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November, 2008

Refugee Postcards

This series of A6 postcards was designed by North Meadow Media’s Barry Lowenhoff for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. They were used to promote a travelling exhibition that featured stories and images of refugees who had come to Western Europe. Interviews with the refugees were brought to life by an exhibition of prints, created by Brussels-based artist Joslin Towler.

Posted by: Barry Lowenhoff, MCSD
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:58 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: ecre, european council on refugees and exiles, exhibitions, postcards, publicity material
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East Anglian Vision

Palladian Press’s twin enthusiasm for the people and places of East Anglia inspired the firm to commission a new marketing pack that uses high-quality imagery and printing to tell the story of their area, and to emphasise the human side of its business.

The result, Visions from East Anglia, is a beautifully produced gatefold box that houses two slip cases. Inside the first you can find cards that feature every single member of Palladian Press: designers, drivers, press minders, customer services staff, administrators, bindery operatives and everyone else in the firm’s team.

The second component of the pack is a series of specially commissioned postcards that feature artists’ and photographers’ interpretations of East Anglia’s distinctive coastline, with its rich texture and many contrasts. You’ll find striking woodcuts by Felixstowe printmaker Clare Curtis, ethereal black and white photographs by Suffolk photographer Colin Turner, marine linocuts by Brightlingsea-born illustrator James Dodds and, completing the set, digital art and photography by Colchester duo Stephanie Harland and Judy Payne. The pack itself was designed by North Meadow Media’s Barry Lowenhoff, whilst the pack title and copy for the postcards element was provided by Ben Locker.

Visions from East Anglia has been an invaluable marketing tool: beautiful printing inspires many more potential clients than the run-of-the-mill sales catalogues that land on our desks every day of the week.

For more information about Visions from East Anglia and Palladian Press, contact info@palladianpress.co.uk.

Posted by: Barry Lowenhoff, MCSD
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:57 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: copywriting, essex, photography, publicity material
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Identity of Steel

Barry Lowenhoff created a visual identity for Britain’s largest independent steel processing company, Sebden Steel. The firm has eight service centres that are strategically located across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each location needed to retain a local identity that tied in with that of the wider company. The feat was pulled off spectacularly well with the bold, no-nonsense illustrations of Andrew Davidson, who accurately depicted the nature of this heavy industry, and the people who work within it.

Posted by: Barry Lowenhoff, MCSD
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:40 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: andrew davidson, corporate identities, sebden steel, steel
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Barbican History

Ben Locker wrote a teachers’ resource to accompany the Barbican’s prestigious In the Face of History photographic exhibition. The pack was aimed at secondary history teachers, but was crammed with cross-curricular links and activities, as well as ideas for follow-up work in the classroom.

“Ben worked with me to produce a teachers’ resource for the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition In the Face of History. His writing was excellent, he followed the brief carefully and had obviously spent a great deal of time preparing and considering the best way to approach the project. He worked according to a fairly tight schedule, produced work on time and was always easy to communicate with.” Anna Dent, Barbican Education Officer

You can download a copy of the resource here.

Posted by: Ben Locker
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:39 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: barbican, barbican art gallery, copywriting, education resources, heritage, history by design, key stage 2, key stage 3, photography, publications
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Gateway Gazette

The Gateway Gazette is a 21st-Century take on what newspapers might have contained in 1792. Based on authentic newspaper sources, the Gazette was commissioned by the Gateway Gardens Trust for its Heritage Lottery Fund supported slavery and sugar project, Bittersweet. The publication was designed by Barry Lowenhoff and written by Ben Locker, teaming up in their heritage consultancy History by Design.

Barry and Ben created two versions of the newspaper: one for adults visiting historic gardens in Wales, and another for children. The children’s version is pictured above.

Feedback from trialling the adult edition of the Gateway Gazette in July 2008 was extremely positive and proved how valuable professionally-produced resources can be for learners.

“Fantastic and Brilliant. Really informative with catchy articles that have held peoples attention.”

“Loved the adverts. Fascinating to see what was available then.”

“It should be in libraries, so more people get the opportunity to read it.”

“It doesn’t try to be too authentic, the coloured pictures make it more alive. If it was too realistic the print would have to be much smaller and just in black. Then it would be boring and it’s not!!”

Barry and Ben followed up the Gateway Gazette with a prestigious exhibition that explored the links between slavery, Wales and the food we eat. More information about this project can be found here.

Posted by: North Meadow Media
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:25 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: copywriting, education resources, gateway gazette, ggt, heritage, history by design, publications, wales
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Quality on a Budget

Clients in the voluntary sector often need to produce a high-quality publication with a very low price tag, leaving little or no budget for new photography, illustration, distinctive print techniques or formats. We know this, and make sure that the design – or the client’s public image – does not suffer.

The Suffolk Family Carers’ Impact Report, designed by Barry Lowenhoff, is such a project. It had a very low print run and there were no funds available for new imagery. However, the final report relies upon a clean, two-colour approach with clear and often stimulating type design. As a result, it has attracted much praise from partner organisations and other SFC key audiences.

Posted by: Barry Lowenhoff, MCSD
Published: 12th November, 2008 at 12:24 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: copywriting, publications, suffolk, suffolk family carers
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Home Inspiration

When major East Anglian firm Kent Blaxill commissioned Colchester multimedia firm Pinstripe Creative to build a new website for its ‘homeinspiration’ bathroom and kitchen showroom, Pinstripe asked Ben Locker to write the copy.

The brief was a challenging one, as the copy for each page had to fit within a precisely-defined placeholder. However, Ben was able to complete the job quickly and efficiently, much to the delight of the client. You can read the final result here, and if you need similar copywriting services please do get in touch.

Posted by: Ben Locker
Published: 11th November, 2008 at 2:57 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: Add new tag, bathrooms, colchester, copywriting, essex, kent blaxill, kitchens, publicity material, websites
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Strangers’ Hall

Home to wealthy merchants, Norwich’s Strangers’ Hall dates from 1320. Recently, four fine, new room displays were created as part of the ‘Mayors & Magnates’ project, funded by DCMS/ Wolfson and others. Barry Lowenhoff produced a sympathetic identity for the Hall’s signage and printed material. His concept uses a painting from the Great Hall as a vehicle for smaller image elements to reflect the building’s diversity, collections and spaces.

Posted by: Barry Lowenhoff, MCSD
Published: 11th November, 2008 at 2:20 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: corporate identities, heritage, norfolk, norwich
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Making It

Northampton Museums needed a teachers’ resource at short notice to accompany Making It, a brilliant comic-book resource that explores themes of fashion, conformity, identity and belonging. Ben Locker wrote a pack full of activities that help both primary and secondary teachers use Making It across the curriculum, from citizenship to history, French to art.

Posted by: Ben Locker
Published: 11th November, 2008 at 2:00 pm in North Meadow Projects.
Tags: copywriting, education resources, heritage, history by design, publications, young people
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