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New Windows on Willesden Green is an Outer London Fund project, which is being delivered for Brent Council and Design for London by The Architecture Foundation.The project is an exciting opportunity to revive and improve Willesden High Road bringing positive change to the area. 25 different designs create an advent calendar of store-front window displays, encouraging people to see the local area and its shops in a new light.
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When we were asked by architects Studio Octopi to lend a hand on their window for the project, we were really happy to oblige! The studio had already designed the striking theme of the festive red ribbons to mirror the ceiling detail, and we added the finishing touches in the form of the type in three languages- English, Tagalog and Spanish- flowing across the shop front.
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You can read more here

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Lovely work by Spanish photographer Maria de la Iglesia. Maria is working with us on a project at the moment, she came highly recommended by our photographer friend Davy Jones. Really looking forward to seeing the results, which we'll post here on our blog.

Harewood — The Avenue.
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Harewood - The Square.
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Coldstone Farm.
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Bedale - 2 Oak Tree Close.
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All the houses I lived in (that I was old enough to remember) before I left home.
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I was just talking to someone online about a Hacienda poster (their 7th anniversary) I had that was designed by 8vo. It cost me something like £10 at the time (1989), I was attending Newcastle College, and had left the poster at my mum & dads house (the last pic in the post). After college I moved down South to work with Trevor Jackson and my mum & dad packed my things into boxes and put them in the loft. One of those items was the Hacienda poster...the last time I saw the poster it was in a dark loft, slightly creased...and this then set me on a small mission to find the houses I lived in as a kid.

*Click on the images for a bigger view

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We've been working on an interesting new project for 'Close' an anonymous music collective. The website we designed for them has just been launched, see that here.
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Design/Typography/Photographic art direction by Build.
Photography by Benjamin Grillon.
Website development by Tom van de Velde.
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Custom typography—
As part of the project we designed a mono-linear-humanist typeface which will form the basis for the collectives identity.
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4 months in the making.
4 trips to Finland.
9 hours of footage edited down to 4m38s.
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Nokia N9 Journey.
Watch: (Long) / (Short).
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A short film commissioned by Nokia to be shown at Nokia World and a special event at The Design Museum. Documenting the design and the people behind the new Nokia N9 smartphone. Interviews conducted at Nokia HQ in Finland with the Nokia N9 design team. Factory scenes shot at their assembly plant in Salo, Finland.
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A Build Production
in Association with ShootMedia
Storyboard and Art Direction by Nicola & Michael C. Place
Directed and Edited by Elliott Cranmer
Direction of Photography by Adam Clitheroe
Camera by Alex Agopian
Post Production and Editing Aivaras Seduika
Original Music by J-VEN
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Stills photography (below) by Nicola Place/Build.
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"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented".
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Steve Jobs 1955—2011.