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Kyle Lambert

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Hard to believe the picture of Rihanna below is actually a digital drawing and not a photograph. Having met Kyle personally and having his work brought to my attention by his friends and not himself speaks volumes. Kyle’s work is done on varying platforms as detailed below each of his pictures, including some truly stunning pieces on an iPad! The Rihanna piece below took 8 hours using a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet with Adobe Photoshop.

Kyle Lambert's digital illustration of Rihanna

To see many more images of Kyle’s superb artwork and to watch a video of how Kyle made this Rihanna picture, click here.

Landscapes without Memory

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Military madness turns to art in some great images by Joan Fontcuberta, a conceptual artist from Barcelona, Spain. This piece, and others, were created using a computer program called Terragen. The program was originally created for military and scientific uses which turns flat 2D maps into images of three-dimensional terrain.  However, instead of entering map charts into Terragen, the photographer inserts landscapes painted by artists such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Turner and Constable among others. The software translates them into new virtual landscape that he (yes he, Joan is actually male) calls “post-landscapes”, forming a fault line between the virtual and real, between truth and illusion.

One of a series of 3D artworks by Joan Fontcuberta

The Wilderness Downtown

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Considering the weather at the moment, the title of this Google Chrome experiment seems more than appropriate. This is an experiment developed using HTML5 featuring the song “We Used To Wait”  by Arcade Fire.  Self described as an interactive film and using Google Earth information to link to your hometown, it is a modern fusion of music, video and graphics showing what diversity you can create with HTML5.

Arcade Fire's The Wilderness Downtown - A short film by Chris Milk

Be entertained by this visual treat here.

Google’s beginners guide to the web

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Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Twenty years later Google have decided to produce an online book called “20 Things I Learned About The Web”. This informative and entertaining electronic book covers topics as general as “What is the Internet” to more in depth subjects like “Plug-ins”, “IP addresses & DNS” and “Evolving to a Faster Web”. Head on over to take a look at it’s interesting concept of simplistic design fused with easy to understand technical content.

Google's Beginners Guide To The Web

Take a view of Google’s guide here.

City TV

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The next thing in local TV is set to go.

City TV

ADOmedia are working closely with City TV Broadcasting, an up and coming TV channel, creating an entire online platform and media presentation and communication system. Make sure you sign up to their mailing list to keep up to date. Watch this space…

Twitter – out of this world

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Here at ADOmedia we often encourage our clients to have a twitter account. There are many benefits to this of which convenience is a major one. Being able to tweet anywhere from almost any platform nowadays is clearly demonstrated here by Douglas H. Wheelock, who goes by the name @Astro_Wheels on Twitter. He photographed fellow astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing at the view of Earth from a window in the Cupola on the International Space Station, before she headed home with teammates Sasha and Misha on a Soyuz space craft. Mr Wheelock regularly sends pictures back to Earth via his Twitter account.

Tweeting from space

FreeAgent

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ADOmedia have recently started using a fantastic on-line accounts system for our day to day bookkeeping. We have spent approximately 6 months trialing various on-line accounts systems and were about to knock the idea on the head when we stumbled across FreeAgent. Over the last few weeks we have been using the free trial and have just signed up to the service full time. The benefits for any small business / sole trader are unbelievable… it is so intuitive and yet so simple to use!

Freeagent - Accounting made easy!

Have a look at the tour to find out more about the system.

As a valued customer of FreeAgent ADOmedia have been given the referral code 33w20wf2 for any of our contacts who wish to also use the service. Why not visit the site here, sign up for the free, no obligation trial and if you decide to use the service simply sign up using the code and subscribe to receive 10% off your monthly subscription… we can heartily recommend it!

FreeAgent sign-up

Powerchips

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ADOmedia have just finalised and launched the brand new web presence for internationally renowned vehicle performance specialists Powerchips. Powerchips is a product of Collins Performance Engineering and is celebrating 25 years of service to the motor industry. The new website allows the business to reflect it’s cutting edge technology with a clean and crisp navigation and layout. You could say that we have unlocked their potential online!

Powerchips website screen shot

You can view Powerchips new website at www.powerchips.com

Woottons

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ADOmedia have recently launched the new website for fit out and refurbishment specialists Woottons Ltd. We were approached by the company with a brief to design and build a clean and easy to navigate web presence that would allow them to expose their services to a wider audience with the ambition to expand the company out across the UK. The end result has gone down a storm with the client who loved the crisp nature of the layout and design.

Woottons website screen shot

You can view Woottons new website here.

Good times

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It’s been one of those months for one of ADOmedia’s team! Alex (or “lucky sod”) as he is becoming known has had a coup d’état on Facebook not once, but twice, in two weeks!

Firstly, he won a competition via the Facebook “like” page for Teacups and Fairycakes to receive… yes, you guessed it… 6 cupcakes! They were delivered to his door the other day and they tasted amazing (especially the Black Forest variants pictured)! Thanks Annie. Then secondly, he only went and won another Facebook competition for a free inside and out valet from local car washing company Cheshire Auto Shine! The guys turned up in their van at the car park at work and cleaned the living daylights out of his car. They did a tremendous job and now have a new regular client. To say he is rather smug about this is a bit of an understatement!

Free stuff from Facebook

It is so great to see local businesses using the free resource of Facebook to promote themselves. using competitions and promotions aimed at your “likers” (previously fans) you can really increase your exposure, add to your client base and increase traffic to your web site. So it is a big well done to both businesses. Alex will now also be entering every competition he ever comes across!

You can view Teacups and Fairycakes web site here – www.teacupsandfairycakes.co.uk
To view Cheshire Auto Shine’s web site please go here – www.cheshireautoshine.co.uk

Nom Kitchen

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Nom Kitchen is a new food blog which we have recently launched for Alex’s fiancée Hannah. As a keen cook Hannah has built up large number of great recipes that she has amassed over the years. The problem was that with so many to remember there were bound to be a few that slipped the memory net and were consigned to history.

Therefore, ADOmedia helped her create this tasty (no pun intended!) little website so that all her yummy recipes could be documented. The site is controlled by a content management system and allows her to easily add and update her posts with ease. The blog is full of simple to make, delicious home cooked recipes with photos to help the less confident chefs out there plus a lot more! Why not have a read and give it a go… go on, you know you really do fancy yourself as the next Ramsay / Lawson!

Nom kitchen blog website screen shot

View the Nom Kitchen food blog here – www.nomkitchen.co.uk

Norbury Farm

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Norbury Farm is a working farm based in Hazel Grove. ADOmedia was approached by the owners to create a new website that would be able to reflect the farm’s diversity with the ability to focus on the four areas of the premises.

As well as rearing their own sheep and cattle (over 80 acres of green belt land) the farm boasts a café, a gift shop which sells a wide range of items from artificial flowers, cards, ceramics and lots more and a butchers. In addition to this Norbury Farm also has an antiques restorers. The photography on the website was also carried out by ADOmedia’s resident photographer Andy Stairmand, if you need shoots undertaking please let us know here. The end result has been well received and we are chuffed to bits with the outcome of the project!

Norbury Farm website screen shot

You can view the website we have created for Norbury Farm here – www.norburyfarm.co.uk

Mr D-livery

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ADOmedia have just launched the website for local food courier business Mr D-Livery. Mr D-livery are a Macclesfield based firm offering take away and restaurant food delivery to your door.

Mr D-livery website screen shot

To view the website please visit www.mrd-livery.co.uk.

Think Ambient

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ADOmedia have just completed the build and launched a European multi-lingual website for Think Ambient. The brief was to use the design from the existing UK version of the site and create a content managed version with the ability to add multiple languages. Think Ambient specialise in ambient media for guerilla marketing. They have two main products that they distribute, Clings and STX.

Think Ambient European website screen shot

To find out more about their great products that literally cling and stick to any surface please visit the new website at www.thinkambient.eu.

The vehicle livery

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Does your business have a van or other vehicle that is used to transport and deliver your products on a regular basis? If the answer is a yes then you should look into getting your branding and a call to action emblazoned onto it.
How else would you get / afford to have a free billboard roaming your locality clearly displaying your businesses brand and contact details? In short, having a vehicle livery is the most cost effective means of advertising that is available.

Here at ADOmedia we have many years experience in this field. Call us today if you want to find out more about how we can help you get a vehicle livery applied to your van, car or motorbike on 01625 612 198. At the end of the day, like all advertising, only a well thought out application will get you the sales off the back of it. A poor vehicle livery will merely put people off your products or services!

Here is a recent job we have carried out for Vanilla In Allseasons Outside Caterers vehicle livery jobs that ADOmedia have undertaken:

Vanilla in Allseasons van

Graphic novel comes to life

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Max Oppenheim, a London based photographer, was recently commissioned to create a series of recreations of the terrifying “yearbook photos” found in Charles Burns’ teen-sex-horror graphic novel Black Hole for 125 magazine. Working in conjunction with prosthetics artist Bill Turpin he has created these monstrous shots… we think they are ace! If you haven’t already the graphic novel we suggest you get your hands on it as soon as you can.

Max Oppenheim's Black Hole shoot - a homeage to the famous Charles Burns dark graphic novel

See the full series by visiting Max’s site here – www.maxoppenheim.com

ADOmedia V2

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It is finally here! Drum roll please…
We decided some time ago that our trusty old website needed a bit of a refresh. Our problem was that we have been so busy helping all of our clients on their projects we kept on having to put back the launch.
The wait, however, is finally over! As you will see we have modernised the site and now have a new showcase area featuring all of our recent work (which we will be adding to frequently).
We have worked closely with Paul Stalburg at PS Imaging to create the various food / drink based photography in and around the site. Thanks Paul, the results look great!

ADOmedia V2 website screen shot

If you would like us to do the same to your tired old website please feel free to contact us on
+44(0)1625 612 198 or drop us an enquiry here.

20 Albany Street Edinburgh

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ADOmedia have recently launched the website for a new boutique bed and breakfast situated in the heart of Edinburgh’s New town. 20 Albany Street is a newly refurbished luxury accommodation just off Princes Street which is situated “slap bang” in the middle of Edinburgh. Offering 3 grand suites and a first class, unrivalled hospitality. We can’t think of a better place to stay whilst visiting Scotland’s first city.

20 Albany Street website screen shot

To see the website we created please visit www.20albanystreet.co.uk.

NW-PA

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ADOmedia were recently approached by Age Concern Cheshire and C.C.I.L (Cheshire Centre for Independent living) to produce an easy to navigate and use on-line PA register for the North West of England. The project consisted of a lot of bespoke coding to produce a site with a built in communication platform that allows the PA’s and the registered employers to send messages in a secure method to each other’s accounts
within the site.

North West Personal Assistant Register for Age UK and CCIL website screen shot

You can view the website here – www.nw-pa.org

Ronnie’s Bar V2

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Following the success of the previous web incarnation of Ronnie’s Bar, ADOmedia were given the opportunity to update Ronnie’s existing web site to version 2. The site has just gone live with many new features and a cool, sophisticated layout. Initial feedback from customers is very positive indeed! Take a look for yourself, check out what’s on and who’s playing at this great town centre night spot.

Ronnie's Bar website screen shot

Visit the site today at www.ronnies-bar.co.uk

Magnex Exhausts

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ADOmedia recently won a great pitch to build the e-commerce website for Magnex Exhausts, the largest manufacturer and distributor of stainless steel exhausts in Europe. Following a large website build (and a lot of late nights and strong coffee) we are proud to announce the launch of Magnex Exhausts European On-line Shop!

Magnex Exhausts wesite screen shot

To see the site for yourself go to www.magnexexhausts.com.

Photographer

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ADOmedia has recently got a new face on the books to take care of any of our clients photography requirements in Andy Stairmand. Andy has many years commercial experience in numerous fields of the discipline and a very keen eye for detail. He has recently undertaken a couple of projects on our behalf and the results have been very impressive indeed. Here are a few of his efforts from a recent food shoot for outside caterers and great clients Vanilla In Allseasons … they are so good you could eat them!

Photography by Andy Stairmand for Vanilla in Allseasons

Bespoke Housekeeping print work

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ADOmedia have been recently been working with Bespoke Housekeeping, a start up business offering an entirely new concept in tailored household concierge. They can offer everything from cleaning services to home cooking, through to floral decoration and even wine and spirits (which is very handy after a long days work)! As a new venture the directors of the business needed to gain exposure via the internet and through a variety of printed material. ADOmedia have created a range of literature including luxurious mailers, stationary, pop up stands and a web presence.

Bespoke Housekeeping flyer

Bespoke Housekeeping flyer

If you are in need of someone to look after your home affairs while you work and play then look no further than www.bespokehousekeeping.co.uk.

Leah’s Pantry

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ADOmedia is pleased to tell you about the arrival of www.leahspantry.co.uk, the new website for Leah Stevenson. The Pantry is based in Harrop Fold Farm, Rainow, the only 5 star bed and breakfast in the North West of England! Leah holds regular cookery demonstrations at her Pantry including cupcake courses and demo and dine courses. Using only locally sourced produce to create the best in home cooking she will guide you from start to finish in the arts of creating delicious recipes which you can take home with you.

Leah's Pantry website screen shot

Have a look at www.leahspantry.co.uk to find out more about her brilliant courses and be sure to join her mailing list to keep up to date with all the latest news and offers. Everyone at ADOmedia can tell you she makes the best cupcakes you will have ever tasted… and if anyone wishes to prove us wrong our address is as follows:

ADOmedia
ADOtowers
12 Chestergate
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 6BX
United Kingdom

We can’t wait to eat more free cake!

DV8 Bar

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ADOmedia have created the branding, literature and signage for Congleton’s latest drinking establishment DV8 Bar! Team DV8 have had a great start to business seeing their bar full to the brim every weekend since it’s grand opening two weeks ago. If you haven’t already paid it a visit we suggest you get yourself down there. Don’t forget to try the fantastic range of cocktails Team DV8 can produce, we like the old fashioned sours, they are great… taxi for ADOmedia!

DV8 Bar corporate identity

DV8 Bar printed literature

DV8 FunkySessions flyer

Keep an eye out for their new web site which will be arriving soon, another ADOmedia project that we are currently working on in the studio. There is a holding page in place now, why not go to it and join the mailing list to keep up to date with all their latest news at www.dv8bar.co.uk?

Rock at the Moss

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Following on from the success of last years Blues At The Blues festival Macclesfield Town F.C. have decided to run an ongoing series of live music events under the umbrella branding of Rock At The Moss. ADOmedia won the pitch to develop the branding and have since designed the main logo and all the subsequent poster designs. With well known bands such as the fantastic Virginmarys and Black Bart already booked to play the events are going to be a superb night out for anyone with an interest in live music. I have a feeling you will probably see us down there having a head bang!

Rock At The Moss logo

Jingle Bells

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Christmas is fast approaching and we are in the process of winding down for our closure for the holidays on the 23rd December 2008. Our offices will re-open again on the 5th January 2009. So if you need any work completing this year then let us know as soon as possible!

Everyone in ADOmedia is busy with projects that we will be able to tell you more about in the new year… watch this space. Last week we completed the first two of a range of four adverts for our good client Collins Performance Engineering. We have done plenty of work for them including their on-line shop as well as a host of printed work. The first two adverts will be seen in the upcoming Fast Ford publication.

Projects on the board that we are working our way through this month include an online locket shop for local jewellers Don Massey, stationery development and website designs for Iron Manpower, corporate identity for a rail engineering recruitment company and a load of other jobs which we can’t mention for the time being as they are hush, hush… sorry!

Jingle Bells

One more thing, another of our clients and trusted partner we work with, Nexus IT Services’ website went live last week. Don’t look anywhere else for all your IT requirements, they are great guys who actually know their stuff.

London

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We have been very busy over the past month and a half, hence why there has been little in the way of blogging going on in ADOtowers.

Last Thursday (23rd October) saw us pay a visit down to London to attend the Oakley Design Brief wrap party and awards ceremony. As we have mentioned in the blog (many) before our work we entered had reached the final 14. Unfortunately our moment of glory wasn’t to be with the honours going to “Who Is This Kid?”, a london based designer. Well done to him, his design was really original and in hindsight, the self branding he incorporated hit the nail on the head as far as the brief was concerned. You can see his final, winning design here.

The party was a really stonking night out, free bar and great DJ’s. We had a real laugh, met some new faces and generally had a good time all round. Thanks to Oakley and Daydream Network for putting on such a high quality show! One of the highlights of the night was attempting to get Alex home via taxi across North London as once again he had enjoyed himself too much (there was a free bar)…

Whilst we were in “The Big Smoke” we came across a postcard featuring a ficticiously branded porridge box that was designed by ADOmedia.
It is from a range of advertising that Specsavers had commisioned that was specifically aimed at students. We were appointed to create the prop by Max Oppenheim, a prominent London based photographer who was commissioned for this range of adverts. Have a peak at his website for some of his great work.

Specsavers student advert

Flowskate

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Flowskate, a company specialising in rollerblading tuition,  has commissioned ADOmedia to design their new web presence.

Flowskate website screen shot

We are pleased to announce that the site is now live. Be sure to sign up to their mailing list and check back regularly for all the new updates, tips, tutorials, pictures and videos that will appear over the following months. Go on, get your skates on!

Oakley Design Brief

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Great news!
ADOmedia are now shortlisted as a highlight entry in the Oakley Design Brief , a competition to find the next design for their Artist Series range of Hijinx sunglasses. From the 60 that were shortlisted we are now in the last 14. We will be going down to the wrap party where the results of the contest will be announced.

Oakley design competition - the final 14

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