North & East
** North&East have changed their name to Graphic Clinic, we’re redirecting you now.
Welcome to North&East, a multi-award winning, multi-discipline design agency based in London. We work hard to produce creative design solutions to meet our clients business needs. We’re passionate about great design that delivers results.
Our clients include big names like Barclays Wealth and The National Galleries of Scotland, and smaller firms (with big ambitions) such as Nucleus Financial Group, BL Developments and Oakbridge Financial plc.
Have a look through our folio (below) and if you like what you see we can make time to give you some of our diamond patter.
Contact us:
North&East
Studio 205
Westbourne Studios
242 Acklam Road
London W10 5JJ
Tel: 0208 969 8333
Blog
We're now blogging, you know how it is, when updating the website is just too much of a chore, so we thought "Hmm, lets blog" so from now on news will be added to the Blog, here it is. The folio will continue to be updated below.
November 2008:
North&East turns three
We celebrated our third birthday during November and would like to thank
everyone we've worked with, and for, over the first few years.
It's been a pleasure to work with you all. Here's to the future!
November 2008:
Nucleus wins "Best Online Wrap and Fund Supermarket" award at the Online
Finance Awards 2008
Nucleus' continued success was rewarded as they picked up the award for Best Online Wrap and Fund Supermarket at this years Online Finance Awards. The committee also commented on the strength and quality of their design.
October 2008:
Design Director raises over £4k for the Parkinsons Disease
Society UK
Brian has just returned from Peru where he completed a 7 day trek raising money for Parkinsons Disease Society UK. Brian joined a team of 36 other fundraisers from across the UK on the trek which culminated at Macchu Picchu, the ancient Incan ruins deep in the Andes. If you would like to make a donation to Brian's fundraising please email him for details.
September 2008:
N&E supports LongLunch talk in London
Our Design Director Brian has long been a member of LongLunch,
a non-profit design group that runs design lectures for the 'greater
good' of the design industry. He's organising the first LongLunch
talk in London, which will be by Airside, on the 23rd of Semptember.
Details are available on the LongLunch website.
May 2008:
North&East win Commendation for Best Website
Our website for Coodham Estate in Ayrshire has received a Commendation from the judges at the 2008 Scottish Design Awards. All the chat on the night was about how strict the judges had been, so to just be nominated was an award in itself. Coodham was the only website to pick up any award on the night, so we can consider ourselves winners (in a sense). We'd like to mention Mick at Various who we worked alongside on the Coodham project, he did the brochure we did the website.
Read more about the website in the folio below.
March 2008:
North&East have started working for Barclays
Capital through our strategic partnership with MRM.
Through our strategic partnership with MRM, we are now working for Barclays Capital joint venture with distribution partners Barclays Wealth Intermediaries. We have been tasked with developing their on-screen and off screen marketing material. Keep an eye on the folio (below) for the work we will soon be producing for them.
April 2008:
New website!
Well it's only taken the best part of two years to get around to producing a new website - due to our preference for doing our clients work rather than our own. So we sat up late for the last few nights and worked like, er, well we worked late. The decision to go for the "one page fits all" approach was for two reasons. 1. It was quicker to build and 2. It's quicker for you to see everything about us.
May 2007:
North&East score a hat-trick at the
Scottish Design
Awards
Our work for Bake Printers in Newcastle took three awards at the 2007 Scottish Design Awards, for Best Print, Best Poster and the judges overall Grand Prix (best overall design). It was also commended in the Best Promotional Item category. So that's nearly 4 awards.
We were so happy we got very drunk! The heads were a bit sore the next day, as one might expect.
July 2007:
North&East moves south to the big smoke
It's nothing personal Scotland, we still love you dearly! We just need to be somewhere new, somewhere to put down some fresh roots following recent (personal) turmoils. Don't worry though, we'll be coming back to visit you regularly for a good dose of fresh air and mountainous views! (and to visit our clients and of course the family).
Folio
New projects
Coming soon to the folio, Barclays Wealth Protected Investments website and the Original Designers Workbook project, a true labour of love.
MRM rebrand & website
Our friends at Media Relations Management asked us to look at their brand, their logo and their website as part of their ongoing drive to practice what they preach.
Working closely with the client we developed their identity, firmed up their brand values and then created a website that reflects who they are. A suite of stationery, promotional items and a powerpoint template allow MRM to present a unified image across the board.
Barclays Wealth: Emerging Markets Optimiser presenter
We were asked to produce a product overview they could use to promote a new investment in "emerging" world markets, they wanted it to educate their B2B audience (of Independent Financial Advisers) on the benefits of their revolutionary investment techniques.
We produced an on screen interactive presentation, to take the user step-by-step through the new product, demonstrating the what, where, when, why and how.
We have since produced ones for their Commodity Select and Defined Return products.
Nucleus brochure
As part of our ongoing work for Nucleus, as their brand consultants, we designed and produced their new B2B brochure.
In keeping with the brand we created for them, it sets a new benchmark in financial literature. We used high quality printing techniques such as french folds and singer sewn binding to reinforce their position as a ground breaking company.
Bake Print - Resolutions
Bake Printers approach us to design their Christmas card at the end of 2005. They wanted it to showcase their printing abilities to print buyers and designers alike.
We suggested a Christmas card was a bad idea, in that none of their audience would see it. "Tell us more..." they said. So we suggested a large format, large impact promotional piece that would demonstrate their skills as a high quality and creative printer. They thought it was a brilliant suggestion, so we created the "poster come calendar come spec sheet come business card" to showcase their skills. It changed the design industries perception of them, which is what they wanted it to do.
It won some awards too (4 in all), but that's not what it's about.
Coodham Estate website
N&E designed and produced a "two pronged" website for a new development of luxury properties in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The website has two main areas, allowing users to choose to Explore or seek to be Informed about the development, with each having its own navigation and structure offering users two routes to the content. It's not often a client can say they (effectively) got two websites for the price of one.
Freight “Songs from inside” album
We've designed Scottish folk band Freights latest album cover. The duo from Edinburgh approached us to create an album cover that would capture the spirit of their music. So we did, and they were chuffed to bits with it.
National Galleries of Scotland
We worked with the National Galleries of Scotland on several direct mail and below the line promotion items for their many exhibitions, including some posters and signage requirements. They said we had produced "one of the best items of promotional work they had done for a long time". The piece in question was inspired by the huge and imposing columns that are an integral architectural feature in all their galleries.
Since our move south of the border we've been unable to work with them anymore due to their funding obligations...it's so unfair!
The Bridge, Musselburgh website
For our friends at BL Developments we created a flash mini site to promote their latest development at The Bridge in Musselburgh, just outside Edinburgh.
Analogue Books website
We've been friends with the guys at Analogue for years - a fantastic design bookshop in Edinburgh - so when we got asked to redesign their website we jumped at the chance.
They wanted something minimal and simple and we were only too happy to oblige.
Nucleus brand
How do you create a brand for a finance company that is going to set their industry alight and break all the 'rules'? Answer: Ignore all the rules for designing for the finance industry. No blue. No green instead of blue. No serif typefaces. No design by committee.
Thankfully Nucleus appreciate the value that good design gives to a business, and they trust our judgement. We love them for both those reasons (and the fact they're top peeps too!).
Assemblyroom website and logo
An interior design firm with some great clients and a new found love for pink.
We sweet talked them into letting us redesign their logo, and they willingly discovered their feminine side. With a new colour scheme and typeface, a simple design was called for to show off their interiors to maximum effect.
Oakbridge Financial Group brochure
We have redesigned and produced Oakbridge Financial Groups' new corporate brochure. It features images of the kinds of things they offer bridging finance for, demonstrating how their work behind the scenes has an impact in the real world.
We also redesigned their website, using the same imagery and styling to give them a coherent onscreen and off screen public image. An integrated marketing campaign, one might say...
All work and images © North & East Ltd 2008