Corridor

Blue and White Stories

2012-02-08T01:40:00.000-08:00

We recently installed 14 large fence panels at the Amex. The graphics cover up a range of equipment used by the maintenance team and were designed as pairs with different stories.

We like the painter finishing off the 'Albion' word. More images to follow soon.

Hats and Tales and Illustration

2011-12-15T05:15:00.000-08:00

While at the launch of the new A Book of Hats and Tales, Corridor met with Jan Irvine who was capturing the live event with paper and charcoal. Our very own Inky would have been right at home...

Creative Review

2011-11-10T12:27:00.001-08:00

This months Creative Review has a 4 page piece about our work with over 150 people from the city of Brighton and Hove. The opening image was photographed by our very own Stephen Cummiskey, who captured the whole process over 12 months.

The CR Photography Annual is full of some great articles and wonderful imagery.

Go grab a copy or sign up http://bit.ly/s9ZETS

Corridor attends Qubique in Berlin

2011-10-31T03:21:00.000-07:00

It was great to attend Qubique last week in Berlin. An amazing space at the Templehof Airport had been transformed with some great workshops showcasing wallpaper manufacture to Thonet's classic wood steam bending machines and formers. Corridor met some new manufacturers and some new designers who we hope to be working with in the near future.

Corridor talks in Brazil

2011-09-16T03:08:00.000-07:00

While on a flying visit to Rio at the start of last month, we caught up with a school of talented young people who live in the favelas around the city, and showed them the projects we'd like to partner with them on. The Corridor team will be working with them in the coming months. More to follow.

Youth Centre images

2011-08-12T13:09:00.000-07:00

90 mins and 79 people, it wasn't easy trust us!

We had fun and the end result has made a huge difference to the centre. Part 2 coming in the next few weeks. Before 90 minutes and after of the Social Room for young teenage girls.

Brighton Youth Centre

2011-08-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

Corridor had a great day working with Albion in the Community and Amex staff from across the South East today, transforming three rooms at the youth centre.

The football theme of a 90 minute makeover was great fun, a bit manic at points, with over 80 people participating, but we all achieved a great transformation for the young people using the centre. The two halves, two teams made light work of each room with decorating, painting and styling of each room to happen within the 45 minute sessions. A meeting room, social room and art room looked amazing. More images to follow soon.

Peter Ward finds his hair.

2011-08-04T13:25:00.000-07:00

Corridor was sent this image early today. Not the best angle but it shows 70's Albion ace Peter Ward with illustrated hair. Peter is standing in front of one of the Screen Heroes images we created with City College Brighton and Hove and 11 students. The image is of Peter's hairdo back in 1970, and as you can see it's a perfect fit!

Braille Football

2011-07-20T02:17:00.001-07:00

Corridor has been working with some inspiring young VI football players with Charlie Curry at AITC, over the past 6 months.

We used the inspiration of football studs to create these dynamic braille poems for the East Stand concourse at The Amex. All 5 pieces will be on permanent display for the game on 30th August against Spurs.

Respect Shirts

2011-07-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

We have almost finished the 12 Respect Shirts we created with the Brighton and Hove Albion team and 12 local Primary schools across the city. Each player partnered with a school and exchanged life stories to create a piece of art based on shared experiences and an understanding of different cultures. The half shirts are based on the club and players country of origin. All 12 Respect Shirts will be on permanent display for the next game against Spurs in the East Stand.

Memory Wall

2011-07-19T15:00:00.001-07:00

First batch of memories we designed for the memory wall in the North Stand. A series of modular vinyls, that will be applied directly to the concrete interior walls of the concourses. We've got a couple of Albion greats lined up with their own personal memories of their time at Brighton. We've also been asking the fans from across Sussex to send us images and stories from the clubs past. All will be revealed at the next game against Spurs on July 30th.

Collecting the Respect Shirts

2011-06-22T12:15:00.000-07:00

Another balmy June day, saw the Corridor team race around Brighton to collect the 12 Respect Shirts from 12 Brighton and Hove primary schools. While the weather was not on our side, we had fun catching up with some of the children and teachers behind the pieces of artwork.

With thanks to Graham Hicks from VaNJaM for his help with carefully packing and collecting all the artwork today.

JBPR + Corridor

2011-06-15T03:03:00.000-07:00

Corridor is proud to be partnering with Jo Brooks PR in Brighton. As we reach the final stages of our Amex Stadium project we have been looking for a smart communication team to help amplify the work over the past 10months. We look forward to working with Jo and her team.

Scarf it up

2011-06-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

We love a bit of applique, so thoughts early this year turned to recreating a social scarf made up of some classic old Albion names from players past and present. Soon to be displayed at the new Amex Stadium we are almost nearing the end of several social design programs Corridor have designed for the city over the past 10 months.

Screen Printing Workshop

2011-06-14T12:33:00.000-07:00

Corridor invited students from City College Brighton and Hove to see how digital and screen prints are made. The students are overseeing the final set of prints for one of our projects. Each of them has been working hard for the past 10 weeks. The students not only set up the files ready for the print house, but were shown how to separate layers and adjust colours, and helped prep screens and hand print on to A1 stock. Tea was also served.

Hawks FC

2011-05-17T08:40:00.000-07:00

Corridor is proud to be sponsoring the Hawks FC Awards this coming Saturday for the end of year presentations. We love the tee with our logo. Thanks to Ryan at Dockerills

My Shot kicks off

2011-05-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

A great weekend for the Corridor team. We kicked it off with awarding our under 16 photography competition winners with a digital Nikon camera each. The competition entitled 'My Shot' offered the chance to not only win a camera, but be mentored at several Sussex wide sporting events in the coming weeks. Today our first winner headed out to sea with Brighton Sailing Club. A big thank you to Jim and the team for looking after us so very well.

The images taken by our 'My Shot' winners will be part of Corridor's work in the East Stand at the new American Express Community Stadium.

Seagulls

2011-05-09T16:07:00.001-07:00

Corridor went to see how the new American Express Community Stadium was looking.

Think when the first game kicks off this Aug most grown men won't have a dry eye.

Been a long time coming for the faithful.

Our projects in both the North and East stands are in production. We are so proud of the people participating with us.

More to follow.

Screen Heroes

2011-04-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

Corridor is working with 11 foundation students at Brighton's City College to design a series of bespoke screen prints of some of the Albions football legends.
Working across each decade since 1901, the team has been using a variety of techniques to bring to life 11 very different expressions of each player. The final results will be on show at the new Amex Stadium later this year.

Negative Space

2011-02-02T16:23:00.000-08:00

Corridor likes to challenge the way we gather our collective in different spaces. We have long asked why couldn't we use existing negative spaces in office buildings to better effect for communal thinking and ideas. We are pleased that American Express agrees with our way of thinking, and has kindly donated rooms at both their Brighton sites for Corridor to play in. We are in the process of inviting the collective and community based groups to participate in a series of creative sessions to bring to life our ideas and designs for the new football stadium.

We'll keep you up to speed with our progress.

Corridor attends TEDxBrighton

2011-01-22T05:04:00.000-08:00

Was great to be part of the first TEDx series to be held in Brighton yesterday. Corridor caught up with a bunch of people and listened to some enlightened talks about a range of topics. Our favourite was Sarah Angliss who merged industrial mills with clogs, dance, onstage music and wit.

Pro Bush identity

2011-01-10T14:05:00.001-08:00

Corridor has been working closely with Lorna Love from Pro Bush. We've just sent over this cheeky identity for the coming series of cultural events and exhibitions we will be hosting and curating with Lorna.

The American Express Community Stadium

2011-01-03T04:49:00.000-08:00

Corridor are pleased to announce another win. This time we've been awarded the interior design of both the North and East Stand concourses at the new Brighton and Hove Albion Football Stadium. Due to open this coming August to the cheers of over 22,500 excited faces at Falmer, we will be working with a cross section of the public to help bring to life some amazing ideas and spaces. We'll keep you up to speed on our progress. Well done to the Corridor team who collaborated on the proposal.

PRO BUSH

2010-11-21T04:56:00.000-08:00

Corridor is pleased to announce it will be working on the Pro Bush identity and also helping design and curate next years exhibition due to open next Spring. Some exciting participants will be collaborating including Lily Cole and Rankin. Pro Bush is in aid of the Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT). To read more about ACT see: www.act4addenbrookes.org.uk/

White Night Festival

2010-11-02T13:10:00.000-07:00

Superb installation above the Pelham Road car park during the White Night Festival. An 8m clear globe was dangled above the crowd, with a series of projections and music lasting over 40mins per show. The White Night festival kicked off at 6pm and finished at 6am the following day.

Cardiff Design Festival

2010-10-14T05:09:00.000-07:00

Corridor spent a great day meeting some talented people from the Cardiff and Newport area yesterday. Enjoyed catching up with some new faces at UWIC, and hearing what projects some of the design students are up to. Saw this in the main gallery which we liked.

designLESS

2010-09-29T02:43:00.000-07:00

Some of the images from last weeks designLESS. Great to have met some wonderful people.
We look forward to taking part in the next one in 2011.

Sphelix

2010-09-21T12:53:00.000-07:00

Corridor ran in to our good friend Johnny Hawkes showing his Sphelix off to the world at Covent Garden as part of LDF. See more about this wonderful object that took Johnny 17 years of perseverence to create and bring to life in many different forms at sphelix.com. Better still go and meet him at the installation and say Hi.

designLESS at Anti design Festival

2010-09-21T09:58:00.000-07:00

Corridor are looking forward to helping at designLESS over the next three days at the Anti Design Festival. A group of lead creatives giving some time to review portfolios and talk with recent graduates about their anxieties and goals for the coming years. Great stuff, we look forward to meeting some new faces very shortly.
designLESS take places from tomorrow Weds 22 until Fri 24 Sept, 11-5pm daily, at Lo & Behold, 2B Swanfield Street E2, just near the corner of Redchurch St.

Getting ready for the Anti Design Festival

2010-09-10T01:01:00.000-07:00

We are looking forward to participating in the designLESS initiative to help recent graduates with portfolio and communicating skills during this coming months Anti Design Festival. A few of us met with Neville Brody yesterday evening to look at a potential space for the designLESS initiative. Was great to hear more about the Anti Design Festival and great to meet up with a bunch of like-minded souls. ADF starts 18-26 Sept on Redchurch St E16

Way Old Football Cards 1978-79

2010-08-17T04:25:00.000-07:00

Recently the Corridor guys have been partnering on a couple of projects that involve the beautiful game. We came across these old Sun Soccercards from the 1978-79 season. Blimey, footballers looked like real blokes back then, earned a realistic salary, and loved the game for the right reasons. We love these illustrations, and it took us back to the 'lemon-curd-sandwiches' moments we so looked forward to during the summer hols of the late 1970's!

Kai and Sunny at Haunch of Venison

2010-08-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Our collective cannot wait for the opening of the Daydreaming project at the Haunch of Venison. Our good friends Kai and Sunny will be exhibiting, alongside some world class creatives from Jonathan Glazer to another Brighton based protagonist, John Hillcoat. We caught up briefly with Kai, and he kindly sent us a glimpse of what they have been working on. The two pieces they will be exhibiting are entitled 'Country Tune - North' and 'Country Tune - South'. See attached close up. Also see Phil's interview with James Lavelle at fadwebsite.com

Pixels and post its

2010-06-01T06:27:00.000-07:00

On a recent outing, Corridor created a way to recall what had been learnt and unlearnt, during a meeting of minds. The pack of post its were morphed in to an image of a well known playright for each group to use... More post it mania to follow shortly.

ICA

2010-05-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

fun visiting Pete's residency at the ica..

http://peteinkpen.com/

Bummer...

2010-04-26T02:56:00.000-07:00

Corridor recently visited the launch of Pick Me Up at Somerset House. Rob Ryan's in house studio was a welcomed hub of activity, and the Le Gun's bum was a cheeky participatory folly.

D&AD judging

2010-04-22T03:57:00.000-07:00

Corridor was recently invited to judge the D&AD Student Awards at Olympia.
The illustration brief that was set by the Don't Panic team, asked the students to look at the theme of RESISTANCE.
Ideas were a plenty, and the judges final In-Book selection showed the wealth of variety that had been entered. We look forward to the awards on 29th June.

UNKLE's temporary studio in Brighton.

2010-03-16T04:50:00.001-07:00

These recent images of Pablo Clements aka Psycho Pabs, and Big James Griffiths at their new studio. UNKLEs new album 'Where did the night fall' has been getting great reviews around the globe. Due for release this coming spring the guys are working on some new collaborations. Corridor caught up with Pabs and James, and even got involved in some hefty percussion!

park of pi

2010-03-15T05:22:00.000-07:00

A bunker full of knowledge but who's the new foreman and when will they break for coffee and apple strudel?

Fill in the blanks

2009-11-23T07:21:00.000-08:00

Call of the Wild

2009-11-23T07:17:00.000-08:00

Kai and Sunny's thinking extends beyond their core illustrative backgrounds to their work with high-end fashion labels, 3D objects, collaborating with artists and their own clothing label, Call of the Wild. Working between New York and London, next year sees them launch a collaborative clothing label with James Lavelle and Surrenderous.

2009-11-16T03:44:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd put together a list of some of the bikes I've owned since I was a lad, a timeline of bikes or bikeline. Would be interested to hear about and see other peoples bikeline history. Maybe we'll add a bikeline sub heading to despoke? The most treasured bike was my silver Strika. I remember the trouble my father had trying to fit in in the back of our mini to get it back home. Many a lemon curd sarnie later, it became too small, but that hasn't stopped me adding a few kids bikes to my collection. take a look at <http://raleighstrika.com/>

phil is the current guest editor for despoke.com,

‘HALLOWEEN’ FOR DESPOKE

2009-11-05T06:16:00.000-08:00

Turning back the clocks denotes one old tradition, Halloween. It’s origins date back from the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. For me, it’s the appeal of finding those extra pair of werewolf feet from a pound store, it’s rekindles my earliest memories of watching Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, running stage right from a Blue Peter made ghoul.

The season always brings out the terrible horror flicks, and the Hammer House of Horrors still gets me diving behind the sofa.

I’ve always enjoyed the way we scare ourselves with what amounts to our chassis, the skeleton. Hang a few of them around the house, don’t dust for a few months, and do your best at dissecting a pumpkin, and hey voila!
A recent visit to PAD London, brought me to meet Italian artist Antonio Cagianelli, whose oversized skulls were a reminder of our fascination with death and the symbols we annually decorate our environment with at this time of year.

Antonio tells me, his current project involves, transferring his own three-dimensional creations by using the language of marginality and fragility of young metropolitan communities, Trick or treat anyone?

More info on Antonio:here

The Blank of Ideas at 100% Design London

2009-10-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

images copyright philip vile

The Blank of Ideas more pics

2009-10-01T07:06:00.001-07:00

The Blank of Ideas more pics

2009-10-01T06:44:00.000-07:00

The Blank of Ideas

2009-09-29T04:21:00.000-07:00

here's some pics of the Blank in action, thanks so much to all of you that took part and gave your time

The Blank of Ideas is born

2009-09-28T14:19:00.001-07:00

just back from The Blank of Ideas project at 100% Design London. We met some lovely people ate a lot of kitkats and had some fascinating conversations. It was great to share ideas with people across different generations around one table. Here are the 2 questions we debated:

What if designers left the job half done?

In an information rich world what are / will be the best ways to find one's way?

More soon - still busy collating the huge collection of (not so blank now) cards from each of the sessions.

The Blank of Ideas at 100% Design London

2009-09-18T03:57:00.001-07:00

The Blank needs you!

The Blank of Ideas is born at London's 100% Design show and evolves as a creative engine for socially responsive design briefs facilitated by Corridor.

Using a free 6m x 6m empty space, the Corridor Collective have transformed the blank into an opportunity for both young design graduates and industry protagonists to meet, think and debate some bigger questions.

See attached one-pager and visual. We are asking for a range of creative minds to join us and participate.

What day are you planning to be at 100% Design?
We’d love to add you to the panel and one of the sessions.

kulee baba logo

2009-08-30T04:05:00.001-07:00

ID for Kulee baba sounds - 'Hollywood Filmic', and judging by the track 'Roger - Over And Out' - which has Mike Post running through its veins - that might just be spot on.

http://www.myspace.com/kuleebaba

2009-07-29T04:34:00.000-07:00

Corridor are Phil Nutley and Christian Inkpen + you

Oilasaurus

2009-07-27T07:16:00.000-07:00

what kind of a -saurus burns ancient sunlight?