The Voyage The website for the big outdoor spectacular seems to be up now. Looks like a big, interesting thing and they’re after a load of volunteers too (click ‘get involved’) FOUR WALLS A photographic exhibition happening in a couple of weeks time Martin Parr: Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory on Vimeo I linked to a … [Read more…]
I’ve had an update from Lee Basford who works over at Fluid and thought I might as well just copy/paste it in here: We’ve just finished an animated trailer for the new Sega game Hell Yeah! A completely Birmingham based project between ourselves writing, directing and art directing (and partly illustrating), Stevie Copter from Newtasty helping with … [Read more…]
Fluid are pretty chuffed about seeing their artwork grace the cover of a no. 1 hit single. I’m not just posting this because I think the idea of sticking Dappy on CiB is somehow amusing (although I do) but because there are a few agencies around Birmingham who work behind the scenes on big music … [Read more…]
Apparently that’s our own fair Bullring in the picture above, albeit with a fair amount of retouching done. And a horde of bloodthirsty zombies running amok. [insert predictable joke here] In case you don’t already know of it, Dead Rising is a computer game. Fluid did the branding for the advertising, POS, packaging and so on.
I have two reasons for posting this: It amused me that the site talks up ‘free entry to the splendid Birmingham Artsfest’ when entry is free anyway It’s good to see Birmingham being talked about as a destination for an arty getaway There’s a few other items bundled into the package that might make it … [Read more…]
trying to arrange a british tumblr meetup Substrakt’s Tom Martin would like to organise a British tumblr meet-up. If you work for any sort of digital agency in the city/region then it’d be worth getting in touch and lending him a hand Screen WM Acronym Glossary (SAG) Might be of use to someone (this is … [Read more…]
Fluid Design tend to fly a little under my radar most of the time. Locally, they’ve done the branding for the Fierce and Plus Design Festivals as well as the upcoming Hello Digital. Or maybe it’s that my radar doesn’t reach to where they work – their client list includes Sony Electronics, Capcom, UBI-SOFT, Electronic … [Read more…]
The full site for Hello Digital (23-26 October 2008) is now up with all the event info and other gubbins you’d expect. It’s been put together by talented localers Made Media, Maverick, Fluid & Stef Lewandowski.