It's been a long time coming but we recently launched the Only Spectacular website! We created the brand from scratch, from research through to a complete visual identity including online presence, stationary and logo. The site has already had some great feedback, and we're all really pleased with the final product; the slideshows in particular added some real impact to the simple contemporary layout.

Have a look in the portfolio, or visit the site!

So the new Cultural Hub tentcards arrived, and they look pretty snazzy! So snazzy, in fact, that I have one sitting on my desk right now. Photographic evidence:

I just put a new leaflet up in the portfolio that came back from the printers just this morning, and looks great! It's a 4-page leaflet for youth performance company, The Remix. Is it a flyer, is it a brochure?! (We decided on flyer)

We have just uploaded the newly revamped website for artist Luke Elwes. We have been working on this on-and-off for the last few weeks and are pleased with the outcome; the site is content managed so Luke can update it himself. Plus Luke is a great painter; check out his paintings here!

Messing around with type and image...

Friends gave us a giant parsnip. It's not every day you own a mutant vegtable.

I had to do something with it...

I met Kasrani the magician the other night at Solid Air in the Winchester, he's made a bad night good...

Check this out:

Check Kasrani the magician's website out for more...

Last weekend I took photos of the last hour the Kube gallery was open to the public:

and went out with Martin Coyne to take some shots of Hengistbury Head in the dark:

Click here to see the whole set on flickr.

I made a time lapse video of Martin setting up his camera which you can see here:

...children use circular motions to draw your hair:

I knew I shouldn't have blow dried it...

Download your free poster here.

Download your free poster here.

Download your free poster here.

Download your free poster here.

I worked at the Kube gallery (or the Study Gallery as it was known then) as a technician/tutor from 2003 - 2006.

I first moved to Dorset in 2003 which also coincided with a job opening at the Study gallery... I decided to check it out first to see what it was like before applying. From that first visit I knew it was a special place and I had to do anything to get the job... I spent hours on my application.

The gallery (Kube or Study) has a way of getting under your skin -  the same faces would pop up again and again - we all knew why we were there.

The people I worked with were my extended family.

The gallery hosted music, art, performances, workshops all in a beautiful architectural space, a home. A home where what was going on at that moment made you feel special.

All of this made the wages more than worthwhile!

In the last year the gallery's programme has become what we knew it could and just at this point the funding was pulled by Bournemouth and Poole college.

At the moment I feel like someone very close to me is dying and despite the shouting, the action and all the emotion it will happen anyway. But that is not a reason to lie down and accept this...

We can all do something:

Sign the Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/33348.html

Join the Facebook Group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=199890648226

Come on the March:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223144731378&index=1

Comments about the closure:

http://www.kubepoole.org.uk/commentary.aspx


Dorset Echo:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4834691.Poole_s_Kube_closure_lamented_by_Arts_Council/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4828552.Online_uprising_to_save_Poole_s_Kube_gallery/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/4790979.Arts_boss__Shape_up_and_keep_Kube_open/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/yousay/yourletters/4832763.Kube_route/

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/yousay/yourletters/4812391.Can_lottery_cash_save_the_Kube_/

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