I love Strong Island

Strong Island, Portsmouth.


 

 

I don't really need to say all that much. They just do beautiful things, they're blog is great - the photography is always special and the general feeling is always perfect.

The whole movement is creativity I admire greatly.

They inspire much that we do as a creative ethos and an appreciation - they are pioneers if you ask us!

Hats off to 'em!

Want anything from the shop... ...Cornetto

 Designed by Barber Osgerby will light up the streets on its tour around britain before arriving at the olympic games for the opening ceremony. The 8000 holes represent the number of people that will carry the torch on its journey. I can help thinking though, do you want a flake with that?

              Foam, card and resin designs were made before the prototype is produced

 Sam

What we look forward to in June

For me, a footall dweeb, the end of the season isn't such a bummer.

If anything, I really look forward to it - there's a flurry of new football kits for me to waste my time scouring. With this also comes new boots, new ad campaigns and generally the build up to a fresh start for all football teams.

Everything is generally far more enjoyable when the sun come out too.

Where am I going with this?

Here:



and here:



Interesting to see the angles each club is taking moving their brands forward. Both have some lovely touches.

The layering, bold features of Oldham (image 1) are powerful and smart whilst the tonal, simple imagery of Coventry (image 2) is minimal and cultured.

I'd summarise by saying Oldham have gone modern whereas Coventry have moved towards contemporary.

Both do a great job for each and I'll look out for these next season.

Hooray for the re-brand.

Enjoy the sun, up to 25 deg. ? Beautiful.

Pete

(credit to http://www.footballshirtculture/ for making lunch time so lovely and their design football blog for being the icing on the cake)

Too early for a Glastonbury countdown?

Project

Nothing official, just anticipation for Glastonbury.

Design

Johnny Casio Design

Impatience is a virtue...

So surely the full line up is only around the bend? As ever Glastonbury 2011 is a major feature in our calender. It's a bench mark for the summer if you will. The consistent 'thing' of brilliance that you can guarantee each year is Glastonbury.

Itching feet inspired this note as quite frankly, we just can't wait for Glastonbury.

Whose going?

Not long.

Lovely new clients.

Always good to work for and with people that you feel are doing something grand. We're fortunate enough to have some lovely clients with some cracking businesses. This is another. Made Up North Productions are an independent film company inspiring people to do things they are passionate about, as well as making some great work.

Here's a cheeky glimps into some scamps we've been doing:

A few more of late...

and so we have a go...

So in an evening admiring all things minimalist in the design world, we thought it was about time we have a quick go as a tribute to an inspirationally brilliant and heroic comedy! This is Spinal Tap and This is by Johnny Casio.

Over and Out!

Proud we are.

It gives us great pleaure to introduce '93 by Phil Martin' - a really great photographer who has just got a fantastic eye for a great shot. Phil shares our vision of innovation so after little deliberation we have invited Phil to be part of JC. We're inspired by him and hopefully you can be too.

See more here: www.johnnycasio.co.uk/philmartin93.html

Let's get our name in lights!

We're currently working on tightening up the branding for JC and part of this is aligning our guidlines. The current project is a book that sumarises us, what we do and who we are. Who knows...maybe one day we'll get our name in lights --> big smiley emoticon.

the johnny casio brand...

And that's us.

Trial and Tribulations of life in the 6-a-side: The Story of Norfolk and Chance

The 3rd blog

So, after a one week break whilst our beloved referees have their monthly meeting, League Edstreme returned on Thursday 20th May. After our last performance, a battling 1-0 defeat in the CRY cup with 5 players, I have to admit I felt positive.

We faced the usual selection dilemma of a lack of players, with exams and injuries decimating the squad. That left us with a bare 5, so a ringer, named Jack, was called in at the last minute.

NAC got off to the usual positive start, decent possession and a couple of early chances, but, as has been the story of our season so far, we had no-one there to put them away. As a result, we went 1-0 down with the oppo’s first attack on goal. We did however fight back almost immediately, when a great chance fell to aforementioned ringer Jack, which he tucked away confidently. That made him joint top scorer, with yours truly!

The second half was as even as the first, until a certain Phil George attempted the pass that Jimmy always tells him not to – the one across goal. It was intercepted and, as I’m sure you can guess, tucked away.

We threw everything at them in the closing stages, including the kitchen sink, but to no avail. As it was, the game ended 2-1 and NAC suffer another disappointing defeat. All we need is a finisher and we would rocket up the league. I wonder if Michael Owen fancies a game.

Until next week

Phil

Trials and tribulations of life in the 6 a-side - the story of Norfolk and Chance

Blog – Week 2 – CRY Cup 2nd Group Game

The word “hero” is an overused term in our beautiful game. Too many of our overpaid Premier League players are often put on the same level as soldiers and surgeons. But, down at 6-a-side level, where we actually pay to play football, you could argue we are deserving of that accolade.

And so it was proved in our second group game of the CRY cup. We had lost our opening game 9-0 to a Premier Division side and faced equally tough opposition in the second one. To add to our already steep mountain, we could only muster 5 players. However we got stuck in, battled for every ball and won every header. For the first half, we kept the score at 0-0.

We went into the second half in confident mood. Still the chances for the opposition came and went and they got more and more frustrated. However they did get the breakthrough after around 8 minutes of the second half, when a long range pile driver beat Jimmy in goal.

We kept battling though and Ru had a couple of gilt edged chances when through one-on-one with the goalkeeper which he really should have taken. In the end though, we lost 1-0. A marked improvement and something we can hopefully carry over into the league, especially after our 1-1 draw last week.

Here’s hoping!

Phil

Trials and tribulations of life in the 6 a-side - the story of Norfolk and Chance

The Epic 1st Blog

Hello one and all and welcome along to my first ever blog! My name is Phil George and my good friends at Johnny Casio Design have asked me to write this after he designed me a quite fantastic team badge (see above). I will be keeping you all up-to-date with the trials and tribulations of my 6 a side football team NAC (stands for Norfolk and Chance – say it quickly to understand it!) over the coming months.

NAC play in a league my mate Sean runs called League Edstreme (www.leagueedstreme.webs.com), based in Portsmouth, set-up in memory of his younger brother Ed who he unfortunately lost at a very young age. He has set the league up to raise awareness of CRY (www.c-r-y.org.uk) who have helped him and his family greatly over the past couple of years.

The league has come a long way, from playing with 8 teams in a sports hall to 2 outdoor all weather pitches with 2 divisions totalling 16 teams. As a result, he asked me to become “President” of the first division (he is an avid follower of NHL!). So as well as playing, I help with the organising.

We had the first CRY Cup competition a couple of months ago, raising £1,100 for CRY and another one is planned for this season. To be able to help with the running of this non profit league is truly an honour and all the while we are raising lots of money for charity.

So now you have the background, I will update you all in the coming weeks as to the progress of the newly formed NAC. Like any new team we are currently trying to gel and fortunately, as we are at the lower end of the footballing pyramid, we aren’t subject to the pressures of the Premier League! However this doesn’t mean we won’t be trying. Contrary to our team name, we have belief!

We are 4 games into this season and are currently 8th (of 8 L) in the first division. So, as the famous tune goes, the only way is up, baby! The season resumes a week Thursday (CRY cup games tonight) when I will update you on the adventures of Phil, Ru, Steve, Col, Jim, Justin, Paul & Jay.

You think it’s all over…..it is now.

Phil

The trials and tribulations of life in the 6-a-side - The Story of Norfolk and Chance

So ladies and gents it gives us a real pleasure to introduce to you a feature on our blog that we will be running every week. We have searched high and low for the perfect team of likely lads that we can feature on our Blog. We found 'Norfolk and Chance'.

Looking for some help with a team logo, we took it upon ourselves to design the team a logo. We came up with two final designs, the first you can see below is one that we plucked up from thin air...

However, this one below is the logo the team went for as it suited what they were looking very specifically for, best.

It is a real pleasure to be working with the team who have agreed to provide us with regular blogs about the teams progress and how they get on battling through 'League Edstreme'.

Watch this space for our very own team captain Phil George and his own unique insight into the behind happenings of the league and various cups!

Random Bits and Blogs

...What I'm thinking is, there may be a whole load of stuff we've been working on that hasn't had an blog exposure. I'm going to take this opportunity to throw down a load of designs we have done lately...enjoi!

An Engineering Firm Based in Banwell Somerset, we have been working on concepts for promotional material which included a re-brand. Above you can see the final logo. Below are a couple of logos for the Axbridge saxon football teams, what with the world cup an all we've been exploring all avenues of design in football.

Looking once more at a local engineering firm, we have been developing branding concepts to coincide withe the launch of a new website. Winscombe Engineering is the name of the firm if you hadn't realised :P

Above is a poster that was a real pleasure to do, Sunshine Hospital Radio, the radio station based in Weston General Hospital, is built up of a tem of highly committed and dedicated volunteers. One of the Johnny Casio team spent some great time there helping out wherever possible. You can find out more about the station at www.sunshinehospitalradio.co.uk

So there is update installment no. 1...watch this space for more

Introducing...MUSIC THAT WE LOVE TUESDAYS

Good afternoon folks!

I trust all is supoib and the week is starting to fly by! Hang in there...it's Easter this weekend!

So we are now embracing our blog and using it for our and hopefully your benefit. So without any further adue, may I introduce you to 'MUSIC WE LOVE TUESDAYS'

So what exactly is this? Just an image you've made for no reason whatsoever? Well my friends it is in fact our way of sharing our inspiration with you. We are inviting you to do the same!

Every tuesday we will be announcing two Music We Love Tuesdays winners as collectively suggested by you...fellow music lovers. All you need to is send your favourite music of the moment to blog@johnnycasio.co.uk and we will list them here every tuesday and share the sounds you have sent in...to the world!

Everyone loves music, where would we be without it? We depend on it and it helps each and every one of us at some point, somwhere. As a design agency, all of us here are constantly listening to something that makes us feel in a particular way and helps to inspire our work. We don't think we're alone in this. Whatever your profession, music will contact you at some point during the day and either help you out or frustrate you endlessly!

So we ask you, check out our first two winners - both from the folk world. Chuck Ragan www.myspace.com/chuckragan and Liz Lawrence www.myspace.com/lizlawrencelive

Please email us at blog@johnnycasio.co.uk and share your inspiration with the world!

Thanks for reading this and being a part of Johnny Casio Design

Keep well and enjoy x

So whadya know!

So whodda thought it then eh?

I've been a busy chap with all sorts of things at the moment, finally got a cheeky mo to slap on the lappy tappy too and hit the world wide web with some serious bloggage!

Last week i ended up on route to the big smoke of london to see the legendary Morrissey, poor chap, he's been knocked out with a throwt doo daa. So what to do now?

Horror fest 09!! Starting with Drag me to hell - in short, a brilliant comedy horror. Just had me all tense. Me tummy was in knots - i didnt knw whether to laugh or cry. A bit like going to see Jurrassic Park for the 1st time, I was about 8 and my mum was building it up that it was the scariest film ever made so i spent alot of the film with hands in front of me eyes. Turns out that film was brilliant in the end.

Next stop. Mr Wu.

Genius. Leicester Square all you can eat chinese buffet for under a 5er. Need I say more? Quite funny seeing Mr Wu himself kicking off because people are using his tables without his permission.

After the loverly romace and mood lighting provided on this beautiful sunny day we stopped off at this new attraction called the passage of Terror. Again, in short it were marvellous. Scary beeswax, give it a go. Its good fun.

Final film. Let the right one in...I liked it.

I'm rambling, had a wonderful trip in London but I haven't even told you about the Clothes show...I can happily and so proudly say that George Lamb of 6 music and Big Brother and other e4 itv2 like fame is the owner of a Johnny Casio t-shirt. I personally gave it too him and he was a loverly chap!! He was very passionate and wanted to hear more, it gave Johnny a bit of the old Confidence.

Lets hope he wears it!!!

Fanks for listening, new desings on the way asapasoon!