Studio news
Lark is seven
Time flies! Lark just turned seven and now that the smoke from the candles has cleared and the cake has been cut, we’ve taken a look back at the work completed over the last year.
What can Lego teach about reconfiguring and rejuvenating existing branding?
As well as defining new brands 2023 was a year of developing existing ones. Making the Millennium Falcon from hacking a Lego set was a reminder that sometimes all the pieces are there, they might just need to be put together in a different way.
Print design for a festive story
We’ve got one last news post to finish off the year and it’s a timely one.
Following on from our festive creations last year and in 2021, we’ve once again created a Christmas correspondence for our copywriting collaborator Sophie Titcomb of Yarn.
Giving. Thanks.
This year we’ve decided to donate our Christmas marketing budget to the MacGregor Children’s Ward at Warwick Hospital. We’ve purchased a selection of gifts, toys and games to entertain them and their families during their stay.
Christmas rules
Whether you like it or loath it, Christmas has come early this year. The John Lewis advert is out, Bublé is stirring from his slumber and mince pies are flying off the shelves at an alarming rate. We’ll all be subject to an avalanche of festive tidings next month so why not make yours stand out.
A website design update for a strategic copywriter
We’ve recently relaunched the website of our friend and close collaborator Sophie Titcomb (Yarn). After developing the visual identity a few years ago, the site needed a refresh to coincide with changes to the business.
A creative outlet
This spooky season bag yourself a unique hand screen-printed tote to store those tasty Halloween treats. We’ve opened a studio shop giving us the opportunity to sell a curated collection of products using sustainably sourced materials and environmentally friendly production methods.
Icons as part of a visual identity
We’ve found a few times as we’ve worked through the branding or rebranding process that clients don’t see iconography as an important asset even if they’re already using them. So, we thought it would be useful to put together a little ‘ode to the icon’.
Featured by Creative Boom
We’re very pleased to see our work for Ordnance Survey featured on the brilliant Creative Boom, an art, design and visual culture magazine and website aimed at the creative industries.
A Tate trip
With a holiday to Cornwall planned, we took the opportunity to finally get to the iconic Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Museum. An inspiring show featuring a colourful collection of artists from the Casablanca Art School greeted us at the Tate. And we were lucky enough to see Hepworth’s garden in full bloom.
Lark is six
Lark turned six this month and to celebrate we’ve taken a look back over some projects from the past year. As always we couldn’t do it without all of our client’s, collaborators, friends and followers. Thank you.
University alumni photobook
We crafted a fitting farewell for the University of Oxford’s departing Vice-Chancellor: a one-of-a-kind book filled with memories of her celebrated tenure. She left as an honorary alumni after four unforgettable years.
Creative Christmas mail-out
As the remains of the Christmas cheeses are guilty devoured and we send that final ‘Happy New Year’ email greeting, we thought we’d share our last project of 2022. Building on the success of Yarn’s previous creative Christmas gift we were tasked to create another prose filled post-out.
Tea travel tins
Tea drinkers take their tea seriously. And now they can take that tea where ever they go. Whether it’s Honeybush for a hike or camomile for camping we’ve created two branded mini tea caddies for Tick Tock and Dragonfly Tea.
Design development for new Yarn marketing materials
After creating their visual identity a couple of years ago, we continue to work with friends and copywriting collaborators Yarn, designing their marketing materials as the company develops and grows.
Supporting women in the design industry
63% of graphic design students are women yet only 17% are Creative Directors. Kerning The Gap want to change this statistic. Established in 2015, its aim is to get more women into leadership roles within the design industry. I’m happy to say that I’m taking part in their mentoring scheme this year.
Our process – getting behind the scenes of a visual identity project
Our ‘work’ page only features the final stage of our process and shows the finished, polished designs we’ve Photoshopped and photographed from the best angles. So, to break that trend we thought it would be fun to take a look behind the curtain.
Featured by Creative Pool as ‘one of the country’s hottest young design studios’
Creativepool have interviewed our founder and featured our work in their online magazine kindly calling us ‘one of the country’s hottest young design studios’.
Tick Tock featured in ‘best website designs’
Our work for the Tick Tock website has been recognised and listed by Design Rush and featured on their website.
Time flies: A reflection on five years running a design studio
As the studio turns five our founder takes a look back over the past few years with some thoughts and reflections on how far we’ve come. Time really does fly when you’re having fun.