Not much to show ON the table this week, but let me reassure you - there’s some cool stuff going on here. There’s some work that I cannot wait to get printed. It’s been fairly photo/typo-graphic here the last few weeks and everything is coming together.
I’ve been getting back to basics. Reading lots, learning new things and devising new theories. I’ve been looking at scripts and trying my hand at them.
We’re staring to get some very good work in for our selection at the Created in Birmingham shop. If you want in, then you need to move fast. Email us quick.
And on an entirely unrelated note, I visited my mum this week - who gave me the coolest memory stick ever. Its a surgeon who’s head you have to rip off to access your data.
Some good magazines are out this week. We’ve been mostly enjoying Grafik and Computer Arts - lots to be learnt in both! Grafik even had a very nice poster with it.
And whats this? Ooooh, it’s a secret!
We’ll end todays post with some more LEGO. I got this for my birthday (the Monday just gone) and it’s a coin bank. The mechanism (made from LEGO) sends an octopus out to grab the money. Too cool.
So you’ve seen the paper, now see the finishers and printers.
But before we go on about that, we can tell you that we’ve got a dead exciting project that revolves around genetics. We’re just trying to expand our knowledge on the subject and learning the essentials so we know what we’re on about. Info-graphics ahoy?
GF Smith sent us some wonderful new colourplan book. Shame it doesn’t show you the weights and embossings though. I’m thinking of using mine as a (very sexy) diary/journal.
We’re looking into another foil block job. It’s getting quite complex so we’re looking at some fantastic resources.
I’ve been learning about the process and some of the more advanced things that one could do by combining techniques. It’s all really interesting. Check out the micro-engraving on the third picture!
One of our good friends sent us a bag of goodies including a beautiful booklet for Jonathan Ive’s honorary doctorate. There’s also a nice piece of promo for Kingsbury Press.
2010 is the year of focus for us at SMILE. We’re ready to take on more work and we’re excited about some of the opportunities that we have in front of us.
We’ve been talking with Mel from Fedrigoni about their papers. Unlike other paper suppliers, Fedrigoni are a paper mill - so they make and sell their paper.
Their catalogues are incredibly comprehensive and are really useful. They’re fast becoming our go-to resource for paper info.
We saw the Fedrigoni calendar on their website a few months back and fell in love. Now we have a few at the studio, we are all very happy!
Welcome to 2010. We’ve been reminiscing on our first 6 months and we’re proud of how much we’ve achieved. So in a rather fitting manner, we’re announcing our first wall calendar - available for purchase soon.
Designed without the need for letters, this calendar uses only numbers and rectangles to visualise the year of 2010.
We will be selling these on the SMILE Shop so please keep a close eye on our twitter and blog.
So what have we done in our first 6 months? We’ve flown to Berlin to meet Erik Spiekermann, met the fantastic guys at Airside, got our work into some amazing publications, worked with some great clients, exhibited at major events, been featured all over the web, signed the lease to our studio and most importantly, managed to make our idea into a reality.
If you have in any way helped us along the way; thank you!
