We are proud to announce that our 4seven idents were awarded a prestigious D&AD Yellow Pencil for Film Craft. In addition to the pencil, 4seven also received a nomination for in the Branding category, as well as More4 and 4seven getting ‘In Book’ in the TV & Cinema Communications category.

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Our latest challenge from the good folk at Nike was to create a charming motion piece to increase awareness of their impressive Reuse-a-Shoe initiative and it's process.

After winning a 5-way competitive pitch, ManvsMachine were tasked with the full rebranding of Denmark's TV3 entertainment network.

We’re very flattered to have our 4seven branding featured in Edition One of Visuelle Paper.

See it / buy it here.

4creative appointed ManvsMachine to create a cohesive on & off air package for new channel 4seven, that would sit comfortably as part of the Channel4 family.

More4 christmas idents, shot on location in the Akureyri region of Iceland. No CGI was used.

Our friends in Portland got in touch and invited us to work on the launch campaign for the Nike Kobe8 basketball shoe. We happily accepted.

We are very proud to announce that our 4seven idents picked up two Sharks for ‘best use of post production/special effects’ at the 50th Kinsale awards. Big thanks to MPC for their work on the project.

Swimming Pool ident

Allotment ident

We’re very proud to have been invited to speak at OFFF Barcelona 2013. More info about the festival and the amazing range of speakers here.

Hope to see you there next June!

We are super proud to announce that we were one of of only three UK agencies to be awarded a Gold Lion for Design at the 2012 festival. The award was for design and animation on our More4 rebrand.

There is a nice 8-page insight into our More4 rebrand in this year’s Computer Branding Arts Collection. Lot’s of other inspiring reading in there too.

Discovery USA commissioned ManvsMachine to create a family of idents for it's recently re-launched Science network. The brief was simply to visualise their mantra: Question everything.

Our recent More4 rebrand will be featured as part of the ‘State of Design’ seminar at the 2012 PromaxBDA conference in LA:

“Motionographer’s Justin Cone has curated some of the most outstanding and inspiring creative out there from advertising to gaming, promotion to film and everything in between. Take an exclusive look at the most compelling, innovative and eye-catching design work from every corner of the globe. ”

Gold vs Pink is a limited edition A2 print commissioned by Glug London. It will be on sale at ‘A Beatuful Summer’ event at Cargo on 24.05.12 where we will also be doing a little talk.

All proceeds to The James Baldwin trust.

Our More4 re-brand is one of the features in the latest edition of the ever excellent Process Journal.

You can preview the contents and buy the issue over at the Process Journal store.

We’re featured in IdN’s ‘Best of The Best’ review of moving image in 2011.

See / buy the full publication here.

Selected (Graphic Design from Europe) is taking place in Bilbao this year, we will be judging and speaking at the conference on 24th March. We will also be stroking Jeff Koons’ puppy.

More info here.

After winning a competitive pitch, Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.

Commercial showcasing Renault's impressive new 'Energy dCi 130' engine.

In Spring 2010 ManvsMachine were invited to pitch on a top-to-toe rebrand of BT Vision. The overall scope of the project has been to develop a new and innovative identity package for the BT Vision TV-on-demand service; with a brand that needs to work across all media and is able to sit with the existing BT brand and BT Vision product logos. Completed in association with our friends and regular collaborators, Proud Creative.

Toyota iQ spots for use in association with sponsored content on channel 4.

The awards season has been very kind to us so far. We won three gold awards at the recent Promax BDA Awards in NYC for our branding work on Syfy Kids, Chiller and Discovery 25th Anniversary. Chiller was also named a winner in the TV & Cinema Communications category at this years D&AD Awards.

We’d like thank our Mums.

We were very flattered when Nokia approached us with the task of creating a start-up sequence for their new N9 smartphone. The brief encouraged us to explore the limits of the 'connection' narrative associated with the iconic Nokia 'hands' sequence.

Our Toyota iQ films are featured amongst lots of other inspiring work from around the world in the latest Stash collection.

See the full project here, or view the Stash trailer here.

IdN’s On-Air Ident+ DVD showcases of ‘the latest and most brilliant moving images’ from across the globe. We were humbled to discover it features no fewer than four recent ManvsMachine projects, see the trailer here.

This latest installment in MvsM's on-going work with NBC Universal is the brand look & feel of 'Syfy Kids', a sub-brand of the main network.

The latest edition of Brief (BDA Promax’s industry journal) features a studio profile & interview with ManvsMachine founders Tim Swift & Mike Alderson.

The New York Times have crossed the pond and commissioned ManvsMachine to create a moving image piece for the celebratory ‘10th Annual’ magazine edition. See the finished spot on the NY Times website.

Behind the scenes at a shoot we did last week using the very impressive Photron high speed camera with the photographic expertise of Jason Tozer... let the post-production begin!

Due for release in Spring 2011 as part of a major UK network rebrand.

NBC Universal commissioned ManvsMachine to create a series of logo idents as part of the Chiller network rebrand.

Our happy little family of idents for Nickelodeon HD is featured in Stash 74. Watch the trailer here.

ManvsMachine won a competitive pitch to direct & animate a series logo idents for Nickelodeon's HD channel

We’re please to announce that ManvsMachine are now on the directors roster of world class story-telling production company, Nexus. They will be representing us worldwide for commercials.

Exciting times ahead…

When Sky Arts 1 decided to go HD, Sky Creative Agency approached ManvsMachine to work with them to design & animate an ident that would bring artistic abstraction to a quintessentially British sea-side location.

‘Experimentalism’ is a ManvsMachine short film, currently work-in-progress. Check back here for sporadic tests / progress updates.

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to the private view of ‘This Arcadian Bloom’ — a digital installation at uber-swanky London restaurant & gallery, Sketch.

The installation was an evolution of the British Fashion Awards event branding & was created in association with our friends at Silent Studios.

A second phase of logo idents 12 months on from the multi award winning Syfy relaunch.

In response to an extremely open brief from Swedish broadcaster Kanal 5, ManvsMachine worked in collaboration with the fine folk at Proud Creative to conceive & create a visually rich and quirky spot, suited to the channel’s eclectic entertainment output.

A series of bespoke graphic animations to form a nomination package for the prestigious British Fashion Awards ceremony.

ManvsMachine were approached by Japan-based film & photography publication 'Printed' to create a logo ident to precede all film content produced by the organisation.

BT Vision approached ManvsMachine to design & animate a neatly gift-wrapped seasonal brand package.

To coincide with the launch of the Booklet3G, Nokia commissioned ManvsMachine to create a series of idents for use online, in-store and at events.

The PromaxBDA Gold Awards were very kind to ManvsMachine this year, with both BT Vision and Syfy awarded in the Art Direction & Design category. The Syfy rebrand also went on to scoop 11 awards in total at the Los Angeles event. Not bad.

We were also humbled to feature in the conference session entitled ‘Creative Anarchy: Design Shops you Won’t be able to Afford Next Year’. The session showcases ‘the’ break through companies of the last few years and is hosted by Shanna Green, Editorial Manager of PromaxBDA along with Kevin Mackall, MTV’s former SVP of on-air promos.

'Creative burst' ident as part UK broadccaster Five's network rebrand.

In July 2009 the Sci Fi channel relaunched as Syfy. ManvsMachine joined forces with fellow London design studio Proud to collaborate from the pitch stage of the rebrand project, tasked with designing and realising the new on-air look.

Brand identity for London based architecture studio Paul Archer Design.

Rupert Burton is the most recent recruitment to the ManvsMachine studio, ‘Photoperiod Piccadilly’ was his Masters Degree film at UAL.

Documenting a single day in Piccadilly Circus the film uses 24 sequential HDRI to show the fluctuating intensities of environmental light. Every hour the surrounding light was captured and recorded (Lux value), using this to illuminate a virtual dynamic wavelength and photographic light meter. As a point of departure the film creates a dialogue between natural and artificial light, connecting photographic processes with computer generated images.

Watch it here.

We were invited be a guest speaker/artist at Sines Digital 2010, an annual event that aims to promote and foster digital art, through the international meeting of creatives, geared to show new trends and art projects, focusing on contact and sharing knowledge.

The event takes place annually in Sines (Portugal) during the first week of June. This years diverse line-up also included Postpanic, Seed Studios, Tavo, Si Scott & António Cerveira Pinto.

More Info at here. Big thanks to Unit for being the perfect hosts.

See No Evil invited ManvsMachine to speak at the first anniversary event at Bar Kick in East London on Tues 13th April. The very talented folk from Ubik will aslo be offering insight into thier work, whilst Abobe will be previewing CS5… pop down for a drink if your free.

More info at www.seenoevil.tv

Tribal DDB commissioned ManvsMachine to design, direct and animate the online & outdoor media launch campaign for the 2009 release of the Volkwagen's Scirocco.

Trendy show packaging for channel 4's trendy fashion show Frock Me.

An abstract representation of 'the architectural process' commissioned by architecture & design firm Space Projects.

This revamp of channel 4's irreverant entertainment strand.

Festive brand package for VH1.

Packaging for MTV's Essentials show – looking into the muscial lives of individual artists & bands.

Promo to introduce Alexa Chung & Alex Zane as the new presenters of channel 4's flagship pop music show Popworld.

'Hijack' themed MTV global brand kit including idents, bumpers, logo blips, style guide & then some.

MTV Networks International corporate brand identity. Including logotype, on–air & off–air media.