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I was often told at university that once you entered the design industry any chances of hands on creative work were few and far between. So when i was set my first task at creative spark (to create a cardboard forest) i was instantly excited! This was only the first of many briefs i was set during the 3 weeks. I got the opportunity to be part of a variety of briefs from attending a professional photo shoot, to seeing magazine ads through to print. I was always made to feel welcome and felt inspired to work with such a creative team!

Thanks for all your help guys!
Carl

Big thanks to Gillie at My Personal Sanctuary for our Friday afternoon massage, from all the team at Creative Spark!

Andy, our senior designer and lifetime Man City fan, has produced this series of 3 posters to celebrate the clubs FA Cup victory.

Andy and the other 88,642 fans at The FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke City on 14 May are part of Wembley history, starring in the home of football’s first ever 360-degree panoramic photograph. At whopping 10-gigapixels, The Wembley 360 is attempting in just 24 hours to shoot, stitch, fine-tune and upload; an unprecedented feat of online publishing.

Impressive stuff hey! See if you can spot Andy in the crowd!

We’ve had the pleasure of Carl joining us for the past 2 weeks. He’s impressed us all during his time and wish him all the best with his remaining time as a student. Here’s his lovely poster he did for Simple’s Royal Wedding Tea Party.

Check out more of his work here

We ask our placements to write a few words about there time spent with us. Here’s our latest diary from Conor and his take on the ‘create a spark’ brief. Great work Conor, it’s been a pleasure having you on board!

After seeing the work on the Creative Spark website i decided that i really want to get a placement with them. The first thing i did was to design and print a poster based on there illustrations, i took this and used it to rap a box of doughnuts. Then i turned up at the door armed with doughnuts and my portfolio. Andy was more then happy to have a look at my folio and he rang me later that day to say i could start a placement the next week.

The placement was amazing craic (i’m irish), there’s a great buzz amongst everyone in the spark office, and the place has a great layout especially there meeting room! Andy was great at setting me projects i could add to my portfolio, and i learnt a few new software tricks too.

Thanks to everyone at Creative Spark, for being so warm and welcoming had a great time.

Conor

Japan Tsunami Appeal

Red Nose Day

The Chip Shop Awards is about fostering and recognising creativity with no boundaries and no rules. It’s an international creative awards, open to anyone with great ideas. Here’s our entry for the 2011 Chip Shop awards, going for a chip in the Best Politically incorrect category. Fingers crossed!

Here’s some infographics recent placement, Ben Brand, produced for us. It shows our process for the way we work. Nice job Ben!