FORMAT15 Festival

It's been a pleasure to work with the Format team this year on the festival guide and signage, and with QUAD on the education guides. Format is in it's 10th year and presents a selection of the best of international photography in a diverse programme of exhibitions and events.

This year's festival has an extensive calendar of exciting events and exhibitions in a range of venues across the city. The guide was designed so it was small enough to fold down and fit in your pocket, making it easy for festival goers to navigate their way around the city. With such a fully packed festival we had a lot of information to fit in, so we tried to create a guide that was easy to read and access and that would inspire people to visit the fantastic exhibitions and events!

A Z-Card format was chosen for an easy to use guide on the go

Commissioned by QUAD to create an educational guide to the festival for children, we designed two brochures; one for Key Stage 1/2 and another for older children (Key Stage 3+).

The theme of this year's festival is 'Evidence' so we had a lot of fun designing a guide in a Detective/Secret Agent style. The brochure takes the children around the exhibition, encouraging them to think about and discuss the photos on display aswell as participate by completing activities based around the artworks.

The back page includes a secret agent disguise kit that you can cut out and wear while you're sleuthing! (Much fun was had in creating this particular page as it was necessary to try out the glasses, eyebrows etc to check the sizes were correct, at least that's what we told our designer Tom as we made him wear them!).

Education brochure for Key Stage 3+ 
A more minimalist, contemporary design was created for older students, each page detailing an exhibiting artist and encouraging discussion and further research.

If you fancy a trip to Derby, come and check out the huge amount of fantastic artwork by international photographers, the talks, the tours, film screenings, not to mention the amazing locations all across the city and it's on until the 12th April! Find out more and download the guide on the Format website.

Derby Film Festival Launches!

 

 

 

 

 

After working on ID Fest for 4 years, we were absolutely thrilled to be asked to work on the next iteration for the wonderfully creative film festival held at QUAD every year.  Now simply called 'Derby Film Festival', this ten day celebration of film is sure to be a wonderful event!  Special guests include the inimitable John Hurt, Phil Davis plus lots more!!

Our approach to the project was inspired by the work of the legendary Saul Bass, whose graphic design for opening sequences was so integral to the movie industry in the 1950s & 60s, working with greats such as Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorcese.  This look is still as relevant and popular today as it was then.  We felt this, along with a limited colour palette and bold typography created a strong brand identity for the festival that exuded intrigue, fun and entertainment, whilst being a contemporary and innovative place to celebrate the movie industry.

The website with the full festival programme can be viewed here.

Summer Nights Film Festival 2014

 

 

 

 

We were thrilled to be asked for the third year running to create the marketing materials for the 2014 Summer Nights Film Festival, run by QUAD, Derby.  This year we were excited to create a dedicated website for the festival, allowing visitors to book tickets, find out what's on and get useful information for their visit.  Using the wonderful photography by Graham Lucas Commons, we're so proud of this scheme and can't wait to kick back with a picnic basket in front of one of these fantastic films!

Visit summernightsfilm.co.uk for a list of all the films and info on how to bag your seat!

Click here to view an online version of the brochure.

Summer Nights Film Festival

We were so pleased to be once again asked to design the artwork for the annual Summer Nights Film Festival in Derby.  This outdoor cinema festival has grown again this year, featuring some fantastic films such as Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and Les Miserables.

 

Working with the logo designed last year, we developed the look and paired it with the fantastic photography of Graham Lucas Commons (click here to visit his website) to create a dreamy, summery feel to leaflets, banners and flyers.

Saltaire Arts Trail - 2013

Firecatcher were privileged to be asked to brand the Saltaire Arts Trail for a second year. A pleasure to work on, the trail celebrates visual arts in and is held in the World Heritage Village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire. We produced everything from the event packed brochure, to posters, banners and maps, right down to the children's activity stickers (this year featuring a rather cute alien!). Below is a small selection of our work this year...

iDFEST 2013

For this year's iDFEST we were asked to create a look that would be used across all print and web work that echoed the festival's theme of 'Family'. Taking inspiration from The Royal Tenenbaums film (also showing at iDFEST) we created an artpack that had a 1970's family album feel; from the orange and brown colours to the old green wallpaper. Also a main feature were the 'family photographs' themselves; a combination of film stills and guest images featured in customised photo frames as well as a fantastic collection of real 70's family photos that were kindly donated to us.

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To visit the iDFEST website click here.

FORMAT13 - Education Pack

This year we were delighted to be involved in FORMAT13, an international photography festival, based in Derby. Firecatcher created an Education Pack to accompany the festival and it's exhibitions.

This year's theme was 'Factory' and we created a series of graphics based around this as well as some illustrative elements based around photography itself to create a vibrant and visually engaging brochure that was used by schools and teachers as a resource.