More images of street art

In the making, Roa’s Four Horses of the Apocalypse… equine and also prehistoric dinosaurs…

Roa's Third Horse in the painting

One of the most interesting aspects of our murals project is that the person who spends the most time with the artist is actually Dougy, our Cherry Picker driver. He’s otherwise known as ‘Two Tellies’ because he walks around the yard on maintenance duties as if he has two televisions under his arms.

This time, he spent time up a height with Belgian puck, Roa – who refused to be drawn on the meanings of his animal-inspired art. He prefers others to read into it what they will.

Later this week, Hush, an artist with a studio at Hoults Yard, starts his series of art collaborations with Titifreak, a Brazilian artist. There’s a single evening when you can see the work, then it will be destroyed.

The murals will be around for longer… now KidAcne, Burgerman, Roa… next up Remi/Rough…

Interesting contrast - Hush's internal mural... let's see what he and Titifreak do this week?

Hoults Yard street art project reaches Obama

David Cameron has helped the Hoults Yard Project, our street art programme, to hit the headlines. On his recent trip to the USA, he gave President Obama a painting by Ben Eine, who has committed to work for the project in Byker.

Click here to see the BBC coverage of the Cameron gift (inc image!)

Will Ben now be took big for our Ouseburn initiative? I haven’t heard yet, but I very much hope he’ll still make it North!

Read more about our project from The Journal’s coverage here.

Ad award for onebestway

When I worked in hard core advertising, the Holy Grail was to produce adverts that create a ‘Smile in the Mind’. I think the judging premise of the Chip Shop Awards is to create a ‘smirk in the mind’.

I won’t give it away, but you really will enjoy clicking on the disgracefully un-politically-correct advert that gave onebestway a gong at a recent London award ceremony:

http://www.chipshopawards.com/categories/1326/Postbox.html

Is it politically correct nowadays to use the word ‘snigger’? Go onebestway, push the boundaries of taste…

Hoults to host Codeworks’ Think and a Drink

Make a date for your diary: 2 July 09. We’re hosting an event in Hoults Yard with BBQ and booze to put us on the map.

Click here for details 

The Yard has a host of amazing clients based in our village of office studios. They’ll all be represented, so an ideal time to see what all the buzz is about.

We are using our RailHead building – an old railway depot used when the yard was the world’s largest pottery in the 1850s. It’ll be a fabulous start to a range of events we’re looking to host: open air cinema, art exhibitions and conferences.

If you are looking for an unusual space for events, photo shoots and the like – give us a call on this. We’re currently hosting catalogue shoots, horror filming, music rehearsals, heritage tours…

Hoults Yard – design hub launches

As tracked in this week’s Design Week:  http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/142099/Article.htm

Hoult’s Yard, the Newcastle office complex family business co-run by former Loewy Group chief executive Charlie Hoult, is launching its new building, The Kiln.

Hoult, who founded the Loewy Group, which has a design line-up including Williams Murray Hamm, Seymour Powell and The Team, is helping his father run the family business after stepping down from the top Loewy post last year.Hoult’s Yard, formerly the Malings Pottery, has been in the Hoult family for four generations. Hoult describes the space, which features 20 000m2 of buildings across 3.6ha, as ‘Newcastle’s answer to the Truman Brewery [in East London]‘.

The Kiln, the latest addition to Hoult’s Yard, was designed by Durham architect Howarth Litchfield, and the space’s anchor client will be Northern Film and Media, with design and marketing consultancy One Best Way also signed up to the space. The wider Hoult’s Yard development houses digital agencies, games developers and photographers.

Hoult describes the creative industries in Newcastle as ‘vibrant’, due both to the presence of Northumbria University (whose graduates include Apple designer Jonathan Ive) and the fact that ‘Newcastle is a hub for quite a wide area – from the Scottish Borders to Yorkshire’.

As well as working with Hoult’s Yard, Hoult says he is ‘busy being plural’, working as a mentor with digital publishing agency Velo and running blog Opencast, as well as networking event Castaway.

He adds that he has a couple of ‘secret special projects’ in the pipeline, and refuses to rule out a return to the design world.

He says, ‘It would be an interesting time to get back into the design and media market, but there’s still a lot of pain out there, so I’m biding my time.’

Hoult stood down as chief executive of the Loewy Group in May 2008, becoming vice-president, development, and was replaced by chief executive Iain Johnston last October.

Charlie Hoult 

1993 - Sets up brand communications group Wilson Harvey 

2004 - Forms Loewy Group with Bryan Wilsher through a merger between Raymond Loewy International, Wilson Harvey, Prescient, Loewy3 and RiteAngl 

2006 - Loewy acquires The Team and Williams Murray Hamm 

2007 - Loewy acquires Epoch Design and Seymour Powell 

2008 - Hoult steps down as chief executive, becoming vice-president, development 

2009 - The Kiln launches in the Hoult’s Yard development