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Listen! Do you want to know a secret?

Listen! Do you want to know a secret?

We love sharing stuff over here at The Escape so we thought we’d let you into a little secret.

No. we haven’t recorded a cover of an old Beatles song, we’ve just had a bit of a play around with our company website. You know the sort of thing… to use ‘marketing-speak’ we’ve basically given it [...]

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The New Client Relationship: A quick snog or a lasting romance?

The New Client Relationship: A quick snog or a lasting romance?

I think its fair to say that there are some people you can work with, and others you cant. For whatever reason.
Usually this can be ascertained fairly quickly, either by the way a first meeting goes, the gut feeling you get about them, even by the way they speak to you from the outset. Are [...]

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Who says paper is two-dimensional?

Who says paper is two-dimensional?

Whatever the medium, good design in any form is a force for good and something which should rightly be admired.
It’s not often, however, that we encounter a genre which is not only an incredibly refreshing art form but one which is largely under-represented. It may be described as collage, relief, hand-craft or a combination of [...]

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Diesel: Stupidly creative or just plain stupid?

Diesel: Stupidly creative or just plain stupid?

Diesel, the well known Jeans manufacturer has dived into 2010 with a new message for its admirers and onlookers. Be Stupid.

Campaigns like this always intrigue me. Is it a little stroke of creative genius that gets bods like me talking about it, or is it… well… just stupid?
For me, I like things that capture my [...]

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The colour of 2010 is…

The colour of 2010 is…

Turquoise.
Although the gang in the studio will know it as Pantone 15-5519.  Turquoise is a slightly greenish shade of Cyan and is based on the gem of the same name.  The name itself originates from the French for Turkish.
Pantone say that
“Turquoise inspires thoughts of soothing tropical water and a comforting escape from the everyday [...]

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Add another dimension to your advertising

Add another dimension to your advertising

It’s very common for a creative brief to contain a footnote from the client that stipulates something along the lines of, “Oh, and can we do something original?”
On the face of it, this isn’t an unreasonable request. Here at The Escape, originality is always one of our principal aims. The notion is simple, to develop [...]

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ATD - A way of life, not a temporary condition

ATD = Attention to detail.
Myself and the breadknife took our kids to Eurodisney earlier this year and unsurprisingly when you have a 2 year old and a 5 year old, we had a fantastic time (it was for them… honest!!!).
As our 4 days in the parks ticked by, a running joke started between Vicki and [...]

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It’s all about me

It’s all about me

Being an openly self-obsessed female in today’s generation, I recently booked myself into a boudoir photography photoshoot with www.fyeoportraits.com. I came away with a rosy glow but at a loss as to what I could possibly do with the naked/semi naked photos of myself? “I have to do something with them” I told myself, “I [...]

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Instant recognition… almost iconic

Instant recognition… almost iconic

It’s funny how the simplest mark can be instantly recognised - it can cross language & class barriers and convey the same message world wide, its in our human nature of communication. As a designer, trying to get a message across in it’s simplest & most minimal form is always the tough task. However when [...]

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Junior Road Safety Officer Design Workshops

Junior Road Safety Officer Design Workshops

Its official. The future of creativity in this country is safe.
That’s what I have been lucky enough to get a sense of this week, based on the poster design workshops that myself and Lisa have been running on behalf of Hampshire County Council.

Junior Road Safety Officers… or JRSOs to their friends, is a new [...]

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