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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Design Wars 2012
We’re back for 2012 as part of the Cardiff Design Festival! Details at a glance Dempseys Thursday night 11th October Commence at 8pm Live DJ FREE Entry Referee by audience agreement (in case of a draw we’ll decide) With your host Michael What is it? Tag-Teams of multi-disciplined designers will take on a collaborative ...
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 ...
Burning Red at the Cardiff Design Festival 2012
It’s that time of year AGAIN! It only feels like yesterday that we were involved in the Cardiff Design Festival in 2011 and 2010! Well, we’re back and we have 3 (yes three!) events that we are very excited about. We have the good-ol’ design fightclub that is Design Wars. We’ve also got a podcast ...
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 ...
Cheltenham Design Festival
Last weekend we visited the Cheltenham Design Festival for it’s big debut (which we were told has taken several years of planning). Set in the fantastic Parabola Arts Centre it was great to see another design festival taking off outside of London and a little closer to home. The festival brought together a rich collection ...
Design Wars / Burning Red at the Cardiff Design Festival
It was great to be involved with the Cardiff Design Festival for the second year running with our designparty Design Wars. It was a great evening and thanks to everyone who turned up and also the brave who took part. Also extra thanks for Mayor and Ruffstylz of AssociatedMinds who provided a stunningly diverse soundtrack to the ...
Design Wars 2011
We’re back for 2011 as part of the Cardiff Design Festival! Details at a glance Milgi Lounge & Bar (in the Garage, Northcote Lane) Wednesday night 12th October Commence at 8pm Live DJ FREE Entry Referee by audience agreement (in case of a draw we’ll decide) With your hosts Alex & Nic What is it? Tag-Teams of ...
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 ...
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 @ Cardiff Design Festival
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 ...
July Desktops
Here at Burning Red Studio we like to treat our visitors and followers with little delights, delights such as these desktop backgrounds for your monitors. We provide them in a range of sizes depending on your needs, we’ve even included a little calendar for you to keep track of the days. To save these desktops ...
