The Potting Shed

Monday, May 14, 2012

A Bank of Great Art

As hopefully you've seen on our website and at Liberty Wharf, Jersey and The Inner Market St in Guernsey the 'Community Artworks - Form' exhibition has been well under way. Each exhibition represents works from the youth and students of Guernsey and Jersey. We were commissioned by Deutsche Bank, Channel Islands to think of a CSR campaign that really involved and touched the community.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Foiled again

We just got in the new stationery for estate agent 25 Square Miles and we think it's rather tasty. We love a metallic foil when used to good effect and our printers on the mainland (Dayfold) have absolutely nailed it. People often underestimate the power and importance of stationery when it's done well. Businesses have few opportunities to have total control of their brand, how it is received and deliver it physically to a recipient. Often when marketing budgets are tight this is the first thing companies cut corners on, we think it should be the very last.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Marie ... present

We are thrilled to welcome Marie Streeting (FCCA) to the Potting Shed as our Financial Controller. A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Marie’s fifteen years in Guernsey’s civil service means she has a broad range of experience including financial procedures, bookkeeping, strategy, audit, management of staff, financial modelling and the presentation of information. For more than a decade she has held senior financial and management roles in several States of Guernsey departments. Welcome to The Shed Marie, I hope you can put up with a bunch of arty farty types.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lights, camera, action!

Just a small job this one but a brand that we're really happy with. Film Office Liason is a London based company who source locations and facilities for major motion pictures. We were approached to rebrand them and as avid movie fans we were more than happy to help out.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Kessels Krammer - Offset 2012

Erik Kessels, the founder of Kessels Kramer design agency in Amsterdam, had the audience bursting with laughter at iloveoffset.com. He skipped through numerous campaigns that his agency has undertaken in the last decade but with an utterly unerring placidity. It made me question the idea that he even found any of his own work funny and whether the dutch as a culture happened to be so much more open, diverse and accepting that anthropological forces guided his work? Either way his work was simply inspiring, yes he used a lot of humour to deliver his messages but what justified all of this was incredible intelligence and understanding without producing the comedy rimshot that one often experiences with humour in design.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

On-line, On-brand

We are proud to announce the launch of Cenkos' new website cenkos-ci.com. The launch ties into a photographic campaign, which will be rolled out through various communication avenues including adverts, banners and invites. With a thematic approach to investing, married with a research philosophy that goes beyond the surface information, we devised the series of visuals that represent the idea that Cenkos 'see potential' where others may not. Each rather simple image is grounded with a flooded repeat illustration that represents the potential of the afore mentioned image, therefore highlighting the future growth.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Stephan (Sage)meister

NB: This blog post is not overly philosophical and trite. (fail) I am wholly aware that the title of this blog will subsequently not gain the meta tagging results i would so desire given that I am using a play on words rather than spelling his name correctly but this hopefully captures the essence of Stefan Sagmeister's recent seminar at Offset in Dublin. (attended by Al and myself...Ed)

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dublin Up

Following the success of the amazing lectures at Typo London late in 2011 some of The Potting Shed crew have just returned from yet another cultural bombardment. This time Dublin was the destination, the event was the 4th annual Offset talks. A three day conference with a glittering array of grahic design illuminati.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Hot Property

Elke approached us with a very direct and no nonsense brief towards the end of 2011. She, along with Richard Clarke, wanted to set up an estate agency that made simple promises and delivered on them. They wanted to dispense with often employed overly verbose and theatrical sales techniques and simply sell houses in Guernsey, a market that with 15 years of experience they understand better than almost anyone else.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Deutsche Bank - Community Regeneration

Does your outdoor space need a sort out?
Deutsche Bank in Guernsey and Jersey have begun their search for a charitable or non-profit regeneration project.

This spring to commemorate 40 years in the Channel Islands, Deutsche Bank is launching a community project called ‘Re-Gen’. If your charity or community group is in need of an outdoor space ‘make over’ or ‘regeneration’ then ‘Re-Gen’could help you!

The team from Deutsche Bank will work alongside the successful applicant to develop a beautiful garden or outdoor space.

Local community organisations are being invited to nominate their garden or outside space in Jersey and Guernsey for a total makeover / regeneration. Community groups are being asked to submit their applications by 23rd March.

For full information go to www.dbcommunityartworks.com

The application forms are available to download here.

If you would like to talk to The Potting Shed about this further please call Ed Prow on 01481 727699 otherwise we look forward to your applications.

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