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Custom photography for the perfect corporate gifts

Corporate gifts are your company’s way of showing how much your clients mean to you. The better the gift you give to clients to seal a deal, the more value they know you place on them. However, as we’re in the middle of recession you don’t want to end up spending large amounts of cash [...]

Design Giants Face Sledgehammer

Design Giants Lightmaker have gone into administration only to be rescued by rock legend Peter Gabriel. Peter Gabriel is not only famous for his music including the hit ’sledgehammer’ but is a digital pioneer and has come to the rescue of web site developers and designers at Lightmaker.
Lightmaker have offices all over the world and [...]

Saatchi and Saatchi Photography Exhibition

Leading Design and advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi are holding a photography exhibition, but not what you would expect from the creative industry.
When I first heard Saatchi were holding an exhibition I assumed it would be contreversial, cutting edge photography. Challenging peoples perceptions or some kind of kitch tongue in cheek style.
But it seems [...]

Logo Design

When setting up a photography company or sometimes even going it alone it is always good to market your self and get some kind of corporate id or logo design.
By building a brand image you look much more professional and can help protect your images if you use it for a watermark on your images. [...]

99 Designs upped their game

Since I recently abandoned the crowdsourcing site of 99 designs because of the way people could put briefs up then not pay out even after giving great feedback 99 designs has taken heed of this.
I recently went back on the site to have a browse at the contests that were being held and saw that [...]

Box Pro Pics!

Box Pro are keeping a lot of there images under wraps, the glamour shoot including various Nemesis models is still yet to be released but I have managed to get a glimpse of a recent kick boxing shoot!
Box Pro are a relatively new company specialising in Boxing Promotional Websites incorporating Boxing Promotional Photography. They rumoured [...]

Office Space in Photography

The most common commissioned photographs are corporate images, pictures that will be used in brochures or mailers that need to convey a proffessional working environment or boardroom feel.
These are not the most exciting jobs you could be asked to do but are definately a lucrative opportunity as for business they have to buy out the [...]

New Blood D&AD Exhibition

New Blood D&AD Exhibition starts today! This is the most exciting time for new talent in design throughout the UK.
The New Blood Exhibition is a chance for britains brightest talents and designers to showcase their work in Earls Court in the Brompton Hall for 3 days starting today untill Wednesday 25 June.
The D&AD annual show [...]

High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range Photography or HDR Photography is the latest technique in photo editing that is startng to be used in a variety of mediums.
Computer graphics in photography are becoming more and more popular, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) allows a greater range of exposures, this is the range of values between light and dark [...]

Cumbria Institute of The Arts Degree Show

Today marks the Launch of the Cumbria Institute of the Arts final exhibition, I went to the Art college to do my degree not long before it made the transition to Cumbria University.
I remember a few years ago the stresses of getting all my work printed and exhibited properly for the start of the final [...]