Our response from across the pond to Adam Ladd’s brilliant video – our own 5-year-old’s impressions on brandmarks. Original soundtrack by Anthony Postman.
A Brit’s impressions on brandmarks
by Madelyn Postman, March 6th 2012
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Our new shop
by Madelyn Postman, February 14th 2012
I just spent a fun afternoon creating some new products. I have a thing for personalisation, for fonts and for merchandise so you can imagine that I was in heaven. Have a peek and pick up something for yourself or a friend here!
Stairway to nowhere
by Christoph Geppert, January 19th 2012
It is always amazing how much money one can spend on destroying one’s own property and even worse paying other people to do it well. This is one of our sites which is currently live and where we just started to create the new roof with an open ceiling all the way to the ridge, with exposed steel beams, with lots and lots of natural…
Happy 2012!
by Madelyn Postman, January 1st 2012
It’s a Grain tradition to design a calendar every year. This time around, each month has its own A4 page and when you put all the sheets together they make a big 2012. Click on the image to download the PDF, and enjoy! Email us photos of the calendar in your office or home and we will post them here.
Ho ho ho
by Madelyn Postman, December 16th 2011
Have you just realised that it’s getting late for sending out your Christmas cards? Do you like your iPhone, iPad or Android phone more than your pens? Well – you can now download the free app from Butlins which Grain has designed and developed: Christmas Postcards! You can send the festive greetings by email or post them on your Facebook Wall to share the spirit…
We wish you a jolly Christmas!
by Madelyn Postman, December 14th 2011
Enjoy this interview with our newly-appointed elf!
Is this green?
by Madelyn Postman, November 27th 2011
At first glance this photo looks green – in the sense of environmentally-friendly, that is – but upon closer inspection it is anything but. It’s the perfect representation of why we are so proud and happy (yes, like new parents) to have created the name, brand promise and visual identity for Floreon, a compostable and recyclable biopolymer. Floreon is a renewable, low-energy PLA blend which…
West London Business website launched
by Madelyn Postman, November 16th 2011
We’re happy to announce the launch of the freshly redesigned website westlondon.com for premier networking organisation West London Business. Our main objectives were to promote the benefits of joining West London Business to non-members; to create a members-only area; and to improve the site’s organisation of content, making the navigation more straightforward. We toured the six boroughs West London Business covers to shoot the background…
A perfect match
by Maggie Achleitner, November 15th 2011
If you are a type geek, you may have noticed that we’re using Frutiger as our company font, with the similar Carto Gothic appearing on the website. Not only do we love Frutiger, but its actual reason for existing ties in neatly with our own areas of design interest and experience. Frutiger was designed by the great Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger, for the signage…
Redcoats and Christmas hats
by Maggie Achleitner, November 15th 2011
The Christmas holidays are approaching quickly. The Redcoats at Butlins along with Santa’s elves are already preparing their sleighs and igloos for the season. To share fun times from Butlins – or in fact from anywhere in the world – with all the loved ones at home, you can use the free Butlins Postcards! app on iPhone, iPad, Android or Facebook which Grain has created.…
Figaro Digital magazine features our Butlins Postcards! app
by Maggie Achleitner, October 28th 2011
The magazine Figaro Digital introduced the Butlins Postcards! app to their readers in this year’s October issue. We are happy that they like our work and recommend the app – woohoo!!
Promotional Packaging and Design book
by Maggie Achleitner, October 27th 2011
The book Promotional Packaging and Design offers a compact overview of some great ideas in packaging design – including some of our very own work! It also includes a 6-page feature on Grain.
We’ve put on our red coats
by Madelyn Postman, June 30th 2011
The latest news from the Westbourne Studios is that we’re designing and developing iPhone, iPad, Android and Facebook apps for Butlins. Watch this space!
Friday5
by Madelyn Postman, June 10th 2011
blur Marketing is featuring Grain’s green focus this week in a little interview called Friday5. Hope you enjoy it!
Help!
by Madelyn Postman, February 28th 2011
This is the first in a series of Grain Creative book reviews. Over the Christmas holidays, I had the time and head space to pick up a few books. The first one I read is Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done by Oliver Burkeman, author of This Column Will Change Your Life in The Guardian. This book was kindly…