There’s a lot of love for Cinema 4D here in our Motion Branding team. If you want to share the love, you can connect with the team any time on Twitter.

This series of images above was created for the lighting company FLOS. Kleiner’s confident composition perfectly reflects FLOS’s ‘Flosophy” which is described as being ‘iconic’, ‘inventive’ and with ‘strong symbolic appeal’.

Kleiner’s personal work (below) ‘lollipops’ shows the playful side to his work. Again, the compositions are highly creative, and the use of lighting and contrasting tones gives personality to his inanimate subjects.

Finally, these images created for IKEA deserve another mention; the perfectly poised elements work harmoniously together to create pleasing symmetrical patterns.

An overall sense of order and perfection shines through, and for some odd reason (possibly because I have a touch of OCD), leaves me with a happy feeling and an unbearable urge to rearrange my dining table.

Stagebox attaches to the back of a regular broadcast-standard camera and creates a fully-connected set-up that moves HD content over standard IP networks to connect multiple cameras, microphones and feeds directly to the editing process.

From a production standpoint this is very exciting because it has the potential to streamline the production workflow immeasurably.

If we’re understanding this right, with Stagebox broadcasters will be able to stream HD video content directly between news agencies and post-production services, enabling them to replace older systems where content is bounced across satellites from a Mast Control Room, or getting a runner or courier to get tapes across town.

News broadcasters may now be able to escape the 90’s and take one giant leap into the 21st century.

Source: RapidTV News

If you’d like to know more about the services that Turquoise Branding offer to broadcasters – contact us today!

Normally this means we get a cake in, but Gareth happens to be a man who loves to push the boundaries of his culinary palette. Taking this fully onboard, we created an eclectic mix of dishes for him, fusing Japanese cuisines with his native Welsh favourites in a Bento box full of unique delights for him to devour.

Check out the menu and photos below to get a flavour of dishes. It’s interesting to say the least:

Menu design by Charlie Farncombe:

The dishes:

Crumbled Caerphilly muddle with Shin Ramyun noodles in a spicy sauce

A medley of Burry Port cockles and fish skins in a chilli and vinegar jus

A Welsh cake stack hiding layers of rehydrated seaweed

Dim Sum beef pasty on a bed of eggs stewed in soy sauce

and for the rest of us….

A plate of cornish pasties.

Happy birthday boss!

In a world of complex business problems and converging media platforms, Turquoise Branding offers powerful strategy, fresh creativity and innovative design to bring brands to their full potential.

With over 15 years of client-side marketing experience, we’ve worked with some of the world’s leading brands in bringing clarity to their message.

We develop innovative brand solutions through our three core services:

• Brand Strategy
• Marketing Strategy
• Brand Creative

In the hands of these visionary and meticulous artists gifted with a talent for minute detail, paper becomes a medium out of which lines, forms and stories can be patiently carved, cut, folded, sculpted and brought to life by means of the simplest techniques: cutting and folding.

Paper cutting is an art form which first originated in China. Today, artists and designers from every corner of the world bring to it the influence of visual representation and storytelling in their culture, in addition to their own personal expression of life experiences.

Here is a collection of inspiring paper-cut art pieces and illustrations from various artists who have perfected their craft and brought its magic touch to the world of digital media.

Elsa Mola (Cuba/USA)

Karen Bit Vejle (Denmark)

Aoyama Hina (Japan)

Kevin Stanton (USA)

Kako Ueda (Japan)

Andy Singleton (UK)

Sarah Dennis (UK)

Out of the five media consortia entered into the bid, Ofcom said that the winning bid had demonstrated “the greatest understanding of London’s diverse communities”, and that “proposals covered a significant range of subjects and would therefore meet the needs of local communities to the greatest extent”.

The new channel will be called London Live which Andrew Mullins, Managing Director of The Evening Standard, explains is:

” Because we believe breaking news, relevance and topicality are critical and we want and will encourage all Londoners from across the capital to engage and participate in our news and current affairs programming.”

In an interview with Journalism.co.uk, Mullins goes further on this point to explain that:

“There will be additional content created at very local level. User-generated content, I know it’s a buzzword, but we’ve been talking to people about how we can engage Londoners more readily with video content.”

Engaging audiences this way from launch is a smart, forward-facing move as, in our experience, broadcasters who are actively adapting to the new broadcasting paradigm are implementing new strategies for engagement that embrace the new information sharing culture that social media has ushered in.

Naturally, there’s an inherent challenge represented by the transition from producing, essentially static, news content for print and web to building a living, breathing television channel. Not only are the skill sets substantially different, but so are the audiences expectations from one medium to the other.

From a branding perspective this poses a number of challenges in terms of how the organisation restructures itself internally to accommodate this new addition to their daily operations as well as how they communicate what the new brand stands for both internally and externally.

We’re sure that Andrew and his team are currently inundated with offers of help right now and that they will be carefully scrutinizing what’s on offer to find an agency with proven ability in effective channel positioning. Alongside this they’ll need robust marketing and implementation plans, programming strategy and high quality branding solutions on and off air for the new channel.

All of these elements have to add up to a brand that has longevity, will stand out in the market and is cost effective and easy to manage in-house following launch.

We’ll be very interested to see who they partner with and how successful they are in delivering not just a business plan, but a new brand brought to life.

CLIENT: Bauer Media PLC
PROJECT: Promotional Film

Bauer Media engaged us to create a short film for them which outlines their fantastic reach and understanding of consumer markets throughout the UK and how Bauer Radio can connect advertisers with their target markets.

We developed a narrative for the film that was able to hit each of the key points that Bauer wanted the film to convey about their offer to advertisers. We were then able to expand upon the imagery contained in the narrative to bring the core messages to life as a lively and engaging animation.

You can watch the completed film above and take a look at some of the work that went into it below.

Talk to us if you’d like to know more about how Turquoise can help you to bring your brand to life.

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Three UK promises to provide LTE without increasing prices

The UK’s LTE adoption story has been dominated by EE so far — with the upstart network exploiting some spare spectrum to launch its 4G service ahead of the competition — but now Three has stepped up with a major pledge that will make smartphone buyers think twice » Link

Liberty Global to Acquire Virgin Media

John Malone’s international cable business Liberty Global Inc. has agreed to acquire U.K. cable-television and Internet provider Virgin Media Inc. for $16 billion, in a deal that may create a stronger rival to market leader British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC » Link

Chelsea FC owner acquires 23% stake in UK-based Truphone for £70m

Chelsea football club (FC) owner Roman Abramovich has acquired a 23.3% stake in the UK based global mobile VoIP provider, Truphone for £70m, which values the firm at around £300m. The new funds will be used to expand its businesses in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Poland, Germany and Spain in 2013 and is also currently negotiating with carriers in other countries to purchase capacity on their networks » Link

Vodafone suffers revenue slip as EE broadens 4G network

Fierce competition has pushed Vodafone’s UK business deeper into decline as the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, EE, has lured high-spending customers with the first 4G network.

On the day Vodafone reported a 5.2% fall in revenue at its British business during the Christmas quarter, EE thumbed its nose by announcing it had switched on its superfast, fourth generation, mobile internet service in Vodafone’s home town of Newbury » Link

TalkTalk fibre users increase by 75%

TalkTalk gained 69,000 new customers in the last three months of 2012, while more than 80,000 households now bundle TV with at least one other TalkTalk service, according to the broadband provider’s latest financial results » Link

Intel unveils smartphone for emerging markets

Intel, in partnership with integrated communications provider Safaricom, has launched a new entry-level smartphone designed for developing markets this week, PC World has reported. The new device, dubbed the Yolo, is powered by an Atom Z2420 SoC, a 1.2GHz chip based on a 32nm process and boasting support for 1080p video and 8MP image capture » Link

SA’s leading Internet provider to embrace social media

South Africa’s part state-owned telecommunications company Telkom has created accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin in a bid to connect with customers » Link

Wi-Fi extends to 11 more underground stations

Virgin Media continues to roll out Wi-Fi on the London Underground with 11 new stations receiving access this week.

While free Wi-Fi will be ending this month, commuters who subscribe to Virgin Media, Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile and Orange will still stay connected for free due to wholesale agreements made in November.

Facebook beats revenue expectations with mobile boom

Facebook beat Wall Street’s expectations on Wednesday, announcing fourth-quarter earnings of $64m (£40.5m) on revenues up 40% to $1.59bn, and announced that mobile revenue had doubled and mobile users exceeded desktop ones. But its shares slid in after-hours trading » Link

UAE Telecoms May Block BlackBerry Voice Service

Research In Motion Ltd. is in last ditch talks with telecom operators in the United Arab Emirates to provide its BlackBerry Messenger Voice service to customers and avoid launching the new BlackBerry 10 operating system in Dubai without the popular feature. Link