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 ...
New On The Scene
We got a lovely surpise this morning when we recieved the latest copy of a new magazine we’ve been working on for a client, The Scene. Fresh off the press and delivered straight to the Burning Red studios – it was great to see this beautifully glossy Thomas Carroll magazine in finally in print. Check ...
Cardiff Design Fest Round up 2012
This post is a round up of the main events we were involved with as part of the Cardiff Design Festival 2012. This included our old favorite of Design Wars plus two new ones: Design-a-day and The Grill – our new occasional podcast. Design Wars 2012 Due to the success of previous years, we hosted ...
The Art of Cosplay
Cosplay….WTF is Cosplay? Well ladies and gents, cosplay is the act of recreating your favourite characters from film, anime, manga, games, books or even just something you’ve made up. This involves dressing up, you know like fancy dress, some people take it a little further and pretend to be the actual character. Personally I try ...
Design-a-day at the Cardiff Design Festival
Todays word Each day during the Cardiff Design Festival 2012, we will be putting out a word or phrase that is to be the starting part of your design imagination. You have a time limit of 20-30 minutes per day to deliver. Submit these to the flickr group and see what everyone else has done (or email ...
Design Challenge #1: Ginger Beer
As a busy design studio we have so little time to do ‘pretty things just because‘ … so, i thought it would be nice to start a regular studio challenge. Inspired by other designers / photographers (think local designer Renato Pequito with his lovely daily 20min challenge / the 365 flickr-ites ) – i thought ...
Back from print: Thomas Carroll’s ‘The Scene’
Great to see a piece of recent work land back from the printers. Nothing embodies a studio like utilising everyone’s skills and abilities to bring it together. The Scene is the first issue of the new Thomas Carroll Magazine and was produced with media partners, Blanket. From a studio point of view, this first issue ...
Thomas, Carroll on a mission for Tŷ Hafan
Thomas, Carroll the Welsh insurance, financial services and health & safety group have become 1970s TV action heroes to celebrate 40 years in business and support of Ty Hafan. The group has travelled back in time to its roots in 1972 to form ‘The Insurers,’ an affectionate spoof on TV series such as The Protectors featuring ...
Behind the Scenes at Montagne Jeunesse and The Cardiff Blues photoshoot
Behind the scenes at the Montagne Jeunesse / Cardiff Blues Photo shoot! First hand evidence of REAL MEN with REAL MUD and loving it. Action packed and fun fuelled… www.montagnejeunesse.com
Montagne Jeunesse ‘Real men, real mud’
Photography and video concept and delivery for the new Montagne Jeunesse Men’s range of facial skincare products. Final Applied Photography
Video blog: Spiro’s Greek Salad
A quick video blog for an exisiting client Spiro shows you how to make a wonderful, authentic Greek salad. Find out more at http://www.spiros.co.uk
Burnt Red Tea, our very own custom tea blend!
For Christmas and New Year we decided to get our clients a little something different. Using the superior tea-brewing and blending abilities of one of our clients – Chief Brewer, Kas from Waterloo Gardens Teahouse, we set about creating our very own tea blend. Made with smoked tea (Russian Caravan) sourced from the Keeman and Yunnan ...
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 ...
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.
