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April 22, 2013 0

Prolific North Awards

By in General

We are delighted to have got a nomination in the Prolific North Awards for best Animation/Graphics company. We’ve had a great past year and hopefully this nod is due to the work we’ve produced and the clients we’ve worked with. As part of organising the Motion North evenings I’ve met the folk at Flipbook who [...]

March 26, 2013 0

Hello Charlie’s Brit Awards

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How long ago was the Brits? Ages ago I know, but even now I still wanted to write a blog about it. I watch the Brits avidly every year but not with a particular interest in who wins. My primary reason for watching is to see how Hello Charlie interpret the brief each time round. [...]

March 6, 2013 0

The Wright Way

By in Work

We were delighted to win the pitch last month to produce the titles for Ben Elton’s new BBC1 comedy The Wright Way. Working with Ben himself to hone the idea and develop what is an important part of the show was a pleasure. Not often you say it but it was nice to have hands [...]

February 6, 2013 0

M83 the Trilogy

By in We like

I hadn’t spotted till today that the beautiful video I posted about over a year ago is part of a trilogy by Fleur & Manu. Such a great idea to follow the story through. It needed more. Plenty more JJ Abrams/Spielberg moments here. You wouldn’t want them in your family though!  

January 21, 2013 0

ITV Rebrand

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Whilst looking through some of the opinion and comment on the ITV rebrand it got me thinking about the other terrestrial channels brands, and how strong and confident Channel 4 and the BBC are in their message. Channel 4, although with some deviations, have largely stuck to the original spinning blocks that launched the station [...]

November 13, 2012 0

Motion North @ 2022NQ

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Finally got round to my thoughts on last weeks Motion North. Having taken the reigns a couple of months ago from the event Jim Campbell and Ben Black set up a couple of years ago it was a conversation at the last event with Alan O’Brien from VTR North that got me thinking about how [...]

October 31, 2012 0

Upstairs looking downstairs

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The run in to Christmas begins, and as a result of the workload we’ve moved upstairs in The Sharp Project, to get a bit more elbow room and get some more desk space! As soon as we have any peeks to show we’ll get them up here, but in the meantime here’s the new look [...]

October 16, 2012 0

BBC Manchester

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I wandered past the demolition work going on at BBC Manchester this week. Admittedly it’s always been an eyesore of a building, but it held a prominent and important position on the main corridor into the centre from the south. It also got me wondering what had happened to the BBC policy of being visible [...]

September 5, 2012 0

Paralympics

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Managed to get hold of some tickets for the Paralympics. Now it’s settled in (it flew by in a blur) I can safely say I was quite blown away by it all. The whole thing had that festival feeling, that vibe that leaves you wondering why everyone isn’t smiling and joining in with it all once [...]

July 25, 2012 0

Short Form Video: It’s the Future

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Great article on fast company.com . It goes on to spell out 5 reasons why online video will “soon dominate your time spent on the web, and why if you’re a marketer, you can use video to propel your business forward.” A message that I’d like to see spread! It may be lazy to just [...]