Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Marathon Effort
Sunday 29th August saw Team Shed pound the streets of Guernsey to complete the Guernsey Marathon relay.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Legal Corners?
The Jersey based legal aces at The Overseas Chambers of Peter Harris contacted us to design them a brand and stationery set that reflected their highly bespoke service and expertise in both French and UK law.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Striking the right Accord
Having developed this brand from inception we are pleased to announce the launch of the Bon Accord website. www.bonaccordemployment.com
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tall dark and handsome
We just got the first product shots back for the packaging we designed for the team at Vestal Vodka and and we thought you might like to have a look. Basically Vestal is an extremely high end vodka distilled for sipping rather than simply as a mixer. Made purely from polish potatoes it comes in three varieties each of which has its own distinct notes and flavours. The product will be launched later this year so watch out for it in all good bars and booze emporiums.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Warning - This site may make you salivate
If you've read a few of these blogs you are probably aware by now that we think Ben Le Prevost is a pretty incredible chocolatier. We therefore took the challenge of designing a website to showcase his stunning creations pretty seriously. Paramount in the design process was to make sure the product did the talking and the design did not get in the way of that. So with that in mind we'll say no more and let you look around the site for yourself. www.benleprevostchocolatier.com
Monday, August 02, 2010
The World's greatest brief
We'd been working with Vestal Vodka on their brand and the design of their new bottles for a some time (stay tuned for more on that) when a call came in from head honcho and vodka guru Will Borrell. "I'm going to need business cards chaps. I've sent you a brief... check your email." When we did we found nothing more than a video link to this cinematic piece of genius...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mini Soccer, Big Impact
There was certainly no disappointing finish to this football tournament, The BWCI Guernsey Mini-Soccer Festival. The aftermath of England's dismal World Cup campaign was erased after last weekend's Footes Lane football frenzy.
Friday, July 23, 2010
It's Friday! Let's watch a Blu movie!
Another inspiring piece of creativity from the boys at Blu. Enjoy.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Anti -Social Media
So, we finally bit the bullet and decided to launch our social media presence last night. Not in an over elaborate manner however, I simply put our URL as my status on my Facebook account and thought I would monitor the uptake on our Google analytics in the morning.
Friday, July 16, 2010
School Website is out for Summer
We are now in our third year working with The Elizabeth College and we are extremely pleased to announce the launch of their new website. www.elizabethcollege.gg
Thursday, July 15, 2010
philately will get you everywhere
When we were commissioned by Guernsey Post to create a set of stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale, the only thing we knew about her was her legendary moniker of ‘Lady of the Lamp’. The first step therefore was to delve into her life and find out more about this iconic figure.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
A big hello
After hours of blood, sweat and tears down at the Smith Signs workshops our big laser etched sign has finally arrived. Next time you stop by the studio be sure to check it out but until then we thought we'd put a few pics online.
Friday, July 09, 2010
A Class Act
The Potting Shed has been working with two rising stars in the world of interiors: London-based Vanessa Barneby and Alice Gates are the creative force behind stylish wallpaper company Barneby Gates, and they have mastered the art of creating quintessentially English prints with a dash of eccentricity.
Friday, July 02, 2010
It's Friday! I'm on a horse!
A few months ago we stumbled across this amazing advert for Old Spice (sorry - we can't remember who should take credit for sending us the link) and it had the whole studio laughing like little girls (killer line: "I'm on a horse"). Enjoy.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
If you Build it, they will come
Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest ones. When the guys came to us for both a name and a brand that immediately conveyed their no nonsense approach to a no nonsense profession this was our solution and once we discovered the domain build.gg was still available the rest just fell into place.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme ... More, More, More
As you will probably all gather by now we really love brand and we just can't resist pushing ours further and further. So please indulge us as we show you what we've been doing with it lately ...
Monday, June 21, 2010
They think it's all over ...
... it is now. Well the event that Cenkos had us design this invite for has, but we thought you might like to see it anyway. Designed to promote an evening watching the England v. Algeria fixture, the invite was screen printed onto cloth similar to that found in a Subbuteo set. The match might have sucked but thankfully the invite didn't.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Sign me up
Welcome to the first in a series of blogs where we introduce you to the incredible people we collaborate and work with. We're in the process of sprucing up our studio and for us the first stage of that process had to be the signage. After all how can we expect to convince our clients the importance of brand and signage if we totally ignore them ourselves. So it seems the perfect time to introduce you to the the amazing Mr Smith and the talented guys who work at Smith Signs.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The writing's on the wall
There aren't too many opportunities in this stunning island of ours to promote your company on large scale advertising (which is probably a good reason why our island remains so stunning), the airport being the most obvious exception. However billboard and lightbox advertising, traditional as it may be, is still a highly effective, high-impact way of making your companies presence felt.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Mexico '86 and how it opened my eyes
Long before art college fine tuned me into a graphic designer it was the the 1986 World Cup that first gave me a love of typography.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
It's almost Friday! It's almost the World Cup!
The World Cup is finally upon us - preparations are complete, the managers have examined the competitors, the big players are in the best shape of their lives and every team is hoping, dreaming of holding aloft the golden trophy - Marketing Champion of the World 2010!
Here is a MOTD-style round up of a selection of this year's contenders.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Paper Click
Blix are a SERIOUSLY impressive outfit! A crack team of coders and interactive designers who we are fortunate enough to collaborate with on a number of online projects. We were thrilled when they entrusted us with the rebrand of their corporate identity and accompanying literature.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Ben's Boxes
We first met the incredible Ben Le Prevost after The Schroders Bright Ideas competition and have we been massive fans ever since. He truly is an alchemist of chocolate and his sumptuous and stunning creations never fail to amaze us. So when Ben agreed to let us loose on his branding we were absolutely thrilled. We hope the subsequent brand and box wraps help him further on his in to chocolate super stardom, such a rare talent truly deserves it. Stay tuned for his new website which is coming soon.
Friday, May 07, 2010
The Taste of freedom - chocs away
Ben Le Prevost came to us to create a label to go with his Liberation Day chocolate bars which are currently being sold in various stores around the island. The labels are based on the design of the original second world war identity cards and carry the image of an unidentified child who is receiving chocolate from a British soldier on the original day of liberation. A portion of all proceeds go to Help The Heroes charity so get out there and stuff your faces with Ben's bars ... at least you know it's for a good cause! Have a fantastic Liberation day weekend everyone.
Monday, May 03, 2010
The Pavilion gets some extra TLC
We have recently been working with restauranteur and master chef Tony Leck on a content managed website for his restaurant The Pavilion. Check it out and after you've visited the site (www.thepavilion.co.gg) make sure you visit the restaurant ... your tastebuds will thank you.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Eco ... Logical
The Potting Shed has branded and designed a website for mycarboncontroller.co.uk, a simple tool that calculates, reduces and tracks your personal carbon emissions.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Possibly the most improved logo ever
It has become one of the most admired and recognisable identities in corporate history, the apex of a brand which has the ability to make consumers buy high end electronics before they even really know what they do or if they really need them. However the first Apple logo was not quite the design tour de force you see here.
Friday, April 09, 2010
It's Friday! Check out some web beauties.
The internet is a virtual circus filled with everything from the awe-inspiring to the jaw-dropping, the enchanting to the freaky.
Here we celebrate some of the most beautiful websites that I have come across over the years. Enjoy.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Black & White and Ted all over
The Potting Shed have recently designed a set of promotional literature for world-class photographer Ted Grambeau. Ted is an Australian based photographer with his roots in the surf industry who has also worked for clients as far ranging as Rip Curl, Apple, Canon and Playboy. Over the past 30 years Ted has remained at the highest level of the business and we were honoured to have been asked to produce work to profile and promote such an amazing creative talent.
Friday, March 05, 2010
It's Friday! Enjoy.
Stop pretending to work for a couple of minutes.
Press play.
Then you can go back to pretending to work with a big smile on your face and the knowledge that most problems can be overcome with a bit of creative thinking and a team effort.
Friday, February 19, 2010
It's Friday! Let's watch something weird.
Make yourself a cuppa, change your skype status to busy, set your phone to voicemail, sit back and relax and watch something weird, wonderful and inspiring.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Amelie Aylmer Arrives
This has nothing to do with the world of design and advertising ... it's far more important than that. We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Amelie Grace Aylmer who was born this morning. Mother, Jules and baby are doing well and father, Potting Shed Managing Director Jay, has a smile from ear to ear. Amelie joins sister Isabella and brother Arthur in what appears to be Jay's attempt to build his own design army for the future. Congratulations guys!
Friday, February 05, 2010
We Won!
We are thrilled that The Potting Shed was announced The Nat West Small Business of the Year at the 2009 Awards for Achievement last night. The gala event, attended by the cream of Guernsey commerce and industry was an impressive affair and we felt humbled to pick up such a prestigious gong in such a hotly contested category. We're all a little hazy this morning but we'd just like to say a massive thank you to all our clients who's support helped make 2009 (and hopefully 2010) such a special year. We'll be dropping some pics from the night on the site later on so watch this space for more info, or visit www.guernseyachievementawards.com for details.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The Potting Shed Grows
There have certainly been plenty of changes in the studio in recent months with our numbers swelling from two to three and then to five, all in the space of a six month period. This growth is a direct response to our increased work flow and our commitment to progressing as a creative group. So without further ado let's introduce the new members of Team Potting Shed:
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The magic of Milton
“I did the bloody thing in 1975 and I thought it would last a couple of months as a promotion and disappear.”
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser's Iconic "I love N Y" icon is an incredible example of designs ability to embed itself into our popular culture and consciousness. In this short video Milton Glaser answers the following questions: Are you ever annoyed by the prevalence of the “I Love New York” logo? Are you upset you don’t have the trademark to the image?
Excerpted from Logo Design Love
Friday, January 08, 2010
Shouting quietly
We make no apology for the fact that we love brand. The distillation of a company and it's ethos into a pure form and the implimentation of that if one of the things that we feel The Potting Shed really excels at. So it a particular joy to us when we come across work created by other design groups that truly takes our breath away with it's simplicity and clarity of thought. Sometimes less is most definitely more as the following works of total genius illustrate. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Friday, December 18, 2009
And the winner is ...
We have a winner. After nearly a month of intensive road testing, nine varieties, several thousand calories and a few extra trouser sizes We are proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Potting Shed Mince Pie Palmé D’or.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Bah Humbug!
Bah Humbug! This is the exasperated cry heard from many a creative agency at this otherwise joyous time of year. Every festive season designers wince as they brace themselves for the inevitable requests for creative Christmas cards and gift solutions. Don’t get me wrong we love mince pies and mistletoe as much as the next person, but the battle to drag another festive sack full of witty, artistic, poignant Christmas concepts out of ourselves is a perennial struggle. However every once in a blue moon that creative thunderbolt strikes and the clichés of Christmas are made to actually work for you and your client. We’ve collected a few of the ones we really love, we hope you enjoy them.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Small business of the year?
We are delighted to announce that The Potting Shed has been short-listed as a finalist for the Nat West Best Small Business of the year category at the Guernsey Awards for Achievement. 2009 has, despite the global upheaval, been an incredible year for us and our ever expanding team and we look forward the many challenges that 2010 will bring.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Who ate all The Christmas Pies?
Well ... we did. In our run up to Christmas we are having an in-house Christmas Pie-off. Each week we will be road testing the best pies on offer and scoring them out of 30. Scores are broken into two key areas: ‘Taste’ and then ‘appearance of pie plus design of packaging’. The Potting Shed will not rest until the ‘best of the best’ is uncovered.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Potting Shed rebrand
As any design agency will no doubt agree, there are few more painful creative births than the conception and implication of their own identity. As a company who spends most of its time re-branding others, it is a difficult but highly educational exercise sitting in the seat of the client whilst still retaining the designer’s hat.
However, after some interesting experimenting, planning and implementation, we can now proudly launch our new and comprehensive brand.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Stuff we love
No witty incisive design critique, no hidden agendas – just a bunch of stuff that we think is really beautiful. We’ll drop these design examples in on a regular basis - because it’s work like this that feeds our soul. We hope you like it as much as we do.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Another Bright Ideas
For the second year in a row, The Potting Shed were asked by Schroders to not only design all the collateral for the Schroders Bright Ideas entrepreneur competition and event, but to also provide design workshops for all the short-listed entrants.
The finals’ evening was a great success for all concerned and we’d like to congratulate all the finalists. It was a pleasure and a source of inspiration for us as a company to give our time to this event and we look forward to raising the bar next year.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Rothschilds Island Swimming Championships
We are pleased to have developed with Rothschilds the designs for this year’s Rothschilds Island Swimming Championships. The event was a huge success and we’d especially like to congratulate Guernsey swimmer Kristina Neves who has been hailed as a star for the future after setting 11 new island records in the pool during this years Championship weekend.
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- Tall dark and handsome
- Warning - This site may make you salivate
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- Mini Soccer, Big Impact
- It's Friday! Let's watch a Blu movie!
- Anti -Social Media
- School Website is out for Summer
- philately will get you everywhere
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- A Class Act
- It's Friday! I'm on a horse!
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- Gimme, Gimme, Gimme ... More, More, More
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- The writing's on the wall
- Mexico '86 and how it opened my eyes
- It's almost Friday! It's almost the World Cup!
- Paper Click
- Ben's Boxes
- The Taste of freedom - chocs away
- The Pavilion gets some extra TLC
- Eco ... Logical
- Possibly the most improved logo ever
- It's Friday! Check out some web beauties.
- Black & White and Ted all over
- It's Friday! Enjoy.
- It's Friday! Let's watch something weird.
- Amelie Aylmer Arrives
- We Won!
- The Potting Shed Grows
- The magic of Milton
- Shouting quietly
- And the winner is ...
- Bah Humbug!
- Small business of the year?
- Who ate all The Christmas Pies?
- Potting Shed rebrand
- Stuff we love
- Another Bright Ideas
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