One of our big themes at Hoults Yard is how much national and international reach we have collectively in the work of our client businesses. It is important for each of us to be breakthrough players regionally. And, collectively it will also raise the stature of the yard and give further momentum to the growth of the OuseburnBykerNewcastleNorthEast media industry (and Gateshead too! 
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HYBY reaches worldwide
Hedgehog Lab has just launched its first iPhone app.
Mere Mortals is winning awards for its game development – even a version of the French game ‘Boule’ or Petanque.
Jack Lowe continues to produce artwork for galleries in London – but also high-end retouching for clients as far away as New Zealand. He helps regularly at Baltic, including the Delhi collective on show at the moment.
The Tony Blair Sports Foundation is beginning to work on the ‘Decade of Sport’ around the Olympics. For instance, they have created a new training scheme to help start jogging groups at the workplace, aiming to 50,000 new people to running. Click here for info.
Mark Westaby has been recognised as one of the top advertising photographers in the world.
Northern Film & Media are pulling international creatives to work on film projects in the region – with a host of funding options coming onstream. Most recently, artist Gillian Wearing produced her film Self-Made in HYBY studios, offices and locations.
TV producer Northern Upstart is working on a number of commissions, off the back of success with series like Grumpy Old Women.
Likewise, TV producer Standing Stone, run by Tom Gutteridge, has exciting commissions in the pipeline. Watch this space, I’m told!
Artists, like Georgia Murray or Dan Holdsworth, have taken studios in the yard to prepare work for major exhibitions (Georgia is currently showing at the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries show – Dan at Gergosian’s JG Ballard tribute Crash alongside the greats including Damian Hirst, Eduardo Paolozzi and Jeff Koons, no less)
Poetic Gem, fashion designers, have a big influence on the taste of the nation as they produce clothes for increasingly edgy supermarket clothes brands.
West Indian cricketers were here on a onebestway photo shoot to launch a Yorkshire cricket equipment supplier on the Asian market.
Photo shoot in The Kiln - high ceilings and natural light
…and many more…
ps. Thanks to Reid Ingram Weir for the HYBY/Hollywood snap. We’re making a competition out of getting the stickers into wierd and wonderful places. Send your pics over!
