On Friday 19th September we were allowed access to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary for a days photo shoot for the NHS. Having previously collaborated with Glasgow based photographer David Muir (www.davidmuirphotography.co.uk), we knew that his skills and experience would be perfect for this project. Our brief was to capture the day to day running…
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It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we were working on the very first issue of STIR but here we are just two short years on and we’re already on issue nine. This issue brings a new creative element which we’ve not had before, Music! Like every issue we like to try something a…
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Now that the Traffic site is finally finished (yay!) and the dust has settled, we feel its only fair to write a wee post about what cool stuff we used to build our lovely new site. From a front-end perspective (beware of the geek chat) there are currently lots and of cool tools and frameworks that one…
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As you may have seen from an earlier post, we’re all about sharing. What better way to say that than to give you unlimited access to the icon suite that we crafted especially for our brand new website. We required a bespoke set of icons that we could use in harmony with our house typeface…
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There’s only so far you can get pushing pixels around a screen with a mouse, and there’s similar limitations to a paintbrush (admittedly I’m no Da Vinci). What do you do when you want the best of both worlds when it comes to digital illustration? You scratch your head for a bit, ask around… then…
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Sharing… it’s a funny thing. Some of us get it, and thrive on it. Others are less quick to lend their secrets to this culture of curiosity. The great thing about the creative community, is the numerous organisations and individuals that subscribe to the philosophy that the more we share good ideas, the more we…
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For the second year running, I hopped down to leafy Kensington for It’s Nice That’s annual one-day symposium ‘Here’, which explores process and ideas across the art and design world. Hosted, again, in the Royal Geographical Society (just along from the Royal Albert Hall), the day was full of inspirational (and often hilarious in the…
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