David Hockney
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Education Through Creativity
Creative Edge are once again involved in the annual Combined Truro Schools Arts Events (CTSAE), which this years goes under the title 'Build Up'. The CTSAE event, now in its sixth year, started in 2005 with a celebration of the explorer Richard Lander founding the navigable course of the River Niger and focusing on African Art. Other themes covered have been Rivers, Cornish Mining, Cornish Gardens and last year, ‘Show ID’ looked at pupils own identities.
Build Up focuses on the history and architecture of the City of Truro and has seen students involved in a variety of joint workshops. They produced clay reliefs based on the architectural features discovered whilst exploring the rich heritage of Truro, as well as constructing a large scale relief of ‘Middle Row’ – a row of buildings that used to exist in Boscawen Street and working with an illustrator on a book.
The exhibition runs from Feb 26th – March 6th (9am - 6pm, Mon - Sat) at the Lander Gallery, Lemon Street market, Truro.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Summer Insight
The summer edition of the Cornwall CATA Guide has arrived at Creative Edge, fresh from the printers. Carrying on the success of the winter guide update, the summer edition features bite size snippets from each of the members of CATA and continues the push for a user friendly and clean layout.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Press Pack for Spa Hotel
Working with Creative Edge, The Bay Hotel have just released a new Press Pack. Images from recently commissioned photography have been combined with the fresh corporate colours and engaging typography to create a vibrant brochure.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Inspired Poetry
The latest edition to the Creative Edge publishing house is the new book of poetry from Bert Biscoe. The book is a collection of poetry about Par and is dedicated to the memory of John Baker, who first introduced Bert to this important port and showed him the true beauty of the place.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
New look guide
This seasons CATA Guide has been launch with a fresh design, aimed at giving the audience a more informative guide to Cornwall. Featuring bite size snippets from each of the members of CATA the guide is all together more user friendly with a clean layout and the introduction of a more lively colour palette. Pick up your copy to discover another side of Cornwall.
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Plant inspired identity
Samphire is the name given to a variety of different edible plants that grow in coastal areas, and is also the name of a new advisory business we have recently branded. Samphire Communications offer an investor relations service to large and medium sized corporations. Creative Edge created a sophisticated, clean, fresh and contemporary identify for this new business.
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Going for Gold!
Hotel of the Year 2009, Website of the Year and Winner of Winners! The team at Creative Edge would like to congratulate our client St Michael's Hotel in Falmouth on last nights success at the Cornwall Tourism Awards.
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
From Farm to Fork
Brady Family Ham is unique in that it offers consumers Farm to Fork assurance. Simply put, Brady Family Ham is traceable to its original farm. Recently launched across Ireland, Creative Edge has refreshed their packaging range for Brady's sliced ham's to compete in all tiers of the supermarket, but most of all, to ensure that the customers know that Brady only use 100% Irish ham!
Friday, October 9th, 2009
We're hiring!
Calling all Graphic Designers, Freelancers and Web Developers! Creative Edge are always on the look out for talented individuals to join their experienced team. Take a look at our current vacancies here.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Plans for St Austell
Creative Edge have been commissioned by Tesco to help promote their exciting new plans for an extension to the St Austell Store. Our remit was to design exhibition panels, produce photography and feedback forms for a public consultation exercise. The views of the public will be taken into consideration before Tesco submit their plans for planning permission. The exhibition panels have been on display in the community at the Leisure Centre and in-store and show the proposed new store layout and architects visualization. The store extension will create 180 new full and part time jobs, reduce in store congestion, allow for an introduction of a clothing section and improve road access problems.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Wonderland! where?
Creative Edge have assisted Oxford Innovation in the design of materials to publicise their launch event that will take place on Wednesday 14th October at the Caerhays Estate. Anyone with ambitious growth plans for their business, startup or established, is encouraged to contact Anna John or Emma Yates on 01872 300116 or info@growcornwall.co.uk, or visit www.growcornwall.co.uk to find out more.
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Relish, Chutney & Festivals
This weekend saw the annual Cornwall Food & Drink Festival take place featuring a delightful stand from our favourite makers of preserves, Crellow. With prizewinning handmade chutneys, savoury jellies and a few unusual condiments on display, all lovingly made using local Cornish ingredients, their stand was a hive of activity. Congratulations Crellow on a successful festival!
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Oyster Season
To celebrate St Michael's Hotel becoming the official sponsors to the Falmouth Oyster Festival, we have produced a guide to events happening at the hotel. Look out for the adverts in your local press!
Monday, September 21st, 2009
New ID straight from the kiln
Ruth Bedingham, a local artist who specialises in individually designed and crafter glass approached Creative Edge to create an identify that reflected her work along with the vibrance and intensity of her glass. The result was Glass Ruth, an abstract form inspired by one of the artists pieces with colours that complimented the vibrancy of her work. See more examples in our portfolio.
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Newsletter 7
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Introducing the typographer
A few months back we had the pleasure of stumbling upon a talented typographer by the name of Jos Buiverga. In particular a beautiful font by the name of Museo which can be found, amongst others, at exljbris Font Foundry. We recently used this typeface on the branding of Keep It Cornish which Jos has been kind enough to put up on his website. Visit the site to see this and other fine example of typography.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Talk of the town
Following the successful launch of the Rick Stein savory oat biscuits, we are happy to say that Creative Edge's design has been picked up by a number of national publications. Read the full article on the Design Week website as well as on Packaging News.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
We're having a NIP and tuck
Creative Edge and the other inhabitants of the Newham area of Truro have formed a group called NIP, Newham Improvements Project, who's aim is to unlock the economic potential of the region. The group will be looking at the environment, accessibility, public transport provisions and overall improvements to this somewhat forgotten area of Truro.
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Hot out of the oven!
We are pleased to announce the launch of an exciting collaboration between Rick Stein and Furniss of Cornwall. Over the past few months Creative Edge have been working closely with Furniss (not just tasting the delicious savoury oat biscuits) on developing this exciting range of Oat Biscuits. Taking inspiration from Rick Stein's 'local heroes' , those essential suppliers who contribute to the unique flavours of the biscuits, we have produced 3 boxes which encapsulate the Stein brand and stands it apart on the supermarket shelf.
The range of biscuits are available at Stein’s Deli, South Quay, Padstow and via the online shop at www.rickstein.com
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Website on its way to raise £1m-plus
Established 82 years ago with a single horse and cart, Dash still delivers newspapers to West Cornwall but has now become one of the biggest independent printed media distributors and the biggest seller of Ordnance Survey maps online apart from Ordnance Survey's website itself.
Creative Edge have worked closely with Dash for a number of year, helping to develop its online media in particular the website of dash4it.co.uk anddash4yourshop.co.uk. With the launch of the latest website to the Dash family (dashsw.co.uk) the company look set for another successful year with an expectancy of creating a turnover of more than £1 million.
Stephen Dash, managing director, said: "Creative Edge's work has proved invaluable to our business in developing what is and continues to be an increasingly successful side to our business – investing into e-commerce, retail and online logistics."
For the full story please visit the This Is Cornwall website.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Grow Cornwall
After successfully winning a pitch for Oxford Innovation, the studio has been working flat out creating an array of visual graphics for their new programmes which provide coaching and mentoring for high growth businesses. The projects are publicly funded and following the successful launch yesterday will be rolled out over the next year.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Keep it Cornish!
Keep It Cornish is a unique opportunity for businesses of Cornwall to attract and retain new customers by providing them with unbeatable offers through a booklet and website. We were approached by the company to create a brand that would encapsulate the spirit of tourism together with a professional approach. Look out for more to come over the next few months, including a comprehensive listings website.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
New identity for consultancy
Having worked closely with Bedingham Associates on a number of high profile projects, they have turned to Creative Edge for a brand make over. A tricky brief as the company looks after both Education and commercial clients, therefore, a friendly approach was taken for the type treatment with the cool colour scheme giving that all important corporate feel.
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Newsletter 6
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Falfish on the move
You might have noticed something new on the roads around Cornwall. We've just created the graphics for a 40ft refrigerated lorry for leading seafood processor Falfish. The image itself is a super high resolution photograph of a flag which we created, commissioned and can be seem flying high above their offices. Look out for the eye catching lorry next time you're on the A30.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
50,000 and counting
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
St Michael's rooms get a make over
Ever checked into a hotel and discovered a coffee stained, tatty bit of paper welcoming you to your room? Well not at St Michael's Hotel!
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Forget freaky Friday, go get fundraising!
Friday the 13th is normally a day to avoid, but not this Friday as it sees the annual return of Red Nose Day and an outbreak of red painted fingernails in the studio! Red Nose Day serves as a timely reminder that businesses all have a role to play in the wider community. The money raised by many thousands people, goes not just towards worthy projects overseas, but also projects much closer to home. Last night the BBC local news ran a short piece about the Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre in Bodmin who have received funding towards its Art programme. Last year Creative Edge worked together with the WRSC to produce an inspirational book containing many thought provoking, emotional and highly creative pieces of art and poetry submitted by the young women who worked with professional artists.
You can see the full news article on the BBC site or take a look at some page samples here.
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
New site pitched
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Newsletter 5
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To read our latest stories, news and projects please click here for Newsletter 05!
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Simply Cornish Hampers goes live
Simply Cornish Hampers recently came to Creative Edge needing a refresh of their exisiting website.
We took their needs on board and created a bespoke ecommerce website freeing them up of many labourios tasks inherent with their old system. Take a look at the new site here.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Children Inspired By New Career Card Game
Truro based design consultancy Creative Edge has worked with the education charity Ablaze and major sponsors GE to support Bristol City Councils ‘My Future My Choice' programme, by creating a unique teaching aid to help raise the career aspirations of primary and secondary school children.
It is now on trial in Bristol schools with the aim of being rolled out to schools across the UK. See what schools are saying about the cards. Originated by Creative Edge's design team this unique and fun card game helps teachers and GE Corporate Citizenship volunteers when they go into schools to give them a broader understanding of the "World of Work". This is particularly relevant at a time when government figures show a falling knowledge of work options amongst younger children.
The pack of 52 illustrated, colourful and graphically designed cards each contain easily readable information about individual careers, ranking the multitude of different skills needed for any profession and suggesting family groupings with similar skills. It was important to show that no skill or profession was better than any other profession, just different, and that similar skills were needed for lots of different careers.
There are rules for five games that can be played with the one pack, but the children have already made up their own game whilst trialling the cards, showing how involved they became.
The teachers love them too as they can be used in many different ways, either individually or in groups, to stimulate discussion and inspire their pupils about future career choices and the vast range of options available.
Melinda Rickett, partner at Creative Edge said: "We were approached by GE, ABLAZE and Bristol City Council to come up with some ideas to help the company's Corporate Citizenship programme volunteers discuss career aspirations with local school children. We looked at ideas surrounding why people chose certain lines of work and the skills needed to fulfil these roles and then came up with the ‘My Future My Choice' cards theme to demonstrate the range of careers available and the skills required."
Ablaze is a charity that is involved in a wide range of educational projects nationally. GE has taken the lead in the My Future My Choice project that started with children's performances at Bristol's Old Vic to broaden their horizons when it came to career choices.
The majority of children in year 5 in Bristol state schools attended these performances. 2131 nine and ten year olds completed a pre and post performance survey to give a snapshot of what job thought they might do in the future. The survey showed that after only a brief look at some of the jobs available in the world, children's aspirations will shift away from a stereotypically narrow band of jobs towards more realistic or professional aspirations. 203 fewer children wanted to be footballers, hairdressers or builders after the one hour show. In July 2009, after a full year working with the programme's volunteers and resources these children will be surveyed again.
Ruth Bedingham, from the GE Corporate Citizenship programme said: "Our previous invovlement in the My Future My Choice project demonstrated that we had begun to make progress in broadening children's expectations and wanted to build on this.
"We needed to make it interesting for our volunteers and the children when they went into schools, so approached Creative Edge who had already done a great job with the iCount project which launched the GE Corporate Citizenship volunteer scheme earlier this year.
"The results have been fantastic and Creative Edge has produced a really imaginative piece of work, which will no doubt be an excellent tool in helping younger children open their minds to a range of exciting careers beyond their existing knowledge."
GE has a history of philanthropic work and through schemes like My Future My Choice is keen to inspire children to do the best they can and help build a work force for the future.
"We believe that it is vital businesses get involved in education to inspire, share real world experiences and encourage children to look outside of their own daily lives or what they see on television," said Ruth Bedingham. "Through these cards and the My Future My Choice scheme we will hopefully give children the confidence to strive for any career they want regardless of background."
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Newsletter 4
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Newsletter 3
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Newsletter 2
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