Crimes of Passion - Bristol

After a few crazy weeks here at the white balance, we thought it was long overdue that we took a trip around this city we call home and see whats about.


Our first stop was the crimes of passion exhibit at the Royal West Of England Academy. There was some out standing work on display and some pretty crazy stuff too.


Graffiti meets historic architecture now that's our cuppa tea!






Now don't get us wrong it's not that we don't love our work, but over the coming months we are planning on getting out of the office a little more. At the weekend we are off to that place they call London, maybe snap a gherkin or too!
Pics of Guildford and London coming next week. In the mean time matt will be finishing the new logo for Walsh Bro's. Website coming soon!

Well let you be the judge of our work!

Sofa Surfers Goes Live.

As you all know there have been some late nights over the last couple of months here at the white balance and i bet you are starting to wonder what all the fuss is about.

Well the wait is finally over we are pleased do our bit and spread the good word of Sofa Surfers.













Be sure to check it out.

All work and no play.......

Sorry it's been so long.

So here at The White Balance we have had a crazy couple of months. Consisting of late nights, more take away Thai curries than you can shake a stick at and plenty of coffee.

We are currently working on our website and it's 75% complete. Once it goes live you'll be the first to hear about it. We'll be showcasing all of our projects and featuring our animations and BBC work.

Honestly we do work a lot of the time, we are not just sat around taking silly photos!












design.
Still on the case with The Grange Hotel we are soon to be launching their new website. Along with identity and literature designs and a web package for Pomegranate, our local late night cafe. There is lots in the stir.

motion.

Hot off the press, The work with Green Rock Media and Walsh Bro's Ltd has finally reached completion. It has been a busy 3 months and the roto-scoped animations are finally complete. Sofa Surfers (the show) airs on BBC HD and CBBC on March 16th at 6:30pm and will follow shortly after with it's BBC 1 slot. We'll keep you posted.........



visual.
With the 3d being the backbone of our work we only thought it fair to sneak in a small image for The Bush Consultancy. In amongst everything this month there has been time to chat to Dan Brill Architects based in Winchester. Which has positively lead to a project for next month. The architecture is very clean and ultra modern so right up our street here. Look out for some very exciting images coming up.












We're taking a holiday.
Not that we aren't appreciative of the spell of snow we had here in England. We are off to Austria for the first week of March to dust of the snowboard and hopefully find some fresh powder and a bit of après ski. Matt's going to be taking his DSLR so being the visual people we are there will be plenty to show on our return.

2009 - Resolutions and more.

Firstly we would like to wish everyone a happy new year.

So 2009 has firmly set foot and the festivities of Christmas are but a distant memories. Whilst we all enjoyed the relaxed times of not really knowing what day it was, just that it was some point between Christmas and the new year, now its well and truly back to the real world.

Our new years resolutions - Simply build on the relationships we have and make a couple of new ones along the way.

We have had an exciting start to the new year and thanks to our friends over at Green Rock Media we are under way in securing design work for RBS and The BBC.

There have been more talks with the ever impressive guys at DOT Architecture for some architectural imagery. So watch this space......

We also recently had an enquiry for some identity and web design for our local Italian coffee shop, so never passing the chance to spend more time than we already do in coffee houses we jumped at the chance to work with them in building their brand and web presence.

Matt has also been out and about with his camera making the most of the early evenings and Christmas break, with his eye for photography he's been working on his long exposures. Now The White Balance has made their Flickr debut be sure to bookmark this page to see what we are up too.

That's a little about us and our new year, so how are you?

dreaming of a white christmas.

So this is Christmas.........

You know how we love making images here at the white balance, so this year we got all festive and designed our very first christmas card, we think it looks pretty jolly and the feedback so far has been excellent.

From the team here at the white balance,

"may all your christmases be white"

If you haven't received your card yet be sure to drop matt (matt@thewhitebalance.com) an email and I'm sure he'll be happy to get one out to you, you'll even get the special tear off card to keep for the whole year.

This and That.........

Odds and Sods

With our super slick work-flow now in place, and our passion for creating inspiring digital media flurishing, we are happy people here at the white balance!

As Christmas draws closer we thought we better tell you a little bit about what we've been up too recently...

design.
those poor old designers have been busy beavering away hardly coming up for air, completing photography and print work for The Grange Hotel and Sportscene, with lots more follow up work there is going to be plenty more to see soon.

motion.
very exciting times lie ahead, collaborating with green rock media we are currently in talks for producing a series of short characterized stings for a new BBC documentary. watch this space.....

visual.

3d has been booming. Completing projects for The Bush Consultancy, Anders Roberts Associates, DOT Architecture as well as a few private clients what can we say.............. the images speak for themselves. check out the website for more.

money matters.
to end on a positive note. with the current looming recession everyone is feeling the pinch. here at the white balance we have optimised our workflow to guarantee value for money with out compromising quality. why not give us a call to see how our inspired visual solutions can showcase the quality of your next project without breaking the bank.



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the white balance is here!

Its Official.

After many sleepless nights lots of coffee, jammy dodgers and thai take aways, we have finally completed our shiny brand new office and branding!

Matt has morphed from designer to painter/carpet fitter/electrician all in time for our exciting launch.

Welcome to our blog, we hope to update each week with news on what us crazy kids are working on here in the white house - well one day pinky!