24.8.11

Royal Bolton Hospital Children's enhancements



We have just finished installing a series of enhancements in the newly refurbished Children's and Young People's Unit at the Royal Bolton Hospital. We asked the patients what they would like to see in the enhancements and used these focus groups to determine the content of the illustrations. It was a lovely project to work on and we hope the unit has a really successful opening.




Above photo courtesy of Medical Illustration, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust



23.8.11

Firecatcher's Sunny Thinking about Ombudsman Services






Everything has been going a bit super round here, especially since we teamed up with the fantastic Sunny Thinking to liven up the Ombudsman Services Annual Reports with some heroes. Energy Girl, Communications Man and Property Man will help you fight all those service providers who rip you off, give poor customer service or bill you too much. We were lucky enough to be invited to the report launch in Westminster, though our arrival was somewhat overshadowed by a certain Mr Murdoch and Ms Black...

Our illustrations covered three areas, property, communications and energy providers, and looked rather lovely in print, if we do say so ourselves. Hats off to Sunny Thinking for a great creative solution and for being such jolly good chaps! Now, to the bat cave..!

11.8.11

Trees Are Best App now available!



We're extremely proud to announce our brand new Children's Book app for iPad is available now... Click here for more information on why Trees Are Best. FACT!

9.8.11

August Wallpaper and some rather exciting news!


This months wallpaper celebrates some exciting news for Firecatcher! We've been working recently in collaboration with Hedgehog Lab on an interactive children's book app for the ipad. The book we have developed is Trees are Best. Fact. Join 8 year old Oliver T. Baker, as he shows you exactly why Trees are Best (and diggers are not), in this fully interactive picture book exploring the beauty and wonder of trees.

The app will be available in the next couple of weeks and you can keep up to date with all the latest news on our very first app right here and download your free desktop here.

8.8.11

Illustration - Mrs Peacock Makes It!





Just finished a lovely job - illustrations for a cookery blog! We've been very excited about the mouthwatering recipes on mrspeacockmakesit.blogspot.com and tried to make it look as delicious as the food sounds!