Whilst rooting around the studio this morning for something to prop a monitor up with, we stumbled across this intriguing book – the Manchester Royal Exchange Directory 1930. No idea why we have it here, but having flicked through we loved the typography and graphic style of the ads within it, so we thought we should share it with the world!
It reminds me of Professor Henry Jones Snr’s grail diary
Stevo the illustrator
We’re a tad busy here at Splinter and are on the look out for a new junior to support, and work with our digital design team.
Essential skills:
Desirable skills:
Absolutely essential skills:
Terms of employment include a 3-month trial and 4 day per week starting salary of £14k per annum. We are looking for someone to start work asap after interview.
If you think you fit the bill please forward examples of your work and CV to design@splinter.co.uk
Deadline: Friday 3rd June
Please be available for interview w/c 6 June
As you may have seen in the news recently, the BBC have started moving into their northern home at MediaCityUK in Salford. It’s a big strategic move for the BBC and we were chuffed when we won the pitch to design and build the new BBC North website. It went live last week, and is full of information about the move, as well as audio & video content, event listings and profiles of a wide variety of BBC staff members.
From a design point of view, it was a great opportunity to dig into the BBC’s new Global Experience Language as well. If you haven’t already seen the GEL, there’s a great article on the BBC blogs.
So a big hello to everyone who is making the move to Salford, and hopefully we’ll get the chance to work with some of you soon!
The National Tenant Organisations have recently published a joint report reviewing housing associations’ annual reports. The report reviews a sample of 257 annual reports from a cross section of landlords. All the reports were scored and we are delighted to be one of only four landlords nationally that received the maximum five points for our Yearbook.
What the tenants’ organisations liked in particular was our use of transparent and easy to understand performance graphs.
“Thank you for all your work on this and for helping us to make it a success – I have other housing associations calling me and asking for copies of it and the TSA have used it in a report on good practice.”
Andrew Bullock, Communications Officer
Running throughout 2011, Liverpool City of Radicals is a programme of exhibitions, debates and events looking at radical Liverpool – past, present and future.
The website, designed and produced by Splinter, has just gone live. Whether you are left-leaning or not, give the site a visit at www.cityofradicals.co.uk.
The new brand for the Clwydian Range, developed by Splinter in partnership with Hi-Clarity Communications, was launched by Councillor Carolyn Thomas today at the Afonwen Centre.
The resources we have produced are designed to clearly define the Clwydian Range offering and raise awareness of all the area has to offer visitors. To check out more detail on the work we have done check out the Clwydian Range case study.
It has already been noted how useful the Sense of Place Toolkit has been for local businesses – giving them easy access to the words and pictures they need to promote themselves and the Clwydian Range.
We’ve just heard some great news that Splinter team member Barry has successfully qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games! Huge congratulations to him – he’ll be competing in the synchronised diving category, so make sure you tune in Sunday 29 July – Saturday 11 August 2012. We have a feeling he’ll be the only web developer competing at the Games, so please post any words of encouragement here in the comments. Best of luck Barry!
Things are busy here at Splinter and we’re on the lookout for some talented web developers to add to our freelance roster. If you want to be added to the list then you need to:
So if you think you tick all the boxes then drop us a line including links to examples of your work, your daily rates and your CV. We’re looking for some initial support for a couple of weeks in March, so if you’re interested then please do respond asap!
Whilst trawling through the Splinter archives we stumbled across this little gem… Chris our MD’s self-produced album from way back in 1992. Nowadays it’s more shirt-and-jumper combos than dreads-and-beats combos!
Splinter, in partnership with Hi-Clarity Communications, have provided a comprehensive branding package to the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. One of the final deliverables is a general leaflet for the area which features a topological map of the Range. I want to say a special thank you to Trina from Denbighshire Council for her help and patience.
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