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eatsleepthink Wish You A Very Merry Christmas

The time has come for eatsleepthink design agency in Sheffield to send out its electronic Christmas Card to all clients and associates. This probably relates and reflects in some ways my blog a couple of months ago about what I called the Electronic Take Over in fact more so than that it definitively demonstrates the whole point I was making. A few years ago this would be leaving the design studio as a number of printed cards being picked up by a courier to be delivered to different addresses across the country.

Anyway back to the card. Eatsleepthink have always produced a Christmas card with a association or link to one of our clients. Over recent years this has been with Get Connected, however this year we felt that the direction should change and through Volunteering England being so proactive in promoting the importance of Volunteering this year and a big society. We are happy to be able to produce this 2010 Christmas Card in conjunction with Volunteering England. There is a Christmas Message with the card which talks a little bit about Volunteering and how something which is so simple can make a massive difference to more than just the person you are directly helping. This may not quite make sense at the moment but once you have read through the Christmas Message you will understand.

Here is an image which links through to the Christmas card we have produced, with a little help from two of Mike's sons to draw and design the animated people in the card.

We hope you like our Christmas card design as you will have seen there are two parts to the card firstly there is the flash animation part which has people dancing around who have gifted themselves as presents (Volunteering). Also as I mentioned above there is a separate section to the card which contains a heartfelt message from Mike.

See you all in the new year, thanks to everyone who has been reading my blogs over the last 9 months since I joined eatsleepthink. I hope you are looking forward to what 2011 brings.

Matt

It's Almost Here

It is Monday 20th December and there is therefore only 5 days until Christmas, after the big build up with office parties, meals and shopping etc we are now getting down to the business end of Christmas where we are winding down our computer's or in our case Mac's to gradually ease into the holidays. Only joking this is the design studio of eatsleepthink based in Halfway, Sheffield after all! 

It looks like we'll be working right up to the wire which for eatsleepthink is lunchtime on Tuesday 21st December but we wouldn't have it any other way. Once we reach this time tomorrow we will be packing up once everything is complete and going off home to enjoy a well deserved two weeks off. However lets hope we don't get too lazy over this period as we will need to be ready to get straight back into the swing of things on Tuesday 4th January 2011. There may be a little excess body weight on our return but let me assure you that this will not effect the speed of our response.

So from everyone at eatsleepthink we would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year for 2011.

Matt

How You Can Create A Splash

Following my blog last month about how our advertising campaign has made a splash right across Europe, if you haven't yet read our We've Created a Splash blog post please follow the link to it. It is now time for you to see how in this design agency in Sheffield we were able to create these eye catching paint splash illustrations. The example I will use to show you is the tree which was created for the Growth advert of the Dow Coating Materials advertising campaign. The production of these is a very painstaking process and it is vital to get the initial pencil drawings perfectly detailed and approved before moving into a lot of detail with colouring and shading etc. Here is what at the end of many hours hard work is produced.

Here is the original of the scan in of the initial stage of the illustration when it was simply at a pencil stage. This was actually the second draft of the rough design as there was the first stage where the outline of the illustration needed to be approved before we were able to move onto this stage.

Here is now a breakdown of the gradual progress of colouring in the illustration initially with flat colour before eventually adding the lines and shading to create the effect of the paint flowing and being splashed rather than being static. There were many more phases to the colouring of this however both you and us would have been here all day placing them in for you to view them. We have therefore carefully chosen a selection of the phases to represent the volume of work as accurately as possible.

Once you have an illustration similar to the final stage above you are pretty much ready to have your very own advert. All you would now need to do is supply eatsleepthink with some text to work in tandem with the illustration to get your message across. You now have your very own advert created by eatsleepthink design agency based in Sheffield, England.

As always I welcome your comments on this and hopefully you like what you see and now have a greater understanding of how we were able to achieve these brilliant splash illustrations. If you would like more information about this please contact us on the email address detailed on our website.

Matt

 

Are We In The Arctic?

What an experience these last 10 days have been if you live in the North East and Midlands area of England, we have experienced what I can only describe as crazy weather over this period so much so that not only is it the worst weather a 19 year old like myself can remember but also people much older. A number of records for Great Britain have been set including the coldest day in November ever recorded was smashed by a temperature of -20 degrees Celsius set in Scotland. In and around the area of the eatsleepthink design studio which is situated in Halfway, Sheffield almost 2 feet of snow have been recorded along with temperatures of -12 degrees Celsius. This resulted and still is resulting in very bad traffic disruption and for anyone not living within the immediate vicinity it was impossible to get into work from Tuesday to Friday last week. This unfortunately included Mike and Gary who both live at least 15 miles away from the office. This left poor old me to work my way into the office by using Sheffield's only efficient transport in snow, the trams. It must be said though that this didn't affect our ability to work though as we had been able to pre-empt this with Mike and Gary taking home with them all relevant paperwork and details of jobs. Through also liaising with myself in the office we were able to run the business remotely as effectively as is possible. I must say it was an eventful week particularly on Thursday upon being locked inside the building for about an hour, all I can say is I'm glad it wasn't any longer. Just when you think everything is back to normal and now Mike is going on a trip to Prague for an Awards Ceremony called the European Excellence Awards 2010 as detailed in our European Excellence Awards blog topic from earlier in November.

Matt