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Pitch perfect presentations from the University of Salford
Last week a group of BA (Hons) Design Futures students from the University of Salford's School of Art & Design came into to Photolink to present responses to a brief we'd set a month earlier. As part of an on-going creative mentorship programme we're running with the university, we'd asked them to interpret the brand application process or brand...
Mine’s a large one, and make it snappy
In a consumer landscape where the development of almost every retail brand is enthusiastically brainstormed, methodically researched, thoroughly tested and regularly reviewed, I find myself desperately trying to imagine the thought processes and meeting scenarios that came up with this one.
Undoubtedly one of the strangest retail concepts ever, I first saw ‘The Small Alligators of Switzerland’ some years ago when...
Back to the Old School with ellesse heritage and the Haçienda
To mark 30 years since Manchester's iconic nightclub the Haçienda first opened its doors, sportswear brand ellesse and FAC51/The Haçienda have come together to create a series of limited edition polo shirts. The three shirts will feature design elements and original materials from the building including buttons made from the dancefloor tread plate trod on by over 3 million revellers....
Argos wins Oracle Retail Week award
We’re very pleased to announce that Argos has won Product Innovation of the Year at the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2012. The retailer, a long-standing client of ours, beat off stiff competition from Halfords, B&Q and Debenhams to win the award thanks to its successful revival of struggling toy/childrens clothing brand Chad Valley.
After buying the brand following the collapse...
Nadav Kander shoots future Olympic star at Photolink
Last week the Photolink Studios were visited by photographic royalty as internationally-renowned photographer Nadav Kander - a man who counts portraits of Barack Obama, Brad Pitt and David Lynch as highlights in an epic portfolio - spent the day shooting exclusive images for a new exhibition commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery.
The exhibition is the culmination of a three...
And the winners are…
In December we set a brief for fashion students at the University of Salford to design a one off piece of fashion that could be given to clients or used as a marketing tool to promote Photolink as well as in-house brands Littleblackdress.co.uk and consumer insight and strategy department HT&E.
We gave them five weeks to come back and...
The Photolink Studios (and George!) feature in BBC1′s Waterloo Road
If you didn't catch last night's episode of the award-winning series Waterloo Road on BBC One you would not only have missed a cracking slice of modern British drama, but our very own studio assistant George Read playing the role of a young photographer!
The BBC crew hired our studio (Studio 5) for two days to film the scene in...
