Back From Print: The Scene 3
Boom! That’s the sound of the third issue of The Scene landing back from print in its full colour, glossy glory. We love getting magazines we’ve worked on back from print and this one is no exception. The Scene is a business-oriented magazine created for the South Wales risk and insurance specialists, Thomas Carroll, who were recently ...
Back From Print: Chwarae Teg – A Woman’s Place
Our latest installment of our Back From Print category showcases our recent work with Chwarae Teg, the specialists of economic development for women in Wales. They required a suite of materials to present their key findings in women’s roles in the Welsh workforce, called A Woman’s Place. Using the information from Chwarae Teg’s findings and ...
Client in Top 100 Best Small Companies To Work For
We recently found out that one of our clients, the Thomas Carroll group, had achieved the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies To Work For 2013 award. The South Wales-based Risk Management company cruised in at 67. The 2013 issue, with the front page title Imagination Sets Top Firms Apart, featured a half-page image of ...
Back From Print: SproutZine 5
Introducing the fifth issue (if not a little late) of the SproutZine, a bilingual magazine made up from content created for theSprout, the news, information and advice site for young people in Cardiff. We worked in partnership with ProMo-Cymru, who specialise in providing innovative and effective full service communication campaigns aimed at the youth, community and ...
What’s The Best Blog For Business?
A blog is not a cure-all panacea to instant conversions, just as having a Facebook page means nothing unless it’s integrated into your overall online strategy, but what a blog can do is give your customers an insight to the cogs that make the wheels on your business move. You can use it as a ...
Charlotte Church Photoshoot for EP2
Recent shoot with Charlotte Church for cover of her new EP2, which is out now. Makeup by the exceedingly talented Christine Bateman.
Design Challenge #2: Mixtape Mix and CD Sleeve Design – The Designs
Well, we have had a great response to our CD design and mixtape challenge. In case you missed it, we were using the opportunity to set ourselves a design challenge with a difference: to create a mix tape and design the cover. I can confidently say that music and design for virtually everyone in Burning ...
RIP Storm Thorgerson
Like many design and music lovers, we were saddened to hear of the death of Storm Thorgerson today. Having been an integral part of the design collective Hipgnosis in the late 60′s and early 70′s, and then on to form Stormstudio he helped create some of the most iconic and recognisable album artwork to date. ...
Cheltenham Design Festival 2013
After attending the first Cheltenham Design Festival last April and being very impressed, it was great to see the festival return for a second year. It’s encouraging to see any festival that promotes creative thinking, and Cheltenham has quickly established itself as a refreshing and inspiring experience, including a series of talks by fantastic designers ...
Design Challenge #2: Mixtape Mix and CD Sleeve Design
Following on from our previous studio design challenge and our design-a-day as part of the Cardiff Design Festival, we’re back with an open invite to partake in our next studio design challenge. This challenge has been inspired by cleaning out our store cupboard. Not your usual place for inspiration, but they do say it comes from ...
Blogging 101: Making your blog work for you
This post is a roundup of my top tips for making your blog perform to the best of its ability and getting the most from your blog. Maybe you want your blog to be smarter or perhaps you are looking at it and wondering why nobody is visiting, or maybe you just want to feel ...
Studio dilemma #1: What is smart casual for women?
Now and again I will hear two words that chill me to the bone … ‘Smart Casual‘. It’s one of those phrases that I just can’t get my head around, it’s a contradiction of fashion. However, an increasing part of my job is to attend more meetings, meet new clients and to socialise at events ...
Advice for surviving wind, rain and snow photographic shoots
Originally posted by Alex/Gareth on his blog here. There are extra challenges that the snow and rain can throw at you – but like good boy scouts, you should be prepared. Don’t let bad weather get the better of you or your shoot. Living in the UK we have been exposed to the second wettest ...
Back From Print: Spiros Wedding Brochure
We kick off 2013 with a new category on our blog called Back From Print. One thing I love about running a design agency and being involved with the creative industries is the amazing work that is returned to us, after what can invariably be a labour of love between ourselves and the client (and ...
Week 3: Art in the Studio – Chosen by Marc
Welcome to week 3 of our ‘Art in the Studio‘ feature, Marc tells us the different reasons behind his selections.. 10CC – Greatest Hits 1972 – 1978 I’ll be honest, I’ve never actually listened to this album. As a young kid, I was always fascinated by the cover, so much so that I would study ...
Save the Children – Xmas Jumper Day
We all know that Christmas is a time for giving and here at Burning Red, we’re all about good causes…well that and making fools of ourselves.. This year we’ve taken the ‘Save the Children Xmas jumper day‘ challenge to show some good wool and raise money for Save the Children. Today we wanted to show ...
Week 2: Art in the Studio – Chosen by Michael
When asked to choose my records for our little art installation, I was faced with an interesting decision: pick a theme, choose artwork I loved, or perhaps choose artwork based on the music that I loved. I settled upon music that I love, that had a personal story to go with the records. I have always ...
Oceans of Fantasy: Pete Fowler in the Bay
The Burning Red team have always had an art-crush on Pete Fowler, and when we heard he was coming to his hometown of Cardiff for his latest latest exhibition, well, lets just say everyone was a little more than excited. The Welsh landmark and cultural hub that is the Wales Millennium Centre makes for a ...
Week 1: Art in The Studio – chosen by Nic
Burning Red loves vinyl, because after all, ‘you can’t put your arms around a download‘. There’s something undeniably special about picking up 12 inches of art, something tangible, something that you can put down on your record player or up on your wall. That’s why we’ve introduced ‘Art in the Studio’. Each week, a member ...
Design Wars: The Designers Strike Back / February 2013
Good news everybody – we’re planning another round of Design Wars in the new year. The same great tag-team design challenge that we’ve run for the past three years, but with new twists and challenges. So what is Design Wars? Tag-Teams of multi-disciplined designers will take on a collaborative design challenge to illustrate, cut, paste and ...
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