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Yellow Jelly Design Competition 31|01|08

Icon magazine announced the winners of the Yellow Jelly graphic design competition last night during a presentation party at Adrem’s dreamspace gallery. In first place was Marcus Baron whose design was influenced by the ‘primitive digital’ look seen on an LED display. Marcus took away the prize money of £500, a year’s subscription to icon amongst other funky prizes. In second place was Amit Patel and in third place, Luke Twyman. A massive thank you goes out to all of the 11 finalists, varying between established designers to young graduates, who made the Yellow Jelly competition a resounding success. An exhibition of their entries will run at Adrem’s dreamspace gallery until 29th Feb 2008. Yellow Jelly finalists: Marcus Baron, Amit Patel, Luke Twyman, Damien Kidd, Jason Burton, Kalvyn French James, Charlene Lim, Matthew Miles, Aidan Nolan & Charlie Ross; Liza Lewis and Tom Martin. Icon magazine and Adrem teamed up to host the first in a series of new design competitions, Yellow Jelly. Featuring a different design discipline each time, the Yellow Jelly series will give the most talented creatives an opportunity to shine. Whether an established designer keen to break into the design scene, or a graduate wanting to show the world what they’ve got. Icon magazine set the first brief, tasking individuals to create a bold new logo for their website, iconeye. Special thanks to Community Views Design and Print for their print support www.communityviews.org and to our key sponsor Creative Pool (www.creativepool.co.uk)

Adrem's new website 24|01|08

For the last few months we've been working on our new website. After shedding a fair amount of blood, sweat and tears we're pleased to announce that it's here. And we rather like it. For those of you who had already registered on our old site, we've transfered your profiles to this one. But these things rarely run smoothly and there may be a few technical glitches. Please log onto to your profile using your usual login and check that all your details and any cv/folios are present and correct. If there's anything missing, we're really sorry. You might have to spend a few minutes popping them back on again. While you're there, have a look around as there are a few added bits of functionality that you might like. We have a number of ongoing improvements planned for the site so keep your eyes peeled for these. If you have any difficulties or things aren't working as they should, please email feedback@adrem.uk.com. Obviously, if you have any other feedback we'd love to hear it. Happy surfing.

A novel way of recruiting architects 16|01|08

RRA Architects and Adrem came up with a novel way of attracting new talent to the recently launched RRA London office last month. Using Adrem’s dreamspace gallery, RRA held an exhibition of their work that ran for four weeks, culminating in a recruitment evening held on the 6th December 2007. Back in 1986, RRA formed as a small rural practice. In 2004, Directors Mark Powles and Garry Thomas took the practice to new levels and opened the London office in June 2007. Future plans for the development of the London office meant that the company needed to attract some great talent at varying levels, particularly with experience of the commercial, residential and leisure sectors. However, as most practices know, the recruitment process can be a lengthy one, taking up a great deal of time. The solution to this was a recruitment evening that attracted a group of potential candidates to one place for the initial ‘vetting’ process, killing a number of birds with one stone. A mix of potential new candidates showed up on the night, many of them securing interviews with the Directors there and then. Lucy Timmer from RRA said of the evening “The dreamspace ‘RRA into now & then’ event was the culmination of a showcase of RRA’s fulfilled projects and preview of exciting new future projects. RRA were pleased to have the opportunity to meet potential adrem candidates in a relaxed environment where the success of work such as our Grand Design award winning project & BD featured Greyfriars Eco Housing projects were visible and presented in our eye-catching RRA brand graphic.” Garry Thomas adds, “Adrem with the exhibition facility dreamspace is an excellent example of a company branching out into new areas of possibility. This is everything we aspire to at RRA, and are happy to be involved with dreamspace at this time”.

Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag team up 15|01|08

American comic book creator Jim Mahfood and photographer Bill Shag teamed up to produce an exclusive collection of artworks on show at the dreamspace gallery last month. The show presented original works by the two artists and gave a unique chance to see a new series of collaborative pieces. Jim has long been a star of the comic scene; his drawings and paintings are a comic-book twist of surrealist wit and graffiti style and culture. Bill Shag’s photographs are a record of the absurd and beautiful America in which he lives. Dark and dangerous, his images capture a subversive world reveling on the edge of society. This was a rare chance to see and purchase work by two of America’s best underground artists. The exhibition has now been moved to The Prague bar until 8th February and there are a few pieces left to buy. The Prague Bar, 6 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DA.

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