The Leicester City of Culture 2017 bid now needs to be as good as it possibly can be with competition hotting up and the approved shortlist being anything but short; it’s now an 11 horse race with all bidders gaining approval. All of the cities (and areas – even though it is ‘City of Culture […]
Keep Calm & Carry On – simplified – Just for a little bit of fun we set about reducing the Keep Calm and Carry On poster to merely an acronym. Here’s our homage to a classic. Enjoy. Keep Calm and Carry On simplified by StudioROKIT. Why you may ask? Well, why not. The full poster […]
And so onto the final overview for the bidders up against Leicester in the UK City of Culture 2017 competition – the bidders Part 3. The last 2 on the list, they’re no less interesting or controversial than any of the others. Say hello to Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay (covering Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Neath and Port […]
In the first part of our quick overview of Leicester’s competitors to the UK City of Culture 2017 competition, we looked at the first 5; now it’s time to take a flying overview of the next three. It’s time to see what Hull, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Southampton might have up their collective cultural sleeves. Have […]
The clock is ticking down and as the deadline looms for all contenders to submit their bids it’s time to take a quick look at Leicester’s competition for the UK City of Culture 2017 crown. The long-list has some great cities vying for the gong and if there’s one thing we can all be sure […]
Copycat packaging misleading or just really clever? It’s a big question – perhaps we need a quick history lesson. Pablo Picasso once said “Good artists borrow, great artists steal”, and there’s little doubt that Pablo, a wily chap at the best of times, know what he was on about, having (probably) lifted it from T.S.Elliot […]
Please note. This is NOT April 1st. Feels like it though. Things at one of the world’s leading mobile technology companies HTC, must be bad, really really bad. We all know that margins in electronics have never been narrower and that the globalisation of mobile technology and the market’s ability to change overnight has seen […]
Packaging is like crack for designers. We love it. We obsess over the minutest of its details, talk about it in the same way other people wax lyrically about an album, a film, a nice bottle of wine (nice label, lovely embossing) and we all have our favourites. Why designers are so obsessed with packaging […]
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Studio ROKIT mothership – lots of clients wanting lots of things and lots of new clients wanting lots of new things too. A whirlwind of creativeness. Thank goodness it’s finally Friday! One of our newest clients are the rather wonderful and totally worthy National Housing […]
As we mentioned in an earlier post, we love branding and when we were approached by a friend of the company to help their family farm out with a new brand for their posh meat, we jumped at the chance. Since then wheels were set in motion, lots of designs have come and gone, revisions […]