In this business we often see numerous examples of poor branding so when something comes along, so spectacularly simple and on brand its enough to knock you off your bike, (Wandsworth roundabout is difficult at the best of times.) So congratulations to Fred & Farid for their Mont Blanc Men’s ‘Legend’ fragrance print campaign. The combination of [...]

Our esteemed Creative Director Nigel Gray is definitely of the old school. Put more fairly he’s uncomfortable with technology. He’s not the only one of course, it takes a particular kind of person to actually enjoy working with computers and that delight doesn’t always exist in the creative brain. So how does the classically trained [...]

Coinciding with the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix is Alwan 338, a month-long arts festival introducing Bahrain’s up and coming generation of conceptual artists. Exploring the possibilities generated by placing art in the public space, the event is centered around three key locations: Local gallery Al Riwaq, Bohemia – a vacant building in the heart of Adliya, [...]

My long time friend David Loftus launched his very own cookbook ‘Around the World in 80 dishes’. What is very special about David is that he is a photographer who has such a creative eye that he not only makes food and its surrounding look stunning, but captures the story behind the food at the [...]

‘What’s it about?’. This is the inevitable question you can expect when introducing anyone to a piece of literature you’ve stumbled across and would love to share with them, but with the Master and Margarita it introduces a formidable problem, because this is no ordinary book. Penguin classics summarises it thus; ‘One Spring afternoon the [...]

We all had a great time at the Transform awards. It has taken a while to get the old photos out, and delete most of them for being too blurry, dark or everyone having evil eyes, but here you go. Well done team.

Arriving in Riyadh this morning, I was greeted by an amazing sight, the sun’s rise over the desert creating a gold to purple vista. How very special and different to leaving London on Sunday night. The world is, indeed, a diverse place.

I was lucky to take a trip to Liverpool to the Albert Dock and to the Tate recently. What a great city Liverpool is. We spent so long in the Tate there was no time for the new Museum but it looked spectacular too. The DLA Piper Series – This is Sculpture exhibition involves different creative [...]

Joe from Clear Blue Productions popped by our studio on Monday to film the team behind the Vertere branding project. We have been shortlisted for a Transform Award in two categories ‘best rebrand in the media and telecommunications sector’ and ‘best overall visual identity’. We are very excited to be shortlisted and it was fun [...]

Congratulations to leading Formula One photographer Darren Heath and the Collyer Bristow Motorsports team for hosting a super private view last night at their Bedford Row office gallery space. The exhibition, which runs until 16th February displays Darren’s own selection of his best work from the 2011 F1 season. The stunning A2 and A0 images [...]

Globe trotting architects and Grand Prix circuit designers, Hermann Tilke and Peter Wahl remind themselves as to the ‘Power of Formula 1′ on a barmy evening in Sakhir during the last Grand Prix there in 2010. The two-book, 360 page showcase took Interstate some 5,000 hours to research, compose and produce and augmented Formula One’s [...]

While browsing through Kiosk Design‘s blog today, I came across a charming illustrated music video for a band called ‘The Whitest Boy Alive’. The video is illustrated by LA based Geoff McFetridge. I love how beautifully simple the illustration style seems, but it is also very surreal in parts, and rather mesmerizing. I enjoyed this [...]

Aside from London Taxis, Range Rovers, and Mini Coopers, Notting Hill has some beautiful examples of classic, quirky and exotic cars. For a car lover, it’s a great place to stroll around.

The start of a new year and Selfridges kicks off 2012 with a brand new store-wide initiative: Words Words Words. Celebrating the beauty of words, the joy of writing and the art of conversation. Appearing in all parts of Selfridges from the much-anticipated window displays to the exciting program of in-store events, the concept celebrates [...]

The V&A have been showcasing the works of Private Eye’s highly regarded cartoonists for the magazine’s 50th Anniversary. The exhibition features 50 (one for every year the magazine has been published) of the trademark speech bubble front covers, as chosen by editor Ian Hislop, along with walls worth of original artworks spanning their five decades. [...]

Mobile travel guide provider Triposo has recently created “A Year Long Snapshots around the World“, a short film that reveals the exact locations in the world where pictures were taken, and that for each day of the year. The beautiful film shows a world map in which pixels light up according to the amount of [...]

Congratulations to Jamie Oliver for securing the festive top spot in the book charts with his latest book; Jamie’s Great Britain designed by Interstate.

With the sad news of Sir Jimmy Savile finally being laid to rest still fresh in mind, this cement mixer was spotted doing the rounds in Notting Hill. With Sir Jim buried at a 45 degree angle in concrete for ‘security reasons’, this would’ve been the ultimate job for the company…

Our friend Lord Loftus has partnered with uber cool snapping machine Hipstamatic to release the first iphone food photography pack: “Foodie SnapPak”.
http://hipstamatic.com/