Update: July 2022
Can it really be over six months since we last wrote a blog? Yes it can, and yes it is! Shameful…
So, here’s some news from Ingenious - and a quick look at some of the work we’ve been getting up to in recent weeks. We hope you like it…
Port Sunlight Village Trust
Long standing client Port Sunlight Village Trust have kept us busy recently, working a range of new interpretation for the various venues across the village. Our ‘Pen Portraits’ work tells the story of the architects and designers instrumental in the building of Port Sunlight village in 1888 alongside Lever Brothers’ founder, William Lever.
The village is home to more than 900 Grade II listed buildings set in 130 acres of parkland and gardens. More than 30 different architects created the buildings, monuments and memorials we still see today, and nearly every period of British architecture is represented through revival design.
Although workers in Port Sunlight benefited from improved living conditions, others elsewhere in the world didn’t. From the turn of the twentieth century, in a bid to source ingredients for his soapmaking operations cheaply, William Lever began setting up plantations in places that included the Solomon Islands and the former Belgian Congo. Now, thanks to the impact of international anti-racist movements confronting colonial legacies, evidence of enforced labour and racial violence at plantations like these is increasingly being brought to light.
The PSVT are currently undertaking a programme of research to openly explore the village’s own colonial links and help shape a truly inclusive local culture, and we are pleased and proud our design work is playing a part in telling this complex and sensitive story.
Alliance Manchester Business School
Last month we were out of the studio and ‘on the tools’, installing a new exhibition stand we’ve designed for the lovely people at Alliance MBS. This was the first one we’ve completed in just over two years, as of course covid and the resulting lockdowns put paid to the conferences and exhibitions the client would normally attend. In addition to the stand itself, we also designed an interactive PDF that visitors could navigate though on the desk mounted iPad.
Bollington United FC
Paul, our glorious leader, has long been involved with grassroots football club Bollington United as a manager, but it’s not until very recently that we’ve been associated with “Bolly” on a professional level. We were pleased and excited to be asked to help the club refresh their brand and comms materials as they begin a new era with a new committee, and the merging of the Bollington adult teams with the long standing junior club.
The new club crest - featuring iconic local landmark ‘White Nancy’ - will be phased in as and when kit and equipment needs to be replaced, ensuing nothing goes to waste - every penny counts in grassroots football! We’ve created a club wide version, plus adult (AFC) and junior (yep, you’ve guessed it - JFC) versions to be primarily used on club kits.
Additionally, we’ve created templates for parent communications, social media tiles for when they need to recruit more players, and also a comprehensive sponsorship document, which outlines the commercial opportunities available to local businesses. There’s lots more in the pipeline too!
Anyone wanting to get involved with sponsoring Bollington (or, like us, donating their time and / or professional services free of charge) can drop us a line and we’ll put you in touch with the relevant people.
