After completing the brand identity for this new contemporary fashion jewellery brand, we are delighted to announce the ecommerce website launch for Kaytie Wu. The website is for retail and trade customers with a special trade login to see wholesale prices. Pretty awesome!
Kent at the Selfie Station, where every guest could take as many pictures as they wanted. Facebook’s B2B offer has shifted its focus from corporations to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as their main market this year. Facebook held its first-ever UK event aimed at the business backbone of the country: how Facebook can help SMEs achieve their business goals. On January 26th I attended…
The client: Newland College in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire a new independent co-ed secondary school teaching the International Baccalaureate. Grain has been working with Newland College for close to a year on creating the brand from scratch and on creating a dialogue with local parents. Having held several successful Open Days throughout last year supported by different campaign activities, our aim for the beginning of the…
Yes, we are biased of course, we are working in design but isn’t design simply fantastic. On the same day we design and develop digital interfaces for our clients to create fantastic and relevant content for their websites and a little later in the day we go to our client ICS International Community School and supervise the signage installation for their new building. That alone…
…not only an important North American holiday but a good time to take a moment and look back at the past year. For Grain, 2014 has been incredible. It has been a year of change for us, with Daisy leaving our interior design team after four and a half years (sniff!) and two of our – evidently very well trained – junior designers moving on to Saatchi…
Grain Creative’s senior designer Juli Ferguson, Elizabeth Emanuel, project manager Anna Gilson and PR Executive Kent Le at the fashion designer’s press launch in November 2014. Are you an aspiring fashion entrepreneur? Then you will love this read. Developing the branding for world-renowned fashion designer Elizabeth Emanuel is a real pleasure for us. Here are a few things we have learned from this creative partnership.…
We are excited to announce our partnership with new fashion jewellery brand Kaytie Wu. We have already developed the brand identity and are now working on the design and development of the ecommerce website launching in two months’ time!
I am now one month in as a designer at Grain. Previously I was a designer at Champneys Health Spa and before that I worked for myself, as a partner in small T-shirt printing company. Now reflecting back on this journey I can say that I spent too long working away from other creatives and now I am enjoying being in the company of other…
For developers, like for kids, a sandbox is a safe place to play around and try new things. We have recently used our website as our own sandbox. You may remember our newsletter in May which announced the new Grain website. It was a major redesign after the last version of the site which we had designed and developed in 2011, which feels like a…
Have you had your first mince pie of the season? Here at Grain we are proud to say not yet, with Halloween, fireworks and Thanksgiving (for some of us) yet to arrive. While the autumn is whizzing by, the theme for our seasonal update presented itself: “in the news.” Quite a few of our projects have had some wonderful coverage recently – very exciting for…
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…
Founded in 1962, Bickerdike Allen Partners are expert witnesses and consultants in fields such as energy, sustainability, cladding and CDM (Construction Design & Management regulations). Most notably, they specialise in acoustics and construction technology, so when they asked us to design their identity and website, we sought to communicate these USPs whilst bringing their brand up to date. London is an amazing city which attracts…
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…
As the last day of the week arrives, so too does my last day at Grain. I do not think I have ever not looked forward to a Friday as much as I have this week. However it is now my time to say goodbye to my Grain family. And that is what they are to me, another family, which I think is quite rare…