Thompson Brand Partners

Recent work

We thought you'd like to see some of the recent - and not so recent - work we've just photographed as part of an awards submission.

We really like it. Hope you agree.

And if you're a senior designer or design director who'd like to play a big part of keeping our creative standards high, then we'd like to hear from you - because we're hiring. 

Drop me a line with a CV and some work samples (you know the drill) and we'll take it from there.

we thought you'd like to see

Friday 3rd July's reason to be cheerful

When something you thought you'd lost ages ago turns up unexpectedly.

Today's reason

That single line poem by Ivor Cutler called 'Spouse' that goes: 'One day you are no longer interesting'

Contributors' address details

If you sent a contribution to our reasons to be cheerful poster via the blog, and we don't have your details already, could you send us your address details so we can send you the poster?

Email your address to anna@thompsonbrandpartners.com

Reasons to be cheerful. Part II

Our new piece of print is on its way.

If you helped contribute, then a sincere thanks and watch out for your copy. We hope you like it.

If you didn't, then you're in for a treat. 

iPhone app button

If you fancy saving our blog as an app on your iPhone then zoom in on this image so it fills the screen, press the + button and click on save to home screen. Easy! 

Ted.

Temporary photography studio

As if it wasn't hot enough in the studio last week, the guys rigged up a temporary studio in the studio (!) to get some shots together for the Roses Design Awards 2009 submission. Great opportunity to capture all of the most recent work we've been producing - it's amazing how much new stuff we've been doing.

We'll post some of the shots next week when they've been titivated (technical photoshop term).

Don't mention the war

I was really inspired by the recent feature in Eye magazine on classic Airfix packaging. It featured the fabulous illustrations on the box fronts that were in fact a combination of packaging and point of purchase in the models shops of Britain.

As a boy, I was obsessed with model kits of all kinds (there wasn't much else to do in 70s Leeds, clearly) and although Airfix was a mainstay, if you were really serious about model kits, then Tamiya was the only way to go.

These Japanese kits were far superior in quality to the British made ones (sorry Airfix) and were at a bigger 1/48 or 1/35 scale. We would spend hours poring over the next kit to buy on a Saturday morning and the amount of time and effort spent on painting every detail was, by today's standards, worrying.

Having looked again at the kit boxes and the fantastic illustrations on them, they really are from another time. The detail lavished on the illustrations wasn't lost on the 13 year old model builders of Leeds where we would even try to emulate the mud on the tires with Humbrol matt enamel. 

Sad, I realise. But even writing this blog has made me think of some excuses to go out and buy a model kit - just for research, obviously.

Standards for England

Here's some pics of another nice printed brand piece for our client Standards for England. It's a leaflet/poster designed especially for members of staff, handed out at a staff away day at the Lowry Centre in Manchester last week.

It's only a little thing, but it's quite important. Employees are the most important people in any brand project and clients that overlook this do so at their peril. Every brand project we work on contains a large amount of internal consultation and subsequent buy in before the brand get launched externally.

It's a simple brand piece that gives a layman's overview of the brand and what it means for everybody in the organisation and it seems to have got the new brand off to a flying start.

Southbank Centre

We've just received the first printed piece for Southbank Centre. 

As part of our ongoing brand development work with them we've designed a new monthly publication that contains every single event that takes place at the world famous arts venue in London. Believe me, there's a lot of arts going on there.

It's a lovely piece of print - the paper is fabulous (smells amazing) and the way the ink sits on the surface is just beautiful. 

Tactical pleasure aside, it's a perfectly pitched piece of marketing that's bang on brand. It's what we do.