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World Champion week for sporting heroes in the Photolink Studios
Our team in the Photolink Studios have seen their fair share of sports personalities over the last few months, but last week definitely took the year's medal for breadth of sporting talent.
World champion darts supremo Adrian Lewis turned target for sports photographer Gary Prior. Matija Nastastic was on club duty for Man City, while Marouane Fellaini (Everton)...
Design Futures students at University of Salford given second year challenge
Last week, as part of the on-going creative mentorship programme we’ve been running with the School of Art & Media at the University of Salford, we sent a delegation across the water to see how work was progressing on the ‘real world’ brief we set them back in April.
The fifth brief of its kind given to Fashion Design...
Mayday, mayday – 25% off studio hire every day this May!
Can you think of a better way to say turrah to the longest winter anyone can remember? Nope, nor can we. So why not take advantage of our cockles warming studio hire discount this May?
Open to anyone who books one of our five fantastic studios before the end of May, the discount applies to the standard studio hire...
Scenes from another Ardwick
We recently uncovered these fantastic images of how Ardwick - the Manchester district where Photolink has lived for over 35 years - used to look.
The shots are part of a stunning archive of over 80,000 images, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day, in the Manchester Local Image Collection. They feature the Georgian building we now...
The signs are clear… BANK’s SS13 collection is here!
If you think the Canadians have got it tough shooting moose (meese?) when the mercury drops, spare a thought for our very own ‘Shooter from St Helens’ Paul Haycock who braved a bitterly cold Siberian wind to capture the latest BANK SS13 campaign billboards in the wild.
Featuring imagery we produced, art directed and shot in creative partnership with multichannel fashion...
The art of storytelling at the NABS Tuesday Club Talk
Last night NABS threw one of their excellent monthly Tuesday Club Talks in Manchester. Guest speaker on the evening was the founder of digital agency Poke and serial creative entrepreneur Nicolas Roope.
Through an engaging, amusing, occasionally meandering but ultimately enlightening talk, Roope reassured an audience of both established and emerging Manchester creative raconteurs that storytelling is...
Clarks and Clarks Originals A/W B2B catalogues launch new collections
There's a very good reason why we haven't announced our new creative partnership with global footwear brand Clarks until now. In fact there's three.
We’ve been super busy producing a trio of product look books for their forthcoming autumn/winter collections. The look books will include the latest shapes and styles for Men, Women & Kids, as well as showcase...
Europe’s top FIFA players arrive to compete for Epson Gaming Champion 2013
Believe it or not, that's Studio 2 on the right. On a normal day it looks a little bit more like this but when electronics mega brand Epson hired it to host the world’s best gamers they wanted something extra special.
Thankfully we have Simon ‘Superhands’ Bamber running the set building department over in the Photolink Studios, so we...
New website for the Photolink Studios goes live!
Hot off the digital presses, the new all singing, all dancing Photolink Studios website is now live!
Designed and built by our creative and digital teams, and featuring work produced and shot by our in-house photographers and production maestros, the site is a vastly improved showcase of the people behind the scenes and the kind of work produced week in, week...
The Intern Interview
Hi, my name’s… Marianna Larisa
I’ve just finished studying… Language, Literacy and Communication at the University of Manchester.
In three words… I am ambitious, smiley, outgoing.
You would never have guessed that… I'm half-Romanian and taught myself Romanian.
The most adventurous thing I’ve ever done… is drive across Romania to the Transylvanian mountains and then across the Transfagarasan road. It was featured on Top Gear as...
