Movies to GoGo was a DVD Delivery business in Brighton -- launched before the likes of LoveFilm! The collection was more Indie Film Club than BlockBuster, and had a fantastic membership… To join, you were encouraged to get a bit ‘noir-ish’, slide into the slighty sleazy GoGo club with an invite from The Maverick,...
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Tags: Club GoGo, Main Street, MoviestoGoGo, The Maverick, The Scrutineer
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Rachael Adams: Designer, Illustrator, Archivist, Website Creator and A Best Chum to Mr Watkin
Sadly, the remaining copies of David’s autobiography were destroyed after probate to his estate was granted.
Designed, produced and published by Scrutineer’s.
Preface:
David Watkin’s life has been an uncanny fusion of luck and intelligence, and at no stage has his progress...
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Tags: Chris Mullen, cinematography, David Watkin, Rachael Adams, Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag?
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Commissioned during the Construction of St Pancras International…
Short animated film commissioned by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Written, directed & animated by The Scrutineer
Scrutineer’s, in association with CORBER, URN & RLE, present a short history of the station commonly known as St Pancras. With comments being made for an alert workforce, on the importance...
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Tags: Animation, Butterley Iron Company, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, David Monteath, Eurostar, Grand Midland Hotel, History of St Pancras Station, John Hughes, Lindsay Cooper, Navvies, Paris, Public Information Film, Rachael Adams, Short Film, Sir George Gilbert Scott, St Pancras Chambers, St Pancras Station, William Barlow
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Paul Davidson Taylor
The Scrutineer designed a website for this Sussex based legal practice. This was a map in their ‘contact us’ section. Client: Paul Davidson Taylor
The Scrutineer creates a lot of maps; site maps and actual maps. Here are some more examples below…
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Tags: Brighton Map, Diagram, Film Map, Map, Scrutineer Publishing
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The Blair Effect 2001-5
The Scrutineer designed the press invitation for the Anthony Seldon & Dennis Kavanagh book, published by Cambridge University Press, September 2005.
As the book was a ‘report’ of the second term of the Blair government, by a notable headmaster, it was designed in the style of Tony Blair’s school report…
Client: Cambridge University...
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Tags: Anthony Seldon, Cambridge University Press, Jeremy Paxman, Platypus PR, Publicity, School Report, The Blair Effect, Tony Blair
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Garden Walk, Hoxton, EC1
At the close of 2003, Garden Walk won the ‘City Life’ category in the annual HotProperty awards. This development consists of 23 high spec., contemporary, one and two bedroom apartments and penthouse in the heart of the Shoreditch triangle.
The Scrutineer designed the marketing material (website, brochure, advertising, hoardings etc.) for this...
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Tags: Brochure, Garden Walk, Logo, Modern City Living, United House, Website
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The Scrutineer designed (and continues to design), a series of DVD sleeves for this series of London Transport archive films, many of which were shot by Oscar winning cinematographer David Watkin.
Client: Barry Coward, Beulah
Yesterday’s Britain No.30 – The London Bus
Yesterday’s Britain No.31 – Capital Transport
Yesterday’s Britain No.36 – Routemaster
Yesterday’s Britain No.37 – All That...
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Tags: Barry Coward, Beulah, British Transport Films, David Watkin, London Transport, London Underground, Yesterday's Britain
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Logo to letterhead…
The Scrutineer has designed many a logo, many a letterhead – websites; invoice pads, labels, t-shirts, signage etcetera etcetera etcetera…
allfruity was a website with a fruity content… it didn’t get beyond visuals, unfortunately – but we liked the lip-smacking, mouth-watering tastiness of the look & feel!
Brighton Rock Climbing Wall is business...
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Tags: AllFruity, Branding, Brighton Rock Climbing Wall, David Monteath, Garden Walk, Hoxton, Illustra Research, KeySource, Logo
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Being an Autobiography of David Watkin
Text from the jacket flap:
Autobiography of one of the greatest living cinematographers still working today. Full of life, energy and attitude. Published by subscription with the support of the many luminaries with whom he has worked.
The book, rather like its contents, was unconventionally produced. It hasn’t known a publisher...
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Tags: Autobiography, Book Design, David Watkin, Why is there only one word for Thesaurus?
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BTEC AT NORTHBROOK
The Scrutineer tutored in Fine Art & Design at Northbrook College, Worthing for 10 years (often under the guise of Studio Support).
Teaching a 16-19 year old is surprisingly satisfying. One minute their annoyingly sarcastic and gobby arrogance has you sending them off to the canteen for fear they’d end up with the...
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Tags: Acrylics on Paper, Art Club, Art College, Fine Art, Further Education, Key Stage 4, National Curriculum, Northbrook, Oil on Canvas, Portrait Project, Rachael Adams, teaching Art, Workshops
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Banter & Bustle was reviewed in The Telegraph by Andrew Baker, saying of Jeff Scott:
“(Banter & Bustle)…will also one day fascinate football historians. He has photographed Sunderland fans, home and away, but the book should appeal beyond supporters of the Black Cats. He has a great knack for making the banal look compelling and...
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Tags: Banter & Bustle, Book Design, burger vans, candid photography, Championship, Cork Street Press, Football, football fan, Jeff Scott, Photographic Book, Picture Editor, Rachael Adams, Sunderland FC, turnstiles
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When Methanol require a book designed, along with it’s cover, the publicity, the display stands that are dragged round the speedway tracks of Britain – Rachael’s called…
Showered in Shale
One man’s circuitous journey throughout the country in pursuit of a minor obsession – British Speedway
Review
The legendary sports journalist, Frank Keating, wrote in The Guardian:
“At the...
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Tags: Book Publicity, Frank Keating, Jeff Scott, Martin Parr, Methanol Press, Shifting Shale, Showered in Shale, Speedway, When Eagles Dared, William Hill Book Prize
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Shale Britannia: a Sideways Glance at Speedway
A Poignant Photography book by Jeff Scott, who teamed up with designer and fine artist Rachael Adams to produce a unique pictorial record of British speedway.
Waves of nostalgia regularly sweep our cultural lives, as we search for a more idyllic time in our recent past – that we...
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Tags: Britain, Jeff Scott, Methanol Press, Picture Editor, Rachael Adams, Shale Britannia, Speedway
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A series of animated screen designs produced for Avid Technology.
Client: Andrew Mason, Periscope Projects
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Tags: Avid Technology, Screenshots
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The Illustra Guide: Browser and Marketing Material
Developed as a browser, with software specific to particular areas of industry. A series of books was also produced with the publisher Kogan Page. The guides were accompanied by a CD-ROM – all of which The Scrutineer was Chief Designer and all round visual busy-body on! Client: Illustra...
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Tags: Alan Cawson, Colin Dixon, Illustra Research
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Berlei Bra Micro-Website Design
Pitch for a flashy site produced in the heady days of 1999…
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Tags: Berlei Bra, Site Design
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A series of six posters for use off the shop floor. Waitrose Partners were to be encouraged to exercise some common sense whilst working in the store front, delivery bays and warehouse…
The point-of-view used in each photograph was that of the accident prone victim. The photoshoot took place at the Horley branch of Waitrose...
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Tags: Health & Safety, Partners WM, Poster Campaign, Scrutineer, Waitrose
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The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use off the Shop-Floor in Waitrose brancehs throughout the country, The Client was Brighton based multimedia production company Partners WM, who specialise in the production of training and internal communication products for Waitrose. The Scrutineer also dsegned the Partners WM website!
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Tags: Alice Meacham, Internal Poster Campaign, Partners WM, Stop Wastage, Waitrose
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The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use in Waitrose stores throughout the country. They were displayed behind the scenes, in storerooms, warehouses, canteens and staff common rooms. Commissioned by Brighton based multimedia production company Partners WM, who specialised in the production of training and internal communication products for Waitrose. See the...
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Tags: Alice Meacham, Health & Safety, Partners WM, Rachael Adams, Waitrose
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The Scrutineer designed this ‘complete gift service’ website for Tara Thacker at Idlewild, a small independent gift shop in Brighton’s Seven Dials.
Client: Tara Thacker, Idlewild Entrepreneur
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Tags: Present to Post, Tara Thacker, Website
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The Scrutineer designed this poster for director Emma Mortstedt and producer Nancy Richardson, for their short film. By incredible chance, Master Frank Adams Brown, (the Scrutineer tea-boy) starred in this!
Client: Emma Mortstedt
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Tags: Grandma's Favourite Fruit, Poster
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The Scrutineer designed this intranet site as an on-line directory for this Governmental Office
Annual Report 1999/2000
Client: Chris Lord, Graphic Detail
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Tags: Chris Lord, Government Office for London, Intranet, Scrutineer's
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The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations
CD-Rom disk artwork
With illustration by the trusty Mister Goodyer
Desktop Manageability CD-Rom cover artwork
Design and print-buying
Sales Conference CD packaging
Illustration by Mister Goodyer again…
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Tags: CD-Rom, cover artwork, Desktop Manageability, Hewlett Packard
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SellDesktop website
The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations
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Tags: Hewlett Packard, Illustra, Screenshots, SellDesktop, SiteMap
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HP Corporate Business CD-Rom
The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations
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Tags: CD-Rom, Hewlett Packard, HP Corporate Business, Illustra Research, Rachael Adams, Scrutineer's
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HP Desktop PC Launch CD-Rom
The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations
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Tags: Design, Hewlett Packard, HP Desktop, Screens
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Wins of Change 2000 CD-Rom
Design of navigation & screens.
The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations.
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Tags: Hewlett Packard, Site Map, Wins of Change
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This was the site design for SPRU, an innovative technologies site produced in 2000. The following screens are from The Scrutineer’s working PSDs, designed and provided for the programming team (headed by Colin Dixon of Illustra) based at The Innovation Centre at The University of Sussex. As you’ll see, the site was constructed to...
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Tags: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, SPRU
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