July 2010

Rik, the digital director at Tea* started his training this week to raise money for The British Heart Foundation. This charity that means allot to Rik as his Grandfather and Late Aunt suffered with heart problems throughout their adult life.

Rik is riding a 35 mile route from Brighton to Eastbourne via The South Downs Way in June, which is part of one of the most challenging routes in The UK.

We here at tea* are really proud to announce that we have made it into Design Week for the second time, due to our ongoing work with Talkmobile!

We have recently finished work on the new tariff offer by Talkmobile, featuring whole new creatives working alongside the previous designs created by tea* for TM.

We are really proud of the work, and couldn’t be happier of being in DW again!

Two years after the original came out of nowhere, ol’ shellhead returns to the big screen, and with no batsuits or spider webs anywhere in sight, he might get the summer all to himself. But would he deserve it?

Well, kind of.

Just a quick post to wish our boys the best of luck in South Africa! The TV is tuned, the beer is cold, we’ve listened to the England songs on spotify countless times. It’s time for the big one!

COME ON ENGLAND!

Today I was flicking through my Facebook page and found some old notes from a blog long forgotten and I came across this article from howies.co.uk which is quite old now but I still hold close to my heart….

Half geek – half luddite

“I am a contradiction.

On one hand I love broadband, but I also love food the old slow way.

I love apple computers, but as for the apples I eat, well, I don’t want them to be sprayed with chemicals.

I love the fact that e-mail lets me to talk to the world, but I like to shop local for our vegetables.

Surfing Youtube recently, I came across this funny little piece of World Cup association. Trying to include those who have missed the football by accident or design, Youtube has very graciously included a button feature on their videos that goes some way to replicating the viewing experience of World Cup 2010.

A small icon on the right side of the settings bar, the football symbol almost slipped me by, as it seemed to have always been there. I pressed the icon out of curiosity, only to have me jump out of my skin, and have my ear drums explode (I was using earphones at the time).

Tea*’s work was recognised by it’s peers this week when we were featured on Design Week’s website, due to the work in creating the new updated site for natterjacks.com.

Having built the original website for Natterjacks, creating the online presence for one of the leading UK urban clothes outlets, we were the natural choice for the revamp and relaunch, an achievement acknowledged by Design Week as worthy of recognition.

Marchon is latest client to be added to the growing portfolio of Creativitea.

Since its founding in 1983, Marchon Eyewear has grown into one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of quality eyewear and sunwear. There extensive portfolio has some of the world’s most prestigious fashion and sport brands featuring Calvin Klein, Coach, Disney, Emilio Pucci, Fendi, Jil Sander, Michael Kors, Nautica, Nike, Sean John, X Games to complement its strong Marchon house brands.

I was over the moon this Christmas when I received these great books as a gift.  I am quite a fan of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm and wish I paid more attention when I studied parts of them at school! These versions by Penguin Books have great illustrated covers by the famous contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, who is favoured amongst the guys here at Creativitea for his work for Obey Giant and his eye catching graphic paste ups.

A brief history: – sourced from Wikipedia 2010.

Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein, Switzerland. Haas set out to design a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market. Originally called Die Neue Haas Grotesk, it was created based on Schelter-Grotesk. The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, had no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage.

Finally, after a wait that seemed like centuries, the long fabled return of JC has taken place…in my lifetime.  In London.  At 00.30 at night.  I honestly didn’t think it would happen. Certainly not with Bill Bailey in attendance. But hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways.  So was it worth the wait?

The answer- breaking a million hater geek hearts- is Yes! Yes! Yes!

A tea* Creative: Model Wars.
By studio member: The studio team
Piece Title: “The Rebellion’s base on the remote ice world of Hoth is under siege”

Every now and again someone sends us gold. And this has to be it.

The brief from a client can be a nightmare for some designers, although it’s something that here at tea we enjoy; the process and the excitement of a new project and its out come.

But below has to be one of the best briefs you can get.

Let us introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years…Maria and Dylan!

O.k., so you have no idea who they are – yet, but soon Dylan and his beautiful girl Maria will be unleashed upon the world in a short animation showing the VoucherNet system for new client 2ergo.