October '26. Creative Diary.
It's been a busy month in the studio as we speed towards the final part of the year.
This week we've been out and about for a week long photography and video shoot for coffee brand Matthew Algie. We had a great few days of set building before cracking into things. It was high intensity, with a lot to get through, but really enjoyable as these things always are. Big thanks to Mark, Joe and Ed for all their help throughout the week and to all of the Matthew Algie team for all of their input too.
It was a big month as we launched a branding project that we've been working on for the past year in the studio, for our friends at Xcite West Lothian. What started as a brand strategy & project morphed into a full brand visual & verbal brand transformation - applied across this charity who are doing incredible work within the community. It was such a great project to work on, with a really nice team - and we'll look to get a case study out and about for this soon.
We kicked off a new food & drink branding project up in Kintyre, and got to go for a little day trip to meet the team and find out more about their plans. It was an enjoyable day out and veru worthwhile too as we look to kick things off.
The Jamhot team have also been out and about visiting venues and meeting lots of nice folk as part of a brand strategy project we're working on for a hotel & hospitality group. And their hospitality has been most welcome indeed.
Our travels continued as we got to visit a new whisky distilley client in the Kingdom of Fife, where we got to sample some delicious drams (quite a few actually) and then ended the day at a tasty roll van for a snack. It was a pretty good Thursday for sure.
The penultimate film in our Making Waves series for Caledonian MacBrayne launched to the world, with one film to go - completing the series which should be out and about in November.
The month saw us enjoying three new client wins, including a new drinks branding project in Amsterdam, a client within the energy industry and also a client dealing with... death! So it's fair to say it's all pretty varied work wise at the moment. We'll have some more info on each of these as they progress, with lots of possibilities to do some great creative work.
We announced that Gab would be back for next year, with the first event taking place at the end of January within the nice setting of Glasgow's Grosvenor Picture Theatre. We were blown away when the tickets for the event sold out in 30 mins. Thanks so much to everyone for supporting the event, it means a lot to us.
Looking ahead to November, we'll be looking to tie up a few long term projects that we've been working on as the year nears an end, and getting planning for some exciting work ahead in '27. We're looking forward to being out and about at the INTL creative & design festival where we'll be mentoring some emerging talent and Graeme will also be chairing a panel debate on the state of the Scottish design industry.
Also, we better get planning the studio christmas night out. Maybe we'll head back to Finnirston to The Big Slope, it's been a while.
Jamhot x