink our body weights with a clear conscious this christmas too.

Set to begin a fruitful relationship with us next year is Vari-tech. Following our presentation last week for the full rebranding and overall marketing strategy for the company – inclusive of what can be best described as a ‘myriad’ of possible creative directions and executions, we have been given the go ahead with the account, beginning in January 2008. Woo Hoo!