We like to keep in touch – it’s how we promote ourselves. And so to showcase our abilities and flex our creative muscles we decided to create and produce a series of yearly desk diaries. We liked the idea of a diary as it would be something useful to give our clients, remain visible for twelve months and also afford us the canvas area to create intriguing and thought-provoking designs.
Back in 2009 we created a diary featuring graphic representations of key dates throughout the year, with the Chinese New Year, Darwin Day, Aprils Fools Day, Bloomsday, Halloween and Germany’s Oktoberfest being some of our choices. Each of us in the studio were given our dates and had to produce graphic collages representing these key dates, to slot into the overall design. What transpired was a highly functional, visually stimulating diary which was very well received by our clients.
In 2010 we took inspiration from roman numerals and used ‘X’ as the basis for our designs.
In 2011 we used brain teasers and optical illusions as out theme and ran a year long email competition with additional puzzles sent out to our clients each month.
Finally we worked with the talented photographer Mike O’Toole on our last diary featuring a combination of his beautiful and haunting photos with a series of quotations for each month of the year.