Damien and Mike

This album was actually released at the beginning of this year and somehow I managed to miss it off the blog completely... better late than never I suppose! You can buy the splendid album here and listen to them here.

Mike and Damien have been nominated at this years Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Duo... best try to catch them in a Folk Club near you! Massive congratulations to them and well deserved in my opinion!

Album Cover

Inner Spread with Disk and Booklet

Moll Springs Water

There is soon to be a new bottled spring water brand based near Huddersfield. It'll probably look something like this! Maybe you could all pop back in a month or two and see how it develops... a sort of visual cliff hanger

 

Kate Rusby Goodies!

We've also been hard at work making lots of goodies for Kate. Here are some mugs that are available now and some tee's that will be available soon. There are also bags and Christmas cards to come but we'll have to be a bit more patient for those... after all it's not quite Christmas.

Tees

We're not quite decided on colours yet but here's a sneak preview so you can be saving up!

Mugs

Everyone likes a nice mug or two!

Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells

We've been feeling festive for a month or two already thanks to Kate's Sweet Bells album. It'll be available to buy from the 2nd of November so get buying!

Sweet Bells

Here's the cover design and a couple of spreads to whet your appetite!

New Illustrations

We've been working over the last few months developing new branding for an online bank. As a part of this we commissioned Argentinian illustrator Joaquin Croxatto to create some new friendly, characters to help launch the new brand. Here's the first 3 characters. 

3 Characters

...and relax!

Phewee... it's been a very busy month or two so apologies for neglecting the blog. We seem to be catching up with ourselves now though so I thought I'd grab a quick moment or two to update you all on the work we've been doing with some old clients and some new.

Kate Rusby Brand Development

After some playing and tweaking we are proud to announce that Kate Rusby's new branding and illustrations are now ready to launch. There will soon be mugs, t-shirts, bags and all sorts of other merchandice available to buy from the Pure Records Shop. I'll keep you updated. 

Until then, here's a few of the things we've been working on.

Logotype

Kate Illustration

Instruments

ASDA.com

I've just noticed that the new look asda.com site is now up and running. Although we didn't do any graphic work for this site, Design by If built the temporary homepage earlier this year with the help of one of our web wizards Ian. The temporary homepage allowed Asda to thoroughly test their new look site before it's recent launch. It's good to see it finally up!

ASDA.com new look homepage

Here's a look at the new look site.

New work for Pure Records...

I'm very pleased to say that I am looking forward to working on a variety of new projects with Pure Records over the next few months... branding, album artwork, websites and all sorts of fun! There are no finished pieces yet but for now here's a sneak preview of some developmental work...

Early stages of style development

A sneak preview without giving too much away! 

Twitter Account

I'm proud to announce that Design by If has a new twitter account! I'm looking for friends so please go join me at http://twitter.com/designbyif! Thanks!