If you sent a contribution to our reasons to be cheerful poster via the blog, and we don't have your details already, could you send us your address details so we can send you the poster?
If you sent a contribution to our reasons to be cheerful poster via the blog, and we don't have your details already, could you send us your address details so we can send you the poster?
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We kept pretty tight lipped about certain things in the first new business meeting we had in London yesterday.
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The new identity for Leeds College of Music is looking very sexy indeed.
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation are some of the most interesting people that I've ever come across.
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Those regular visitors to this blog will be familiar with the 'Rough Guide to Essex' project that we've been working on for the best part of 6 months now. The project was briefed in from our long standing arts-based client, Metal.
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Once in a while a project comes along which makes you sweat blood and tears, which involves innumerate late nights and which almost costs you your life (and certainly your sanity!). But sometimes those projects are for such a good cause that its all worthwhile - and Metal's You Are Here guide was one of them.
Long ago you may remember we travelled down to Essex to work with the students who produced all of the copy for the three books, and on Monday we went down to London's Southbank to present our designs and let them flick through samples of the printed piece.
In spite of attempting to stay cool, calm and collected, the 50 teenagers went into excitable meltdown when they saw their names and photographs in print! The atmosphere was fantastic.
Final books with covers are on their way, just a few teething problems to sort out with our good friends and suppliers who have been with us all the way on this project... Watch this space!

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In 2001 the artist Charles Quick was invited to propose a piece of artwork for Hebburn Riverside Park as part of the Tyne and Wear ‘Art on the Riverside’ programme. After an initial period of research and consultation, he became aware of the almost invisible industrial history of the area and the pride that the population felt towards their community and its past.
He began to realise that in the past Hebburn had been an important industrial centre with a large number of heavy industries including coal mining, ship building, steel works, chemical works, coke production, high voltage electrical engineering, along with many others. Flashes of light could be associated with all these industries whether it be sparks, flashes of the arc welding or the dramatic lights of the shipyards on both sides of the River Tyne. He also identified that the industries of Hebburn had in their time all been at the cutting edge of innovation. He decided to focus on the themes of light, innovation, regeneration and celebration to inspire his unique design with its original use of light that echoes the proud industrial heritage of Hebburn.
Using the idea that flashes of light could be seen as a common link between all the main industries, the artist decided to propose a piece of work that would use sequences of flashes. Engaging with the people of Hebburn including apprentices from Swan Hunter and former employees of VA Tech Reyrolle and Hawthorn and Leslie Shipyard, he has worked with these groups to create a range of flash sequences that will be used for the artwork.
Through the design process, Chrles developed a number of proposals that have responded to feedback and dialogue with the community. The final artwork will take the form of 12 x 8 metre columns powered by sustainable energy through photovoltaic panels. Cutting edge radio technology will be used to control the light sequences that will use blue and white LED lights to create industrial flashes of light.
The light display will comprise of several thirty second light sequences throughout the day, and one fifteen minute sequence at night. One of ten different sequences will come on throughout daylight if triggered by the sensors on the footpath leading up to the artwork, and one of the eight different fifteen minute sequences will come on automatically at dusk each night emitting flashes from the riverside. Once a year a special midnight sequence will celebrate New Years Eve, to coincide with the ships sirens and flares along the river which once populated the river at this time. Visible from as far as Newcastle, Gateshead and Wallsend it will give Hebburn a distinct identity from other riverside communities along the Tyne.
Pictured is the second piece of print we designed for Charles to help get his project off the ground - Flash has been a fascinating and challenging project. We can't wait to see it actually installed.
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