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Gordon Giltrap Tour Programme

Pete Simcoe — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:03:03 +0000

Simcoemedia has designed artwork for the centre spread of Gordon Giltrap’s 2010 tour. You can find the details about this tour from the Gordon Giltrap website. The original concept for the artwork was produced back in 2007 when Cool Acoustics and Gordon released an album called Secret Valentine featuring his work on the Hybrid Polymer Guitar RA-1 – essentially, this was an album about Gordon revisiting some of his romantic pieces and playing them on the new concept guitar. Some of this early design work featuring the guitarist has been developed and reinterpreted as an alternative take on the album artwork themes with a more ethereal feel to it – now in print for all of the Giltrap fans to see!

You can also see the original Secret Valentine artwork in the Simcoemedia archives.

Simcoemedia Promotional Brochure

Pete Simcoe — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:34:24 +0000

In late April 2008, Simcoemedia produced and printed a promotional brochure demonstrating print, web and other multimedia based projects including work for guitarist Gordon Giltrap and ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford. The brochure also included descriptions of websites developed for Greenbarnes and the Drawing Research Network.

Download the brochure.

Gordon Giltrap’s Secret Valentine

Pete Simcoe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:22:17 +0000

Simcoemedia was given the opportunity to design artwork for Gordon Giltrap’s Secret Valentine album – an experimental album created using a hybrid polymer guitar developed by Cool Acoustics, a research project based at Loughborough University in Leicestershire by Dr Owain Pedgley and Dr Eddie Norman in 2002. Here’s Owain talking about the project and the role of Simcoemedia in the creation of promotional print, websites and video:

Working on a project like Cool Acoustics has created a variety of opportunities for research and development into exciting new ways of creating guitars that were previously thought inappropriate or were impossible. Simcoemedia has always understood our research and development and pitched our publicity at just the right level with a great balance of informative message, coherent structure and visually very strong presentation. We’ve always been very happy with the results, across an impressive range of media, whether it’s generating images in a photographic studio, interviewing key collaborators on the project, or delivering the project’s website.

We have had a lot of positive feedback from our collaborators and clients on the clean and professional way in which Cool Acoustics presents itself. Simcoemedia has done a terrific job for us.

Gordon’s feedback on the Secret Valentine artwork has been extremely positive also:

Pete has created some fantastic artwork for the album that epitomizes the feelings and emotions I’m conveying in the tracks. There’s a sincerity and confidence in the style and yet a sensitivity to the direction of the album too. Great.

To order your copy of Secret Valentine go to the Voiceprint website. Find out more about Gordon Giltrap at www.giltrap.co.uk. To hear samples of Cool Acoustics instruments go to www.coolacoustics.com. To enquire about Cool Acoustics instruments contact Anna Seddon at Loughborough University on +44 (0)1509 223445, or email enquiries@coolacoustics.com.

Cool Acoustics print design for CD cover

Pete Simcoe — Wed, 25 May 2005 12:48:04 +0000

Simcoemedia designed a CD cover for a Cool Acoustics polymer guitar demonstration disc showcasing examples of guitar work by Gordon Giltrap amongst other artists. Cool Acoustics is a research project based at Loughborough University in Leicestershire by Dr Owain Pedgley and Dr Eddie Norman in 2002. Simcoemedia has been involved in a variety of different aspects of promotion and development of the project including design of Gordon Giltrap’s album artwork and video [see below].