Author: Ellie

Ho ho ho! Vaughan Arnell, director extraordinaire talks to Shots about his festive films in this years Christmas Review.

https://shots.net/news/view/vaughan-arnell-covers-christmas

Innocean Berlin and Dyslexia Scotland started a campaign to raise awareness for dyslexia. The task? Create a new font that would be easier for people with dyslexia to read. We got several designers involved and are proud to announce our first new font by Daniel Brokstad “Inconstant Regular”. Read all about it in Design Week. Well done to all involved Katie Carmichael, Maso Heck, Odile Breffa, Ricardo Wolff, Gabriel Mattar, Julia Sachse, Noha Fahmy, Anna Berlin, Mark Preston TypoCircle #inconstantregular #font

The Booker Prize Foundation has commissioned Mermade, digital sister company of Merman, to create a series of short films to promote this year’s shortlist before the winner is announced on 17th October at The Roundhouse, Camden.

The 12 films, directed by Kevin Thomas, feature six well-known performers, including the actors David Harewood and Anna Friel, musician and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker, as well as Merman’s very own Sharon Horgan, with each performing two excerpts from one of the six shortlisted books.

Thanks DavidReviews for 5* of one of the films and who also reminds us that Merman’s “Bad Sisters” finale is on tomorrow night!

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/watch-leading-performers-read-extracts-from-the-booker-prize-2022

 

“The time for pretending to be good is over. We have no more time for lies, minimal efforts and greenwashing. The word ‘sustainability’ alone even lost its meaning, because what are we trying to sustain?”

Park Village’s Sil van der Woerd & Jorik Dozy from Studio Birthplace talk to LBBonline – Little Black Book about Olympic sized swimming pools of oil and how we can be more climate positive in this Behind The Work interview for The Woolmark Company.

 

The amazingly talented Lucy Bridger at Agile Films talks to LBBonline – Little Black Book about her craft and her love of human stories. Beautiful!

Agency INNOCEAN Berlin have partnered with Dyslexia Scotland for an amazing design campaign to help people with dyslexia.

The agency discovered an incredible insight that the unpopular font comic sans is surprisingly the most useful font to read for people with dyslexia. Given this, they are challenging designers worldwide to create their own font using the guidelines they’ve created with Dyslexia Scotland to make fonts more user friendly for dyslexics. For more about the campaign or how to get involved visit  #dyslexiaawarenessmonth

HUGE congratulations to two Merman directors winning Emmys last night. MJ Delaney for outstanding directing and Declan Lowney for outstanding comedy series as supervising producer both on Ted Lasso! Amazing achievement and what a show! #emmys

 

“For me it’s a process that helps communicate exactly what I want and leaves no room for confusion. The entire film crew, from Art Dept to lighting, agency and client, know exactly what I’m thinking, which makes everything much more streamlined on the day.”

Wonderful insight from director/production designer Olly Williams at Mermanon his production obsession of rendering concept visuals. Check out the link below.

We’re taken on a trip down memory lane as director Joseph Kahn from Octopus Inc brings back pop legend Rick Astley and a timeless classic from the 80s. Here’s his latest tongue-in-cheek commercial for AAA Life Insurance Company and Deloitte Digital taking America by storm #nevergonnagiveyouup #rickroll