A Wild, Cornish Retreat...

Simon Toft and Rosie Hadden have created a place where visitors can experience the very best of Cornwall - its amazing scenery, historic landscape, creative tradition and fantastic food and drink, without compromising its precious natural resources.  

This retreat is made up of a collection of holiday cottages, which generate their own energy and water - making them one of the most eco friendly holiday destinations in the country. 

Launched last week, the new website is inspired by the open, unique surroundings of the site and even uses Rosie's own illustrations to reinforce the notion of being close to nature. The website has also been built using our CMS system, meaning that Rosie can update her own images and keep in line with the changing seasons! 

Experience it yourself at http://www.littlewhitealice.co.uk

Cornish Mead Company gets Inked!

We have been receiving some good press for the tattoo inspired packaging refresh we produced for the Cornish Mead Company in Penzance. Since our write up from The Drum the story has been picked up by a fair number of websites, including Pitch Design from the Design Week group, design blog Core77, TrendHunter.com, and best of all in our opinion the website for tattoo magazine Inked!

A new flavour for a Cornish legend...

We're delighted to share some latest packaging work that we've done for the legendary Cornish Mead Company. Back in November we won a three way pitch to look at the overall brand, packaging and marketing materials. Traditionally Cornish Mead had been enjoyed by older audiences at home and in Meaderies around the county but the 50 year old company wanted to appeal to a new, younger audience of drinkers between 18 and 30.

The main challenge of the brief was that the company could no longer use the very characteristic bottle design that had made Mead unique for the last 50 years and instead were forced to use a bottle that had no unique shape. We felt that we had to capture something unique in the design. Our approach remained true to the traditional Cornish Mead values of myths & legends, good times & story telling and strength & flavour at the same time as looking modern and fresh, appealing to a whole new audience.

A full wrap design across the range retained the existing crest shape and deep, rich colours from the original bottle. Illustrative designs include tattoo designs for the Mead products and fruit plants for the fruit wines. We have every faith that the packaging will be a success and look forward to working with the Cornish Mead Company on helping to promote the revitalised brand.

Supakitch & Koralie

Here's something quite nice from french artist Supakitch and graphic designer Koralie. The video shows the pair hard at work, creating a wall mural back in October at the VARLDSKULTUR MUSEET GOTEBORG in Sweden. The beautifully shot film features the artists using a variety of tools and techniques to create the large scale mural.

It's our 25th year and we're thinking our studio could do with a refresh...

New Year, same amazing view...

So Christmas and New Year came and went. We're all back at the studio and working on some exciting projects for the year ahead. We'll keep you posted of course but check out the view first thing this morning... It could almost be summer.