Johnstons Cashmere have tasked us with the design of their new Autumn/Winter brochure 09/10 which has just been shot in New York.
It’s to be designed, printed and shipped out over the next month.
Designer Craig Wilson is working on this project - in between his modern dance classes (which he just won’t stop talking about) - his contemporary moves are now commonplace within the studio.
Paul Lambert, our senior designer, has just completed a personal project for Burnfield, a Glasgow based Demolition company.
He’s designed the eye catching branding which has been applied to stationery and their newly designed website - www.burnfielddemolition.co.uk
Look out for the branding at a falling chimney near you.
“The TLC programme is about giving reliable, sound business advice and training tools to our customers. With Stand gaining this SQA accreditation, we’re able to bring our TLC ambassadors together, and remind them of Tennent’s ongoing commitment and support as we move towards the new licensing regulations in September 2009.
Their organisation, attention to detail and their ability to deliver potentially dry content in an engaging manner made the courses an overwhelming success. Yet another example of Stand going the extra mile.”
Some nice words from Tennent’s Brand Manager, Wendy Espie.
We’re thrilled at Stand to just have been approved as a Scottish Training Centre by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, the only design agency in Scotland to have such a qualification.
The SQA approval covers courses, which we’ll be running, for workers within on-trade & off-trade licensed premises, of which 170 from across Scotland have already signed up to take part.
We are offering these courses as part of the Tennent’s Lager Care (TLC) scheme which we developed for our client at InbevUk with the help of an external specialist – Karen McKenzie from the Kartik Consultancy.
The project runs in tandem with the issuing of new TLC packs across Scotland & Northern Ireland which highlight the quality aspect and the optimum serving of the Tennent’s product.
The courses are already up and running and are proving very popular with staff within Tennent’s Scottish accounts.
Emlyn has informed me he likes eating these, well his kids do.
Block 3 of Tennent’s Lager Care has just been finished, here’s a sneak preview of the design before it’s released to each account.
This block gives a background and useful information on Tennent’s as a brand and the quality of the product they offer through new imagery we had shot at the brewery and archived slides & illustrations.
We’ve designed some new signage for the Tennent’s Basement Bar. The project was briefed by Tennent’s to offer an alternative from the regular off the shelf format signage.
The design has incorporated the music titles and artists played within the bar. Groovy. Ahem.
See more on the portfolio page.
“We are delighted with the work Stand have done on our behalf. The creative solution is simple but effective and the concept has been very well received. Logistically this was not a simple project with many aspects to coordinate. All in all Stand provided an excellent combination of creative but pragmatic design and strong, committed project management.”
Jane Milroy, Marketing Manager at IKEA Edinburgh
Click here to view the IKEA experiential portfolio page or view the video here.
Here’s a video & a few images of our experiential creation for Ikea Edinburgh, which is proving very popular.
Ikea experiential piece - Stand Ltd - Glasgow from Stand Ltd on Vimeo.
As part of the Tennent’s Lager Care (TLC) scheme, Tennent’s required a presenter for off-trade accounts which promote the brand and encourage product placement.In response to the brief, we’ve designed two oversized booklets entitled ‘9 & 10 stories’ which contain dynamic crops of the product (which work extremely well in this format) alongside nicely typeset facts and figures. Each booklet was designed with a particular market mind.
Visit our portfolio page to view some more……
This is our senior designer and lead dancer Paul Lambert performing a piece during our photoshoot (shot by Lawrence Winram) of the soon to completed MacLay Murray & Spens LLP Business Review 2008/9.
Here he is in full flight, elegantly supported by Gabrielle from the MMS marketing department.Swans gliding through the air……He does throw such graceful lines. If anyone requires some improptu performances, his own dance company is available for garden parties, birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs just contact us here at Stand.He also does nice designs. And can do the splits.
We’ve designed an experiential piece to assist IKEA Edinburgh in their bid to reach a wider audience on Scotland’s East coast. The promotion itself is to highlight the new catalogue issue and drive footfall to the Edinburgh store.
Our 10ft catalogues will be coming to Edinburgh, Stirling, Dunfermline, Livingston, Dundee and Aberdeen over the next two months on consecutive weekends.
Our design created a booth from the oversized catalogues which we created providing seating inside to view three simultaneous projections. The visuals show the new Ikea product range via an animated reel which we commissioned. Quality, price and value for money brand messages have been incorporated into the visuals for the client. The music which accompanies the visuals was also commissioned purely for this project, changing in tone throughout to suit the mood of the products.
In case you’ve been wondering who the lovely lady answering the phones here at Stand is it’s Athene.
A quick check of that reliable source of information, Wikipedia, tells us more about her:
In Greek mythology, Athena (also called Athene, Attic: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athḗnē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána; Latin: Minerva) is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her. In a temple at Phrixa in Elis, which was reportedly built by Clymenus, she was known as Cydonia
Next time you call in, say hi to Athene, and if you wish you can quiz her on her knowledge of Greek mythology.
Maggie, our beloved director, presented an award to Rare Management for Best Sporting Event (2007 UCI Mountain Bike Trials World Championships) at the awards which concluded on Thursday 4th September.
Stand designed the branding, promotional material and website whilst also sponsoring the event which was run by the Carnyx Group.
Click here to view the portfolio page.
Our client - Ballyconnelly Developments has won Best High-Performance Home for our Enkelt Living project in Dunoon at this year’s Herald Property Awards for Scotland 2008.
We designed the identity and marketing materials for the new Enkelt brand - Affordable, aspirational homes with the environment in mind.
Click here to view their portfolio page.
Pra Loup in southern France was host to the 2008 World Masters Mountain Bike Championships. 860 competitors came from 29 countries around the globe, Chile, South Africa, USA, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and of course sunny Scotland.
I made the 3288mile round trip to try and come home with the rainbow stripes and title of World Masters Champion.
Tuesday was course inspection. The course was fast and open on the top section, 40mph off camber sweeping corners lead you down into the steep pine forest in the mid section, this is where the track became more technical with large drops and hundreds of hidden roots due to the thick dust. The bottom of the track picked up speed again, still in the trees and requiring a careful choice of line that needed to be executed with precision or the consequences were painful. A 30ft jump greeted you into the finish arena to conclude your run.
Wednesday and Thursday was official practice which flew by rather quickly, 30 degrees and blue skies everyday. All the riders were enjoying the course and the pits had a good buzz to them.
Friday came and it was qualifying run time. I’d been seeded in behind the 07 World Champ Shaums March from USA (no pressure). Feeling nervous at the start, I looked back up the hill as Shaums left the start hut, I never like watching other riders leave the start. Two pedal strokes and into a fast compression, you exit doing around 35mph and that sets your pace for the rest of the run. I’d decided not to pedal for my whole run. The course was more about less braking and carrying speed. I qualified 14th, 2nd fastest Brit’ behind our new World Champion Lee Bertram. My run was good, I clipped a tree on the top section and nearly lost the front of the bike on one of the steeper mid sections but I was happy with my run.
Saturday. Race day. I was sitting three seconds outside the top 5. I knew with a clean run I’d be up there with the best of them. I took the Gondola up with my friend Dave, we watched some of the riders from our vantage point in the sky, the course was looking rough, the turns were blowing out, the riders were all looking fast but on the edge. There was talk at the top of the mountain about changing lines, inside here outside there. I already had my whole run mapped out and knew not to start messing my head at this late stage in the game. We decided to climb up behind the start hut and chill out away from the other riders.
Fastest qualifiers goes off last, there are 30 second gaps between each rider. Dave got ready for his run, I was left sat on a Snowboard ramp thinking about my run and wondering how the other 500 downhill racers had got on, they’re all done and dusted and I knew all eyes were looking up the mountain. Feeling calm I cleaned my googles one last time and headed down to get my bike.
Less nervous than qualifying, my descision was to not try and go any faster, just do the same run but without the two mistakes. The UCI official called me into the start hut, “Bonne chance”, 15 seconds, 10 seconds peep peep peep pee… I didn’t wait for the fifth pip and dropped out the start hut, my token gesture two pedal stokes, pre jumped into the compression and floated out the other side already doing mach 5. The run was started, I didn’t brake into the second corner and heard “holy sh*t” as I railed out of the wood, it felt faster than practice and faster than qualifying. The top section was brilliant, as good as I could have hoped for. On entering the woods ( and not clipping the tree) I dropped into a blind right hand corner to be greeted by a Frenchman stood ON THE TRACK and waving his arms!? I put the bike into a slide and drifted past him. I was going to fast to stop so I let off the brakes over the next drop and tried to make the corner, for a split second I thought it was going to hold, I was drifting towards the trees and knew I wasn’t going to make it. I hit the last pine tree on the exit to the corner and the bike stopped dead, I hit the tree with my shoulder hard. Still not believing what had just happened I climbed up onto the track thinking do you go back and punch the guy or carry on? I’d had a good top section so jumped back on the bike, I rode the bottom as fast as I could and crossed the line just outside my qualifying time. I was absolutely gutted, in downhill so many things can go wrong but I never expected that one. What could have been? Some people were suggesting a re-run but I was not in the mood, 29th out of nearly 500 was ok but not what I wanted. It was good that Bertie won the Gold for Great Britain, Misser 2nd for Spain and last years Champ March was 3rd for USA.
Sunday. A long drive home through the south of France and back to rainy England and then north to cold and rainy Scotland. I must have replayed that crash in my head a thousand times already but it’s done and dusted. Last race of the season this weekend so I’ll try and set the record straight.
Next time.
We’ve designed some projections for Tennent’s and the Scottish Football Association to promote the start of Scotland’s World Cup qualifiers hopefully taking them to South Africa in 2010.
The projections took place in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres and showed footage of last year’s Euro qualifiers and a number of messages highlighting Tennent’s sponsorship and support of the national side.
Check out the viral that was projected as a moving image here.
We’ve just finished a rather fit looking resource pack for NHS Health Scotland, which will be used to promote physical activity around Scotland.
I’m off for a quick jog around the studio……..
View the brochure on our portfolio page here.
Another design hot off the presses is a promotional piece for Enkelt who build innovative, eco-friendly housing. The client wanted to show their business plan in a more interesting manner - I think we’ve achieved that.
Have a look at the finished article on our portfolio page.
Stand has designed an exhibition area to promote the new government health initiative on health improvement targets at the NHS ‘Better health, better care’ conference. The stand incorporated the 7 targets via edge lit numbers with accompanying promotional literature.
View the portfolio here…….
For more information on the Health Improvement Targets visit the Scottish Government website here……
