Light Night 2012 and beyond

February 10th, 2012

The team are buzzing this week with news that we’ve been appointed to brand Light Night 2012. We have been working with Open Culture for over 2 years now so we’re really excited about creating something special for this years event.

Liverpool’s one-night arts and culture festival, Light Night is a citywide celebration of Liverpool’s world-class arts and culture attractions where visitors of all ages are invited to follow an exciting trail of events at hot spots around Liverpool city centre including The Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery.

Posted by Nicola Holroyd
10.02.12

SB x Joel Holland

February 9th, 2012

The past couple of weeks we’ve seen great progress on the Baffito’s brand, with the first venue very close to launching. We’ve been working with words man Mike Reed on the brand story and language and now collaborating with Joel Holland to illustrate it.

Joel resides in Brooklyn, NY and has worked for numerous publishers, advertising agencies, magazines, and friends. He has also worked in a cereal manufacturing plant, and as a model for several book jackets, oh and also makes his own beer.

You can see Joel’s work over on Dutch Uncle.

Posted by Benji Holroyd
09.02.12

Works 00—01

January 20th, 2012

The last 12 months have seen SB working on a range of nice projects, rebranding the National Centre for Craft & Design, brand development and application for this years amazing British Ceramics Biennial, putting the pop in shop for Cow&Co and more recently working on the brand identity, language and positioning for online shop — Stuff Like That.

This week we took delivery of our first book/s showcasing our work in 2011. If you would like a copy then all you have to do is subscribe to our newsletter and we’ll do the rest. Unfortunately we can only send out to genuine business enquiries.

For any further information you can contact
myself or Nicola.

Posted by Benji Holroyd
20.01.12

Internship Programme

January 7th, 2012

SB are inviting portfolio submissions from graduates and juniors for our 3 month intern programme starting at the beginning of February.

Interns will be working within a small design team on small & large brand identity projects, printed literature, websites,
mobile apps and interior & exhibition design.

Send max 5Mb PDF Portfolio to:
hello@sb-studio.co.uk

Closing date for submissions
January 27th.

Posted by Nicola Holroyd
07.01.12

Value through Partnership

December 22nd, 2011

SB have been appointed to design and build the a new online presence for LSHP (Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership) following a creative pitch in November.

LSHP has been working with local partners for over six years and has over that time built a reputation for delivery and reliability. Their work has a huge impact upon communities providing access to better health care or new and improved community facilities.

Formed in 2004 as part of the UK Government’s Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) initiative. LIFT has been developed to address the chronic need to provide new, fit for purpose primary care facilities. As health policy encourages a shift toward primary care, this need is growing and the drive toward a joined up approach to the delivery of primary and social care only exacerbates the need for action.

Posted by Benji Holroyd
22.12.11

Eight:48 Issue 07

December 22nd, 2011

SB are featured in the seventh issue of Eight:48 entitled, ‘You are Here’ it focuses on designers and their relationship with the cities they live in. SB Studio were asked to represent Liverpool.

The issue also features viewpoints from Tim Bjørn, Somewhere Else, Mainstudio, Bond, MusaWorkLab, HelloMe, Jules Julien, STUDIO NEWWORK, Nicholaus Scmidt, La Tigre, Samuel Jacques and Sixstation Workshop.

You can purchase a copy here

Posted by Benji Holroyd
22.12.11

NCCD On Tour

December 16th, 2011

We have just completed a new identity and printed materials for the touring arm of The National Centre for Craft & Design.

Posted by Rachel Veniard
16.12.11

Party

December 16th, 2011

Here are some snaps of a handful of the 80 SB/2 submissions. Unfortunately we couldn’t photograph all submissions in time due to a backlog at Royal Mail. Some are still lost in the system but once they arrive we’ll auction them off online – somehow! You can view more on Flickr.

All of the pieces sold via a blind raffle at the end of the evening with everyone going home with at least one piece and a little worse for wear. The exhibition raised £500.00 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Posted by Nicola Holroyd
16.12.11

SB/2

December 6th, 2011

These past few weeks we’ve been receiving a whole host of SB/2 Exhibition submissions — all based around the brief ’2′ for our 2nd birthday party. The submissions have been incredibly responsive, some playful, some heart-wrenching, some touching, some funny, one crude! Which is just the way we like it — our idea has always been to open up the creative process by providing a near non-existent brief.

Responses from designers, artists, clients, journalists and collaborators to leading industry figures, friends and family.

We are still waiting on a select few with the re-extended deadline fast approaching — Friday 9th December. All works will be auctioned off on the night to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Posted by Benji Holroyd
06.12.11

Brand. Art. Sandwiches.

November 29th, 2011

In July we were invited by Arts&Business to host a discussion for arts individuals and organisations which would explore and generate ideas in order to maximise profile and awareness.

So, tomorrow I’ll be holding our first ever brand talk, although we’d rather refer to it as a conversation or open discussion.

Working within the arts & culture sector we encounter regular challenges with funding, budgets and politics when organisations commission design. We’re taking this as an opportunity to discuss better ways of commissioning design, writing a brief and working with a design studio from day one.

Other topics on the agenda are how to make your brand image stick, managing your brand for maximum impact and improving your offer / experience through better design.

Posted by Benji Holroyd
29.11.11

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