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Portal 2

Mailer designed for explosive impact to announce the release of Portal 2. An intelligent, innovative and massively entertaining first person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve. (TBWA)

Medal of Honor

One of many CRM mailers designed for Medal of Honor. Working repeatedly with the same brand assets the brief was to come up with a unique design perspective for each mail out. Innovative visual techniques were developed to appeal to the audiences' imagination, engaging them in an up close and personal experience. (TBWA)

The Courteeners

This is the design that won the pitch for the shiny new Courteeners website. It was based on the concept that content would be drawn from a variety of sources. The challenge was to construct a format that could handle and navigate live streaming of band, user and found content in a simple, user friendly way. (*)

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EA Active 2

There was a requirement for a number of promotional CRM mailer designs for EA Sports popular fitness video game Active 2. This involved working creatively within their strict brand guidelines and looking at lots of pictures of David Beckham...which as you can imagine, was pretty challenging. (TBWA)

Beans on Toast

This brief called for a brand spanking new website that was clean, simple and in line with the musician's branding. Music is enabled on the site through a Soundcloud embed.

The Veronicas

This is the official UK site for The Veronicas. The site needed to be fresh, bright and simple reflecting the brand. It incorporates news, videos, photos, an ebook, a game, an e-commerce store and a download page for goodies from the band. (*)

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Volcom

Volcom manufacture cool skate, surf and snowboarding kit. They have a fun, grungy style that runs throughout all the design creative. This appeals to the audience who are a fashion-focused youth crowd. Shown here is the Spring Catalogue layout, one of a couple of projects. The other was the Seed project blog.

Empire

The band Empire required branded design and implementation for all their social network skins. This included best practice styling and layouts and popular images for Myspace, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

Delphic

This project involved a variety of media for Delphic, a redesign of their Myspace and Twitter along with a mailer to accompany the revamp of their website. The brief also required development of the Delphic app. This was originally designed as a widget but was then further developed into a full iPhone mobile application. The app allows users to manipulate songs while listening by interacting with a drum pad. (*)

Snow Patrol

This is an internal mailer template designed to keep stakeholders and press up-to-date about the success of the Snow Patrol album from launch. It was populated with new facts and figures and delivered electronically every week for 13 weeks. (*)

JANET JACKSON. MADONNA, CO-OP MILEY CYRUS, NOAH & THE WHALE, MICHAEL BUBLE, BELLA UNION MORRISSEY, PLAN B, ST TRINIANS, THE CHEEK, MIDLAKE, VERTIGO RECORDS, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP et al...

A huge number of clients require the regular design and build of mailers as an essential component of their CRM marketing strategy. Occasionally, the need is for a template that can be easily edited with new copy and updated with fresh images by the client. All mailers are tested to ensure they will render well and degrade gracefully on a variety of mail clients.

Paulo Nutini Mailer

The brief was to work within the boundaries of current branding while creatively finding a way to construct a versatile, eye-catching and on-brand CRM mailer. (*)

MTV

This is one of a number of CRM mailers and newsletters designed and built for MTV. They are usually an integral part of a structured marketing campaign deploying a range of media including for example banner advertising and signature banners for employees' emails. (*)

Nonesuch

This mailer was designed and built to perfectly match the clean and vibrant Nonesuch branding. A newsletter template was created that, with only a little HTML knowledge, could be populated with copy and new images before being delivered to the fanbase each month. (*)

Two Door Cinema Club

This is an example of a clearly branded mailer template built for the band. It incorporates all their existing branding, raising awareness and recognition among the user base. (*)

Kate Nash

This design was done as a pitch for the new Kate Nash website. It was well received until it was decided that one of her friends would be drawing a website design for her instead.

However, the redesigns for her YouTube and Twitter were approved and are in use. They feature a variety of Kate’s friends drawings that have been weaved into collages. Work was also completed on a number of advertising banners for the release of the new album and single. (*)

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Alphabeat Instant Grat

This Instant Grat page for Alphabeat used their existing branding. The page was built to offer E4M gratification to those amongst their loyal fanbase taking the time to visit. (*)

Mr Hudson

A project for Mr Hudson involved using a variety of press clippings to create a 10 page digital book with a deliberate scrapbook feel. (*)

Amy Macdonald

An exclusive download of material generating interest and exposure is offered through this Instant Grat page for Amy Macdonald. It uses her existing branding and adds impact through the creation of new visual elements. (*)

Eastpak

Most of the projects for Eastpak were print projects including design and layout of posters for events.

A favorite job was for the Girls Heart Eastpak event at their Carnaby Street store in London. This involved designs for posters and flyers for the event as well as a logo, which was used on hang tags and t-shirts.

There was a further requirement for a mini-site for the Eastpak bag designer, Christopher Shannon. It uses a fun navigation technique to browse over a digital version of the Look Book as well as providing further information. (*)

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The Killers

This mini site was designed and built to serve as the official UK online portal for The Killers. The site was intended to be a simple, one page website that linked to the rest of their online presence. The design focus is primarily on their album artwork. (*)

Aviv Geffen

A pure and simple single download page built for the launch of a new record by Aviv Geffen. (*)

Marina And the Diamonds

A pitch for the redesign of Marina's blog was well liked and adopted. However, it was handed over to another agency to be built and a number of changes were made to the original intended design. The image featured here is the pitch layout prior to external edits.(*)

Fenech Soler

A branded MySpace layout designed for the band Fenech-Soler.

Ellie Goulding

There were a number of projects for Ellie Goulding spanning two releases. Work included the holding page shown which was developed using the release branding. (*)

The Fur

This project mainly involved coming up with a bold and simple identity for remixing duo; The Fur. The idea behind the layouts was that they were as clean and minimal as possible with the background and logo being high impact. It was planned that the fur texture background could be changed every so often to provide some variety. The design was applied to both their website and MySpace.

Five Finger Death Punch

A one page Instant Grat page designed and developed for Five Finger Death Punch. (*)

Glory Glory

Glory Glory was a one-off magazine based around the idea of sex in Manchester. Its approach is bold, playful and tongue-in-cheek rather than seedy. This was a team effort. Areas of responsibility were with regard to project management, branding, partial design layout and some photography during fashion shoots.

Mike Smith

The Mike Smith Gallery website was designed to be simple and clean with Smith's work being the main focus. The background is randomly generated from a collection of his work and makes it the focal point of the site. (*)

The red content panel extends horizontally as required to encompass the content on each page. This technique ensures that the background art receives maximum exposure.

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THE SATURDAYS, ATHLETE, CHERYL COLE, IAN BROWN, AGGRO SANTOS,LISSIE, STEVIE HOANG et al

Branded MySpace pages have been designed and implemented for several official artists over the years. (*)

Moho

Club Moho is a well-established live music venue in Manchester, UK presenting new bands to the nation. This account required design and delivery of all print media, posters and flyers. The results were well received despite being constrained by the fairly prescriptive style that was in place.

If You

The brief was to raise awareness about Co2 emissions and personal carbon footprints. The idea proposed and adopted was that themed seed packets would be placed in locations where small Co2 crimes are committed due to people’s lack of awareness (like buying organic foods that are flown in).

The goal was to foster a positive attitude and encourage people to take at least small steps to counteract their actions by planting the seeds.

Annie Mac

This was designed for a pitch for Annie Mac's new website. It wasn't selected for the final redesign. However, the white space and clean lines are representative of a style appreciated by many.

Pixie Lott

Instant Grat page designed for Pixie Lott. (*)

Johnny Flynn

The first complete design of an entertainment based website was done for the musician Johnny Flynn. He provided diaries full of his own drawings with notes and folders full of scraps and photographs. The brief was to create a website layout from his artwork and collections that had a messy, collage feel to it. Each and every page was individually designed with a new collage. (*)

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The Hobo's Bicycles Eastpak Ride

This project was to turn what was essentially a journal and a bunch of photographs into a visually enticing .pdf that documented the trip and both the physical and emotional journey of those that were part of it. (*)

A sh*tload of banners

These images represent a ton of animated and expanding advertising banners for all manner of artist and music event...designed in all shapes and sizes from leaderboards, MPUs’ and skyscrapers to custom build. These are usually produced in sets of flash, gif or both. (*)

Charles Worthington

The redesign of the Charles Worthington website was a team project. The job entailed working on designing or amending a number of the pages as well as creating a variety of ad containers and mailers. (TBWA)

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Sims 3

There was a frequent requirement for design of promotional CRM mailers for the Sims, all working within their brand guidelines. (TBWA)

GHD

There were numerous projects undertaken as part of the team on the GHD account. This involved designing frequent mailers, social networking skins and pages. This was all part of their marketing and promotional plan for world domination. (TBWA)

Imperial Leather

Special page layout for the Imperial Leather website for a Coronation Street promotional competition. Schools were challenged to write an episode of the world famous soap. (TBWA)

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is an action role-play game developed by Bioware and published by Electronic Arts. This design was for a CRM teaser email. (TBWA)

Battlefield 'Bad Company' Vietnam

Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam is a best-in-class combat game made by EA Games. This release teaser email was part of a bigger campaign for the entire range of Battlefield games. (TBWA)

Crysis 2

Crysis 2 is a first person shooter video game developed by Crytek, and published by EA Games. The campaign required the design and build of a number of awesome CRM mailers to announce the release. (TBWA)

Happy New Year from EA

Designed and developed a composite graphic to use within the layout for EA's 'Happy New Year' mailer. (TBWA)

Dead Space 2

Dead Space 2 is a survival horror third person shooter game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts. The Campaign called for a run of high impact visual treats in CRM mailer form to be dispatched at intervals leading up to the launch of the Dead Space sequel. (TBWA)

Bulletstorm

Bulletstorm is a first person shooter video game developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games and published by Electronic Arts. This Campaign of multiple CRM mailer designs was sent out in the run-up to the release of the game. (TBWA)

Deathspank

Described as salty and delicious, Deathspank is actually a comedy action role-play game by Ron Gilbert. This Mailer design is for the release of the second part of the series, Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (yes, I giggled a lot too). (TBWA)

EA Wallpaper Prize

EA Games requested a wallpaper design as a prize for their Christmas giveaway. Only character assets from the breadth of EA games were supplied. The idea of bringing them all together in a rather dark and scary scene and the creation of the 'flaming' EA logo, were all artistic invention and so much fun! (TBWA)