Author: thoughtful

  • Climate Connection 360° Virtual Tour

    Climate Connection 360° Virtual Tour

    COP28, Thoughtful Studios designed and produced the British Council’s Climate Connection exhibition. We later transformed the installation into a 360° virtual tour, enabling audiences worldwide to explore the exhibition and the global collaborations tackling climate change..

  • Dumpling the Pug

    Dumpling the Pug

    Dumpling the Pug (Jiaozi) helps teach children Chinese.A virtual reality dog is helping young Britons get to grips with some basicMandarin Chinese – the most spoken language in the world. An interactive voice-controlled learning experienceintroducing primary school children to Mandarin Chinese. Launched for the Year of the Dog in 2018, Dumpling the Pug is an…

  • Premier Skills

    Premier Skills

    Premier Skills combines the global reach of the Premier League and itsexperience in delivering community football programmes with the internationalnetwork and educational expertise of the British Council. Premier SkillsPremier Skills is a global programme that uses the appeal of football to support young people in developing skills, confidence and opportunities within their communities. Since its…

  • International Higher Education Exhibition

    International Higher Education Exhibition

    As a precursor to Going Global conference in June 2015, the British Council commissioned Thoughtful to design a temporary exhibition to be held in the reception area of their headquarters to demonstrate the role The UK plays in supporting, facilitating, creating opportunities and collaborating in International Higher Education. The exhibition was aimed at all visitors…

  • Take on the World

    Take on the World

    #takeontheworld The ChallengeEncourage 16-25 year olds, currently in Further Education, to consider an international experience as a way of improving their employability and to accelerating their personal development. Excite them about the world of possibilities on offer if they study, work or volunteer overseas. Overcome their concerns and answer their questions. We wanted to connect…

  • International Festival of Contemporary Art

    International Festival of Contemporary Art

    For ten weeks every two years Liverpool is transformed into a gallery of new art, showcasing the best contemporary artists from around the world. The fifth of Liverpool Biennial’s International Exhibitions was titled ‘MADE UP – an exploration of the artistic imagination’. ‘MADE UP’ was presented across multiple venues which includes Tate Liverpool, the Bluecoat,…

  • Estings

    Estings

    Each year Channel 4 Marketing throw down the challenge of designing on-air stings for E4; the stings show E4 as a surreal and twisted anarchic place encompassing irreverence and humour, where anything goes and surrealism and juxtaposition are the rules. The annual competition is open to anyone who fancies their chances at creating a truly…

  • Colour Chart

    Colour Chart

    We were commissioned to handle the launch campaign for Tate Liverpool’s summer blockbuster exhibition called: Colour Chart. Colour Chart took it’s inspiration from a group of artists who use household paints straight out of the can. Artists like Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst and Ellsworth Kelly. When this project landed we nearly wet ourselves for two…

  • 150th anniversary of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

    150th anniversary of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

    To mark the 150th anniversary of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home Royal Mail commissioned us to design a first day cover pack detailing the historical development of the Home from 1860 to present day, a special envelope featuring all of the stamps and a postal stamp. ‘Everyone at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is thrilled…

  • International Festival of Contemporary Art

    International Festival of Contemporary Art

    The Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. For ten weeks, every two years, the city of Liverpool hosts an extensive range of artworks, projects, and a programme of events. We looked to the striking visual style of artist Carlos Amorales. For the 2010 campaign we approached Liverpool Biennial…

  • Pool Farm Offices

    Pool Farm Offices

    This is Pool Farm in the heart of the Cheshire countryside. It had recently been converted into a number of high-spec offices. We were commissioned by Stanian Architects to advertise the project. After a few discussions with the client, one of which ended with them laughing in our faces, we convinced them to go with…

  • Film Ident Competition

    Film Ident Competition

    The idea behind The Do Lectures is a simple one. That people who Do things can inspire the rest of us to go and Do amazing things too. So once a year The Do Lectures holds a set of inspirational lectures down in a beautiful part of West Wales. Brief for The Do Lectures Ident…

  • New business

    New business

    howies is an active clothing company based in South Wales that believes in making higher quality, lower impact products for our sports and day-to-day lives. They like to make people think and care about the world we live in through their t-shirt slogans, blog entries, and website rants. Howies were a company we felt did…

  • News from the forest

    News from the forest

      Our new design school, Lost in the Forest Institute (LITFI), has got off to a great start. In just a few short weeks we’ve been shortlisted in the PSFK-UNICEF Future of Mobile Tagging competition, worked with Jonathan Barnbrook and Dan Streat from BARNBROOK on the LITFI identity; arranged, promoted and organised first D&AD North Lecture…

  • Redesigning [Graphic] Design Education

    Redesigning [Graphic] Design Education

    We recently held a Redesigning [Graphic] Design Education day at Derby University. We brought together practitioners, theorists, students and educators for a 7-hour design project: to reshape graphic design education for the 21st century. Here’s what Jotta’s Design Director, Jane Trustram thought of R[G]DE: Subjective review is a large part of the assessment of work, in…

  • Studio School

    Studio School

    With our LITFI hats on, we’re part of a team from Stockport College bidding to launch a new Creative & Media Studio School. Studio Schools are a game changing new model of teaching and learning for 14 to 19 year-olds. They are small schools — typically with around 300 pupils — delivering mainstream qualifications through…

  • Chris Cunningham

    Chris Cunningham

    Last night we went to see the amazing Chris Cunningham Live at the Roundhouse – it was awesome. If you get a chance to see him, take it.

  • What Design Can Do!

    What Design Can Do!

    We spent a few days last week in Amsterdam at the What Design Can Do! conference which brought together creatives thinking about design as a mindset for addressing social issues. What Design Can Do! was an ambitious and well organised event, with lots of provocative speakers. One speaker that made a big impact on the…

  • InterSections 11

    InterSections 11

    Thoughtful took a trip to Cornwall for INTERSECTIONS 2011 – a fantastic two-day conference at the Eden Project. We were treated to over 45 experts, mavericks, entrepreneurs and thought leaders speaking about emerging trends driving business change and new opportunities for design practice. The day started with NICK JANKEL talking about the virtues and vices of…

  • Massive Change Network

    Massive Change Network

    Thoughtful attended the launch of Bruce Mau’s MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK (MCN) in Liverpool. MCN is a global design learning network. Co-founded by Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams, and is committed to inspiring, connecting and empowering a new generation of designers to develop a more equitable, abundant, sustainable world through learning programs and collaboration. According to MCN co-founder Bisi…