Expresso, Intelligentsia

Beautiful video shot in B&W (apart from the coffee which is in colour and looks fantastic) of a Barista making the perfect cup of Expresso in Intelligensia Coffee Venice, CA. I love the attention to detail, enthusiasm and borderline obsession he has with coffee.

reblogged from Tobias Ahlin

A Different View of Time

QLOCKTWO is a beautiful minimally designed clock that uses illuminated text instead of numbers or arms to indicate the current time. It comes in multiple colour (and language) options but our favourite is definitely the black. I think one of these would look lovely on the wall here in the studio but they don’t come cheap. Available to buy from BIEGERT & FUNK.

reblogged from jendotlu

The Brief

Laura wanted to create a brand and website that was feminine yet sophisticated and that would be easily recognisable as being part of the fashion industry and that would also appeal to a male audience.

Our Solution

After going through Laura’s branding and website brief our first task was to analyse her competitors, the industry and the audience she was targeting. Doing this gave us a great insight into what we felt was needed to really help her business stand out and get noticed. We then went on to create both Laura’s branding and website taking inspiration from the fashion industry and combining it with a warm friendly colour scheme and a clean magazine style website layout.

‘You hear people all the time saying ridiculous things like, ‘I could write a book’, or, ‘I could compose a piece of music’. Well, of course they couldn’t. They might have an idea in their head, but it’s realising that idea that counts.’

Extremely useful time saving debugging tool from Niels Matthijs. If you’re working on getting your website to display correctly across all browsers, just copy your CSS in to the ie6fixer and let it help you beat Internet Explorer 6 in to behaving like a modern standards compliant browser.

It’s Alive!

Welcome, after much procrastination plus putting off our own work to work on clients projects we are finally live with Version 1.0 of our website and blog, it’s been a long time coming. Along with showcasing recent client work, we’ll be making daily updates to this blog. The plan is to run with short Tumblresque style blog posts showcasing design work we find inspiring, useful web development information and even some informative articles/rants from us.

We’ll be continually adding more projects to our work portfolio and be keeping this blog fresh with plenty of content so please stick around.

The Brief

David from EFS got in touch with us and explained how they were in need of a complete website re-design and build. They required a website that would be clean and modern looking plus display all of their services and information as intuitively as possible.

Our Solution

We researched all of EFS’s competitors, their target market and the future of their business. After receiving a very positive response from the proposal submitted to EFS we got down to work on the design and development of their site. Keeping the companies colour scheme intact we created a clean, contemporary website that EFS are very pleased with.

The Brief

John Breslin the CEO of STS worked with us before on another web project so we were delighted when he decided to work with us once more. John came to us with his websites content and requested a website that would stand out from any of his competitors and would display his content in a clear and well laid out format.

Our Solution

After we received the websites content we immediately started breaking it down into sections to figure out what the most important message was and the best way to lay out this information. We then sourced suitable imagery that would support John’s content and came up with what we think is a very clean and professional looking website. Working closely with John was a pleasure as he was willing to trust our design decisions and had a very clear view of how he wanted his new business venture to be perceived online.

The Brief

John and Niall from Sixteen Layers were in touch and gave us a pretty much open brief apart from the artwork needing to be in black and white plus they would favour something gritty, abstract or thought provoking.

Our Solution

After listening to the album a couple of times, we could tell as uplifting as it was, there were dark moments to it also. So we sketched and brainstormed, taking inspiration from the lyrics and mood of the album until we arrived at the final piece. It was a pleasure to work with the band and we look forward to working with them in the near future.

The Brief

Their newly refurbished Kensington Hotel needed a teaser brochure to build hype about the eminent re-launch.

Our Solution

We started by breaking down what exactly the hotel wished to portray through the brochure and then immediately began searching for suitable imagery to best reflect an establishment of this calibre. We enjoyed working closely with the marketing department throughout the whole project to ensure the imagery and layout of their brochure looked great and adhered to brand guidelines.