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Dec 20 |
IDATER Online: The IDATER conference site
is under further development since November 17 with a Content
Management System and Forum being installed [adapted from phpBB which is a nice little system]. Users will be able to upload
new conferences, add papers and other info.
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Dec 9 |
I Love Christmas: With Christmas swiftly approaching
it seems appropriate to promote the short film 'I Love Christmas'.
This was shown at the 2005 BANG! Film Festival, Broadway Cinema
in Nottingham last December. It was written, directed and produced
by Simcoemedia with help from Matt Dix of Love Ends Disaster!
The music was from Love Ends Disaster!
>
Download 'I Love Christmas'
>
See promo site
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Nov 17 |
More Loughborough Research: With W3C standards
becoming more important in terms of compliance and site design
/ development, all sites now developed by Simcoemedia will be
produced without the use of tables [or only in specific circumtances
such as Greenbarnes product selector created by Adobe ImageReady] and with usability
as a priority. The latest examples of this site development
are: www.dementiaconference.co.uk as mentioned below and the new IDATER
conference website.
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| Sept 29 |
Development and update of the Drawing Research Network
website: In 2003 Steve Garner and Pete Simcoe [Simcoemedia]
set up the Drawing Research Network. This is described on the
site as 'loose network of individuals and institutions who are
involved in some way with drawing research, for example via
professional practice, education or the promotion of drawing'.
The site has recently been updated and now includes a helpful
Zeemap which will gradually become a useful tool for locating
members in addition to their details on the site: >
Drawing Research Network website
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| Sept 17 |
New look for Joogleberry Playhouse: The Joogleberry
Playhouse is one of the most popular venues in Sussex. Located
just round the corner from the famous pier, the Playhouse has
entertained guests such as Sir Paul McCartney amongst other
celebrities. Simcoemedia designed the logo, has produced all
the advertising and built the website. The website interface
and structure needed a little development from its humble beginnings
and the new look gives it a minor face lift!
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see joogleberry website
> see
print design examples
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| Sept 6 |
Simple Minded: A new AUDIO project is underway.
In addition to the original material, Simcoemedia is involved
with work on a Simple Minds tribute EP and short tour in the
new year. Work on the project has already begun with Simon Hayward
[of Sample Minds] and George Porter [Pop Electro] on some demo
tracks. See the mini-site at: http://fascinations.wordpress.com/
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| Aug 20 |
Andrew Critchell Photography promo: Design
and production of promo cards for a London based photographer.
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see sample
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| Aug 14 |
Simcoemedia client map: A map showing some
of simcoemedia's clients has been listed on zeemap. This demonstrates
the location of UK and worldwide clients. In addition to the
updated links, there is now a list of useful design related
books with ISBN numbers and web references on the links page.
> see links page
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| Aug 9 |
Redesign of David Graham Photography: Simcoemedia
is currently redesigning www.davidgraham.net
after its original design by simcoemedia in 2002. It is planned
that interactive galleries, a blog and a new interface will
feature in this new development. More news as the project develops.
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| Aug 8 |
Rain Studios: Logo design and production for
Rain Recording Studios in Giltbrook, Nottinghamshire. This logo
will be used on all stationery and other media.
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see sample card
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| Aug 4 |
Simcoemedia print and links page update: The
site has been updated in several places including the links
page. You can find a range of useful design, multimedia,
educational and communication related sites on this resource.
This includes free office software, web design guides, script
samples, design guides for print and web, recommended printers
and communication tools for sending faxes, large files and TXT
documents.
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| July 22 |
Design work for Nottingham's Victoria Market: A
new promotional campaign for the city's largest indoor market
has been started by Simcoemedia. This design is for a double
page spread in a local magazine. >
see design
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| July 21 |
Love Ends Disaster! Tour: In 2003 Simcoemedia
worked with Nottingham band Love Ends Disaster! on promo photos
and their website - www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk
which has since grown since its original design in October 03
to be a core promotional tool for the band. They are about to
start a tour around England next week and have released 2 tracks
from their recent EP to the web. Listen to a couple of tracks
by clicking on the links below:
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Fort Washington
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Warning: Robots
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| July 17 |
Greenbarnes brochure design: The latest Greenbarnes
brochure has been completed and is currently being printed.
This demonstrates some of the latest aluminium panels from the
company.
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see brochure design [PDF]
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see greenbarnes website [designed by Simcoemedia
in 2003]
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| July 16 |
Video page updated and complete: All clips
[where stated] on the video page are now available for viewing
including full versions of music videos and examples of previous
projects from pre-simcoemedia days such as Scarred for Life,
Trying to Tell You and Blind Fate. Go to the video page to view
these. You will need quicktime
and windows
media player [mac version] to view the whole collection.
> view video page
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| July 9 |
Dr Ice photo page: Dr Kristan Bromley has
been working with Simcoemedia for the last 3 years, designing
logos, promotional material and other media for his Ice Sport
Technology and RACE projects. Kristan and Shelley Rudman had
significant press coverage during the 06 winter olympics. A
studio photography session took place in late June and the results
of this session can be seen below:
> see
photo selection page
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see video 'Ice Sports and Simcoemedia' [click right
and 'save target as']
> see promo card [folded] - inside
and outside
[PDF]
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| July 6 |
New Simcoemedia soundtrack > Work has started
on the next Simcoemedia Soundtracks CD even though Soundtracks
III has only just been completed a couple of weeks back. The
current track is a slightly more uptempo track for a Simcoemedia
production. Bass and guitars are played by Pete Simcoe and drums
are played by Luke O'Neill. >
download track [click right and 'save target as']
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| June 14 |
Joogleberry Playhouse third birthday party: The
Joogleberry Playhouse in Brighton celebrated its 3rd birthday
on 5th June. Simcoemedia originally produced
their logo, menus, website and magazine advertising and continues
to work on their web / magazine advert design on a weekly basis!
> see
photos from the party
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| June 8 |
Latest CD available > The latest CD, Soundtracks
III, is now completed and being distributed. If you would
like a copy please contact Simcoemedia for more details. There
are 7 tracks recorded from September 2005 - June 2006. Guitars,
bass and keyboard are played by Pete Simcoe with additional
percussion and drums from Luke O'Neill. Go to the audio
page for MP3 versions of the tracks to download
and freely distribute. If you would like to use any tracks for
commercial purposes, please contact Simcoemedia.
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| June 1 |
Derwent Valley Mills website > sites and visions
section: Simcoemedia worked with Artizen
on the Sites and Visions section of the DVM website to produce
a teaching resource for schoolchildren. The results of this
design development can be seen on the Derwent Valley Mills,
Sites
and Visions section of the site.
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| May 24 |
NTI Creative Industries news item: East Midlands
NTI have included a short interview with Simcoemedia on their
website about producing lower budget, high quality video and
DVD. See the news
page on the NTI site. Recent DVD work includes
a promotional DVD for the Dept of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering and a Cool
Acoustics promotional DVD [.mov file - right click
and 'save target as'.]
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| May 14 |
Ordinary Madness video published: In 2001
a short promo film was made by Peter Simcoe / Emma Kinlock in
Wellington, New Zealand illustrating issues of mental health
and so called 'madness'. The interviews took place at the Cuba
St Carnival, held once a year in the capital. >
download video [click right and 'save target as'].
This video is in MP4 format and requires the
latest version of Quicktime.
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| May 6 |
Ice Sport Technology's RACE programme promo cards:
Kristan Bromley and Shelley Rudman are known for their
high profile skeleton bobsleigh races in the Winter Olympics
2006. Simcoemedia was asked to design a card for Kristan, Shelley
and the RACE team engineer Richard Bromley. See example.
The RACE logo was originally designed by Simcoemedia back in
2003.
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| May 3 |
DVD and promo design for Derwent Valley Mills Partnership:
The DVD packaging, website concept and promotional
design work for the DVM partnership was designed by Simcoemedia
with original material and water images produced by Fi Burke,
www.artizen.co.uk.
View DVD
packaging design and promotional
poster. The website link will be available later
this month when it will be finalised and published.
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| Apr 28 |
Meeting with Soccer Circus planned: Meeting
with Soccer Circus is planned for next week to discuss Simcoemedia
working with the company to produce exhibition material including
graphic design and video production. See a sample of Soccer
Circus press coverage link.
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New track > Soundtracks 3: The soundtrack
for 'a brief adventure' was created by Simcoemedia made from
several guitar layers and a sampled drum loop. The MP3 version
of this is available from the link below or from the Simcoemedia
audio page.
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Soundtracks 3: Track 6
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| Apr 8 |
Visit to Turkey: The two links below are to
a couple of films made about Turkey during a visit in late March
2006. These are just a brief overview of Istanbul
and Ankara with the second featuring a wedding attended as part
of the journey. In an attempt to capture the atmosphere of the
place and express the intensity of the cities, the soundtrack
to 'a brief adventure' was recorded by Simcoemedia using electric
guitars and a drum loop. Click right and 'save target as'.
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Turkey: a brief adventure [wmv, 10Mb]
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Wedding in Ankara [wmv, 10Mb]
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| Mar 24 |
Mark Limbic > dot com: The new site for
Mark Limbic has been designed produced by Simcoemedia and has
been published to promote the work of the artist with a focus
upon his forthcoming appearance at the Brighton
Festival, UK.
> see marklimbic.com
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| Mar 3 |
Systems Engineering overview - WORKSHOP: Simcoemedia
has been asked to record and produce a DVD and web for video
output for the Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
The workshop is a one day overview of EE featuring discussions
related to design brainstorming and teamworking in engineering
projects.
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| Mar 1 |
Derwent Valley Mills DVD cover design: Derwent
Valley Mills and their educational partnerships
have commissioned a educational DVD to be produced for release
in April 2006. Simcoemedia has been asked to design the cover
artwork and layout. Examples will be posted here when they are
finalised.
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| Feb 13 |
Release of the Dept EE DVD: The Department
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough will
be launching their new promotional DVD today. The DVD features
a number of people giving and insight into the work of the department,
its research and facilities.>
see dept of Electronic and Electrical website
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| Jan 21 |
Kristan Bromley > Dr Ice flash game: Simcoemedia
client Kristan Bromley is due to compete at the winter olympics
starting beginning in the next couple of weeks. Kristan will
compete in the Skeleton Bobsleigh competition as he is currently
world number 1 in this sport. His sponsors, King of Shaves,
have just produced an online flash game. >
go to game
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| Dec 21 |
I Love Christmas DVD - SHORT FILM: To be shown
at the LIFT FILM FESTIVAL in Derby on the evening of Thursday
22nd December 05. Watch Santa beamed onto the big screen in
the market place in all his Christmas glory - from 6.30pm onwards.
See the LIFT
website for details of the event. >
download page
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