Berry Place have recently completed several in-house projects for Comic Relief, including fifty sets of comedy acrylic spectacles and three presentation display cases, which exhibit the complete collection of red noses produced for Comic Relief over the years. Some of the noses are now so rare that exact replicas had to be made to complete the three display cases.
Steve Sheffield has recently joined the team at Berry Place to lead the growth of the business into the Museum and Heritage sector.
Formally creative director and account manager at The Glue Factory, Steve has many years experience in this field – originally as a member of the in-house creative team at London’s Science Museum.
For new Museum and Heritage enquiries, please contact Steve at
Steve.Sheffield@berryplace.co.uk.
Sony Ericsson launched the ‘Aino’ mobile phone last year, a high-end slider handset sporting a 3-inch touch screen and an impressive array of multimedia features. Designed for those who want entertainment on the go, made possible by the phones unique ability to control and access content such as music, photos and movies wirelessly from a Playstation 3 console.
This remote play function is perhaps the unit’s main selling point, and as such was the topic of the promotional material produced for its release. Bringing your entertainment to you rather than waiting to get home.
Iris London’s visual marketing concept was derived from the phones menu icons, brought to life by Berry Place by the way of large coloured acrylic shapes illuminated from within to create a glowing effect.
Client - Iris London
Photography - Leo Cackett
Berry Place will be closing over the Christmas period from 6pm Wednesday 23rd December, reopening on Monday 4th January 2010.
We would like to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Berry Place recently completed a short production run of 95 spherical plinths and 134 shelving units for Harriman Steel.
These point of sale displays, distributed to ‘Office’ retail outlets nationwide, were created for in-store promotion of the new Nike woman’s ‘Court Force’ sports-shoe, a refreshed re-issue of an original 1987 basketball classic.
The basketball style plinths featured de-bossed patterned details, which directly reference those on the footwear, and were then either vacuum metallised or sprayed with a bright pink finish.
The shelf units were produced from folded acrylic sheet with a black velour covering and screen-printed Nike Sportswear logo.
Client - Harriman Steel
50th year 'Golden Brands' and 'Marketing Heroes'.
Berry Place has recently worked in collaboration with Thirdperson to design and manufacture a collection of bespoke awards to celebrate the Marketing Society’s 50th Anniversary.
The awards were presented at a Gala Dinner hosted by Piers Morgan and attended by the crème of the marketing and media industries.
The lucky award winners on the evening were those who were considered by members of the Marketing Society, to be the greatest brands or personalities of the last 50 years, selected from a shortlist of 50 Golden Brands and Marketing Heroes.
Comparethemarket.com scooped the Award for ‘Brand of the Year 2009’
For further event information: http://www.marketing-society.org.uk/
Following the sucessful completion of the project, Tim Reed, from Thirdperson, commented:
“Berry Place were fantastic. They took early embryonic concepts and helped with the development of the design and materials. Working within a tight budget and even tighter timescales they delivered a fantastic end result that everyone was thrilled with.”
Client: Thirdperson
The Drapers Awards are one of the most prestigious awards within the fashion industry. On November 18 the 2009 Drapers Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, bringing together more than 1,000 industry leaders to celebrate the achievements of the most innovative and passionate fashion retailers and brands within the UK and Ireland.
Berry Place has been providing Emap Events with the Drapers award for seven years, with a change in colour or finishes each year to keep them fresh and distinguish them from previous years. This year is a fetching silver spangle on black, a departure from the translucent colours of earlier awards but still providing a little extra dimension.
http://www.drapersawards.co.uk/
Client - Emap Events
The second London Technology Fund Awards were held on November 4th at the City headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. For the awards Berry Place created encapsulated acrylic tombstone awards and the Grand Prix 'Eddie' Award. The 'Eddie' was sculpted from designs by Busara and is an amalgamation of characters created to represent each category in the competition.
The London Technology Fund Competition was established in 2008. The success of the 2008 programme led to a repeat of the competition in 2009, with an expanded programme of workshops and additional major technology corporates joining the innovative corporate "speed-dating" event. The programme runs for nine months and its purpose is to help innovative young technology companies in London understand and address the key issues they face as they develop their products for a global market, forge relationships with larger corporate partners and attract the funding they need. The Competition culminates in the announcement of the overall winner of the Grand Prix, at an Awards Ceremony and Reception, attended by some 200 representatives of major corporates, investors and government as well as entrepreneurs, academics and professionals.
David McMeekin of the London Technology Fund and Dr David Bott of the Technology Strategy Board presenting Gary Bower of Trojantec Ltd with the Grand Prix 'Eddie' Award.
For more information on the London Technology Fund Competition click here to visit their website.
Client – London Technology Fund
The 9th annual Toast Festival took place at Clapham Common over the weekend of 26th - 28th June, the largest celebration of New Zealand, Austrailian and South African culture this side of the equator.
The Kiwi day, sponsored by Air New Zealand, offered a chance to win two Premium Economy tickets to NZ to those who participated in their promotional event.
Integrated advertising agency Albion London, currently responsible for the Airlines marketing campaigns, devised a competition on their behalf which required entrants to place a flag on a 3D map of New Zealand in the hope of being the nearest to a buried 10c coin.
Berry Place were commissioned to supply an accurate 12m x 5m Styrofoam map, cut to the precise outline of the islands and fully covered in genuine turf!
Installation of the feature took place within a narrow time slot to avoid disruption to other aspects of the festival. Berry Place were on hand to make this happen, ensuring it was secure enough to handle the hundreds of members of the public expected on the day.
Client - Albion London
Images kindly supplied by Albion London.
To promote the launch of their J&B Whisky ‘Start a Party Anywhere’ marketing campaign, drinks Company Diageo has sent a disco mirror ball spinning into the stratosphere for the first time.
"Sending a mirror ball into the stratosphere shows the world we know how to start a party anywhere, anytime."
With a small modification carried out by Berry Place the ball sported the J&B brand logo, which was then passed onto scientists from Cambridge University's space flight team who sent it on its way attached it to a helium-filled weather balloon. A camera attached to the balloon caught the ascent on video and can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ILColwqvo.
Client - JKR
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We decided it was time to have a brand overhaul here at BP. With a simple, bold presence the new identity, ‘b-dot’ - designed by for us by Steve Clarke, relates to the old BP identity but brings a modern edge with a friendly but professional feel, just like us!
Tying in with the new identity is our new website, created by MyShinyNewWebsite. Updated and filled with more content, we hope it offers a more in-depth look at who we are and what we do here at Berry Place.
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The World Retail Awards is an event held every year to recognise excellence within the global retail sector.
Berry Place have been working with EMAP Events to supply the World Retail Congress with the awards since the event was established in 2007. We created the original trophy design, inspired by the many examples of Gaudi architecture to be found in Barcelona where the awards have been held.
As quite a departure from the previous year’s satin nickel finish, the awards in 2009 were clear cast to look like glass, maintaining a desirable quality.
To discover how these were produced please follow link to case study.
Client – Emap Events
Some work from Berry Place appeared on the television programme Unsigned Act shown on Channel Four’s T4 & 4music recently. A competitive reality show focusing on finding undiscovered musical talent.
We were approached by Iris to fabricate a lighting rig and large, letter shaped flight cases to be used throughout the show, most predominantly during the opening credits.
These were made to resemble real flight cases and needed to be able to last the duration of the shows tour to different venues all over the county. To discover how these were produced please follow link to case study.
Client – Iris-London. Photography - Simon Bremner
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Harriman Steel commissioned Berry Place to build a photography set and window display for their client Nike to go into the window of Office, Carnaby Street. The display, consisting of acrylic panels, strip lighting, steel conduit and matt chrome Blazer logo/shelf was installed to promote the launch of Nike’s new Blazer fashion sneaker.
Client – Harriman Steel
After a six month quarantine Nico the 47 year old Silverback Western Lowland Gorilla apparently became a television addict after one was set up for him, so the moving images and sound could provide vital stimulus.
BSkyB gave Nico an early Christmas present by installing a high definition television and Sky+HD in his enclosure at Longleat (Safari Park).
Thanks to Berry Place, Nico can enjoy his new high definition television with his very own 5:1 scale Sky+HD remote. It’s hard to programme your series link with Gorilla sized fingers on a regular sized remote!
Many of you may be familiar with this publication from the design journal, Creative Review.
Published every May, The Annual showcases the most exceptional work to emerge from the visual communication industries in the past twelve months. In keeping with previous Annuals, the cover was to feature the letter ‘A’ in some way.
Berry Place was commissioned by Centaur Media Plc to create 2 of the letters in polished clear acrylic for sole use of photographing them for the cover of the 2008 issue.
A straightforward project, but effective when photographed properly as acrylic has such a good refractive quality.
Client – Centaur Media Plc. Cover image kindly supplied by Centaur Media Plc.
Photography - Andy Barter
February 12, 2010
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