In 2018 Royal Museums Greenwich will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s epic Endeavour voyage with a transformative programme of new exhibitions and major improvement works. To inspire support we created a fundraising campaign to communicate the scale and vision of the Endeavour Project.

To bring the project to life we gathered stunning imagery from the Museums’ archives and inspirational quotes from great explorers. Our brochure features a dust jacket that unfolds to show Cook’s portrait and biography, and a beautiful navigational chart of Cook’s Southern Hemisphere on the reverse. The layout was devised around the concept of ‘new horizons’, with each page split through the centre. Alongside the brochure we produced event invitations and display materials.

Comprised of three buildings offering 600,000 sqft of prime office space, the Forbury Place Estate has created a thriving new urban business district for the South East. The brand and marketing campaign was created with the flexibility to incorporate all three buildings; providing a cohesive brand experience, whilst communicating individual benefits and business messages.

The scheme is the largest and most prestigious development in the region, and the quality of the brand and marketing materials had to match these aspirations. Our promotional work has included the creation of films, graphic animations, direct mail, environmental branding, digital marketing and an onsite marketing suite. Each building has been launched to the market with a hard-back book, supported by a website which brings together all availability for the estate in one site.

Blast were briefed to create a campaign for Forbury Place which could compete with schemes in London. They have achieved this through intelligent design of the highest quality.
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Aaron Pope, M&G Real Estate

It is very clear from the great design concepts delivered, through to the quality of the materials produced that we made the right decision in appointing Blast.
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Luke Hacking, CBRE

Fantastic result on all fronts – website, films, books, et al – you have played a blinder!
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Joel Hawkins, Bell Hammer

Create is an exciting new journal published by Arts Council England as part of its State of the Arts Programme. With the purpose of stimulating discussion about the true value of the arts, it brings together articles, research and poetry by a diverse mix of contributors, from former Prime Minister John Major to performance poet Hollie McNish.

The outcome was an editorially-led design that felt creative, independent, and spontaneous. We commissioned and worked alongside illustrator Lizzy Stewart, whose drawings provide a rich visual response to each section. We also made use of Lizzy’s talents to create four engaging infographics about the role of creativity today, and produced supporting digital assets for the Arts Council England website.

Blast were a fantastic creative agency to work with on this very high profile project for Arts Council England. They were intuitive and flexible in their approach to working with us, and demonstrated a great understanding of what we were trying to achieve with the publication in all of their designs. We’ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback on our Create journal, particularly on how beautiful it is!
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Ella Muers
Director, Marketing and digital communications
Arts Council England

An integrated campaign for families who are ‘looking for adventure’. Working with paper artist Polly Lindsay, we have created posters, press advertising and animated web banners to encourage families to come and discover the events on offer at the Museum during the school holidays. Each poster shows a playful depiction of one of the Museum’s maritime stories, spotted through the lens of a telescope.

Our work has culminated in another campaign, this time for the Museum’s new children’s gallery, named AHOY! Featuring Polly’s paper interpretation of the sign sitting atop the white cliffs at the gallery’s entrance, each letter and character is based around a different theme explored within the gallery.

Sellar Property Group are the developers that brought us the iconic Shard, Europe’s tallest tower, and the News Building at London Bridge Quarter. The website provided Sellar with a platform to showcase its impressive portfolio of developments and investments, and was part of a wider project that included a brand strategy review and a refresh of their brand identity.