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If you're a fan of Paris and French food (and who isn't?!) then you might be interested in a new client of ours. The combination of Paris and food was irresistible to us and they have been a fantastic client to visit and work with! La Cuisine Paris is a French cooking school in Paris offering a variety of cooking classes in English. Nestled on the bank of the Seine they offer numerous french cuisine classes, and food fours in Paris and Versailles. We have redesigned and built their website to give a much improved booking and ecommerce system to both them and their customers. Click here to see more. "It was not a difficult decision to choose Special Design Studio for the redesign and rebuild of our website, from the start, they set themselves apart as a team that would be an ongoing partner to us. Our project required care, thought and focus about our business and a thorough and seamless delivery - the entire team at Special Design Studio delivered on every occasion." Jane Bertch, Owner La Cuisine.

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We have been on a great adventure creating this brand with the excellent St. Giles Gin team! We have drunk quite a lot of their delicious gin and highly recommend it! Read more to find out about how we took elements of the church and environs of St. Giles in Norwich to create this brand.  “We chose to work with Special Design Studio because we were confident that their intelligent approach to design would make a success of our project. We are thrilled with the results. Combining the inspiration and colours from St. Giles the place, with the spirit and wonder of travel, our brand truly represents our endeavours.”  Simon Melton, Founder, St. Giles Gin

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View in browser   Forward to a friend   View website As you may know we have somewhat outgrown our studio space and are delighted to let you know that we have moved! We have expanded into a lovely suite at the top of a building in the centre of historic Norwich! From Tuesday May 2nd 2017 our new address will be: 49 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1DD Our phone number of 01603 631107 will remain the same. For a sneak peak of the interior click here! (Over the next week as we sort out our communications it may be easier to contact us on our mobiles. Nania 07867 521542, Scott 07867 521 543, Clive 07905 372 349, Kate 07816 755 271.) Special Design Studio, Gallery 95, 93-95 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH, UK. 01603 631107 info@specialdesignstudio.co.uk

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Brand new Leiths prospectus!

We used a bronze foil for the cover of the Leiths Professional Course Prospectus on a dark blue pantone special colour. The use of the copper is inspired by the copper pans that are widely used in their kitchens. The effect is eye-catching and makes you want to pick one up, just like the school's iconic polished pans! Click here to visit our Leiths Portfolio online. “They are a triumph!”* Jen Coles, Marketing Manager, Leiths School of Food & Wine * For the Oscar speech version of this see the bottom of this email!

Happiness is.....

... a happy client, and the only thing that tops that is our clients' clients being happy too!! Last year we built a portal for Leiths Academy, who runs courses in schools all over the UK. The portal is a piece of software which enables the team to manage all aspects of the relationships with its partner schools. The schools use the portal to view the courses, download resources, set up visits, receive exam feedback etc. We provided full training and support directly to Leiths Academy clients. The system has been in action from September and Leiths is getting very positive feedback from its group of home economics teachers! So our client is happy, its clients are happy and we are too! "I never thought I'd be saying this, but I have found the portal just great!"  Mrs J Bell, Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire

* Oscar speech version: "Scott, I just wanted to say how hugely grateful we are that you’ve steered us through the challenge of finishing two large projects at the same time, which in total required 69 pages of design, creating two very beautiful pieces of work that we will be proud to give to our customers. Thank you for working with us as we requested many, many edits. We’re a small team and things change constantly, thank you so much for your patience. You’ve done us proud."

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Happy Christmas and A Prosperous New Year!

As a design studio we feel that our Christmas message should be an exemplar. We should give it some proper thought and create something both clever and beautiful. However. After visiting the local barbers for a beard trim, Scott came across the best client to customer Christmas message probably ever created. Succinct and very ‘Christmassy’. So we thought we would simply reproduce it for you here, in our annual Happy Christmas email, as our thank you to you – for being a valued friend of Special Design Studio. (We have to thank Gary at GTS male hair design for letting us take the photograph. Both Scott and Clive recommend him. For more information visit www.gt-s.co.uk)

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We've worked with Lowestoft Sixth Form College since 2011. One of the great things about working with a client over a long period is that you get to really understand what makes both you and them tick!  Over the years we have been allowed and encouraged to take chances with the designs – especially with the use of colour. Every year has seen a different key colour applied – usually a fluorescent. The last two prospectuses have also seen the use of silver foil – this years cover is a Roman V, representing their five years, in a silver foil. We salute the principal, Yolanda Botham, for challenging us to push the designs and for challenging the college's student intake to absorb the designs and understand that L6FC is pushing the boundaries of convention.

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A new magazine for Leiths School of Food and Wine

Leiths wanted to re-imagine their cookery class and short course brochures. We helped them to create a magazine which gives a real sense of what it is like to study at Leiths, using great editorial to convey their broad range of activities and expertise. The class calendar is set out in a pull out calendar which is easy to navigate but tempting to browse.They have had great feedback on the launch of the magazine and hundreds of requests for the lovely print copy, from both press and customers! See the digital version here, If you want a print copy too, click here! "Our new magazines look amazing! Really perfect, it exceeds my expectations, we’ve had loads of compliments already. The pull-out calendar looks brilliant too.” – Jen Coles. Marketing Manager, Leiths School of Food and Wine

and more... a busy summer!

New website for Hudson Architects

New logo, brochure and website for the East Anglia Art Fund

New website for Ace Tennis

New visual identity for Brave New Reads 2016

Extra, extra!

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Eat Spain Drink Spain is a new initiative promoting the foods and drinks of Spain.

​We created the ‘Eat Spain Drink Spain’ logo for the new initiative set up by the commercial arm of the Spanish embassy in order to promote the food and drink of Spain.

The logo uses a classic wine glass topped with a tapa, celebrating the iconic food and drink of the country.

The branding is being used to support the annual Spanish Wines Awards, and we have also designed the awards brochure which will be distributed across the country at tastings and events.

“We are very pleased with the logo for 'Eat Spain Drink Spain', it perfectly embodies in a simple, stylish way the whole campaign”

Alison Dillon, Dillon Morrall PR

• Author: Nania Tait
• Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK
• Work category: Brand identity/logo design, Print design

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Leiths School of Food and Wine celebrates 40 years in style!

By way of celebration Leiths are hosting a series of conversations with key players in the food industry; chefs, food writers, stylists and pioneers to reminisce about the last 40 years, discuss and even predict the next phase of the nation’s fascinating food journey. Having designed a logo for the 40th birthday celebrations, they asked us to design and build a website to both promote the events and sell tickets. The solution was an elegant and simple one-page site (technically speaking it is a Craft CMS and Shopify integration). From conception to first ticket sale we had 48 hours but delivered with no problems! If you are interested in food take a look at the first event, legends Pru Leith, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi are all speaking! Take a look at the site Leiths.com/40 Click here to see more of our work

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RSPB campaign to attract visitors to local reserves launched

We worked closely with the team at Eastern England RSPB to design a hyper-local community engagement programme. The purpose of the project is to increase people’s engagement with both wildlife and their local reserve. Hyper-local is a key element in the project, this campaign is targeted at just two different postcodes with a piece of highly actionable direct mail given to each child in the catchment school of that postcode. The postcard tells the family exactly how far they are from their local reserve and gives them free entry for the children. The idea is that they visit the reserve, learn about how to create homes for nature and then go home and put some of those things into practice and put the window sticker in the window. Gradually postcodes will fill up with window stickers and the bug hotels etc in the gardens will start to create green corridors! In essence we want to mobilise people to extend their local reserve into their own garden, school or community space.

See what we've been up to on the London Underground!

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View in browser   Forward to a friend   View website New advertising campaign for the Leiths School of Food and Wine Professional Diploma, live on the London Underground. Great to design and illustrate what feels like a classic piece of advertising – not complicated – a straightforward call out to the many potential professional cooks that use the Underground system. Also, we are designing and building a new website for Leiths, going live early in the autumn! Dream to Change the World at the Islington Museum Congratulations to the George Padmore Institute, the exhibition in Islington looks fantastic! We really enjoyed working on the exhibition design, the posters particularly have been much admired. Great to see such a rich display of materials celebrating the life and legacy of John La Rose. The exhibition is open until 29th August and is well worth a visit. To see photos of the exhibition click here. '...as much an important record of early black political struggles and creative and intellectual awakenings as it is of La Rose's own extraordinary journey.'  Islington Tribune Special Design Studio, Gallery 95, 93-95 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH, UK. 01603 631107 info@specialdesignstudio.co.uk

A new brand for a brilliant shared reading project

I loved taking part in the Writers' Centre Norwich 'Summer Reads' last year and had made a mental note to do it again this year, so I was delighted that Special were asked to rebrand the programme. The graphics, just like the programme are bold and exciting and ask the question, "Where will your next book take you?". Click here to see more of the work. I urge you to join thousands of other readers in a summer of shared reading - 6 books, 18 libraries, 65 events! Melanie Kidd, Project Coordinator at WCN says: “This year Brave New Reads is bigger than ever. We’re inviting readers across three counties to get involved in events at their local library. And anyone, anywhere can read the books and join the conversation online.  Last year people joined in from as far away as Australia!”

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