Video blog: How to make the perfect cup of tea

Posted by on Dec 7, 2010 in News | No Comments
Video blog: How to make the perfect cup of tea

We dropped in on master brewer Kas, from Waterloo Gardens Tea House, Cardiff for him to give us the lowdown with a quick video blog on how to make the perfect cup of tea. If you are interested in a visit to this award winning teahouse, check out the website where you can now buy ...


Wintery desktop Goodness

Posted by on Dec 1, 2010 in Free Stuff | One Comment
Wintery desktop Goodness

Is this cold weather getting you down? Us too, so we thought we’d try and cheer everyone up with a little freebie or two. Yes, you guessed it, free desktop background time!! This month we’ve carefully crafted some wintery themed designs armed with calendars for your ‘date-ery’ needs. To save these desktops simply ‘right click’ ...


How to film google style street view with a DSLR in a car :)

Posted by on Dec 1, 2010 in News | No Comments
How to film google style street view with a DSLR in a car :)

How to film google style street view with a DSLR in a car , originally uploaded by Burning Red. 2 men, a lady, a tripod and a very expensive DSLR hanging out of the sunroof on recent video shoot!


Dia de los Muertos desktops

Posted by on Nov 2, 2010 in Free Stuff | One Comment
Dia de los Muertos desktops

The dead have walked the earth, now it’s time to pay respects – what better way to do that than with your very own Burningred Day of the Dead desktop! As usual they’ve got a handy month calender and we’ve got ‘em at a variety of resolutions To save these desktops simply ‘right/control click’ the ...


Rosso Ardente / Mix player

Posted by on Oct 31, 2010 in Free Stuff | No Comments
Rosso Ardente / Mix player

Now on mixcloud! Enjoy! Rosso Ardente by Burningred on Mixcloud


Rosso Ardente (Burning Red) / A Soundtrack for Halloween

Posted by on Oct 28, 2010 in News | One Comment
Rosso Ardente (Burning Red) / A Soundtrack for Halloween

poster / wallpaper design inside cd pullout design CD/Album design Back CD/Album design To celebrate Halloween, we’ve set ourselves a musical studio challenge to create a horror musical masterpiece, including a horror-core photoshoot, demonic design (posters / gatefold twelve inch) and a chillingly fantastical musical soundtrack. Over one hour of musical oddities from around the ...


Go Font Yourself – New Entries

Posted by on Oct 26, 2010 in News | No Comments

Some late entries for Go Font Yourself. Download Cantello by Lauren Cantello Download Cheng’s Font by William Cheng


Go Font Yourself – The Final Fonts

Posted by on Oct 21, 2010 in News | 2 Comments
Go Font Yourself – The Final Fonts

Here we go! All the fonts created by the lovely people who made it down to our ‘Go Font Yourself’ workshop as part of the Cardiff Design Festival 2010. All fonts are released as True Type Fonts (.ttf) and released under an Attribution Non-Commercial Creative Commons licence Trouble installing? Mac help / PC help Download ...


Design Wars / Photos

Posted by on Oct 17, 2010 in News | No Comments
Design Wars / Photos

Design Wars competition photos from event by burningred for the Cardiff Design Festival 2010. Thanks to everyone who made it – was a great night! Interested in future events? find us on twitter/facebook.


Inconsiderate Parking

Posted by on Oct 15, 2010 in Photography | No Comments
Inconsiderate Parking

Inconsiderate Parking, originally uploaded by alxmls / southpawvision. Part of a shoot for the very talented Cardiff three-piece, Inconsiderate parking. Thanks to dan/lauren for helping out from www.thesprout.co.uk. Do check: www.myspace.com/inconsiderateparking for more info about the band. Shot on just off Dumballs rd, Cardiff.


Design Wars! Milgis / Wed 13th October

Posted by on Oct 12, 2010 in News | One Comment
Design Wars! Milgis / Wed 13th October

**Updated some more information at the bottom** – 13th oct Get Ready to Rasterize! Milgi Lounge & Bar (in the Garage, Northcote Lane) Wednesday night 13th October Commence at 8pm mad skills on the decks from Ruffstylz! (associatedminds) FREE Entry Referee by audience agreement With your hosts Alex & Nic MCing the evening Brought to ...


Go Font Yourself Workshop

Posted by on Oct 10, 2010 in News | No Comments

Thanks to everyone who turned up for the Burning Red font workshop. Was great fun and we tallied a total of 39 fonts. We’ll be updating the site in the next few days with a sample of all the fonts created and the fonts available for download. Behind the scenes gallery – is your face ...


Go Font Yourself @ Cardiff Design Festival

Posted by on Oct 7, 2010 in News | One Comment

It’s the time of year again, with the smell of damp rain in the air for the arrival of the brightest thing in Cardiff, The Cardiff Design Festival. We’re putting on two event-type-workshoppy-interactive-event-thingummybobs. The first being ‘Go Font Yourself‘ where we are challenging you, the general public to make your own font. Think Blue Peter ...


2010 – The Year We Do Disco

Posted by on Oct 7, 2010 in Free Stuff | No Comments

We’ve carried on the Space theme on from the Air To Achilles artwork, a musical interlude this time though in the form of ’2010 – the year we do disco’ mixed by our very own DJ/designer Carl Rylatt. “Italo, cosmic, space, whatever disco, it doesn’t matter, it’s all about the SYNTHS! This mix is mainly ...


Swn advert in buzz mag

Posted by on Oct 5, 2010 in News | No Comments

Swn advert in buzz mag, originally uploaded by Burning Red. Hear ye, hear ye! It’s getting to that time of year that our favorite festival returns. Do yourself a favour, get yourself a ticket swn-ish. More details at swnfest official site


Hershey Chocolate Selection (HDR iphone4)

Posted by on Oct 2, 2010 in News | No Comments

hershey chocolate selection (HDR iphone4), originally uploaded by Burning Red. We do love it when Nic returns from the states with his bag of crazy goodiness … and another opportunity to check out the HDR function on the iphone4. If you interested in comparison – check the non-HDR version here


Meic Graffiti

Posted by on Oct 1, 2010 in News | No Comments

Meic Graffiti, originally uploaded by thesprout. Great to see people being inspired by things we’ve been involved with. If you are under 25 in Wales and need to speak to someone in complete confidence, then get in touch with meic, the completely confidential and free helpline service. Check www.meiccymru.org


New mugs

Posted by on Sep 24, 2010 in News | No Comments

In case you would like to know, we have a new set of …. wait for it … co-ordinated mugs for the office!


Say Hello to Miss Lo Price!

Posted by on Sep 6, 2010 in News | No Comments

So this is a little delayed but we have a new Burning Red team member. Some say she makes the apple start up chime when she wakes in a morning, all we know is…she’s called Lo Price and she’s kick ass at illustration, photoshop, web stuff and eating coco pops. She didn’t come cheap (sorry).


Long live the font

Posted by on Aug 26, 2010 in News | No Comments

Taken by Alex during his summer holiday in France. Can you believe it, no photoshop in sight!