Scruffy Bunch Tours Brochure

Scruffy Bunch tours approached Small Studio to design a brochure for their Yarra Valley winery and microbrewery tours. Their brief was to capture the youth market, and express the tour's no-nonsense, down to earth and light hearted approach. Small Studio employed clean layouts and whimsical illustrations to this effect, resulting in a great design that stands out from the usual crop in the hotel brochure stand.

I Want To Rock And Roll All Night

exactly 100% of the staff at Small Studio are bedroom musicians and we're all exactly 0% famous. Therefore we live our Rock Star lifestyles vicariously through our clients in the music industry, producing CD covers, gig posters & street press ads with tender love and care. We already have a fabulous write up on our favourite music clients the Midnight Juggernauts in our portfolio, but today we're throwing up some more work here on Small Stuff for your viewing pleasure.

Midnight Juggernauts:
The launch of Dystopia involved a huge amount of work by Small Studio; the national tour that followed required Dozens of posters, press ads, web banners and other promotional material, all based around the Albums striking cover visuals. This all culminated in a commemorative gig poster for friends and industry types advertising the fact that the tour did in fact sell out. Small Studio has one signed in silver pen by the band hanging proudly in our office. Oooooh.

Harem Scarem:
Cult 1980's Melbourne band Harem Scarem were heralded as the next Cold Chisel, but their rise to the top was tragically cut short by internal disagreements.

Some 20 years later Harem Scarem have been treated with a digitally re-mastered album re-release and reunion gigs. Small studio handled the artwork, keeping it as faithful as possible to the truely bitchin' original 80's artwork.

Covers Stars

One of our friendly clients, Blackwell Publishing, often commissions Small Studio to produce covers for the stable of industry journals it publishes. These are an interesting opportunity to flex our creative print muscle in an area often neglected by designers (journals you see, don't fight for shelf space like their glamorous cousins in periodicity, magazines, often missing out on the dressing up they deserve). Today we'll take a look at the development process behind our most recent cover for the Australian Accounting Review, showing some failed prototypes, the path to the final design, and how we made accounting look exciting.

Initial concepts, playing with bold compositions, swiss type and the CPA colour scheme:

Heading in the right direction:

Going back to the publication's original colours:

Cook for 45 minutes on medium, remove from oven, deliver to client:

And just because Small Studio loves you, here's a peek at 2 other recent cover designs:

Mia Munro ID

Small recently completed a corporate ID and web design project for Queensland based corporate events speaker Mia Munro.