We've got wood

BALTIC launch their new summer exhibition on Wednesday 11 June. For the first time in a UK public gallery, Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara and creative design team Graf will present their latest installation, A to Z Project. Invites will coming to VIP letterboxes near you soon. But beware of the splinters, we spared the process of making trees into paper by printing them straight onto wood. We've been nursing sore fingers and lamenting that perhaps we should have used laminate...

The countdown to SIRF

Stockton International Riverside Festival's new website is now live! Check out this year's festival programme, with details on all the weird and wonderful artists from around the world. There's information on the Fringe Festival too, plus we'll be keeping the SIRF blog updated with all the latest news and events at sirf.co.uk

Cutting edge

We did a bit of diamond mining for Live's new season programme. Believe us when we say they are fiddly little b*!@*@*s when combined with PVA. Now we've finally peeled all the gluey bits from our fingertips, we're back to work on Live's brochure for their new production, Me and Cilla.

Be:

Be:gin your career. Be:come anything you want.
A Blyth employment initiative has a new identity with which to inspire people to Be: whatever floats their boat. We've even had a life-size (what is life-size for a word anyway?) model of their ID made, to Be: carted about and applied liberally to promotional campaigns. Just Be:cause we could. Sorry, we've finished now.

Daysaver cashes in

We've just received notice from Nexus that research shows our Daysaver campaign raised sales of their Evening Daysaver ticket by 21.4%. That's 200% over their sales target! But haven't we heard this before, you ask? (see Metrosaver is just the ticket. April 2007) Well kind of, but not really. We've done it before, and now we've done it again for another type of ticket. Oooh, we're good.