Out on a Sunday stroll with a camera around Sheffield in late February.  There’s still a fascinating number of factories still within a short walking distance of the main retail centre of Sheffield City Centre.  Forgotten works with rusting signs we’re our main focus this time around, as we tried to capture the last of a declining industry before the developers move in for good.  These rich and early pioneering environments are perfectly matched with The Chimney House branding, capturing a future sense of times past.  We’ll keep adding to this photo collection, in the mean time more are available to view now at www.flickr.com/photos/thechimneyhouse, and on The Chimney House project overview.

Photography courtesy of Zack Wragg

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To cement our place in Sheffield’s ex industrial/new creative era we’ve a landmark building to show you.  We’ve been working on this project for over 12 months, and it’s been quite a journey.  Why have we done it?  To provide a base for our design office, and to create a space for people with creative ideas or discussion to use as a place of inspiration.  We’ve already held a number of business design meetings and we’ve many more booked in the calendar. As part of our design service we offer clients a free injection of creative thinking to any meeting you want to hold in The Chimney House.  Oh, and yes the chimney is 93ft high – does it make sense now?

Photography courtesy of Jim Ellam

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Recognising Nonnas as a premier independent brand, we approached Nonnas about delivering their own products in their existing Cucina’s and delicatessens.  The brief, to create vibrant, authentic and Italian inspired artwork for a range of fine Italian food products ranging from biscuits, pastas, sauces, pan forte, olive oils and rice.  In addition to creating all the artwork, 93ft handled some of the production with the help of luxury bespoke paper merchants GF Smith.  The result a highly popular and regarded range of foods that enable Nonnas to access new markets, attract more customers and diversify their offering on-line and in store.

Photography courtesy of James Brown

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Photography courtesy of James Brown, Interior Photography courtesy of Jim Ellam

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Cycling is the new golf.  So what better way to promote your brand than by affiliate branding?  Here we matched Nonnas with some of Italy’s finest food and drink brands in the run up to their cycling team launch later this year.  With our links to clothing manufacturers these jerseys are available to buy.  If you can’t wait till the launch, contact us with your size and we’ll ship it out to you.

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Going back to their roots, we helped Nonnas identify a strategy for moving the brand forward, analysing their previous identity from their first incarnation, a hand written piece of script.  Bringing it up to date and maintaining a strong sense of familiarity we’ve applied the logo to new applications such as this wax seal.  Building content like this for any brand is critical, and using the accompanying statement ‘Importato Dall’ Italia’ reinforces Nonnas ties to Italian cooking, food and passion.

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A modern icon of a historic building.  Set on the banks of the Goit, The Chimney House with it’s 93ft chimney soaring into the skies needed no other depiction.  As one of very few buildings on the Island, we were keen to include the ex industrial, now high class residential and heritage buildings surrounding The Chimney House – to help provide a context for the building.  A bold and choicey range of colours play their role in defining a nostalgic yet modern feel to the brand.

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Good words spread far, and some made it over the hill amidst the snow and ice to the City of Manchester.  93ft are currently in the middle of delivering a multi disciplinary design package, including re brand and new identity for this esteemed brand. Formerly Stuart Jones Styling Opticians – Jones and Co. is the new name in bespoke and luxury optics.  Soon to arrive, a full stationary pack including business cards with hand drawn illustrated profiles from graphic mastermind Mitchy Bwoy, and letterheads and prescription cards printed on a range of off white heritage brand papers.  Keep your eyes peeled (excuse the pun) for further developments of this brand as we unfold a new way finding scheme, and full interior design package coming to the King Street branch early Summer 2010.

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93ft just launched a temporary holding page for Jones and Co. The single webpage informs customers of Stuart Jones Styling Opticians Manchester of the undergoing re-brand and acts as a placeholder for their new website in the making.

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‘Create me a logo that captures the hand crafted and bespoke nature of our fine wood doors and frames’.  So we did.  Identifying the wood plane as a symbol of traditional hand crafted joinery products, we referenced the seal shape to help validate and certify the brand name and quality of their products.  A considered colour palette brings this logo current to trends referencing companies like Farrow and Ball.  This new professional image has been rolled out on van livery, stationary, advertising, and website.  More to come from here, as soon as it’s a nice sunny day, preferably hot!

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