Hotel Motel Holiday Inn

Last month, we branded and organised the launch event of a new

Holiday Inn in Birmingham for our client and hotel proprietor

Ace Hospitality. After 3 weeks of stressing managing rsvp's

and guest lists the event was a total success!!

The evening consisted of a formal presentation and hotel viewings

followed by a fun Casino which was fantastic and all enjoyed by all!

Heres a few photos of the event, courtesy of the excellent

10 foot tall photography - cheers guys!

Mind Bending Interiors

Alter Store by 3Gatti Architecture - Naked mannequins sit on the walls and ceiling of a clothes store in Shanghai, inspired by the artist MC Escher. Sonja Long, the owner, had a vision about inverted values, alternative beauties and subverted points of view. This idea sparked 3Gatti to create an alternative clothes store, representing these values across their interiors in a creative and mind - bending way.

Last year, Kancho blogged about D'espresso, a café in New York. This café has a similar mind-bending concept to Alter Store. Nema Workshop created a space which creates the illusion the room has been turned on it's side by fitting the door, ceiling and walls with full size photographs of bookshelves printed on tiles. There's also gravity defying lamps - these make the room appear that it's on its side. The design is directly inspired by the spinning camera scene in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

D'espresso has a lovely designed flash site too. For more photos of D'espresso's crazy interiors take a look here.

This post was written by Kerry Leslie, who is on a work placement at Kancho. Kerry hunted down D'espresso in April whilst on a university trip after seeing it on a number of blogs such as coolhunter. She says it was well worth finding, and recommends to anybody who is visiting New York to go look for it.

Ace Hospitality foiled textured business cards

Its been like a business card factory here lately! Freshly foiled

by the excellent A14 print finishers are these holographic foil

on gf smith 'monaco' textured business cards.

These cards are a part of a full rebrand for Ace Hospitality,

hoteliers and hospitality company. The concept behind these

business cards is a high class paying card, which fits in perfectly

with Ace's latest project - the launch of the Holiday Inn Express,

Birmingham South which we are also organising as a casino evening.

More images of the event will be posted shortly. To view the project

on our main site - click here

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Rediscover - business cards

Client, Debbie Belnavis is a life coach, who asked Kancho

for some new business cards. Voilà here they are, all parties

very happy! As shown below, we selected a colour palette

that is sympathetic to the existing logo and used quotes from

influential people including one from Debbie herself!

Troika

Been around for a while i know, but just stumbled

on these again. Love love love what Troika do!!

Troika_Falling Light from Troika on Vimeo.

Not so sunny cornwall

Last weekend, we took a couple of days out and stayed

with friends in Sunny (not so much) Cornwall. Much

booze was drank and so much food was consumed we

are now on a strict diet this week!

We ate at Jamie Olivers 15 on Saturday morning

which was ace and is thoroughly recommended.

On Sunday, we visited 'Padstein' as its now known

due to the fact that Rick Stein owns half the town!

Again fish and chips from his chippy were a hit with

team kancho. Cornwall is brill!!

Worst Logo Ever?

Saw this in the gym carpark on saturday & it made me

sick in my mouth a little. I get that the shapes used must

mean something in the fire and security business, but it's

so poorly executed. Yuk! Does anyone have evidence of

anything worse than this?