North West Playwrights web launch

Congratulations to Chris Bridgman and the rest of the North West Playwrights team on the recent launch of their new website. I'm sure there was a lot of hand wringing and heated discussions, but it looks like the results are great. The site was designed by Chameleon Interactive, who look like they do a lot of work in the arts and charity sectors.

I really like that the site is blank slate with style, so it will grow as the organisation adds content and will be flexible to carry whatever type of content they put up there. It shows a good development team that can put the urge to over design aside to create something useful for the organisation.

And now for the self-promotion. North West Playwrights asked me to produce a flyer for the launch event for the website. My approach was to give a sneak peak of the site through plain brown wrapping. Chris Bridgman felt a little more should be revealed, so before an after images below.

Afro-Caribbean Express

The flyers below were produced for a play writing initiative organised by North West Playwrights for Afro-Caribbean community in Liverpool. Writing is pretty difficult to represent in image without resorting to cliche. In this case, the final result is a script in hand performance, so we went with that idea, with a male actor on one side and a female actor on the other. The images were produced in illustrator using stock photos and ones of my hand holding a book (thanks to the lovely web cam on my i-mac) and then taken into photoshop for the effects.

I’m pretty pleased with the result. Hope the project went well.

More Designs from Martin Chester (finally an update)

I’m finally updating this blog, it’s been a wonderfully busy time on actual work, this doesn’t even include all the stuff I’m been doing for Celebrating Cycling and the Lancaster City Council, which I’ll try to get up later. So here we go:




North West Playwrights new writing project. I did the information leaflets to bring in writers, and here’s the one for the performances.



Drumming Session for at risk youth in Carnforth, Lancashire. These were done for More Music in Morecambe, a lovely organisation to work with.







And finally, for this post, the cover of Annie Clarkson’s collection for prose poems published by Shadowtrain books. Its a really good book and worth tracking down. If you are interested, email me though this page or my home page and I’ll forward it to the publisher.