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We’ve worked with St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, for a number of years now, initially creating and then implementing their brand identity. The University College has just announced its sponsorship of Harlequins Rugby League. The brand identity on the new rugby shirts gets its first outing in the televised match this Saturday.

Image courtesy of http://www.league.quins.co.uk/

We have worked for the Environment Agency for the past 4 years. So, we were delighted when we were re-appointed to the new design roster last month. 141 design companies applied to go on the new roster. 8 have been selected including us!

A brilliant start to the new year.

Those nice people at McNaughton Paper have given us an award - Overall winner, South of England in the 2008 McNaughton Design Review Awards. They were wowed by our popular 2009 Pencil Calendar. As they say, ‘extraordinary design deserves extraordinary rewards', so we are off to Reykjavik to sample the delight of Iceland's cool capital.

Mytton Williams have designed the latest series in the ever-growing Footprint range of travel guides. The first four titles in the new Footprint Italy series will be launched at the London Book Fair in April 2009. Mytton Williams, originally involved in the development of the brand in 1996 have worked with the international publishing company ever since.

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Mytton Williams have created the brand and visual identity for Butterfly World, a new £27m world-class visitor attraction and active conservation vehicle. Located on a 27-acre site near St Albans, the Butterfly World Project is supported by high profile patrons and trustees including Sir David Attenborough and Professor David Bellamy

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12 pencils, 365 days, infinite creative possibilities... The new calendar is available to buy from today. Consisting of 12 colour-coded pencils to indicate the seasonal temperature and the days of the year printed along the whole length of the pencil, allowing each day to be sharpened off. The minimal packaging is a traditional pencil box with a slide-out lid, so no further packaging is required for posting. This year our starting point was a 'back to basics' idea where we wanted to create something using the designer's most important tool, the pencil.

Mytton Williams have just produced another distinctive design solution for Ink copywriters. Ink's new CD showcasing their work will  be mailed to their high profile client list. To maximise on this opportunity and to add value to the basic CD we have created a distinctive, quirky A5 direct mailer reinforcing the bold Ink personality. The 6 page folder with die cut holes has been printed in a single colour on Think 4 Bright 300gsm stock and carries key information about Ink and the services the company offers.

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The first-ever travel photography guide from Footprint features a new editorial and cover style created by Mytton Williams.

We have worked with Footprint on a number of brand development projects over the past 14 years. For this particular project we were briefed to create a new cover style building on the current brand approach of Footprint's ‘lifestyle' series. We have enhanced the cover design to appeal to a continually more sophisticated audience.

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Issue No1 of the Mytton Williams News is now available. In a handy tabloid format, ideal for reading on your way home, the News will get you up to speed on all the latest design projects winging their way through the studio.

The UK's biggest selling exhibition of contemporary glass, the British Glass Biennale, launched with a new brand identity and visual language created by Mytton Williams.

We were briefed to... "grasp the essence of the exhibition - the contemporary, varied and artistic value of glass." The refractive and distorting qualities of glass were chosen as the underlying creative concept. The new identity was applied to all British Glass Biennale 2008 promotional material including the exhibition catalogue, advertising, exhibition graphics and the website.