Instagram.ography

One year ago Instagr.am launched into the world. Now nearly 50,000 people sign up each and every day to become part of the world’s most vibrant photo community – creating a catalog of imagery that allows us to explore the world in ways never thought possible. 


Instagr.am is a hugely popular photo-filter app that now has more than 9 million users and 250 million shared photos. It’s success is partly due to Steve Jobs, without whom Instagram would never have come into being. Every snapshot taken with Instagram is possible because of the hard work of timeless innovators at Apple. 

With it's Facebook and Twitter sharing capabilities and regular updates it is sure to gain even further ground... rumours are also surfacing for a Blackberry and Android version too.


We've been using Instagra.am for a while now, here are some of the images we've taken in the past, you can see more on our Flickr page.

Make a Date

It's that time of year again when designers burn the midnight oil, thrashing their brains for the next big creative calendar idea.

Today, calendars are not just tools that tell you what day or month it is, but serve a much more subtle role in our lives. A well-designed and aesthetically pleasing calendar can alter the visual aspect of a room and can even be a subject around which casual conversation can revolve.

In our minds a calendar plays an imperative role in our lives and defines us by our tastes and styles. Latest advancements in technology have made it possible for us to incorporate our schedules and events into calendars in a virtual form in our mobile devices and computers, but nothing beats the experience of owning a conventional calendar. There are many who prefer to own and use calendars that are physically present which they can touch and feel, an experience that cannot be replicated by modern technology.

Last year we did away with convention and produced the Qubric 2011+ a thumb drive with a preloaded series of desktop wallpaper calendars. Altough we had some great feedback it was mixed with a sense of disappointment that we had not produced our regular calendar that we had been producing for the past 5 years.

This year we have teamed up with our printer and paper supplier in China to produce a collaborative desk calendar version.

Here are some of the design works currently in progress. We'll be sharing more as the project progresses...

Design to a T

Now in its 4th year, the Singapore Grand Prix night race is a spectacular, adrenalin driven event set in the heart of Singapore. Our Creative Director Quentin Berryman had the enviable task of Track Marshall in 2010 and in 2011 he'll be attending the race again as Observer.

This year we also took the opportunity to enter the Race Official's t-shirt competition. Open only to the 2,000+ Race Officials, the brief was simply to develop an eye-catching design that any Race Official would be proud to wear. Here are some of the designs. Unfortunately we could only submit one. As you can imagine it was a tough choice.

Spoilt for choice, a screen grab from the designers desk top!

Submitted final version.

Some of the 'rejects'