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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, it is now the 1st of December and Movember has flown by! We at Interstate were keen to get stuck in, grow some cracking mo’s and raise as much as we could for Movember. The 1st of November brought some unfamiliar faces into the studio with people, including myself, shaving off beards, mutton chops [...]

It’s that time of year again where men all across the world stand tall, unite, take action and….grow a moustache. Yep, that’s right, it’s Movember! And Interstate are this year already in full swing raising money for this fantastic campaign. For those who may not be so familiar with Movember, allow me to fill you [...]

Rolls Royce; a brand of dignified elegance or brutal and in-your-face? Seems it depends which option box you tick.

Recently we were commissioned by Lotus to design and produce brochures for their existing range of British-Made sports cars. The brief required the planning and execution of a 5 day shoot in and around London and Lotus’ world famous test track in Hethel, as well as the design of both the Elise and Evora brochures [...]

At first glance I thought it was a miniature Batman; but alas it was a cat on our hot tin roof trying to spy on our latest projects…  

I recently had the opportunity to see Damien Hirst’s 2007 piece ‘For the love of God’ in exhibition. I’m not a great fan of modern art (well, anything post Picasso anyway – I abhor badly made beds for instance), but I decided to make an effort and give the old animal embalmer a chance. ‘For the [...]