Mr whippy

Lisa is making full use of the Nespresso Aeroccino (which is

a fancy word for - milk frother) and has made me a little

whipped peak on top of my coffee!!

and yes that is an egg custard! which is officially the best

cakeage - fact!

Its Chriiiistmas

This week, we have been out in the cold, building and painting our

christmas tree, which is now at home in our office!! Its officially

Christmas in the Kancho Studio. Just trying to stop Lisa from

playing her spotify christmas playlist on loop throughout the

whole of december!!

Gigcember contd

As promised, more from gigcember.

As previously mentioned Tuesday was biffy in nottingham.

Then on friday went stayed local at Wolverhampton

Wulfrun hall and saw old school favourites Reef.

Again just goes to show im not a true fan as there were

loads of tracks i didnt know, but again the ones i did were

awesome!! Place your hands - 'or its your letters' from

TFI Friday for those who remember it was ace as my favourite

Ive got something to say!! The lead singer has an air of 'Jagger'

about him and the band rocked wolves!!

Its your letters, its your letters!

Gigcember

So this week has been a busy one, in and out of the studio.

Tuesday night, we took a cold trip to Nottinghams Trent FM

arena to see the might Biffy Clyro, who rocked. It proved that

i am a glory fan though as i only knew their charted songs!!

But the songs i actually knew were frickin awesome!!

Biffy must have seen our blog, as they had a configuration

of bulbs at the end of the stage the same as we have in our

studio!! Heres a couple of pix from the night...

more from gigcember on my next post...

BRRRR

Ok, so its officially cold! Got to the office this morn

and found our first stalactite of the year.

its a beauty!! brrrrrr (the official sound of cold)

Weekend Shennanigans

This Sunday, we made an impromptu road trip to Sunny (and cold)

Barmouth. Typically the satnav took us a crazy route and it took

ages to get there, and when we did actually get there, most of

Barmouth was closed!! So we had a mooch around by the beach,

had an obligatory pint and ate fish and chips in the car

(note, dont eat fish and chips in the car, because it smells for a week)

Fantastic to see the 'Arousal Cafe' is still there!!

Good time had by all though and was very nice to be beside

the seaside!! Here are a few snaps...

Kancho HQ

Still in the process of finishing off our studio interior,

this week Lisa has fitted our 'showroom installation'.

With a few framed images of previous projects

and our 3D typographic signage. Also completed

this week is our 2D coat stand! We now officially

have somewhere to hang our coats.

Simply Brilliant!!

Called over to our client Simply Beauty this week to

see how their refurb was going and got roped into

fitting the opening times window vinyls. Now its

been about 10 years since ive done this - but ive still

got it, they look ace! The rebrand works really well

and all parties concerned are very happy. Yay!

Fingers in the nose!

Cool Brand, amazing photography and art direction for this

childrens clothing label - finger in the nose.

via the coolhunter

Officially the coolest coffee shop in the world

Heres one of those 'i wish i'd done that' projects.

D'espresso at 42nd and Madison in NYC. The floor, ceiling

and one of the walls is clad in 'book case' printed tiles. This

wraps around the interior and to make you think theres

something stronger in the coffee the main pendant lights

come off the wall rather than the ceiling so the whole space

feels like its on its side!! Awesome!

via the coolhunter

So Far So young

Phew, busy month!!

Another client this month is style blogger Alison who

operates So Far So Young a beauty tips and advice blog.

As the blog is aimed at a female audience, we used

a 1950's pin-up girl as the main logo marque, a vintage

mix of type with a flare highlight to give it some glamour.

Heres the result...

Our favourite new client!

Our Favourite new client is - Silver Sixpence.

This Super cool wedding planner needed a modern/vintage style.

We achieved this through the use of multiple typefaces, making up

the main logo and the use of textures and montages on the site

and promotional material.

check out the new site - www.silversixpence.uk.com

Whats the Weather like?

Whats the Weather like? Well in our case its a clean new content

managed web presence for client WeatherTec Property Services.

Weathertec approached us to update their existing site which

was in dire need of a refresh. We and the client are extremely

happy with the result.

Custom Tshirt Design

Our friend, 10 Bears came to visit the other day with a

sneek peek at my custom tshirt design he is working on.

At present its a line drawing, but he will be finalising the

design over the next couple of weeks.

Post Holiday meeting

New Business Win announcement!

On the way back from Ebrington we had a meeting

with new client, Quasin from Mount Batten restaurant

in Evesham. Kancho will be providing a new brand identity

and interior scheme. We are thrilled with this new business

win and are looking forward to working a full brand strategy.

The restaurant is set in a beautiful grade 2 listed building...

keep an eye on the blog for the finished product next month

Blogathon

Ok in effort to blog a bit more im going to cram as many

new blog posts in as possible today!! As mentioned on twitter

at the beginning of the week, we had a relaxing break in the

cotswolds last weekend. In Ebrington to be more precise.

We stayed at The Tythe Barn cottage in the little village of

Ebrington, not far from Chipping Camden. And it was ace!

No laptop, no phone reception but we did have great meal

at The Ebrington Arms, which i would highly recommend

and retired back to the cottage with the fire roaring.

Great times had by all!

Caravan

Nice identity and art direction for Caravan Exmouth

Monet 2010

Awesome flash website for Monet2010 by les84

Long time no blog

Been too busy to blog lately!!

Still finalising some elements of our office and running around

for new business meetings and trying to design a little bit inbetween

has meant a complete lack of social networking!!

Lots has been happening, new digital projects have launched,

new brand identities are being finalised. We have met a lot of

new people of the last few weeks and are putting proposals

together!! Also ive bought a sony w360 with a panorama

sweep feature which is great fun and will be really useful

on interior projects for the portfolio - heres a few sample

shots of the office and a bedraggled, Charlie the cat.

The panorama feature is ace! it distorts, the larger the

sweep but for interior photography it really is great

Charlie looks like he is hungover on this shot! I dont think

he is though, unless he snook into the booze cupboard again!

New Home!

Finally - today was our first day in our new studio, which is officially

22 Regent Place, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. If you in our new

neighbourhood feel free to drop in for a brew (and bring cake!)

Still got lots to do to finish off the interior of our space and the

common areas of the building are being finished off but its great

and feels like home instantly!! Heres a preview of our 'bookshelf'

wall illustration and our fantastic lights!! Hope you like?!

I will, of course be posting updates on our happenings

at our new home and post more pics as we progress

Joint Birthday

After 3 days of cutting, sticking and tieing (of bows)

We have completed and handed over these amazing

birthday invites (All 200 of them!!). BIG shout out to

Lisa for all her effort and hard work on these.

I delivered them and of course took all the credit!

Sounds like it's going to be one hell of a party!

Business Cards doing the business

Our Business cards have made another online appearance,

this time on cardview.net. Check it out, there are loads of

inspirational business card ideas.

Check out our Package (s)

In a bid to win some local new business we have devised

3 packages and have just received our new flyers for this

promotion. Printed onto 350gsm natural premium board

with a gloss lam on one side. Here they are in all their glory!

We have based one side as an iconographic

introduction to Kancho and the reverse breaks

down into the 3 packages. If you are interested

in refreshing your brand and want to take advantage

of our current offers, please mail studio@kancho.co.uk

10 Bears 21st!

Our Friend 10 Bears, is turning 21! Such and old head

on young shoulders!

We were tasked with creating his invites, which are

being mailed out as I write this. As Mat is a trendy

young man about town, with many facets, we created

his invites to match, in a multi-fonted typographic

style with 10 bear icons added in for good measure.

- And yes multi-fonted is a word!

check out the bears website - http://www.10bearsart.co.uk/

Silver Sixpence Business Cards

Here are a couple of sample snaps of the hand made business cards

we are currently making for Silver Sixpence. We fricking love them!!

Spec is.

Hand made business cards for Wedding Planning company

Silver Sixpence. We named, created the identity and these cards,

which have 8 different patterns printed onto 280gsm uncoated

cream board, with the logo stamped (via a rubber/ink stamp)

on the reverse. All details are printed onto 100gsm velum

and both are hole punched and held together with a

piece of ribbon. Each card is unique!

Happy Birthday Kancho!

Happy Birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday

dear kancho, happy birthday to us!!

Just incase you're not sure, Kancho Creative is officially one

year old today!

My thoughts for the year... In the words of the great 'bard'

Vinnie Jones - It's been emotional!! Being based at home

for year one has helped to keep outgoings down and the

commute is easy, but very soon and rather fittingly we

will be moving into our new premises. So looking

whistfully into the distance, thank you year one,

so long and thanks for for the memories, but welcome

year 2, and bring it on!!

New Site Launch

Another new site went live today, for an ace client!

Seishin Shotokan is a Shotokan Karate club based in Brownhills

near Walsall, the site was created in a couple of days and we

shot Antony the instructor (the guy kicking on the right) on location.

View the site - www.seishinshotokan.co.uk

Wedding Season

Blog posts been pretty sparse recently due to our workload

and social calender!. Personal note - must blog more often!!

This weekend we had a fantastic time at Nicola & Simon Masters

wedding! On this occasion we were guests but also the wedding

co-ordinators and event designers. Following a very busy morning

setting up the main room for the wedding breakfast, we settled

down for a fantastic meal and may have been seen on the

dancefloor later on!

The wedding planning is Lisa's new venture. You can check out the
holding page for her new site - www.silversixpence.uk.com

For this event, Lisa did the whole shabang!! Stationary, flowers

balloon release, booked dj, band and photographer, dressed the venue

and still had time to cut some shapes on the dancefloor!!

We received fantastic feedback and the bride and groom were over

the moon with the day! We wish them both a lifetime of happiness

together. Here is a pic of the room and the happy couple.

Axis of Awesome

These are the 'Axis of Awesome' and they prove that its easy to

write the music for a modern hit song!! Just need to learn the

4 chords, get some talent and im away!! and yes the lead guy

reminds me of jack black (a little bit) too!!

New Site Launch

New Site freshly launched for Joyner and Mason. A new client of ours!

We have recently created the company brand identity and have just

completed and launched the site. Now being friday im sure thats pub time! Or is that a little early?

www.joynerandmason.com

The Life of an Apple Junkie

Apple, as in Mac not as in fruit!! funny comic strip

showing how Steve Job's screws us over every 3 months

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple

The Mighty 10 Bears

Tonight, i called into BCU, to see the fine art end of year show.

Our friend 10 bears was exhibiting his end of year piece which

looked ace!! He bagged a prize, courtesy of Associated Architects

and has landed a commission for a city centre hospital.

Heres the man himself and a couple of his laser etched

'coat of arms', and here are a few shots taken from the night.

And heres my limited edition 10 bears t shirt...

When 'The Bear' is bigger than banksy and 

damien hirst, remember whos wearing his shirt!

check out www.10bearsart.co.uk