Josh Nimoy is responsible for some of the interface design and incredible supporting visual assets in Tron Legacy. Here he shares his work processes on last year’s blockbuster during his time at Digital Domain. Wonderful stuff.
This pretty stone was left by the previous owners of the the flat I bought about four or five years ago. I didn’t notice it for a while; fixed on a small marble shelf in the off-black fireplace in my lounge with candle wax. When I temporarily moved out I thought I should probably do something with it, and got to thinking about breaking the pebble in half and revisiting that initial impact, recording it and keeping it timeless.
Our work with the GSMA continues with two fresh sites on a new platform. Working with their pioneering initiatives in the Mobile Broadband and Embedded Mobile sectors, these sister sites build on the success of our original work with the GSMA and feature comprehensive libraries of resources and showcase new, innovative devices, wrapped up in a bold house style to take the association forward.
The sites are targeted at industry-savvy professionals working within the community and promotes the initiatives with industry resources and information on how this emerging technology benefits us all. GSMA Mobile Broadband, GSMA Embedded Mobile.
After our very recent product range update to Gunn & Moore’s website i thought it time for a quick statistical recap to take a look at how the new site has fared since its inception. We took over the Unicorn Group account at the end of 2008, and have redesigned web presences for their two flagship brands from the foundations up.
Profission launch our second annual update for England’s finest batmakers; Gunn & Moore. The 2011 range now has a new look and feel and further advances to the site with 360° product views and updates to the product support sections. With new functionality coming to the site this winter we expect to see this brand grow on its strengths over the year to further concrete its reputation as the very best in the World.
I met Stephen in a rammed pub in Hampstead last weekend over the din of vuvuzelas heralding England’s exit from the World Cup. Still, you lose some, you win some. Stephen Layfield heads Sydney-based Layfield Design; a multi-disciplinary studio specialising in brand identity and design for print. Absolutely fantastic, clever and excruciatingly precise graphic design, just the way it should be.
I am very pleased to announce we have updated our Profission portfolio site. The original has site lasted us well for five long years whilst we we’ve been too busy to think about something new, but now that PR has kicked off on some of our larger productions we knew we had to address it as a matter of urgency. The new site aims to make case studies out of our more recent projects and the whole site seems to have acquired a rather unique eighteenth-century twang to it. Ahh; the fun of being your own client means nobody can stop you, but that’s okay, it’s been a lot of fun to create.
Grace Woodward is a stylist and creative director. She works regularly works with the Sunday & Saturday Times Magazines, Elle, Flaunt, Harpers Bazaar, Intersection, Numero, Nylon, Tank, 125, and in recent years has worked with Duffy, Emilia Fox, Immodesty Blaize, Fever Ray, Florence and the Machine and Noemi Lenoir. Men include Pharrell Williams for the cover of Giant, Green Day the cover of Rolling Stone, a special Yves Saint Laurent issue for GQ as well as the esteemed GQ Men of the Year cover and nominees. Her catalogue is considered and beautifully realised.
After a winter of web projects its time to unveil a new brand for this small financial reporting consultancy. Using a custom version of Didot to float two words together the logotype aims to show simplicity and balance. Negative space is cut into the last letter of the first word, and first letter of the second word to marry them together and speed the pronunciation. A contrasting slash is added to the negative space when the logotype is used in isolation.
Rendered in silver foil against monochrome the logotype is strong and simple and is complimented with the use of a strong green-blue or purple gradient that creates a very original and distinctive brand within its sector. More photos in my Flickr Artwork set.
As we get ready to launch the beta version of the BuyGB site i found a moment to photograph the stationery we produced in the run-up to the initial PR campaign. The brand itself is starting to mature now and is standing well on its own. There will be more about BuyGB in the near future and we’re very excited about the scope of the project and what will happen with it over the coming summer months.
Some lovely Vexel work from Natalie Sklobovskaya featured on Behance, the Ayumi Hamasaki portrait is fantastic, and some brilliant Sci-Fi landscapes from Alex Andreyev on Cretique that brilliantly capture the style and grand vision of some of my favourite paperbacks from the Sixties and Seventies.
Oh and in a more photo-real vein this Star Wars series (collected here for easy viewing) from Cedric Delsaux simply can’t go without a mention.
As I type we’re a couple of weeks away from the beta launch of what is by far the largest-reaching project we’ve initiated within the Profission family. BuyGB has been a concept in the planning for a little while now and work on the project started towards the end of last year on building what has now become quite a complex and far-reaching online proposition. With Spring in the air the marketplace for this project is burgeoning and general interest in buying and producing local is increasing month on month. As we gear up for the beta launch Marketing Week have included us in their Local Strategies for Local People feature.
We are very excited about the prospects for this venture and more will be revealed when the public beta goes live soon.