We’ve had our PVA and cardboard out again. And this time it’s been for Wall Street Systems. This is our third year at the ACI World Congress with Wallstreet and as this is the 50th and biggest ACI to date, we thought it was about time we shared with you what we’ve been up to. [...]

That was that then. 2010 done and dusted in a blink of an eye. But if we can start 2011 the way we finished 2010 then we’ll be pretty happy. To the sound of fanfares and cheering crowds, we’re dead chuffed to announce that towards the end of last year we bagged 3 awards for [...]

The recent Junior Road Safety Officers’ (JRSOs) Design Workshops were a huge hit for all concerned. The Escape has once again been privileged to be involved in a poster design workshop helping children who are actively involved in promoting and creating Road Safety awareness. What is the Junior Road Safety Officer initiative? In association with [...]

Your company logo is without doubt a key element of your overall business brand and reflects both the underlying ‘personality’ of your enterprise along with its core values. The commercial value of your brand logo should never be underestimated. If you want to know what the real value of a brand is worth, you need [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]