Occasional journal.
Not exactly a blog, and definitely not a forum for our deepest musings on the Philosophy of Branding, this is where we’ll update you – from time to time, and when the mood takes us – on anything noteworthy that’s going on in Neon’s world...
Neon create a new website for Bignor Park Estate, West Sussex.
Through a connection from our work rebranding wine merchants Corney & Barrow and also creating their House range of wines labelling, Neon were approached to create the new website for the Bignor Park Estate in the heart of West Sussex. It was a fantastic project working with Ned Mersey, helping to showcase his family home […]
We forgot to mention… that we won an award for our work for Moody’s ESG!
Hey, a big congrats to Moody’s ESG Solutions’s team for winning the Most Effective Campaign for a Green Product at the Financial Services Forum, Awards for Marketing Effectiveness 2022 with it’s Comprehensive Coverage campaign created by Neon. You can see our ‘Comprehensive’ campaign the work here. This followed on from the strategic positioning job that […]
All our animations and shorts brand films are now all in one place!
We’ve realised lately that we done a fair few animations, animated logos, explainer videos and short brand and recruitment films over the years – but they’ve been hidden away amoungst all our bigger brand and advertising case studies. So we have also pulled them out and into a new section on Neon’s website under: ‘Just […]
Branding in West Sussex. Neon has moved offices from London to Chichester in West Sussex.
Things never stand still and Neon is no exception. We have moved offices from our spot in Alfred Place just off Tottenham Court Road in London to the Corn Exchange in Baffins Lane, Chichester in West Sussex. It’s a move that has made sense in terms of quality of life in living nearer to our […]
Simple but hilariously effective creative use of a little bit of cardboard…
A bit of fun / I love simple ideas… Hmmm, history seems to repeat itself for me in regard to being a boxed toy… Love this simple but hilariously effective creative use of a little bit of cardboard, promo-ing the new Barbie film. …I also loved being immortalised as another action figure as part of […]
A great read by James Burstall our client at Argonon.
I’ve been meaning to drop a post about this book for a little while, ‘The Flexible Method’ a quick and very useful read by James Burstall CEO of the Argonon group (a multi award-winning independent global production group – click here to see our rebranding work for Argonon). It is refreshingly candid, super insightful and with […]
07 – Brands that really speak to you…
Branding is all about communication – and linking brand ID to copy can smartly solve all manner of brand and communication issues as well as super charge brand awareness. For example, Corner & Barrow were struggling to communicate their experience and knowledge – and had a brand ID that was dusty in feel and impractical […]
06 – When not being clear is clearly the answer…
Thought we’d throw in a little “Throw back Thursday” project that we used this week as part of a pitch… ‘Clarity Matters’ typographic conundrums… Communicating clarity by… er, confusing people. Well, not exactly confusing them – let’s say, giving them something to enjoy puzzling over. That was the idea behind this little series of typographical […]
05 – Beautiful brand marks big and small…
Branding has so many constituent parts… We love the cerebral challenge of brand strategy, positioning, experience, tone of voice etc. But we also love the challenge of creating the humble brand mark, which can communicate so much… We’ve all read and loved ‘No Logo’, equally we’ve also read ‘Yes Logo’ which champions brand icons. Over […]
04 – When the problem is about many things, lots can be the solution…
04 – When the problem is about lots of things, lots of things can be the solution… Many aspects of branding, marketing and campaign work is all about distilling down and finding that single aspect or story to focus on – and then having an idea to bring it to life. However, sometimes when the […]
03 – Big ideas and messages in as few words as possible…
03 – Big ideas and messages in as few words as possible. How to capture, distil and then bring to life a brand idea, positioning, strapline, campaign or advertising message is ever the challenge – but one we’ve come to thoroughly enjoy. Capturing a big idea or message in as few words as possible, delivers […]
02 – Collaborate to elevate a project…
02 – Collaborate to elevate a project We feel collaboration is an essential ingredient to elevating work and an enjoyable project experience – both with our clients and when working others to bring our ideas to life. Over the past 15 years we’ve collaborated with all manner of people on all manner of projects, from […]
01 – When details matter, geek out on them…
There’s a lot of healthy discussion about Burberry’s new brand ID, moving away from a trend it helped start of flat minimal sans-serif sanitised word marks. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for the new – and using the odd bit of sans serif. However, I do still enjoy the challenge of doing something based […]
15 years of doing what we love…
Neon: 15 years of doing what we love… A good friend recently pointed out that it’s been 15 years since I went solo with Neon, having jumped ship from being a big time Charley Creative Director of an international agency – so to keep at the pointy end of actual creative doing and to have […]
It’s been a while but…
Hey, it’s been a while since we posted… So much has happened in the world, we got busy, we all hangout a lot in social media now… But we’re back and will be dropping news and interesting shares again from time to time like before. See you soon…
Neon nominated for The b2b Marketing Awards 2019 in Best Product Launch Campaign category.
Hot of the heels of our nomination in The Drum b2b marketing awards we have just been informed that we are nominated finalists in The b2b Marketing Awards 2019, for our Moody’s CreditView campaign. (click here to see full case study). Our work has again been made a finalist in the ‘Best Product Launch Campaign’. […]
Neon nominated for The Drum b2b Awards 2019 in Best Product Launch Campaign category.
It’s been an extremely busy past few months/2019 so far – and the variety of work as been pleasingly wide, from branding and brand campaigns for behemoths to designing album covers and shooting music videos for an amazing internationally known musician (but we can’t talk about that one yet!) and more things in between. Anyway […]
Friend of Neon Michael Trew creates latest Time Out magazine cover.
Neon were happy to spot the work of good friend Micheal Trew of Papershake featuring on the cover of Time Out magazine. Michael has been involved a good few Neon projects with his paper engineering prowess, most notably for our work for the law firm Nabarro. If you’d like to know more about any of these projects […]
Neon commissioned by Moody’s to create an explainer animation for Moody’s CreditView.
Neon are excited to have been commissioned by Moody’s for a further animation project for their CreditView offering that was branded earlier this year by Neon (case study coming soon!), which has come via a recommendation from our work for the law firm CMS earlier this year. If you’d like to know more about any of […]
Neon create new brand identity for Wollens Solicitors.
Neon have created the new brand positioning and brand identity for Wollens Solicitors. After period of acquisition Wollen Michelmore decided to consolidate under the new name Wollens – creating the largest law firm in the South West. Neon worked in partnership with strategic consultants Quite Early One Morning to develop the positioning ‘Full Spectrum Law’ and […]