Stiff Rowlands

Hot on the heels of our Roses Awards nomination, we’re very chuffed to find out that our website for Manchester International Festival has been shortlisted for Best Not for Profit Project in this year’s Big Chip Awards. Winners will be announced on June 18 at the Palace Hotel, Manchester.

We are very pleased to announce that our book Smoking Outdoors has been nominated for the Best House Advert / Self Promotion category in this year’s Roses Advertising Awards. The Awards ceremony takes place on 30th April at Manchester’s Hilton Hotel.

Direct Mail. You either love it or hate it. But if only everything was as beautiful as this little, limited edition (only 150!), screenprinted book we just received from illustrator Andy Smith. The observant amongst you might recognise Andy’s unique style – he worked with us on the D&AD winning Big Bang Book for Tequila Manchester a while back. We all know that DM is a great medium to personalise but how the heck did he know that when we opened it, it would be raining outside? Genius! Can’t wait for the follow up “Sunny Season”.

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.”

Our submission to a competition by Design 21 to produce the official logo for “Stories from the Field: The United Nations Documentary Film Festival”. The festival is presented by Media Communications Association International, New York Chapter (MCA-I NY) in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and The New School.

Update: We’re chuffed to bits to be one of the shortlisted finalists from the 1604 entries and only slightly disappointed that the competition judges and MCA-I NY couldn’t agree on an overall winner. Congratulations go to both the most voted design, “Beyond the boundary” by Yuko Inagaki and MCA-I NY’s preferred choice, “Storytelling” by Titania7.

This press ad was created to promote MUTV’s (Manchester United) Seventies Sunday campaign for Tequila.

1 of 3 Miss Manchester campaign posters produced for Tequila. The nice people at Fresh and Roses Advertising awards made it a winner.

We bashed/crafted this Shark attacked trade mailer to launch John West’s ’shark’ ad. Our efforts managed to pick up a Cannes Lions award for Tequila.

We produced this self promotional book with illustrator Andy Smith for Tequila. It’s a D&AD winner. Result!

Our winning photograph in the Corbis ‘Creatives Behind the Lens’ competition. Shot with a Sony Ericsson k800i using 37 models, the No.23 Bus and Axons the Butchers on a cold winter’s morning.