From our intern Robyn Saunders, who joined Grain from January to June this year. From the moment I stepped through the doors at Grain for my interview I was welcomed with a huge cup of tea and greeted by two happy, inviting people. On this cold, wet and windy day, Madelyn and Christoph made me feel comfortable and at ease, despite the fact that I…
March 2012 feels like long ago…recently I was thinking back on our response from across the pond to Adam Ladd’s brilliant video – our own (then) 5-year-old’s impressions on brandmarks. To date it has been viewed 42,794 times! Wowsers. Original soundtrack by Anthony Postman.
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.…
Recently I have been thinking about television advertising. It was a particular John Lewis Christmas advert that had got me started. How some adverts are brilliant pieces of convincing branding. More than an annoying jingle and silly mascot. On this train of thought I was thinking about the brands behind some of the television adverts I could remember. And started to consider why certain brands…
Great film about Ai Weiwei – trying to have freedom of speech and information in a government that oppresses it.
Your product is the epitome of quality, your service is second to none, you’ve invested a great deal of time, love and hard-earned money to creating the perfect brand identity. Your identity is unmistakably unique to your business and conveys every essence of what you deliver, and how you want your clients to see you – high-end quality in everything that you do. So what…
Please watch this with caution: it may cause major changes in your life!
Students can often be tarnished with the brush of being layabouts. I can’t speak for all of them, but generally I’d like to disagree. And I’ve heard my fair share of this from parents, working friends without the commitments of being in university, complaining about long holidays and part time working weeks for us. However I often feel like there are not enough hours in…
I’m tempted to just write just one word about the TEDx we went to on Friday: WOW. And the lasting hope, as soon as it ended, that it will be held again next year. It was an incredibly inspiring day, the kind you can only really take in once every few months. From Jack Andraka who at the age of 15 created a paper sensor…
We’ve asked our entrepreneurially-minded clients how we make their lives easier. Watch this video to find out!
Our designer James Cassidy has been busy with his baking.
After working on a project for the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, the idea of being an entrepreneur has been swilling around my brain for the last few months. The idea of having a small unique business is an exciting and seemingly very satisfying one. With a bigger push from the government for people to start pursuing entrepreneurial exploits, it seems that this could be a…
During our ongoing research on apps, we stumbled across this beautiful one from Nasa called Earth Now. Try making the world spin as fast as it can go.