Here
you will find the latest news from Simcoe media. It represents
some of the key projects completed Nov - June. For an overview
of previous Simcoemedia design projects see the 2003
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Dec 29 |
Simcoemedia links page updates: The Simcoemedia links page has been updated with new software, photography, web and print links that clients and other site users may find useful. In addition there are some interesting design book references - these are seriously recommended! Go to the links page for more information. Also see additional print samples. |
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Dec 24 |
Happy Christmas from Simcoemedia: It's that time of the year again and Simcoemedia would like to wish everyone a restful few days over the festive period. For anyone who has never seen Simcoemedia's 'I Love Christmas' - its a bleak short film about Santa's last journey which was shown at arts cinemas in Nottingham and Derby. See 'I Love Christmas' [Simcoemedia 2005] |
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Dec 7 |
Design of logo for Nottingham's oldest restaurant: Punchinello's Restaurant is Nottingham's oldest established restaurant c1890.
> See logo .pdf |
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Dec 3 |
Design of e - Christmas card for Torse Ltd: Simcoemedia has designed and produced an e-Christmas card using Flash CS3 for Torse Ltd.
> View card |
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Oct 16 |
Bill Bruford Artwork: The design of Bill Bruford's new album artwork was completed by Simcoemedia in September. The albums are now printed and ready for release in February 2008. > See Voiceprint Article |
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Aug 10 |
Soundtracks 4 - track 5: Another soundtrack has been produced for the forthcoming Simcoemedia release 'Soundtracks_4'. The track features Simon Hayward on keyboard. > Listen to audio |
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Aug 8 |
Bill Bruford Album Artwork: Simcoemedia has been asked to create artwork for Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlaps forthcoming album 'In Two Minds'. To see examples of Bruford's playing visit YouTube's archived footage. Of particular interest is the Bruford / Borstlap footage located here. See Bill Bruford's website at: www.billbruford.com |
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Aug 5 |
Simcoemedia photo considered for New Zealand guide map: One of Simcoemedia's travel photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the third edition of the Schmap Wellington Guide, to be published mid-August 2007. > see selected image |
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July 22 |
Dr Mark Lewney - Guitar Theory: Simcoemedia has filmed, edited and produced a 30 minute documentary for Cool Acoustics covering Dr Mark Lewney's 'Guitar Theory' lecture at Loughborough University on 16 June 2007 and the associated discussion afterwards. > Download movie [78.1Mb Quicktime File]
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July 19 |
Photo session with Gordon Giltrap: Simcoemedia is currently involved with several Cool Acoustics projects including CD artwork for Gordon Giltrap's latest album and promotional video to go onto the enhanced audio CD with the album on it. On July 18 there was a photo shoot at Loughborough University's media services where audio, photographic and video sessions took place. > See Gordon's MySpace
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July 10 |
Soundtracks 4 - another new track 2: Simcoemedia has been test driving the latest electric guitar from Cool Acoustics electric collection - this one has a rather long keyboard intro before you get to some of those Cool Acoustics Electric sounds! > Listen to audio
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July 2 |
Launch of new David Graham Photography website: The photography site has finally made it to the web. Go to www.davidgraham.net to see more!
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June 23 |
Soundtracks 4 - new track 1: Simcoemedia has been test driving the latest electric guitar from Cool Acoustics electric collection and has produced a soundtrack for the product promo part of the Mark Lewney lecture DVD. > Listen to audio
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June 21 |
Gordon Giltrap CD cover: Design and production of an album cover for one of Gordon Giltraps album releases this year - to be designed and produced by Simcoemedia. There is a provisional release date of November 2007 for this album. The artwork should be complete by the end of August: www.giltrap.co.uk
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June 18 |
Updates to The Rational Gallery: The Rational Gallery is a London based online art gallery. Simcoemedia has been asked to produce an innovative thumbnail gallery for the home page - available from 27 June. www.therationalgallery.co.uk
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June 16 |
Mark Lewney presents "The Physics of Guitar Design": A lecture and guitar demo session organised at Loughborough University has been recorded by Simcoemedia and will be edited / produced for Cool Acoustics Ltd
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June 12 |
Love Ends Disaster! promo video: the band supported INXS last Wednesday at the Royal Centre in Nottingham and played to an audience of around 1,500 people at the theatre. Simcoemedia has produced a promo video for their single 'Ladders' recorded at the event. See video.
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June 9 |
Joogleberry Poster: A sample of design work for the Joogleberry Playhouse in Brighton. Simcoemedia designed and developed the identity for this venue including the logo and continues to produce their web and print design. See poster.
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June 6 |
Photography for Love Ends Disaster! The group were supporting INXS at the Royal Centre in Nottingham and Simcoemedia was invited along to record the occassion. See mini-site for images.
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June 1 |
Photography for Le Mistral Cafe: Production of images for Mistral Cafe in Worksworth, Sherwood and Nottingham City Centre. See mini-site for images.
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April 27 |
IDATER online website: Additional security has been added to the IDATER website to prevent the increasing numbers of human spammers on community websites. This has been successfully implemented keeping the focus on design and technology education research!
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April 12 |
Le Mistral Cafe promo A4 DL: Promotional brochure for Le Mistral chain of cafes. Photography and design by Simcoemedia.
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| Mar 31 |
3D photo exhibition: A collection of 3D images
taken by Simcoemedia on the previously mentioned 'round the
world trip' is available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/simcoemedia_3d/.
This collection requires the use of 3D glasses to view the images
correctly.
Online sound and image tools: As a seperate
issue, heres a page with an interesting mixture of onine image
creation / editing and sound tools. Worth a look if you're interested
in design and online technologies: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/yuppi/links/imagetools.html
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| Mar 22 |
Return to UK: Simcoemedia is now back to usual
hours and functionality as the trip around the world is now
over. As previously mentioned on the news page, there is a collection
of photographs from the trip at http://www.flickr.com/photos/simcoemedia/sets/.
FlickR is a very useful way of keeping an archive of photography
and there are some easy to use upload tools also.
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| Mar 8 |
Logo design for Santiago based company: Production
of a logo for a Santiago [Chile] based construction and materials
company called CMT.
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see logo
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| Feb 17 |
Travel Photography: Since 18 Jan 2007, Simcoemedia
has been working 'on the road', that is to say, travelling and
completing freelance work during this time. Places visited so
far include Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and currently
in Chile. During these adventures a collection of photographs
have been made available on the net: >
see photos
Projects currently include a new site design for the Design
Practice Research Group at Loughborough University, a logo for
a company in Santiago, the new programme for Joogleberry and
Greenbarnes website development.
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| Jan 1 |
The New Year! Happy New Year to all. Current
projects in progress:
- IDATER Online conferences [online by 12 January 2007]
- New Design Practice Research Group website, Loughborough Uni
[ feb 07]
- New track [guitars Pete Simcoe]: See
The Lights [original Simple Minds]
- New Greenbarnes website in development. Launch in late Spring
07
- New footage for the Engineering
DVD produced Feb 06 [Release April 07]
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