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3 / INTRODUCTION 6 - 7 / WORK FROM Q2 8 -11 / US YOUNGSTERS 12-13 / COMMUTING DATA 14- 17 / BOUTIQUE ON SLOANE ST. 18- 21 / STELLA MCARTNEY 20 - 27 / RECENT WORK 28 - 33 / FRIENDS OF INK 34 - 37 / GAMES! 38 - 39 / SOCIAL MEDIA 40 - 41 / STRACEY’S DISCO REVIEW 42 - 43 / WE LIKE
This book is intended for internal use only. The copywriter for any externally sourced images remains with their respective owners. Submissions are welcome please get in touch at studio@inkassociates.co.uk Design: Ink
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INTRODUCTION
Ink is a multi-disciplinary agency. Wet Paint is a snapshot of the Ink people, the projects that are currently moving through the studio and little things that are grabbing our attention on the way. Our studio specialises in start to finish project delivery; creative design and the technical know-how. This is our opportunity to share what makes us tick and also for you to see that we cover a lot of ground from SE1, and not just the 270 mile weekly cycle commute. The Q2 start gun has gone off with a bang. Take a glance at what is on the drawing board, a backstage peek at our works in progress, some recently completed projects, and feel a wry smile at where we’ve all come from too. The studio draws inspiration from many areas. It is a journey that takes us from some diverse corners of the design world to the latest technologies, such as 3d modelling; creating environments and retail experiences at the desk that can be moved through, and explored. We also give a nod to the traditional, and turn our attention to crafts and model making, creating form and contrast using simple yet unexpected media. We approach a challenge from many directions in order to find a solution. It may be a photo, a doodle, a rhythm, a texture, but it resonates and engages us completely, and provides the grease to our creative wheels, and we want you to be a part of it too. Finally for some of the latest studio gossip, 3 of our Ink team completed the London marathon. Whilst Simon had a quiet confidence, some were concerned that Charlie wouldn’t find the start line or that Ed would need to be reminded that he was running. Luckily they all attended and we are pleased to say they have returned to the office on good form. Simon, Ed and Charlie are now in talking sheepishly about the Budapest marathon. Come join us! ‘Lets keep on truckin’ – Willy Wonka Enjoy!
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INK OFFICES LONDON + CHRISTCHURCH
STRATEGY
CREATIVE TEAM
We provide knowledge and experience based strategic support to our retail clients. Our focus is on the design & execution of the built environment, however our work includes the strategic application of systems and processes that address business functions in addition to the physical environments. We provide strategic insight to a number of our global brands, the service is always bespoke and centres upon listening and understanding our clients’ challenges, needs & ambition.
Ink Creative is driven by a desire and curiosity to deliver innovative and imaginative solutions. Our creative centre of excellence is made up of a mix of multi-disciplinary specialists including interior, graphic and furniture designers, supported by animation and visualisation professionals. The cross-disciplinary approach offers a platform to delivery unique and exciting design for projects of drastically different scales from shopping centres to store windows, from brand pop-up and exhibition opportunities.
Simon W / Architect Simon WB / Architect Luke / Furniture & Interiors Charles / Industrial Design
Ed / Branding & Graphic Design Jamina / Interiors Tiff / Interiors Ryan / Interiors Luigi / Visualisation Phil / Furniture & Interiors
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TECHNICAL DESIGN
PROJECT MANAGERS
Working closely with concept designers, clients & project managers our team of retail focused architects, technologists and materials experts apply construction industry leading skills to the design challenges. Our mission is to enable the creative ‘vision’ to be delivered on a practical, technical & statutorily compliant level. Whilst at the core our team provides technically led, drawing support we also provide expertise in materials, construction techniques, design for roll-out, value engineering, installation processes & systems, health and safety, the disability discrimination act and building regulations; this expertise is applied consistently locally, regionally & globally.
Ink Management provides the necessary level of control required to successfully deliver projects on behalf of our clients; locally, regionally and globally. On all projects we establish clear & unambiguous communication routes, we determine from the outset the client objectives and then seek to manage and balance the three drivers; cost, quality & time. Within this context our professional team provides the following services; Lead Consultant, Project Manager, Cost Control, Programme Management, Contract Administration, Construction Management & ‘ Design & Build’ solutions.
Simon / Architect & PM Steve / Interiors & PM Tom / PM & Contracts Management Richard / QS & PM Lee / PM & Contracts Management Gemma / Interiors & PM & FFE Karen / QS & PM
Alex / Architectural Technologist Hayden / Architectural Technologist Liam / Architectural Technologist Sham / Architectural Technologist Tim / Architectural Technologist Luz / Architect
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COMMUTING TO INK IN LONDON
PHILIP STEWART / DISTA 87FT MOVING TIME: 31:08 MAX SPEED: 38.1 MI/HR ALEXANDER GOSNEY DI TION 214FT MOVING TIM ENERGY OUTPUT: 215KJ MAX SPEED: 38.0 MI/HR LIAM SAXBY DISTANCE 5 MOVING TIME: 21:51 MAX SPEED: 15.7 MI/HR SHAME 2.9 MI ELEVATION 109FT M SPEED: 35.7 MI/HR AVG WARD ESSEX) DISTANCE MOVING TIME: 26.31 MAX SPEED: 11.6 MI/HR TIFFA 1:07:24STOPPED TIME: 4 KM AVERAGE: 22.65 KM/H KM/H ASCENT: 243 MET 12
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ANCE 5.5 MI ELEVATION 8 AVERAGE POWER: 112W AVG SPEED: 10.6 MI/HR ISTANCE 7.8 MI ELEVAME: 31:54 CALORIES: 239 AVERAGE POWER: 112W AVG SPEED: 16.3 MI/HR 5.7 MI ELEVATION 151FT X SPEED: 31.1 MI/HR AVG EEL NANUCK DISTANCE MOVING TIME: 14:53 MAX G SPEED: 11.6 MI/HR EDE 5.1 MI ELEVATION 119FT X SPEED: 35.1 MI/HR AVG NY LANDALE RIDE TIME: 42:56 DISTANCE: 25.44 H FASTEST SPEED: 64.86 TRES 13
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To spruce up the office we created some new posters themed on retail. The posters were inspired by symbology and typography on old shop fronts. And now each member of staff at Ink now has their own shop!
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INTERIOR DESIGNERS START WORK FOR OUR FAVOURITE BRITISH SPORT & STREETWEAR BRAND...
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DIGITAL DESIGNERS LOOK AT FUN WAYS OF USING AUGMENTED REALITY
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‘CRAFT THE UNREAL’ Featured here is some of our latest model making work for a retail fashion brand. Ink have recently embarked on a body of research for our concept ‘Craft the Unreal’. We used model making as part of our process to define the concept in 3D form. The objects aim to capture a premium feeling using a combination of natural British & contemporay materials. Our designs are intended to have a classic yet playful tone of voice, and stimulate an element of wonder with the use of unexpected material placement. ‘Craft the Unreal’ draws upon our past whilst being inspired by our future.
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Lydia is an artist Designer and Illustrator based in Carlisle. Her work is often witty and playful with a touch of British eccentricisim. Since graduating from The Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 Lydia has been busying herself with some exciting projects that have got people talking across the globe.
British Airways limited edition tuck boxes for Team GB
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Lydia has screen printed in five different print work shops in three different countries
In 2011 Lydia created a Royal wedding sick bag for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The Sick bag received a phenomenal amount of press almost overnight. Televised on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 News. The Guardian and Creative Review and The One Show also featured her work. Before long the sick bags were hitting news channels in Japan, Germany, Russia, USA, Australia, Canada. Other press includes The Wall Street Journal, Time Out, The Independent
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More recently, following the success of her sick bags, Lydia created a Jelly mould of the Queen to comemerate the Queen’s Jubilee. Designs have been stocked in Urban Outfitters and The Tate Modern Shop and The Design Museum.
For more information please visit, www.lydialeith.com
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Simon Stracey’s Herbie Hancock – Magic Windows Mastered, mixed and recorded at THE AUTOMATT, San Francisco, California. Additional Recording: Kendun Recording, Los Angeles; Village Recorders, Los Angeles; Ameraycan Studios, Los Angeles. 1981 CBS, Inc. Track Listing Magic Number Tonight’s the Night Everybody’s Broke Help Yourself Satisfied with Love The Twilight Clone
Credits Herbie Hancock: keyboards, piano, electric bass Michael Brecker: Tenor saxophone Adrian Belew - Guitar Melvin “Wah Wah Watson” Ragin - Guitar Ray Parker Jnr - Guitar George Johnson - Guitar Al McKay – Guitar Freddie Washington – Electric bass Louis Johnson Eddie Watkins John Robinson – Drums James Gadosn Alphonse Mouzon Paulinho Da Costa – Percussion Kwawu Ladzekpo Kwasi Dzidzornu Moody Perry III Sheila
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Review “There are no strings, brass, or other orchestral instruments on this album. All of these orchestrations are performed by Herbie Hancock on various synthesizers.” CBS, 1981 This album was introduced to me by a friend of mine while I was playing records at a bar in Dalston. Her quietly passed it to me in the middle of a set and I have never looked back. Herbie Hancock released his first album in 1962, “Takin Off” and has continued to release scores of records until as recently as 2008. He was and is a prolific artist whose style is so varied and so imaginative that is impossible to pigeon hole. In 2009 my primary understanding of Herbie Hancock was through his work with The Headhunters, a band formed in the early 70s which spawned such legendary tracks Chameleon, Palm Grease
on Thrust. Influenced by among others Sly Stone, and disillusioned by the general publics lack of understanding of the avantegarde Herbie Hancock was stepping firmly into the world of funk and away from the Jazz avante garde. From this now funk DNA, Magic Windows was another step away, a transition from the warmth of the 70s sound, to the synth and techno sound of the 80s. This was not a disco album. Technically, this is an R&B album with funkier, more flexible rhythm sections, more intriguing electronic instrumental decorations by Hancock, and some first-class instrumental contributions by the Brothers Johnson, the Escovedo family and Michael Brecker. Tracks like Magic Number, Everybody’s Broke and Help Yourself typify the album. With the strongly R&B vocals of Sylvester, Gavin Christopher and Vicki Randle these mark a
definite nod to the Black Soul movement. However, it is the haunting notes of The Twilight Clone with its signature 808 drum machine sound that show the clearest direction towards the future. This track is neither funk nor jazz, its electronic dance music.
References Richard S. Ginell www.allmusic.com As reviewed by Marek B www.rateyourmusic.com
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Disco Review Idris Muhammad – Turn this mutha out Kudu Recordings, KU-34, 1977 It was produced and arranged by CTI/kudu staff man David Matthews
Track Listing Could Heaven Ever Be Like This Camby Bolongo Turn This Mutha Out Tasty Cakes Crab Apple Moon Hymn Say What
Credits Idris Muhammad — drums, tom tom Wilbur Bascomb — bass Hiram Bullock — guitar Cliff Carter — synthesizer & keyboards Charlie Brown — guitar Sue Evans — percussion Zachary Sanders — background vocals Ray Simpson — background vocals Bill Eaton — background vocals
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Review Idris Muhammad (born Leo Morris on 13 November 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American jazz drummer who has recorded extensively with a host of artists including Ahmad Jamal, Grant Green, Grover Washington, Hank Crawford, Gene Ammons, and Houston Person. He changed his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style. He has released a number of albums as leader, and has played with a number of jazz legends including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover Washington, Jr. He has been touring and recording with pianist Ahmad Jamal since 1995. At 15 years old, one of Muhammad’s earliest recorded sessions as a drummer was on Fats Domino’s 1956 hit “Blueberry Hill”. Kudu Records, kudu the long horned antelope symbolised black pride “a black awareness label, more commercial oriented than CTI and indigenous to the black popular music of the United States.”
Kudu, launched by Creed Taylor in July 1971, specialized in the “soul jazz” those labels like Prestige and Atlantic had long ago mastered and a style, though lacking critical respect, had usually found significant popular success. Indeed, Kudu inherited its roster from the houses that built the Prestige and Atlantic soul-jazz market. The music heard on Kudu was never really intended to have high ideals or aspire to greater purposes. The point was the groove. If people couldn’t dance to it, then it belonged somewhere else. Recording on this label was in itself an indicator of Idris’ musical intentions, this was an album aimed at the R&B market, it was not a Jazz record. While diehard jazz fans saw this move as blatantly commercial, what they would not have been able to see was the lasting affect this crossover album would have on future artists. The floating vocals winding guitar solos and rolling low tom drum lines of “Could Heaven ever Be Like This” could easily Wet Paint / Issue #02
be influenced by the Disco/Rock phenomenon that was Earth Wind & Fire, the P-Funk wave created by George Clinton and Parliament, the exponents of the Philly Sound MFSB (Mother Father Sister Brother) or by the increasingly popular TV show Soul Train. The now snappy “boom-bap” beats of Crab Apple are now easily perceivable as Hip hop. This track was subsequently sampled by 2Pac in “Crooked Ass Nigga”. Alongside other tracks like Bill Withers “Who is He?” you can see the fossils of hip hop can be found in funk and soul music of the 70s in America. Idris Muhammad was part of this. Muhammad never solos, he didn’t write any of the songs, he didn’t arrange any, and he didn’t produce any. So why is he the leader and the album in his name? Muhammad had the vision and the influence to bring together the musicians to make the sound that you hear on this album. He was a cool dude and wanted to make music for the people.
References Andrew Hamilton www.allmusic.com
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