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Next Gen Skills Academy website featured in The Guardian

by Kent Le, September 29th 2014 NextGenSkillsAcademy

Grain’s recent project, Next Gen Skills Academy, has just been featured in the Guardian on 23rd September, praising the programme as “a fresh route into the games, animation and visual effects industries through apprenticeships and dedicated college places.” The UK is one of the world’s leading forces in gaming, animation and VFX. A collaborative venture between further education, higher education and the industry’s most recognised…

Inspire High Wycombe: supporting employment, social enterprise and business

by Kent Le, September 15th 2014

Inspire High Wycombe is a new venture of Amersham & Wycombe College, a wonderful ongoing client of ours. Inspire’s vision is to become the heart of the community by providing education and support for individuals, social enterprises and businesses in High Wycombe and the broader Chilterns and South Buckinghamshire area. The newly established centre will support outreach projects, which provide more coherent pathways for unemployed…

Summer branding & design update

by Madelyn Postman, July 30th 2014

We’re well into the summer and enjoying the heat wave, keeping busy here at Grain. We’ve been working on some great projects recently and wanted to let you know about a few of them. Devotion Diamonds Continuing our partnership with this engagement jewellery brand we have worked with since it was a twinkle in the founder’s eye two years ago, we recently launched a refresh…

Livingstone School – a new free school for the digital age

by Sam Strudwick, July 2nd 2014

Have you ever heard of the Games Workshop? How about Dungeons & Dragons? At Grain we are thrilled to be able to work with the co-founder of these iconic titles. A true pioneer of the UK games industry – Ian Livingstone CBE, one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. Stereotypically the world of gaming and entertainment doesn’t often neighbour that of education.…

Newland College opens today

by Christoph Geppert, June 7th 2014

We simply cannot stop talking about them. You already heard about Newland College when we announced the launch of its website. But now we are another step closer to the dream that kids from the age of 12 years upwards can enjoy this fantastic new school. Grain has created the identity, website, uniforms and now the signage and interiors for this ground breaking school. Tomorrow…

Launch of Ignite Apprenticeship

by Madelyn Postman, March 6th 2014

Peter Jones Enterprise Academy asked us to name and brand their Higher Apprenticeship in Business Innovation and Growth, Ignite, which has just been launched to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week 2014. This is a unique programme in the UK, offering a Level 5 apprenticeship to young people with the opportunity to earn while they learn and to energise a business from the inside. We wanted…

Introducing Newland College

by Juli Ferguson, March 5th 2014

We are delighted to announce the launch of Newland College. Set in the heart of Buckinghamshire’s beautiful countryside next to the Chiltern Open Air Museum, Newland College offers the International Baccalaureate programme to 12-17 year olds and is the latest addition to our client Skola’s portfolio of schools. We worked with Skola on the naming, created the new identity, designed and crafted their website and…

Recent branding & design work

by Madelyn Postman, February 25th 2014

We’re nearly two months into a great year here at Grain Creative. Lots of exciting projects are underway, mostly top secret for now, but as soon as we can let the cats out of their bags you’ll be the first to know. Complementing London’s future skyline: New Bondway New Bondway is a highrise development proposal from Citygrove and McLaren Property together with KPF Architects. On…

Amersham & Wycombe College prospectuses

by Madelyn Postman, November 29th 2013

After the launch of the redesigned website, we have now designed the Full-Time Further Education and Higher Education prospectuses for 2014/15. They’re fresh off the press and flying off the shelves at the college!

Amersham & Wycombe College prospectus

by Madelyn Postman, November 7th 2013 Amersham-Wycombe-College-prospectuses

Hot off the press, the new Higher Education 2014/15 prospectus from Amersham & Wycombe College is the first in a series…next up is the hefty Full Time Further Education one. With the study areas visible through the die-cut tabbed cover, students can see immediately what is on offer and then leaf through the prospectus to find out more about their areas of interest.  

Branding & design this autumn

by Madelyn Postman, October 8th 2013

With winter drawing ever closer we thought it would be the ideal time to let you know what we have been up to here at Grain Creative, giving you a peek at what’s bubbling away on the stove here, keeping us toasty. International Community School The book is evolving! With the likes of iPads and Kindles, the word ‘book’ doesn’t necessarily refer to the physical…

Amersham Museum Website Launch

by Sam Strudwick, September 6th 2013

Everything in this modern age is updated and upgraded so quickly I can barely keep up! (There’ll be a new smart phone out by the time you read this). Keeping current is important! Now with the new look website launched, Grain have brought Amersham Museum’s site into an updated, clean, functional and user-friendly space, with the history of what started as a small market town…

Victor & Herschel’s ‘Mission to Mars’ beats the average textbook

by Sam Strudwick, July 31st 2013

With the likes of iPads and Kindles, the book is evolving — in fact, the word ‘book’ doesn’t necessarily refer to the physical item as much as it does to the story itself. Victor & Herschel’s Mission to Mars, invented by the students at the International Community School in London, has been designed for the most current platforms for reading and learning: iPads and online.…

Branding & design update

by Madelyn Postman, June 14th 2013

Summer is nearly here, the perfect time to let you know what we’ve been up to here at Grain Creative. Apart from lots of lovely projects for our clients, we’ve been creating focus for Grain itself. Looking at our clients, our design and our own interests, we find a common thread of entrepreneurial thinking. That’s how we create big ideas from small beginnings together. Amersham…