Mediaburst just launched their brand spanking new website and if we do say so ourselves, it’s a corker. Along with a talented team including web developer Phil Thompson, illustrator Stanley Chow, copywriter Andy White and the Mediaburst team, we helped craft the branding and a website design which showcases their range of mobile services and products in a fun and informative way.
Mediaburst Managing Director, Gary Bury said:
“Creativity in abundance. Stiff Rowlands listened, created and delivered. Not only that but genuinely decent guys to work with. Would recommend them every time.”
We recently completed the branding and website for new, full-service agency Squad.
Robert Gray, the Director of Squad had these kind words to say:
“Stiff Rowlands are one of those rare breeds of agency who manage to be enjoyable to work with, whilst also being responsive and professional. Most importantly of all, they also turn out great creative work.”
On Tuesday, 9 December 2008, Stiff Rowlands took to the streets of Manchester armed with a dodgy Santa outfit, a handful of £5 lottery scratch cards* and just one aim: to spread some Christmas cheer to random, unsuspecting members of the public.
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’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.
The Children’s Workforce Development Council exists to support the implementation of Every Child Matters, the government’s new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. Their work supports over half a million people involved in childcare provision, learning mentorship, education welfare, foster care and social care. But we bet you already knew that, right?
Well, direct marketing agency Red C and photographer Paul Moffat got us involved to help create imagery for CWDC’s Early Years Professionals campaign. The concept features future statesmen and stateswomen in newspaper headlines to convey the importance of a good start in life.
Concept, Copy and Art Direction by Red C, Photographic elements by Paul Moffat, Newspaper design by Stiff Rowlands, Retouching by Fluid, Cityscapes by Studio Liddell.
Last Thursday’s D&AD President’s Lecture played host to an inspiring and exciting Digital Pecha Kucha. The fast and furious Japanese presentation import provided a platform for 12 digital creatives to show 20 slides each within a 6 minute 40 second timeslot (that’s just 20 seconds per slide – for those who didn’t pay attention at school). We were particularly intrigued by Digit’s Daljit Singh with his North Korean holiday snaps and blown away by footage of the world’s largest digital display:
