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Staziker Jones has a blog!

The agency I work for, Staziker Jones has a new blog. There's only a few posts so far, but be sure to have a look and to keep visiting every so often to see what we're up to! Click here to visit. We're also on Twitter, which is here.

Cardiff Design Festival – Staziker Jones enters!

The Cardiff Design Festival's deadline for submissions is today. Their website has a showcase of work submitted. I thought I'd share what we at Staziker Jones have entered, but just to be clear, this work was created before I joined two months ago. I think we've entered some good projects, fingers crossed they'll go down well with the judges. First up...

Client: Macario Lewin

Project: To challenge the stereotypical image of the Accountant and to firmly establish the company within its primary target market. After a lot of research and a series of intensive workshops we were able to establish that they are a young, very professional, forward thinking, fun-loving bunch which allowed us to turn everything that we perceive of a ‘bean counter’ on its head. To that end, a cool, simple and confident approach to the typography combined with the fun, colourful and delicious jelly beans was wholly appropriate. The concept has been successfully applied to all stationery, marketing material, signage and online activity.

Macario Lewin letterhead

Client: Marshall Cavendish

Project: Publishing formed the backbone of the agency when it began in 1996 and we continue to work within the industry today. In the past two years we have created at least sixty book covers for Marshall Cavendish relating to various areas of business and lifestyle. Without exception these books have been aimed at the trade market which immediately suggests a particular approach to style and tone of voice. With each title a product in its own right, it gave us the opportunity to approach each one individually, producing a solution that reflected the content of the book and appealing to it’s particular audience.

Client: Central Illustration Agency

Project: CIA are at the cutting edge of illustration and at the centre of their industry, not only in London but worldwide. With an established reputation and strong personality the agency already had the makings of a great brand, however, the idea of presenting this brand in a uniform and cohesive way had slipped them by. The brand very much needed to reflect the personalities who drive the agency whilst allowing the ‘heroes’, the illustrators’ work to shine through. We achieved this by introducing a palette of bright colours and a simple direct use of typography contained within a very formal grid structure. The use of language was also very important and we spent time developing a style that is now used across all of their communication. The brand has now been applied to stationery, newsletters, online communication, web site banner advertising, an illustration authenticity certificate and an exhibition at the recent Creative Review Portfolio Show.

CIA Exhibition at the CR portfolio Show.

We at Staziker Jones are proud of the submissions this year, but are exited by projects that are coming our way. Hopefully it should be an exciting year to come. Look out for the launch of our new website, coming soon.

Catrin Lewis

Catrin Lewis is a surface decorator and has some great pattern collections. I used to work with Catrin back in my first job, she's now setting up on her own and available for freelance work.

You can also buy a t-shirt from Teepay with one of Catrin's designs...

New Cardiff Design Festival website

The Cardiff Design Festival is gearing up towards another year of celebrating the best of Welsh design with this new website, take a look here...

New website from Departures

Departures has a new website, with great work new and old, check it out...

Photomarathon returns to Cardiff

After a break in 2008, Photomarathon returns to Cardiff this year. Photomarathon is a photographic competition with a twist. Armed only with a 35mm film camera, the challenge is to take 12 photos of 12 given subjects with only a 12 exposure film – just one chance for each shot. The event takes place over 12 hours on Saturday June 20th 2009.

Following the marathon every entrants work is processed and presented in a free public exhibition at Cardiff Old Library from 25 July – 9 August. Participants work will also be judged by a panel of leading photography experts who will select winners that will be announced at a private viewing.

Visit the Photomarathon website for entry details.

Winning photograph from 2007, by Shirley Pearson

Howies to launch Teepay

Howies is to launch TeePay.com on the May 1st. Here's how it works...

- you design what you’d like to print on a tee shirt

- you upload your design/s to the teepay site

- you market it however you want to whoever you want

- they promote Teepay and all the tee shirts online

- if you sell 50 shirts or more, they print them and pay you a royalty for every shirt sold 

They also want to know your five favourite charities, so royalty payments can be donated. Sounds like a great concept, you can read more here on the Howies website, get those ideas going!

 

Howard Smith Paper Awards

The Howard Smith Paper Award winners have been announced. Full list of winners and finalists can be seen at the website, but some great work by Welsh agencies Departures and Elfen, and also Bath based Mytton Williams who I think are brilliant!

Howies Spring catalogue 2009

Visit the Howies website to get your order in of the new Howies Spring catalogue, you can see a pdf of the catalogue too. Designed in part by my friend from University, Aron Jones.