Signage for Leaping Lizards (cut, stained, etched, varnished for outdoor use), Peter Diamond (mix of cut MDF and card, for indoor use) and Nicolas Delort (various types of cut MDF, for indoor use)
Some work we did recently was featured in the pages of the ever-ascendant Design-focused blog, It's Nice That.
One of our favourite long-term clients is Tetsuo, of Studio O Portable, who had decided to make some random dice. We had no idea what he meant by this initially, but were joyously-surprised by the simplicity and novelty of the concept. Sets of these will be sold in a gallery this Christmas to raise money for charity.
Photo is the property of Studio O Portable (thanks!)
We worked with renowned engineering firm Eckersley O'Callaghan to cut a number of thin plywood pieces we then sent to Barcelona so they could be put together to make a modular pavilion prototype.
Photos are property of Eckersley O'Callaghan (thanks!)
To celebrate the creation of a new font design, esteemed designer Mathias Clottu commissioned us to make over a hundred stencils for their client to give out as gifts. Not only are they beautiful, we worked with Mathias to ensure that the end-result was practically-functional too.
The tricky thing with a job like this is the fineness of some of the cuts. Even in thin 2mm Perspex, some of the details were so tight that they very much wanted to bond very quickly returning cut passes back on to themselves. This required us to come up with a couple of techniques for effectively de-bitting the myriad of resultant stuck pieces... without marring the end quality, which had to be Perfect
This was a very special job for a lovely chap, redacted, for the purposes of redacted — he'd designed this highly detailed monogram to go on a sheet of 4mm glass on the top of a wooden box he'd hand-made, in which he'd redacted a redacted he'd redacted.
In the new year we phoned redacted up and asked for permission to post a photo of this, simply because it came out so well, and he very kindly let us, so long as we didn't mention his name or what it was intended for!
Suffice to say, it did the trick — congratulations, redacted!
At the end of each year we do etching for a couple of awards ceremonies here in London for Yuno Juno and Stack Magazine.
This is the fourth year we've worked with the London Art Workshop for Yuno Juno and the second year we've worked with Gavin Coyle for Stack Magazine Awards. Both London Art Workshop and Gavin Coyle are clients we're proud to have had an on-going working relationship with for a few years now and who consistently amaze us with their capabilities.
(Image shows previous year's awards from 2017 which are the same layout, but with slightly different etched details — will update if we come by a decent photo of this year's awards)
We wanted to test a different glue and alignment process for bonding corrugated cardboard for a potential project... and also wanted to play around with the modified logo-form that's being used to market a new release by Aphex Twin.
This is in no way commerical work (at all!) related to the release, just a bit of ‘fan stuff’. Click on the image below for a silly wee animation (caution ~1Mb).
You can listen to samples from the album and buy it from Bleep.com. (unaffiliated link!)
One of our favourite clients is José who runs an eco-sustainable fashion house here in North London.
This is our third batch of fans for her, and we've finally taken a photo of them before they were packed to be sent off to Cologne — they're made from an interesting fabric material from Africa: beaten wood bark that becomes pliable and flexible and has a beautiful texture which laser-cuts cleanly and laser-etches with a wonderful dark contrast, suitable for graphic application. We're keen on this material and would like our other clients to know more about it!
You can read more about the production process for this material here: josehendo.com/barkcloth/
We worked closely with BlinkInk and Attic Blue – two names synonymous with stupid-good animation and set-building for broadcast – helping design and laser-cut fundamental components for the 'Russian Stitching machine' seen at the beginning and end of the introduction to this year's coverage of the Russian World Cup.
This is going to be all over the telly for the next few months!
We've previously worked with BlinkInk on a number of projects, including John Lewis' much-beloved Hare & Bear advert a few years back:
We've also enjoyed a close working relationship with Attic Blue over the years, who are *fab* at building complex and beautiful sets at any number of scales, from human size to ... well, not-so-human size. A recent job for them was laser-cutting details which they then worked their magic on, creating a life-like scale building for an advert for Pilgrim's Cheese:
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This was an interesting job, for which we had to come up with a new and risky technique when our initial assumptions about how to accomplish it were defeated by a very finickity material.
The brief was to come up with some hand-held face-covering mask-type things to promote a foil-based face-care product from Esteé Lauder. We had initially expected to laser-cut 4mm acrylic, then some thin aluminium foil, then bond together. Bear in mind this was all a very last-minute request, phoned-in on a Friday evening, then started and completed next day, Saturday... .
Our initial plan was a terrible idea — anyone with an iota of common sense would quickly appreciate that aluminium foil will not simply stay flat and uncrinkled, especially when wedded to an adhesive layer to be accurately-positioned. Lesson learned!
We ended up delicately laser-cutting the Perspex's protective film to act as a mask, then spraying with an adhesive, then applying a mylar film (plastic being much more forgiving than foil), then delicately cutting that to form, THEN cutting the Perspex. Phew!
They came out exactly as the brief required in the end!