Clients

Grit Academy UK Tour

Grit Academy UK Tour

Here’s one for all of you scooter enthusiasts, Shred have just finished a small design project for iSkute who are running a UK tour showcasing the best riders in the country and there’s also tons of opportunities for you to become a Grit pro rider for a year. Check out their website for details.

Railtrails

Railtrails

Shred work experience regular Harry Cobbold with the help of friends have produced a small guide book called: “RailTrails it is the first product of Young Enterprise team, ‘Platform’. RailTrails is a small book of family friendly circular walks that can be taken from the end of Rural branch lines in the South West of [...]

City Cycle Couriers

City Cycle Couriers

Shred have recently re-designed the kit for City Cycle Couriers. If you’re not aware of this company and you run a business in the City then it’s about time you started to use them. Owner Rob scott and his team will deliver your post, (postcode restrictions apply) cheaper than Royal mail and with a guaranteed [...]

Studio

Graphic devices are dead

Graphic devices are dead

For anyone who went to Art college you would have heard the term ‘Graphic device’ or ‘Graphic element’ basically it meant you didn’t know how to fill a space so decided to put a triangle or wavy line there to fill the void and cover up your bad design choices. For anyone who still likes [...]

NO,NO,NO!

NO,NO,NO!

Having passed this monstrosity on the way into work this morning I decided that it was worth a mention as it’s the perfect example of what not to do!! I have no idea who designed this? I’m guessing it was either the owners child or a dog who cleaned his sack while sitting on a [...]

Madness!

Madness!

After a long weekend off, Rocking out at Plymouth Rockfest (which went really well as was extremely busy) we were all hoping that it would be a quiet first day back at Shred Towers….No such luck the office has just had a visit from local man about town – Stuart Hutchins who has just bombarded [...]

Cool Stuff

Summer time reading

Summer time reading

A great innovative project by Munich-based agency Serviceplan has won Best in Show at the One Show Design awards in New York. The annual report for solar energy supplier Austria Solar whose content is only revealed under sunlight took the top spot. Let’s just hope no one wants to read it in “dear old Blighty” [...]

Logorama

Logorama

Although this Oscar winning video has been around for quite a while we thought it was time it was given another airing as it’s basically a work of pure genius. It’s 16 minutes long so make sure you have a moment to watch it in full. Enjoy.    

Concept Porsche

Concept Porsche

Everyone in the office here at Shred likes a good old Porsche so we had to put up this when we stumbled across it online the other day. Lets hope this becomes one of the concept cars that does make it to market. More pics here.

How To

Give birth to a new person

Give birth to a new person

Here is a quick and fun exercise to help you with your photoshop skills and can produce some hilarious results in the process. • Get two photos of faces, ideally the same angle but not essential. • Take one photo and using the circle marquee tool select the face of one of your images, just [...]

Make a new T-shirt look Vintage

Make a new T-shirt look Vintage

Recently at Shred we were tasked with creating a new T-shirt design that looked Vintage. This can be done quick and easy in photoshop but if you want to keep your design as a vector then this is how it’s done. • First save your design and open it in photoshop.Try and keep the image [...]

Create a good T-shirt design

Create a good T-shirt design

At Shred we print lots and lots of T-shirts for clients and 90% of the time we have the same issues when the design has been done by someone other than ourselves. Hopefully this post will help you design something that will cut down your costs and produce a T-shirt print that works. How we [...]