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We have launched a specialist design service for arts organisations, galleries and artists - www.getyourartsout.org

Arts Out is a no nonsense, cost effective design service specifically for the arts. As an introductory offer we are offering the full ‘Get Your Arts Out’ package with a 25% discount - making the service surely the best value going. This is a limited offer, so contact us soon if you are interested in taking advantage of the extra discount.

Email Sam with details of your design needs and the Arts Out team will be in touch!

The friendliest geek fest this side of Texas came to Newcastle last month for a robotic rollercoaster ride into technology, DIY and making anything and everything. The result of our ongoing consultation with publisher O’Reilly UK, the festival showcased their flagship US magazine Make to the UK market.

We created the UK/Newcastle themed brand for the event, applying it to all marketing material (posters, web banners, leaflets). Featuring the US invented “Brain Machine” glasses the main brand image idea was also translated into a desirable t-shirt design you could pull up over your head, turning you into a headless zombie. The main tagline for Make magazine was twisted to reflect the distinctive location, which together with the branded black and white stripes gave the event a unique local angle and theme for future events.

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Building on our brand refresh for The New Art Gallery, we continue to update their printed materials with new and striking designs. These designs feature the new branding, including an emphasis on distinctive full-bleed photographic imagery where possible. This has helped to make them stand out from other run of the mill gallery promotional materials and has helped to drive a resurgence in visitor numbers.

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George’s latest photographic project is a beautiful study of the detail and intricacy of decay. Dead Flowers highlights the beauty of a variety of flowers, long after they would normally be kept.

View the first images here - gwbenson.co.uk

Sam’s 2008 Scribble Diary is complete. Each day throughout 2008 Sam would scribble an image that reflected the day he’d experienced. The scribbles range from in-a-rush doodles to insightful drawings. They are now all scanned, labelled and presented for your viewing delight.

Behold - scribble08.samski.net

Our second piece of work for New Scientist magazine sees us involved in article design on a new level for New Scientist. Rather than simply supplying imagery for them to place within their article we developed a concept that saw the entire article background given over to an image we created. Based on the article concept of making your own Christmas presents, we raided our well stocked maker shed, arranged the various elements and shot the results in our studio.

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We are exhibiting at Plus+ International Design Expo (youplusus.net) next month. As ever, time is running away from us and we still have a number of vital bits to sort in order to complete our exhibit. We are looking for two things to help us complete our piece:

1. a mannequin – full sized / male or female. (If by any chance anyone has a reflective mannequin that would be a mega bonus!)
2. any ‘discarded design’ fellow designers / artists / companies have that they want to get rid of – things like demo prints / failed pitch designs / overruns on brochures etc…

All ‘discarded design’ pieces will be used in complete confidence but it will not be possible to return these as they will be ripped / squashed / bent (etc.) and they will be on display as part of our exhibit - so please don’t offer us anything you aren’t happy being used in this way, or put on display. We’ll gladly accept test prints (etc.) or any other wasted design.

The mannequin will be returned after the exhibition. All ‘discarded design’ pieces will be recycled after Plus+ has ended.

Also, as part of our collection of ‘discarded design’ we will be out and about cleaning up some parts of Birmingham, so if anyone has any suggestions for an area near/dear to them that could do with a litter collection, let us know.

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If anyone can help us with these items, could they please email Sam (sam@stereographic.co.uk) so we can make the necessary arrangements to come and pick stuff up

Some more design treats we’ve created for The New Art Gallery Walsall.

Late nights at the gallery is a unique regular monthly night, opening the gallery up after hours for alternative music and arts events.

To give late nights a distinctive feel we applied our specialist made media and photography angle, to create a unique visual for each of the next three upcoming events. We added a simple type-based logo to give the series its sub-brand and combined everything within the new style we created for the main gallery.

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We have just produced the first series in a new project called Pink Faces. We were sent some bright pink silly putty a while ago and found ourselves constantly moulding faces in the funny pink stuff using items in and around the office - pencils, pen lids, light switches etc. An interesting dynamic is that the putty starts ‘melting’ as soon as you take an object out of it, changing the impression left.

To see the full set and buy them as a pack of 10 greetings cards (£6.99+p&p) click here

We recently combined some wet English weather location photography with dirty photo montage techniques to create a rousing image for the marketing material to promote the innovative Birmingham Opera Company’s performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

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