Stiff Rowlands

1 x 5 piece screw extractor set: £2.49
Postage & Packaging: £5.00
Penny for scale: £0.01

We can only assume that the folks at the Screwfix.com warehouse were having a laugh. The postie didn’t seem too amused though and apparently we’re not the only ones to have fallen foul of their unique brand of humour. Just how much box do you need for a set of drill bits? Surely an envelope or Jiffy bag would have done the trick? As keen online consumers we couldn’t help feel a little cheated by this experience not to mention guilty for the environmental impact of manufacturing and transport of this (surplus to requirements) box. It wasn’t all waste though, the cardboard provided the perfect material on which to craft our Stories From The Field logo. Phew!

Some shameless self promotion in The Drum’s “Who’s who in Manchester” section this week. We’d like to say that no animals were harmed in the making of this ad but that would be a porky pie.

Fresh from wishing you all season’s greetings, our Big Mouth has only gone and got itself into the fickle world of fashion. Get your grubby mitts on this T-shirt and loads more, exclusively at Bountee, the community where anyone can design and sell their own shirts.

Readers of The Drum magazine (Friday, 11 January) might have noticed our cross stitched, half page ad for Planning Express. Thanks to Jez Clark for the copy and Mum for her handiwork.

A great start to 2008 with our Stories from the Field logo being awarded a Judge’s Favourite (insert crowd applause here). Many thanks to Design 21 judge Laetitia Wolff for choosing us:

“Stiff Rowlands’ logo incorporates, in a subtle way, the film industry and the storytelling aspects, without being too literal with the icons, and while working essentially on a typographic solution. From the selection we saw, typographic treatments in general, I thought, were the most convincing designs. The advantage of this one is that it keeps a casual, heartfelt and tactile quality, thanks to the hand-drawn lettering.”