Virginia Waters is the location of our first date nearly a year and a half ago. It’s a stunningly beautiful place steeped in history. On our date we walked for hours, laughing, chatting, smiling, and enjoying every second of each other’s company. We went for coffee and sat on a bench looking out across the lake, both quietly hoping we would meet again. Needless to…
Durex have used their Valentine’s campaign to attack the boring clichés linked to this annual event. They’ve created a new commercial which shows a couple mowing down a field of roses and then crashing into each other in a frenzy of excitement. Durex claim the creative approach comes out of research which found that 49 per cent of Brits do not look forward to Valentine’s…
Grain was recently invited to be featured as a Redbooth project management success story. The filming was great fun and it was a good opportunity to reflect on our growth and success. Christoph Geppert during the interview It all started more than a year ago when we were winning more projects, which were more complex and on a larger scale than previously. We were at a crossroads, deciding…
Actor Helen Anderson-Lee, Christoph, Madelyn and Hannah To keep all of us all focused, happy and creative at work, our directors Christoph and Madelyn regularly organise fun and inspirational activities like going to TEDx or the Alexander McQueen exhibition. The most recent team event, a bespoke Presentation Skills Workshop organised by Partners With You, took on more of a training focus and was actually the one I enjoyed most.…
Madelyn Postman leading the talk. It has been a great year for Grain from being invited to guest lecture at several universities to leading industry talks. Most recently, our Creative Director Madelyn Postman was invited to join local industrial design and ecommerce professionals to speak at the Industrial Innovation Seminar in Zhongshan, China. With more than 200 business leaders from the region attending, the seminar focused…
On 26th November, leaders in the creative industries travelled to Plymouth from across the country to find out the winners of the Media Innovation Awards. Our creative director Christoph Geppert joined the judging panel this year and announced some of the well deserved winners on the night. The 2015 Media Innovation Award winners Animation Together for Short Lives produced by Hurricane Media App War…
London was the destination for the unconventional exhibition “Louis Vuitton Series 3” last month. Our PR executive Kent Le had so much to talk about after the trip! A modern and unexpected reinterpretation of a fashion show, the exhibition, following on from Series 1 and Series 2, invited visitors to discover Nicolas Ghesquière’s inspirations for the Fall 2015 women’s show as the Artistic Director for women’s…
Following on from our ‘Grain in 3D’ post, here is the Grain logo printed from our Ultimaker2!
By coincidence, we found this 3D Grain right after firing up our 3D printer. It’s made from FIMO by hand. A PLA version will be joining it soon from our Ultimaker2! Yes, the yellow flower dot has been intentionally composed like that in the photo. That’s an ‘i’ for detail (sorry)…
Inspired by our day at the makersCafe, we’re excited to announce that we now have our very own 3D printer: the Ultimaker 2. Expect to see lots of interesting objects coming out of the studio soon!
Team Grain at the workshop What’s better for a branding team’s annual outing than a hands-on workshop in the creative hub of the capital: Shoreditch? We had a great time learning about 3D printing and laser cutting at makersCAFE and we’re sure this technology will be the biggest thing to hit the creative industry. According to their website, MakersCAFE is the natural evolution of RazorLAB…
We are so lucky to make our living doing something we love, to be creative every day and to work with amazing people from our team to our clients, suppliers and partners. Sometimes this is hard to remember when it’s cold and drizzly, the kids are in a strop, the dog chewed the heel off a particularly nice shoe and a big tax bill just…
This summer, we had a spell of lovely weather and decided it was the perfect time for a company trip. With Alexander McQueen’s exhibition dominating the press for months, we decided to all go see it for our annual outing. Alexander McQueen’s works didn’t fail to surprise and amaze us. He’s the kind of genius that only comes around once in a generation. To me,…
June was the month of Graduate Fashion Week and London Collections Men. We were fortunate to have visited to some truly amazing shows this season and we were truly amazed to find so much fresh and fast-rising talent in the fashion industry. The International Warrior Fashion Show of the Milan School of Fashion Istituto Marangoni, as part of the London Graduate Fashion Week in Brick…
Our daughter Nellie seems to share her dad’s love for signage. I am not sure whether Nellie’s Club was invented to make a sign or whether the sign was the obvious next step to tell the world about her newly formed club. Let’s see who joins and whether they want to make poshen, potions, hunt (I think that is treasure hunt) or play tennis. Oh…