Author: Rob
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Melody Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of tasks. However, despite early versions limited to the same images,…
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Below The Surface (Season One) DVD Packaging
DVD packaging for the Danish drama Below The Surface from StudioCanal. The cover image uses the title to split the main tube train image with a composite image of the attackers. The original poster only featured the train image with the title treatment, but to better represent the contents of the series, the second image…
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I Remember You DVD Packaging
The DVD packaging for I Remember You from StudioCanal uses the teaser artwork – not the theatrical poster artwork – to convey the films darker and sinister side. With a smorgasbord of resources to chose from, the back cover features some disturbing images from the collection alongside images of the film’s main protagonist. From writer/director…
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Trust Me DVD Packaging
Trust Me DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. An adaptation from limited resources, the DVD packaging utilises a muted colour palette and strong central images of the main cast member, Jodie Whittaker. Filmed before becoming known as the first female Doctor Who, Jodie gives a great performance in this BBC drama, finding herself living a lie as a…
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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German,…
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Manchester By The Sea Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before.…
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Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the White Suit). Born deaf, Mandy (Mandy Miller) is mute for most…
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The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that will resonate with many. The look of this title works…
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The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust. The action is here transposed to a divided Berlin,…
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Crossed Anchors Brewing
Crossed Anchors Brewing began life when multiple award-winning brewer and publican duo Paddy O’Riordan and Ollie Bainbridge joined forces and launched a brand new brewing company in Exmouth. With the beer initially produced through “cuckoo” brewing (using spare capacity in an existing brewery), the pair now have a six barrel brewery in The Grapevine’s old stables in Exmouth town…
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Swallows and Amazons Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their own to a local island, only to find themselves in a…
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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the character, PC George Dixon – later to be immortalised in…
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Tickled DVD Packaging
Q: A film about Tickling?A: A film about Tickling. Tickled. After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and Tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking—the sender mocks Farrier’s sexual orientation and…
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Room Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful and wonderfully life-affirming journey about the power of love, limitless…
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Reed Watts Website
Reed Watts Architects is a design-led studio, based in London, producing creative and thoughtful architecture. With a diverse range of work covering a variety of sectors, they design houses and fit-outs to larger commercial and residential projects as well as public, cultural buildings. Initially I worked with co-owner Jim Reed on the design for the Reed Architects website, as business partner Matt Watts…
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Room Print and Online Advertising
For the larger home entertainment releases there can be advertising across print and digital media. Ranging from printed posters to online ads, the artwork is adapted across a broad range of media each with specific requirements. These Room adverts for StudioCanal, show a small range of the what is supplied to accompany a release. The adverts need…
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Carol Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Carol was released earlier in 2016 (and seems reflect the chill I was feeling as I was working on it!). Based on the theatrical artwork, the sleeve was a Blu-ray and DVD release with embossed O-rings. I was supplied with an incredible amount of stills, some of which were incredibly atmospheric and beautiful. It was a real problem…
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Legend Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an email asking you to work on a film you’re already…
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Legend Limited Edition Steelbook
The artwork for the Legend Steelbook followed on from the Legend Blu-ray and DVD artwork, but uses the artwork from some early teaser posters. To set it apart from the other formats this artwork used a slightly different colour palette and graphic content. The Steelbook uses the emboss area to frame the graphic treatment. Steelbook designs…
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Israel and South Africa Book Cover
In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law and political activism. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, the book offers a bold and incisive perspective on one of the defining moral questions of our age.…
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The 1 Percent And The Rest Of Us Book Cover
The 1% and the Rest of Us by Tim Di Muzio is a Zed Books title incorporating provocative and original arguments about philanthropy, social wealth and the political role of the super-rich, the author reveals how the 1% are creating a world unto themselves in which the accumulation of ever more money is really a symbolic drive to control society and…
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Zed Books Environment Book Covers
Breathing Space by Mark Everard and Understanding Energy and Energy Policy by Timothy F. Braun and Lisa M. Glidden are both Environment titles from Zed Books. Both titles I think work extremely well as simple, clear sleeves that get the message across. Breathing Space is a favourite of mine, I love the colours of the image and the negative…
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Zed Books Development Book Covers
Three Development titles from Zed Books. The Crises Of Microcredit (edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet), Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (edited by Dominique Caouette and Dip Kapoor), and Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne). The Crises Of Microcredit uses the scan of an exclamation mark (from a woodblock…
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Bite Me Food Packaging
Bite Me Super Wholesome Food Snacks are natural slow release energy bites. I was asked to develop the logo design from the client’s original stamp print (see below) and design label stickers (these were then attached to the cylindrical packaging). A fun and energetic product to work on, I was also supplied with the tasty…
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Fluent Architectural Design Services Website
Fluent Architectural Design Services are experts in residential planning and design, and also specialise in producing high quality feasibility studies and planning applications. Fluent were looking to freshen up their website, make it mobile friendly and change the structure of the content so it could easily be added to and edited. A Wordpress CMS was developed, providing a…
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Anthony Mortimer Fine Art
Based in Surrey on the outskirts of London, Anthony Mortimer Fine Art has over 30 years experience in buying selling and evaluating art. Specialising in modern British art AM Fine Art have a vast inventory of abstract, figurative and landscape paintings and both original and limited edition prints. I was approached to provide logo designs for AM Fine Art as…
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Peter Lawrence Stallworthy Website
Peter Lawrence Stallworthy are Project Managers, Chartered Quantity Surveyors, Development Consultants, Building and Contract Advisors providing pro-active solutions to your development and construction requirements. PLS approached me to modernise their website, make it mobile friendly and add the ability to add and edit content. I implemented a bespoke WordPress CMS solution to meet their requirements. The modernisation…
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LED Marketing Identity
Deb Ralls approached me to design her logo for a start-up freelance marketing company. The brief was incredibly flexible and I was given lots of creative freedom to produce a range of initial visuals. These were then edited down and the final logo solution is a vibrant fresh design reflecting Deb’s brand. The logo was then placed on a letterhead…
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Au Haoure Website
Au Haoure is a traditional 18th century Gascon farmhouse in the most beautiful rolling countryside. The house and outbuildings form a courtyard with gravel area for boules, and stone terrace, shaded by a Catalpa,with seating for 14 overlooking the pond, orchard, rose garden, and on a clear day, the Pyrenees. The owners contacted me to…
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My Time For Young Carers Website
My Time For Young Carers is a charity aimed at providing fun activities for children and young people whose lives are made difficult because of the physical or mental ill health of family members. At their sessions, members can forget their troubles, meet other young carers and have a great time. It’s all free – fun, food…
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Mad About Food Website
Mad About Food, private catering, prides itself on cooking delicious seasonal food. Dinner parties, canapés, lunches, buffets and weeks abroad can all be catered for and bespoke menus designed where necessary. The company owner, Katie Fiducia approached me to work on her website. Katie wanted a very simple, clean website that could have menu and gallery sections…
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Zed Books Africa Book Covers
Making Sense of the Central African Republic (edited by Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard) and Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development by Giles Mohan, Ben Lampert, May Tan-Mullins and Daphne Chang are both Zed Books titles on the subject of Africa. These are certainly a case of old school and new school, with Making Sense of the Central African Republic much…
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Zed Books Latin America Book Covers
Three Latin America titles from Zed Books, Land And Freedom by Leandro Vergara-Camus, Media Movements by María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord, and The Punitive City by Markus-Michael Müller. Media Movements is a nice graphic sleeve and uses a modern monospaced typeface, a style I enjoy playing around with at the moment. Land and Freedom uses possibly one of the poorest…
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Routledge Museum and Heritage Book Covers 1
Sentient Relics by Janice Baker explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion–exclusion debate. Conservation Of Architectural Ironwork by David Mitchell discusses the contextual history and key material features of architectural ironwork, and then goes on to guide readers through the management and delivery of conservation projects from start to finish, explaining the very…
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Introduction To Geopolitics Book Cover
Introduction to Geopolitics by Colin Flint will provide its readers with a set of critical analytical tools for understanding the actions of states as well as non-state actors operating in competition over resources and power. Both students and general readers will find this book an essential stepping-stone to a deeper and critical understanding of contemporary conflicts. Much like a…
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Routledge Educational Book Covers 1
Three book covers that for part of Routledge’s Education range. Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning by Rachel Pilkington is invaluable to all those wanting to explore how dialogic processes work and how we facilitate them. A simple concept, I really like the subtle way in which the three elements from the titles blend together. A nice colour palette,…
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Routledge Video Game Book Covers 1
Inside The Video Game Industry by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman offers a provocative look into one of today’s most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio, and business professions. Global Games by Aphra Kerr provides a…
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Routledge Mental Health Book Covers 1
The Death of Desire by M. Guy Thompson and Creative Psychotherapy (edited by Eileen Prendiville and Justine Howard) are from Routledge and cover the subject of Mental Health. Quite different in content and execution (apart from their use of Avant Garde), The Death Of Desire benefits from a single image and minimalist feel. Creative Psychotherapy on…
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Routledge Psychology Book Covers 1
These two books from Routledge are part of their Psychology range. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity by Paula Nicholson explores who we are, our place in both contemporary culture and historical context, the importance of genealogy in the identity and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing. The chosen sleeve is fresh and light, using a stock illustration…
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Corporate Social Irresponsibility Book Cover
Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management. An interesting and important subject matter, it was enjoyable trying to subvert corporate imagery and add…