Sam’s Friends Beer Festival 2013 has a new supporter – StudioROKIT is supporting Leicester Samaritans by sponsoring a keg of one of the 30 or so drinks on offer over the 3 days of the festival. If you’re a Leicester local and you like a tipple or just want to support an essential service that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Leicester. Most people, especially from abroad, can’t even pronounce it (get an American or Australian to pronounce it and you will have your %RDA of daily laughs covered) – and even in our own country it’s one of those easily overlooked cities that has always been there, sitting in the shadows of its bigger and […]
It seems like the world is changing quite quickly these days. By changing I mean that what we once thought of as stable, solid businesses are folding like houses of cards on our high-street. Mirroring the inexorable change to the UK high-street with the loss of huge brands like HMV, Blockbuster, Habitat, Oddbins, Virgin Megastores, […]
It’s the age old gripe rolled out by the old or the grumpy. Christmas decorations going up in October (along with the water-level of children’s toy adverts slowly rising), Boxing Day Sale adverts saturating all of the commercial channels on Christmas day and Easter Eggs appearing in every shop and newsagents as if by magic […]
Some things in global culture are so big, so absolutely huge that they become part of the very fabric of our every day reality, they cease being what they are and become something much bigger. They come in all shapes and sizes; some are visual like the stoney revolutionary face of Che Guevara from a […]