Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

The changing role of the travel brochure

The changing role of the travel brochure

“In such a crowded marketplace, you need to do something to make yourself stand out. For stamping your personality on things, the brochure is the way.” Paul Cleary, MD of Caribtours In the Design for Print team we’re often challenged with exploring the role of the brochure in today’s ever-changing marketing landscape and it’s quotes [...]

Lizzie Mary Cullen at Creative Networks

Lizzie Mary Cullen at Creative Networks

Last week, a couple of Brasscals went down to Creative Networks’ monthly session at Leeds College of Art to hear from a relative newcomer to the creative industry, Lizzie Mary Cullen (@LizzieMCullen). A quick resume: Lizzie is based in London and graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2008. In the last three years she’s exhibited in [...]

Web design – Deck the web with Christmas clipart

Web design – Deck the web with Christmas clipart

It’s that time of year again, when some websites make amusing attempts to be festive whilst leaving the core, money-extraction components of their websites intact. This year there are a few themes emerging. Fill your un-used resolution filling side bits with clipart snowflakes.  Tesco wins over Argos on this, with thanks to some crafty vignetting, [...]

The Brass snapper challenge

The Brass snapper challenge

Here at Brass we love beautiful photography and so, every fortnight, we run the Brass ‘snapper challenge’. Each Friday a word is picked at random from our list and a group of happy snappers have a fortnight to capture that word in a photograph. Our most recent challenge was ‘Blue’. The shots are anonymously uploaded [...]

Brass feature in .net magazine

Brass feature in .net magazine

Back of the .net! Some more exciting news for us here at Brass. The world’s best-selling magazine for web designers, .net, invited us to feature in their agency showcase/profile. You can check out the results (and our design team) in the October issue on sale now. So if you want to know what’s exciting us [...]

Sh! Award winners at the Brass Gallery

Sh! Award winners at the Brass Gallery

We held a private viewing for the opening of the Sh! 2010 Showcase at the Brass Gallery earlier this week. It was a lovely little soirée with a few drinks and nibbles to exhibit some amazing typography, animation and design work from our Sh! Award winners Matthew Young and Christie Burland-Upton. Although Matthew and Christie’s [...]

Cream of the Crop: Creative Review features Sh! Award winner

Cream of the Crop: Creative Review features Sh! Award winner

There’s a new face in the Brass office this week. Our 2010 Sh! Awards winner, Matt Young, started with us on Monday after grabbing the top prize for his ace animation and design work. Matt features in a two page spread in this month’s Graduates issue of Creative Review, which features his smiling face on [...]

Down on the farm…

Down on the farm…

We took a trip to one of Ribena’s blackcurrant farms on a sunny summer’s day not so long ago, and got snap happy with some shots of the wildlife and the juicy blackcurrants. Check out some of our pictures below. It’s enough to make you don your apron and get making some blackcurrant jam, isn’t [...]