New Stuff!

We have just updated our website portfolio, with all our most recent work.
Take a look and let us know what you think!

Movember at The Sketch Design Studio

Show us your Tache!

The Sketch Collective are joining thousands of other businesses and participants in raising money for the charity Movember.
Thom and Tom have been keeping their upper lip warm this month in a bid to raise funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

 Each year Movember is responsible for men (Mo Bros) all over the world growing moustaches and spreading the word, ladies (Mo Sistas) can also help by supporting Mo Bros raise awareness as well as the vital funds.

 If you would like to make a donation to our Movember page then please do so by following this link http://mobro.co/thesketchcollective

Why not show us your tache by uploading a photo to our facebook page too?
 https://www.facebook.com/thesketchcollective

Sketch photographer Thom Williams recently took some photographs for The Crown Inn at Woolhope, here is a just a selection of images taken from the shoot...

All images copyright of The Sketch Collective

Finally, the Sketch Design Studio is up and running!

We have had a busy few months juggling work, decoration and opening a new studio and on top of that, charity work too! Hectic, but we are finally there.

We are currently settling in to our new premises which is on Ledbury High street, Herefordshire and it's looking very smart if we do say so ourselves! However, this could not have been achieved without the blood, sweat and tears from our family and friends… huge thank you to all of you!
Take a look at our photos to see what we have been getting up to…

As for the charity work, our web designer Tom Hancock and Photographer Thom Williams have achieved a great feat by completing the 'Three Peak Challenge' on the 18th/19th August. This involves climbing the highest mountain in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon) within 24hours…. and it certainly was not a walk in the park! The chosen charity is a foundation called The Knock On Effect - a local group raising money for a range of cancer charities started by a young girl called Rosie Kilburn during her own fight against cancer. Rosie's sadly lost her battle last year but the foundation continues to be run by her family and friends. This year would have been Rosie's 20th Birthday and their aim is to raise £20,000. The sketch boys, joined by Nick Beresford-Poole, Steve Kyle, Sophie Wilesmith, Ben Streames, Sam Meek and most importantly driver James Batley managed to complete the challenge in an incredible 22hours 55 minutes raising over £2000 for TKOE, a massive congratulations to them all!

The Sketch boys have just about recovered from achy limbs and are in the new studio along with Graphic Designer Hayley Beresford-Poole, so if you're passing pop in and have a look.

This one needs no words....

the 10 best music videos of all time

here is a list of the music videos i think are amazing and have well and truly made their mark on the music video world for being creative, inspirational, clever, witty, funny, different, new, exciting or maybe they are just great.

10.In Your Arms - Kina Grannis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0

9.Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

8.Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI

7. Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFS69nA-1w

6. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk&ob=av3e

5. Michael Jackson - Thriller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA&ob=av3n

4. Massive Attack - Teardrop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s&ob=av3e

3. Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

2. Johnny Cash - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related

1.Untitled #1 (A.K.A Vaka)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPuZsIkRj8&feature=plcp&context=C3f7400aUDOEgsToPDskJUcKB9ZZQ2WuuhHSXvDzC5

A cinemagraph.... the next photograph

photo means 'a picture made from light', ghraphy means 'to write' and cinema means 'a motion'

so what is a cinemagraph?

a moving picture, but not a movie, an almost static image that is somehow alive... very clever stuff! check it out here

maybe this is what we will expect to see more of in the future, maybe not, either way i think its an interesting technique even if it does somehow mirror the paintings in harry potter.