This year marks the 60th anniversary of the iconic Adidas 3-stripes brand with a memorable Frankie Valli soundtracked ‘House Party’ TV ad (below). NME Radio partnered with Adidas and JD Sports to bring the party to London in the form of three exclusive gigs.
We helped NME.COM with an online advertorial to promote the events. We assume our invites got lost in the post?
Leading fashion and retail recruiters People Marketing approached us recently for a complete brand refresh. We responded with a simple idea: to make the people at the heart of their business part of the actual brand.
Elaine Mulvihill, Business Development Manager (pictured bottom right with the knitted dress), said:
“We are delighted with the exciting, original ideas and designs that Stiff Rowlands have produced for us as part of our re-branding exercise.”
Our redesign of the Manchester International Festival website launched last Thursday, 9 October with the announcement of the first three events from their 2009 programme. Our approach was definitely “less is more”. With world-class acts such as Rufus Wainwright and Zaha Hadid, we really didn’t need the design to shout. We hope it provides a great online presence for all the brilliant shows and events taking place next summer.
MIF Marketing Director, Cathy Gallagher said:
“We chose Stiff Rowlands for their range of experience but also for their attitude and approach. They had an intuitive understanding of what we wanted and an appreciation of the particular challenges that an artist-led, commissioning Festival is likely to present. They’re particularly good at keeping calm and coming up with appropriate solutions. It’s been a great experience working with them.”
The Festival runs from 2 – 19 July 2009 at various venues across Manchester.
We’ve just launched our first book. Smoking Outdoors is a collaboration with photographer Chris Leah and writer Jez Clark, created in reaction to the UK smoking ban. You can find out more and grab a very limited edition copy of the book here.
We’re very excited to announce our involvement with Manchester International Festival for whom we are currently designing and building a brand-spanking-new website. If you were hibernating last year, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Manchester International Festival is the world’s first biennial festival of original, new work and special events. Without wanting to sound like their PR Agency: the Festival launched in 2007 as an artist-led, commissioning festival presenting new works from across the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture.
Monkey: Journey to the West – photo Joel Fildes
You’ll also be gutted to learn that you missed some class acts. Among the 25 world premieres in the 2007 Festival were Monkey: Journey to the West, a new opera directed by Chen Shi Zheng composed by Damon Albarn and designed by Jamie Hewlett and Il Tempo del Postino, a group show by 15 of the world’s leading contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno and Olafur Eliasson; plus new theatre productions including a site-specific work by Stewart Lee and Johnny Vegas, debates, food inventions by Heston Blumenthal and an international music series featuring PJ Harvey, Lou Reed, Happy Mondays, Kanye West and The Gossip.
Interiors – photo Joel Fildes
The Festival’s Marketing Director, Cathy Gallagher said of our appointment:
“We are delighted to be working with Stiff Rowlands on the new Festival website and I’m looking forward to the launch of phase one in early October which coincides with the announcement of the first three commissions for the 2009 Festival.”
The next Festival will take place Thursday 2 – Sunday 19 July 2009. See you there.
Newly formed, Singapore based production house, The Deck commissioned us to create a brand that appealed to an international market and clients from corporate and entertainment industries. Taking inspiration from the humble tape-spool, we crafted an identity fit for the digital age.
Our Paul has been a busy boy since we redesigned his website in 2006. The site now features all new work, ready for your viewing pleasure. See if you can spot our very own Simon (Rowlands) sporting his favourite woolly jumper for a certain Cuthberts Hairdressing ad. We think he would be better suited to What Not to Knit instead!
We designed this microsite to mark an exclusive download of The Verve’s Thaw Session for NME.COM.
We designed this microsite for NME to promote a free cover-mount CD and accompanying download for anti racism campaign Love Music Hate Racism.
