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,...
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...
A1 Sized Map for Film Lovers Created in 1995 as an M.A. project to re-categorise film genres. A guide to broaden film viewing, and explore themes as diverse as flared trousers and certain awesome flights of steps… The Scrutineer offers this guide for a discerning audience. The Scrutineer doesn’t purport to be an academic...
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...
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…
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…...
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.)...
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...
The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ US, 1958, 108m, Metrocolor, MGM/Avon, directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, & Burl Ives. The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for this film reveals a portrayal of family conflict in layers and depth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof conveys Tennessee Williams’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
A series of animated screen designs produced for Avid Technology. Client: Andrew Mason, Periscope Projects
Produced in the heady days of wowing your audience with a bit of Graphics in Motion... before the reality of realising that ultimately 'content' might be the way-to-go?
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:...
Berlei Bra Micro-Website Design Pitch for a flashy site produced in the heady days of 1999…
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...
The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use off the Shop-Floor in Waitrose branches 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!
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...
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
The Scrutineer designed this poster for director Emma Mortstedt and producer Nancy Barry, for their short film. By incredible chance, Master Frank Adams Brown, (the Scrutineer tea-boy) starred in this! Client: Emma Mortstedt
The Scrutineer designed this intranet site as an on-line directory for this Governmental Office Annual Report 1999/2000 Client: Chris Lord, Graphic Detail
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…
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
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
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
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.
Studio Manager: David Brown Age: Unknown Background: The MAN behind Red Rat Record Rentals, Sydney Street, Brighton (early to mid-eighties) Early Videobox, (the black & white shops), Baker Street, Palmeira Square and Kemptown, Brighton (no association with those appalling Boozy Top 20 Blue ‘n’ Silver plastic atrocities that they morphed into…) Master of the...
The Runner: Luther Ivan Creative all-rounder: Animator, Illustrator, Photographer, Photoshopper, cut & sticker blah blah… Fizz Pop – A short animated film Untitled from Luther Ivan Adams on Vimeo. Pictured before his corruption at Kingston University… Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag? Luther’s first commission: This was his illustration for the cinematographer David Watkin’s...
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...
The Pig was the studio dog (October 1997 – December 2005). An hermaphrodite French bulldog. Deaf, dumb, nearly blind and not even particularly good at pin-ball. She/he (more lesbian, really), kept a blog. It was dull. It’s here… Piggi Pants Photographs of our Frenchie: Piggi Pissy-pants
The Scrutineer designed and published this famous cinematographer's autobiography 'Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag?'. Unfortunately the stock of books, which were kept at David's home, were destroyed after his death.
