Thursday, 28 April 2011
May Newsletter
'LotF' lives! I'm proud to present the Leith on the Fringe '11 logo and identity. Leith on the Fringe is an exciting new Edinburgh Festival venture, running for the Festival duration in various venues across Leith! It will present physical theatre and dance from the fantastic Drill Hall. Website coming soon... Read more at Leith on the Fringe and Vickers Creative.
The Choke Folk also goes live this month - a brand new, high performance drain cleaning, repairs and logistics company. Vickers Creative was commissioned to design the logo and identity, vehicle graphics, advertising and more.
New clients:
Caurnie Soaperie - The world's oldest cold-press soaperie (founded 1922) has engaged Vickers Creative in revamping it's packaging. The beautiful artisan soaps, which contain only naturally occurring ingredients, can be found at Farmer's Markets across Scotland, and selected locations nationwide.
Pokey Hat Vintage - Vickers Creative is now working with Glasgow-based vintage clothing retailer, Pokey Hat Vintage. The first project is a web banner soon to be appearing on the Look website!
Cool stuff:
The inaugural Scottish Bike Show happened this month at Glasgow's SECC - The event's organiser Magdala Media really pulled it out of the bag! Looking forward to next years already...
Vickers Creative was there, drinking too much coffee (which was actually quite good) and chatting with the exhibitors. A big thanks to everyone I spoke to, the day flew by!
Philosophy:
Vickers Creative is committed to ethical graphic design and print practices. Where possible, I will use printers and suppliers in your area, not overseas. You can be proud that as a small or growing business you are supporting other businesses in your community. I believe this is essential for keeping valuable skills in Scotland and the UK, and in building self-supporting communities for future generations.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
The Scottish Bike Show 2011
Exhibitors included: No Fuss Events, Pocket Mountain books, Dramlanrig/Rik’s Bike Shed, Singletrack mag, Edinburgh’s The Bike Chain, Flotec Suspension tuning, Ironwood, Dirt School, Pedal Power and Renner clothing, 2Pure, Freeflow Bikes, amongst many more. In the middle of the huge hall were the BSD riders, jumping around a custom made plywood park, with quarter-pipes and kickers to entertain the crowds.
Vickers Creative was there, drinking too much coffee (which was actually quite good) and chatting with the exhibitors. A big thanks to everyone I spoke to, the day flew by!
New client - Caurnie Soaperie
Founded in 1922 the Caurnie Soaperie is the world's oldest cold-press soaperie.
Vickers Creative has been engaged to help in revamping it's packaging. The beautiful artisan soaps, which contain only naturally occurring ingredients, can be found at Farmer's Markets across Scotland, and selected locations nationwide.
New client - The Choke Folk
The Choke Folk goes live this month - a brand new, high performance drain cleaning, repairs and logistics company.
Vickers Creative was commissioned to design the logo and identity, vehicle graphics, advertising and more.
More to follow as it happens!
New client - Pokey Hat Vintage
The first project is a web banner to be appearing on the Look website - launched in 2008, showcasing the best of the high street every day, plus features the latest high street fashion, beauty and celebrity style news.
Prevailing Analysis cycle jerseys
The jerseys are being produced by Owayo.
Dirtschool cards and flyers
Check out Dirt School and the amazing mountain bike courses on offer.
Monday, 11 April 2011
'Leith on the Fringe' logo & ID
Visit Leith on the Fringe
From the Leith on the Fringe official site:
"This is the exciting first year of Leith on the Fringe! Inspired by the many artistic companies and individuals who call Leith home, we've focused the traditions of the Fringe into a modern formula and created an extension of the Edinburgh Festival network at our absolutely fantastic location – a performance venue, bar and Fringe ticket office at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Leith.
We'll be running for the entirety of the Fringe Festival and in an effort to make the venue as inclusive as possible and fully utilise the wonderful facilities the Drill Hall has to offer, Leith on the Fringe has been designed with circus art, aerial performances, physical theatre and dance in mind. Think Big Top! However we do actively encourage artistic proposals across all art forms and for all ages so please do get in touch with your ideas!
Leith on the Fringe has community at its heart – after all, it's from this vibrant community that our inspiration is drawn! We invite you to provide a one hour workshop or masterclass twice a week as part of our workshops program, taking place around performances in the studio. These workshops would be open to all for a small fee and provide you with a means to increase your proceeds at the festival.
LOTF will be effectively promoted and hopes to attract most, if not all, the 26,000 people who live in Leith! We also have the potential to attract a high number of people living in the greater Edinburgh area and many of the 1,955,913 estimated total audience that attended last year's festival; so think big!
LOTF is a fledgling initiative and one of our eventual aims is to provide an affordable space in which artists from the more unusual disciplines can showcase their work. We are a not-for-profit organisation and our share of box office revenue will be put straight back into improving our service for next year and the years to come!"
Expect this event to grow and diversify over the next few months...
Friday, 1 April 2011
April newsletter
I'll be working with Chris Ball and Andy Barlow's mountain bike tuition company, DirtSchool this month (you will have seen Chris and Andy ripping up the trails in the Border's trail centres, and Chris' monthly 'How To' feature in MBR mag). You can also check them out at Scotland's first ever cycle show on 16/17 April 2011, appropriately named The Scottish Bike Show.
Studio:
Vickers Creative has moved into a new studio on North Claremont Street - a beautiful top floor office in a sandstone tenement building right next to Kelvingrove Park. For those not familiar with Glasgow's West End, it's a lovely quiet area with loads of coffee shops and bars. (I'm lucky enough to have the An Clachan café on my doorstep selling their own Arabica ground coffee, and boy is it good!)
Cool stuff:
To brand myself in a way more fitting with my own ethos and give my stuff a more personal, analogue touch, I ordered some rubber stamps from Stamps Direct. Very impressed with the service, the stamps seem well made and should last many years. Cue stamping anything that will take a solvent ink! They're great fun and very affordable, and a supplied design doesn't cost any more to produce than stock lines of text.
Philosophy:
Vickers Creative is committed to ethical graphic design and print practices. Where possible, I will use printers and suppliers in your area, not overseas. You can be proud that as a small or growing business you are supporting other businesses in your community. I believe this is essential for keeping valuable skills in Scotland and the UK, and in building self-supporting communities for future generations.
Oh, one last thing...
Make sure you do something useful with the extra hour of daylight in the evenings!