Keep up to date on the latest projects and news from the studio.

Long Live The King!

It’s a brief, but fascinating insight into Elvis’ life from his childhood through to the Vegas years with an array of bejewelled jumpsuits, finishing with huge screens that give the impression of standing alongside ‘The King’ on stage.

From a design point of view, the range of typography on display is an eclectic mix that changes from the serif italics of the fifties through to the dot matrix of the late sixties and then the cold simplicity of the sans serif in the seventies almost reflecting the effervescent early years through to the bloated monotony of concerts in Elvis’ final years.

To buy tickets for the exhibition visit: elvislondonbridge.co.uk

 

Bright thinking. Clever solutions.

We’ve recently been putting the finishing touches to the brand identity we created for Parakeet Games.

Based in the US, Parakeet Games markets educational video games, including a family of games targeted to subscribers interested in finance and economics.

With a wide-ranging audience from school children to professionals, the brand name and identity needed to have integrity, patience and a sense of humour.

Changing the way people think about economics

We’ve recently completed the brand identity for the TideMill Group.

TideMill offers visionary products and services to customers who are interested in economics, investments and financial decision making. Their mission is to educate and change the way people think about complex issues.

The brand name and identity needed to be professional, inclusive and approachable. TideMill symbolises movement, strength, structure, process and positive results.

What are investment companies?

We’ve recently completed a brochure for the AIC that details the importance of investment companies. 

Investment companies have been serving investors for over 150 years. Their fixed capital structure enables active managers to deliver growth and income across a wide range of geographies and asset classes – from listed shares to property and infrastructure, from green energy to biotech – while their stock market listing makes them accessible to everyone.

We used bold and dramatic typography to help highlight key messages and drive investment in these attractive closed end funds.

We’ve recently completed a brochure for the AIC that details the importance of investment companies.

Investment companies have been serving investors for over 150 years. Their fixed capital structure enables active managers to deliver growth and income across a wide range of geographies and asset classes – from listed shares to property and infrastructure, from green energy to biotech – while their stock market listing makes them accessible to everyone.

We used bold and dramatic typography to help highlight key messages and drive investment in these attractive closed end funds.

It’s SHOWTIME!

The Investment Company Showcase is a new event from the AIC. This one-day conference presents some of the top investment speakers in the country.

We created the identity, along with all the marketing assets, from advertising through to event graphics.

Attendees heard from leading investment company fund managers on topics such as inflation, private equity, emerging markets and going green, among many more. Three separate conference rooms allowed the flexibility to pick and choose the sessions of most relevance to future investment plans.

An under sea world

Continuing the wildlife theme, this year’s VCT (Venture Capital Trusts) report focuses on the under-sea ecosystem and particularly how there are similarities between the complexity and diversity of coral reefs and the small business sector.

Working on these reports is always huge fun and it’s a great way of finding out more about a subject that you may know little about.

A clownfish helps tell the story and weaves in and out of the pages, helping to convey an investor’s journey.

Where has the time gone?!

2022 marks 10 years since the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games came to London.

The games set a new standard in global multi-sport events and became the blueprint for all future Olympic Games.

Having created the bid logo in 2005 we were then engaged to work with the teams at LOCOG and the ODA for the next seven years – all the way up until Gamestime. We created a vast range of collateral – from stakeholder communication programmes, ticketing marketing, right through to spectator guides for each of the 60 sports, going to every one of the 11 million lucky ticket holders!

It was a truly fantastic time and are very proud to have played our part in bringing the memorable Games to life.

Up, up and away!

Priority Pass is the original and market-leading airport experiences programme. 

We’ve been busy over the last few months working on updating brand guidelines for the company. 

Our role was to not only breathe life and bring consistency to the design of the guidelines but also a significant work on their brand strategy.

Around the world, their brand makes travellers feel confident, calm and special by opening up the experiences that help make each airport journey seamless, pleasurable and stress-free. 

Rewarding issuers who do the right thing

TwentyFour Asset Management asked us to create a campaign for their Sustainable Fund Range.

Through the use of a simple tick, we created a bold animations that enabled TwentyFour Asset Management to stand-out in online media.

A cross animating into a simple tick signifies the impact that can be made by rewarding issuers who do the right thing.

Helping to point investors in the right direction

We were recently asked to refresh the AIC’s Guide to Investment Companies website. 

The update needed to distil the microsite’s information and content into easily accessible, digestible sections. Site navigation and user journey was simplified and wayfinding improved to ensure a straightforward and clear user experience.

Bold and bright imagery was used to introduce the sections and highlight key information. Overall the site engages new investors in an approachable and unintimidating way.

A helping hand…

Its been an absolute pleasure to have worked on the naming and identity for MyHelpa.

MyHelpa is a new business in the care sector that allows care providers and their clients achieve better, safer and more responsive home care by ‘connecting care’. 

A clever and easy to use app will help improve communications, save money and above all, ensure that the focus stays on what actually matters – providing the best care for each
and every client.

MyHelpa’s purpose is to reduce anxiety for clients’ families by providing detailed information about carers and their required tasks and outcomes.

The brand name and identity needed to be friendly, approachable, and appeal to a broad audience within the care sector. 

It’s ‘Titan’imation!

Visitors to Kino will have no doubt noticed our love for the work of the late special effects pioneer and animator, Ray Harryhausen – in fact a vintage poster for his film, ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea’ takes pride of place in one of our toilets!

Kino’s Dave took a trip to Edinburgh to visit a new exhibition, ‘Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema’ which charts the career of the effects guru from childhood up to his films
of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. 

Showcasing incredible models and drawings from classics (such as Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans) the exhibition allows visitors to get up close and personal to some familiar characters who appeared huge on screen, but are in reality only a few centimeteres high.

‘Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema’ which is on at the National Galleries of Scotland runs until February 2022.

Re-wilding and the eager beavers!

We’ve been busy working on this year’s VCT report for the AIC. 

Focusing on the theme of ‘Eager Beavers’ the report details the similarities between VCT (Venture Capital Trusts) and the recent and successful rewilding of beavers back into the British countryside.

As the report states, ‘Like the busy European beaver, active on the riverbank, VCTs are making small but potentially significant interventions in the UK’s economic life. 

VCTs are already helping create a more resilient and responsive economy. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, more of us strolling down a quiet riverbank will be able to catch sight of an eager beaver doing its bit to transform the British countryside for the better’.

And wine not…

We’re no strangers to a team night out here at Kino but due to obvious reasons over the past year or so, they’ve been few and far between.

To get back into the swing of things, we got together with the East London Wine School for an online tasting.

The theme of the evening was ‘Something different’, which meant an unusual selection of wines from around the world. Sam, our host, talked us through the wines’ background, regions and grape varieties – we even got a back-to-basics lesson on how to taste and why that second ‘nose’ makes all the difference.

Favourite of the evening was the Gewürztraminer from Dopff & Irion in Alsace – we’d recommend grabbing a bottle or two!

The weekly shop just got interesting

Despite it’s galleries still being closed when the non-essential retail restrictions lifted on 12 April, the Design Museum took advantage and launched it’s very own pop-up supermarket.

Curated by Camille Walala, the shop is selling a limited-edition range of everyday products from kidney beans to toilet roll – all for the same price as your usual shop.

Each product is designed by one of ten young artists including Charlotte Edey, Holly Warburton, Isadora Lima, Jess Warby, Joey Yu, Katherine Plumb, Katie Kimmel, Kentaro Okawara, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.

We jumped at the chance to support the Design Museum and ordered some essentials online – a toilet roll, a bottle of gin and some tonic. What more does one need?

25 years of The Bulletin

For nearly 25 years we’ve been working with Aberdeen Standard Investment Trusts producing their newsletter, The Bulletin.

Starting life as a modest newsletter, the Investment Trust annual magazine has chronicled the challenges, opportunities and changes faced by investment trust investors for more than a quarter of a century.

Created to help self-directed investors to make better informed decisions, there has also been a strong focus on reporting what’s happening in the global economy and what that might mean for investment portfolios.

We’re proud to say that The Bulletin now has a readership base of over 100,000.

Harnessing opportunity in Asia

Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC was launched 1995 to harness its management team’s deep insight into the dynamic smaller company opportunities emerging throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

To celebrate twenty-five years of the trust we designed a booklet to help showcase the transformation across the Asia-Pacific region – and the investment opportunities ahead for Asia’s smaller companies.

Making the most of lockdown

Recently we’ve been helping the AIC with their Channel Island Conference 2020. The event usually requires a considerable amount of printed material and graphics, however this year due to Covid-19, the event has moved online.

We developed a central graphic symbolising positive direction through an ever changing landscape.

Using online platform ‘ON24’, the event gave the audience of financial advisers the option to customise their interface, as well as pose questions and download the relevant background and reading material – all from the comfort of their own homes.