http://www.creativespark.co.uk/feeds/news.xml The latest news from Creative Spark. 360 /news/ It's almost the time of year for lovers and wannabe lovers to send words straight from the heart. This Valentines Day, Creative Spark has created a collection of original, love song-inspired cards, and money raised will be donated to The British Heart Foundation.  Click here to view the cards!  Our innovative cards take classic lyrics such as “How sweet it is to be loved by you”; “They call it puppy love”; “This is a song for lovers runn Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:39:41 +0000 44 /news/ Creative Spark has gone all Motown and created a 40 second commercial for ‘Diana Ross - The Greatest’, a 44 song collection of her all time classics. Click here to see the commercial! The Universal Music brief was to create a commercial using a mixture of imagery and archive footage, spanning across five decades. Neil Marra (Managing Director) said: “The agency has worked with Universal Music for over a year and has produced a number of compilations albu Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:13:04 +0000 43 /news/   Our senior designer, Andy, recently won a high profile competition to design The Kooks North America tour poster.  The www.creativeallies.com competition brief communicated that indie rock band, The Kooks, were looking for a killer original poster to commemorate their new album - Junk of the Heart - and their second tour across North America.  Creative Allies chose Andy's design from hundreds of submissions saying that he is a role model for the thousands o Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:19 +0000 42 /news/   We're  getting into the ‘sprit’ of Halloween by launching Creative Spark’s Little Print Shop of Horrors. Ten limited edition prints are available to buy from www.creativespark.co.uk/halloween2011, with all proceeds being donated to Cystic Fibrosis Trust The collection takes inspiration from horror movies and scary posters over theyears, from Steven Spielberg’s, 1975 shark eating massacre, Jaws, to serial killer movie Saw Neil Marra (Creative Director) Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:08:10 +0000 41 /news/archive/ An upbeat reaction to our first  music video convinced us to move into motion film and graphics full-time. We've now launched our motion department to build on the success of a TV advert produced for Universal Music, which promotes compilation album Best of British featuring Paul Weller and Queen, released to coincide with the Royal Wedding. Read more at: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/business/media/s/1419466_creative-spark-is-on-a-motion-mission Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:52:33 +0000 40 /news/archive/ The world’s largest football club, Manchester United has now set its sights on being top of the fashion league with the launch of a new and exclusive fashion range. The ‘M Collection’ boasts a number exclusive leisure wear pieces which are only available to purchase from the Old Trafford based Megastore. Designed with the true fan in mind the collection features high quality limited edition items such as jumpers, t-shirts and jackets with prices starting from just £25 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:56:37 +0000 39 /news/archive/ SurgiCare, one of the UKs leading cosmetic and weight loss surgery providers, has appointed us to become its new on and offline design agency, following a competitive pitch. We have kicked off the relationship with a complete redesign and development of the website (www.surgicare.co.uk), which has just launched. The site has a completely fresh design and navigation system, with an emphasis on enhancing user experience and engagement with the brand. The sumptuous look and feel, embraces the Sur Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:27 +0100 38 /news/archive/ We have won the brief from Greater Manchester Police Authority (GMPA) to design a microsite that houses its schools information DVDs. The microsite although aimed at teachers, will be designed with a fresh and interesting style that will appeal as much to students as it does to the professionals. It will provide a number of resources including videos and PDF lesson plans that can be used to help educate 11-16 year olds on the role of the police within society. The site will allow teachers to wa Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:53:05 +0100 37 /news/archive/ Presenter and comic Alex Zane has enlisted us to create his new official website. We have concocted a website for the former XFM radio presenter to keep his fans up to date on his touring schedule. The site brings in Zane's own love of pop culture through a B-Movie design theme that flows throughout the site. We worked closely with Alex in order to produce a site that reflected his own personality and would appeal to fans, providing them with up to the minute information via his twitter feed, n Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:51:56 +0100 36 /news/archive/ Stuart Broad has just been named as one of the top five cricketers of the year by the well respected cricketers publication Wisden. At this exciting stage point in his career he needs an online presence, and came to us to help him out. The website we’ve developed lets visitors send questions for Stuart to answer personally, as well as letting them read the latest news about their favourite Ashes star and look at photos and videos in the gallery. You can see more about the website in the Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:27:31 +0100 35