http://www.creativespark.co.uk/feeds/news.xml The latest news from Creative Spark. 360 /news/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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 /news/archive/ We have won a contract with the Greater Manchester Community Foundation (GMCF) to redevelop its website. The GMCF is a community of donors that are committed to improving the quality of life and helping build stronger communities across Greater Manchester.It is hoped that a new website with simpler navigation will make the Foundation more accessible and enable it to help more community groups.In winning the brief we undertook considerable research into how other Community Foundations websites wo Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:36:00 +0100 33 /news/archive/ We were very proud that our Head Designer Andy was able to showcase some of his work within the April edition of Computer Arts magazine. Andy showed off two pieces of design. The first was a collaboration of work he produced with Creative Spark and stylist Jess Stebbings and photographers Jon Shard and Gary Steer which was put together as a portfolio piece. The second — which was also featured in Belgian magazine De Fish — was originally used across publicity for a night at Area51. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:39:20 +0100 34 /news/archive/ Lily Allen isn’t a typical celebrity, the girl has bags of unique character, and recently she has poured some of it into her own jewellery range. We wanted to capture this ‘essence of Lily’ for the marketing imagery. So we spent a productive afternoon in Claridges and came away with some great shots of the girl of the moment. Lily’s range is inspired by many different influences, as she says: “My granny was a gypsy and I inherited a lot of her jewellery, so I inco Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:28:52 +0100 30 /news/archive/ After the success of last year’s work, Manchester United asked us once again to produce their print campaign for 2009 - 2010. Last year’s inspirational posters produced some great results, so the decision was made to carry on the theme – if something isn’t broken... We chose some more than willing and enthusiastic kids from a local school and spent a fun afternoon getting the shots. Our amateur models certainly rose to the challenge and some brilliant action shots were c Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:28:08 +0100 29 /news/archive/ Having dominated our TV screens for the past few years, Peter Kay is now set to take over our computer screens too, because we have just launched www.peterkay.co.uk. Andy explains;  “We have totally revamped Kay’s online presence over the course of the past two months to give it greater depth, interest and to reflect the comedian’s unique northern humour and personality.” “We’ve kept the shop element,” he said of the former incarnation, “but Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:27:34 +0100 28