Storigraphic by Minx Creative.
London design agency Minx Creative, launched Storigraphic last year. The began by creatingcarefully crafted and beautifully presented personalised books. You choose and personalise, they produce and deliver. They have since branched out to greeting cards, stickers, badges and other stationary.
“How did Storigraphic come about?
Roz: Nic and I had spoken about publishing books for many years. We could see an opening to get our plans off the ground, finally. The crossover from what we do at our design studio to Storigraphic is a huge advantage, it seemed right to develop the idea and give everything we could to realise it as a business.
Nic: We wanted to sum up the loving bonds and connections people have in life through the medium of print and heart-warming, slightly quirky narrative.”
“Our enhanced direction came about over the Spring-Summer period. Time spent in lockdown, and how the country has been since March has taken some getting used to. For many small businesses, like ours, we have had to continually review, adjust or adapt operations.”
Illustrated Tapes by Sam Ailey
Sam gets creatives to curate their own Spotify playlists and supply their own artwork for them, and he also chats to them about their musical tastes and of course their work. It’s the perfect way to hear some new sounds and discover some fantastic illustrators.
10 outputs I could make:
- Style of the week
Emulate the style that I like in a given week. Could be a nice design on a beer can, a magazine cover or an animation. Self education is super important. “I’d love to know how to do that!” Go do it then. - Different Mediums
Create a character or object and recreate it in a load of different mediums. For example, through illustration, papercraft, chalk, animation, Javascript etc. Again riding that self improvement wave. - Unite the bookcase
Redesign my entire bookcase with sleeves. Use the same style throughout and get a damn clean looking shelf set-up. - Local Objects
So I walk the dog everyday. Why not bring some nice stuff back and use them in a design. A lovely stick typography project. A leaf turned illustration or poo bag motif? Probably not the last one. - Take photos
Having travelled for years I know for a fact that I don’t take enough photos, none really. Get that phone at and start documenting your life ey chap? Could do a lovely little album for grandma this Christmas. - Sandy cards
I once had an idea that I would design some really simple typographic postcards using glue and real sand from local beaches. I live on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. A perfect place to ship some precious sand from. - Typeface
I’ve never created a typeface but always wanted to. - Colour of the day
Create an album/instagram using one photo a day. Then colour pick the main tone from the image and that beauty is now the colour of the day. This could keep going forever. Could do some projects using colours picked from my life. Pretty cool but very simple. - Tap into the mates.
Start a podcast talking about life as a designer. Could have friends as guests on the show, talk about design and stuff. - Teach
Get online and get teaching. Can create a tips and tricks blog for Adobe, design fundamentals etc.
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