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We are excited to share that Clayton Welham has been asked to join the Founding Jury for the inaugural Collision Award. This new initiative is dedicated to showcasing exceptional talent, creativity, and innovation in Animation and Motion Design across the world. If you have something to share, submit your work here.

 

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We are excited to announce that Laurence Mencé, Creative Lead, will join a line-up of industry experts at this year’s Future of Branding Week, 14th – 17th May in London. Laurence will share her insights into motion design and how we use the latest innovative tools across branding, film and products. Secure your space here

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We are excited to announce the promotion of Found’s Creative Director, Clayton Welham, to Partner. Since joining us over three years ago, Clayton has been instrumental in Found’s growth. He has overseen a fantastic body of boundary-pushing work while building and nurturing an incredible team in our London studio, which continues to grow and evolve. Here’s to the next chapter!

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48 hours, 9 guest speakers and 1 robotic dog later we’re back from the world-class Mouvo Conference 2024. A big thank you to all the attendees who came as Clayton Welham and Andrea Marshall explored the intangible world of emotion using Maxon One tools and techniques.

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We are excited to announce that Clayton Welham & Andrea Marshall will join a lineup of leading digital creators at the world-class Mouvo Conference in Prague. Our talk will focus on how we use Maxon tools to visualise the intangible. Join us on March 1st – 2nd, 2024, at UMPRUM Centre, Prague. Get your tickets here.

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Thanks to Motion Folks for inviting Found to be a part of their second event in Bristol. Laurence Mencé and Clayton Welham joined a great line of guest speakers to discuss various motion design and animation topics. We showed that if we can inject personality into a pair of tweezers, we can inject personality into anything!

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Our Senior Designer Hannah will be attending Creative Lives in Progress’ latest ‘Want to get into motion design’ portfolio review event. Joining a panel of designers on Thursday 25th January, offering expert feedback and help you in your journey into the world of motion design. Sign up here.

 

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The OFFF 2023 trailer has not only been featured in  The Stash Permanent Collection issue 159 but has now been listed as one of the best event films of Stash 2023.

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Working closely with Pentagram and 4creative, Channel 4’s master brand was featured in one of the most read and top 25 graphic design lists for 2023. Capturing the attention of It’s Nice That readers across the board as their one best-performing stories of the year. Read full article here.

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Reflecting on a year of creativity, innovation, and unforgettable moments, our 2023 showreel is a visual journey through the extraordinary projects that defined this year for us. Over the past twelve months, we’ve pushed ourselves conceptually, technically and scientifically. From thought-provoking experiences and visualising emotions to liquid technologies and game-changing broadcasters, our work has covered some serious (and not so serious) ground. 

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For the latest issue of Port Magazine, we were commissioned by art director Daniel Shannon to create an illustration around the idea of reinvention to accompany 1010’s Editor’s Letter. Our design innovation lead Kieran Gee Finch’s design transforms seconds, minutes and hours into centuries, millennia and aeons (spot the triple shadow) in which we see the reinvention of raw carbon into diamond. Time and precious materials combine to sit perfectly amongst the latest developments in horology.

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Our Senior Designer’s Olly and Hannah held a talk for second year Ravensbourne students at our London based studio. Talking about their journey’s into motion design and providing insight into the importance of studio projects such as INVISIBLE, as a powerful tool used towards personal development. This is the last talk of the year for us, but keep an eye out for what we have planned in 2024! 

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We are excited to share that Andrea is an announced artist on this year’s Design and Animation Tour discussion panel. In partnership with Mograph.com and Maxon, this event brings an exciting multi-continent roadshow that will inspire, educate, and connect digital artists of all skill levels. Taking place Thursday 2nd November 2023 at the Brewery, London. 

 

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Thats a Wrap! As we close the doors on INVISIBLE, after an extraordinary ten days at London Design Festival 2023, which saw 672 tickets sold we’d like to say thank you to all who joined us, new faces and old. We hope you enjoyed a glimpse inside our creative process and approach. Stay tuned as we continue to explore the intangible.

 

 

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Our accompanying article to the opening of INVISIBLE is now live on Creative Review, ‘See the invisible’. In it we discuss how CG animation brings the intangible world to life; from hyper-reality to sensory immersion we explore how 3D design can help build engagement and form stronger connections.

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Kicking off INVISIBLE we invited friends and family of Found to join us for the opening night. It was great to get the whole team together and reflect on what was a first for us, an exhibition exploring how our research-based approach can amplify our perception of the world. Open until 22nd September at TJ Boulting Gallery. 

 

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Alongside the opening of INVISIBLE, on Wednesday 20th September we will be hosting an evening for the next generation of 3D designers, a chance to meet the team and learn about our studio processes. If you’re a UK-based 3D designer in the first year of your career and curious about how we make the invisible visible, sign up now. 

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Found presents Invisible, an exhibition in partnership with the London Design Festival 2023 exploring how to visualise the intangible. Showcasing at TJ Boutling Gallery this September, come join us on a thought provoking journey that may leave you viewing the world slightly differently.

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Clayton and Jack headed down to Central Saint Martins to review 2023’s BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design final year portfolios and offer industry support and insights as they open this year’s degree show.

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Our Creative Lead Ryan attended Creative Lives in Progress’ latest ‘How to get into Advertising’ portfolio review event. He joined a panel of designers offering advice and tips on portfolios and presentations to the next generation of creative talent.

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Clayton will be joining sustainable manufacturer Tarkett in discussion with Franklin Till at Clerkenwell Design Week next Tuesday. They’ll be discussing our recent collaboration and unveiling the project for the first time. Reserve your space here.

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We’re thrilled to announce that Nicole and Corentin have joined the team as Junior Designers. Both have made incredible steps already at Found, and have played a key part in many of our recent projects. Keep your eyes peeled for more of their work!

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For our second Creative Lives in Progress event of the year, our Creative Lead Laurence joined the ‘How to get into Animation’ Meet & Greet event. Alongside a panel of industry experts, she offered support and advice for those looking for a step into the world of animation.

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Meet Esra Efe Laborde, our new Office Manager. She’ll be taking care of day-to-day life in the studio and is already getting stuck in with all sides of the business. An organisational and creative talent, we’re thrilled to have her on the team.

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The whole team have just come back from the amazing OFFF Festival. We had a brilliant time speaking to a packed-out Roots stage on Thursday and caught our friends Vasava presenting their take on CUBE, amongst other mind-bending presentations across the weekend. Huge thanks OFFF for having us, and see you soon Barcelona!

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Our Senior Designer Olly recently headed to his alma mater Ravensbourne to talk about his journey into motion design and provide some insights into our Google work, before giving feedback on some of the student’s ongoing projects. This is the first of a big week of talks – OFFF Barcelona up next! See you there.

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Our Head of Production, Felix, recently participated in Creative Lives In Progress’ Meet & Greet for aspiring project managers. During the session, he spoke to people from various backgrounds and levels of experience, offering advice on how to get into the industry, including self-funding early projects. Stay tuned for more of our events with Creative Lives in Progress soon.

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X marks the spot. The beginning of our ongoing collaboration with product designer Jon Marshall and Pentagram. Taking cues from every stage of the design process, we composed an intelligent surface system to showcase Jon’s products. Designed to be flexible, our 3D grid surface is the blank canvas that scales and shifts to reflect each individual product.

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We’re delighted to welcome Laurence Mencé to the Found team. She joins us as our third Creative Lead. Prior to joining us, she worked most recently at Wolff Olins and Arrival and before that was freelance for 9 years with a little stint here at Found in 2018 where she worked alongside Dan, Felix and Ryan. To use Laurence’s own words she is ‘very chuffed to be part of the Found crew’ and we are excited to welcome her and her talent to the team.

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As we kick off 2023, we’re proud to announce that we’re now part of 1% for the Planet, which means we donate 1% of our revenue to supporting environmental causes locally and globally. We’ve also continued our partnership with Ecologi, offsetting our studio’s carbon footprint by funding climate-positive projects around the world.

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Christmas came early for Found this year, with our studio Christmas party last week. Moving from a proper roast to Tekken 7 and karaoke classics (nu metal to ABBA!). It was great to get the whole team together in person to reflect on our work this year and get into the festive spirit. We even had our international cohort, Kiril and Coco, join us from across the channel.

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Great to see our work on the big screens at F37’s Britain Collection launch last week. We created a series of quirky animated idents that bring their new fonts to life – check them out here.

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Dan and Clayton travelled up to Manchester for Motion North’s latest showcase last week. Talking alongside Blue Zoo at a packed-out Band on the Wall, they chatted about the behind-the-scenes of our studio and our processes. Thanks to everyone that came down and engaged with our projects and the conversation around our experiments with AI. We’ll be sharing more about this topic very soon, keep your eyes peeled!

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Last week, our team headed out to this year’s London Design Festival. We visited fellow motion design studio XK at Netil House, and caught some impressive exhibitions over the weekend. Standouts include Craft Council’s exposition of the history of cotton, and the Travel Things Museum’s interactive installation comparing everyday objects from around the world.

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Welcoming our latest Creative Lead, Jack Seymour, to the Found team. Jack brings a wealth of experience in CGI and motion design, having worked for clients such as Adobe, Harrods, Prada and Channel 4. We’re delighted to have him on board and taking the lead on a range of new exciting projects.

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We’re delighted to be speaking alongside Blue Zoo at Motion North’s Showcase at Band on the Wall in Manchester next month. Early bird tickets are on sale now.

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Quantum development for our latest collaboration with VIZIO.

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We recently undertook Great Place to Work’s detailed company-wide survey, seeing it as an opportunity for us to learn and take on feedback. We’re very happy to say we not only passed but hugely exceeded the industry average in the areas we value most – integrity, engagement and innovation. We couldn’t be prouder of the feedback we’ve got from this and see it as a great demonstration of the investment we’ve put into our team over the past two years.

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Welcoming three new members of the team this week, Lucy, Georgi and Ben, joining us in the Design and Production departments. We’re delighted to have them on board and getting stuck into some exciting projects to be announced soon.

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Further research for our ongoing project with FranklinTill. Clayton and Ryan headed to their Our Time on Earth symposium at Barbican Centre yesterday, finding invaluable insights into the worlds of materials, technologies and circularity. Keep your eyes peeled for our future collaborations.

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We’re very excited to announce that we’ll be presenting at OFFF Festival Barcelona next March. We had a great time at this year’s event and are delighted to be returning as speakers in 2023. Dan and Clayton will be joining some incredible guests on stage including Universal Everything, Rizon Parein, Mr Bingo, Brian Collins and many more to be announced. Stay tuned for more info.

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Early development stages for a recent project, using light as a means to render physical objects.
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Meet our new team members, Andrea and Jade! Andrea is the latest 3D Designer to join us, having recently moved over from Kutuko in Madrid. Jade, our first Office Manager, joins us with a background in project management and administration roles across the creative industries. They join us at an exciting time for the studio, looking ahead to a new office and some brilliant client projects over the next few months. 

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Clarity and haze, some recent macro R&D around organic forms for an exciting client project we’ve been working on.

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We’ve just come back from a team trip to Barcelona for OFFF’s 21st edition. Always one of the highlights of the season, this year we caught up with old and new friends, and watched some thought-provoking talks from Pentagram‘s Matt Willey and Paula Scher, Tendril, GMUNK and more.

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Dan and Clayton joined Mourad on the Mountain Collective podcast to chat about the metaverse’s effect on our industry, what makes work meaningful, and much more. Check it out here.

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We’re proud to be a carbon-neutral studio, having partnered with Ecologi since 2021. In the past year we’ve helped to plant 2,213 trees and counting, reducing our carbon footprint in an effort to preserve our climate. Our work is often informed by the movements and textures of the natural world and to mark this Earth Day, our Senior Designer Will has been experimenting with Haeckel-inspired forms.

 

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Making metasystems tangible. An R&D set exploring the concept of hidden networks. Activated through proximity, mechanisms below the surface respond to external shape and colour, creating paired, interlocking forms.

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As part of our ongoing student outreach, Clayton and Felix will be chatting to London Metropolitan University’s Visual Communications students this Friday. They’ll be introducing the studio and our work, as well as discussing the importance of collaboration in multi-disciplinary fields.

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Supported by Creative Lives in Progress, our design team recently met with 15 entry-level designers from around Europe to review their impressive range of portfolios from the worlds of CG, animation and illustration. Offering advice on portfolio formats, presentation skills and career paths, we provided feedback to this talented group of designers and artists, helping us kick off our studio mentoring scheme in style.

 

We’ll be expanding this scheme with our wider team this year, offering workshops across Production, Marketing and more in an attempt to demystify the CG industry. Keep your eyes peeled for future updates.

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At OFFF Seville 2021, on the back of our Main Stage talk and CGI workshop, we chatted with Spanish newspaper, El País. The team visited us at our studio in Farringdon at the start of this year and we’re excited to finally share the profile featuring team members Clayton and Ryan – check it out here.

Photos by Pedro Alvarez.

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We’re excited to be offering 15 entry-level designers 1:1 portfolios reviews. Supported by Creative Lives in Progress, five of our core design team and our Creative Director will be offering an introduction to CG and an insight into what makes a stand-out portfolio. Find out more and apply here.

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We’re delighted to announce that La Manufacture will be representing us in France. We join a talented roster of 3D artists working across both film and print.

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This Friday, our Designer Jay is heading back to his alma mater, Nottingham Trent, to speak with the Graphic Design students. Along with sharing his path from graphics to 3D design, he’ll speak about Found’s approach to briefs through the lens of our latest Google Pixel project. Post-talk, he’ll be reviewing and feeding back on a task that he set the students around redesigning a series title sequence.

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Our Creative Lead, Ryan, has been testing the effects of magnetism on physical objects and tethered camera dynamics.

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After two years of virtual and in-person collaborations, the team at Forward Festival asked us to round off 2021 with a playlist for their Press Forward series, which our team had fun diving into. Taking you through funky house to hypnotic trip-hop and a huge electronic collection, this is a good one to pop on in the background – check it out.

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Our Managing Director Dan Moore and Creative Director Clayton Welham joined Right Aligned Events for their ‘In Conversation With’ series. Chatting all things motion design, the team talked about the future of the creative industry and the story behind Found. Catch up here.

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We’ve hit 10k followers on Instagram! Thanks for the support – it’s been our most exciting year to date, with even bigger and better projects on the way. If you don’t already, follow us on Instagram and stay tuned with what’s to come.

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Last week, our Creative Director Clayton Welham and Creative Lead Dan Kennington spoke to the students at Sheffield Hallam University about their journey from studying graphic design, to working at Found with some of the world’s biggest brands. It was a delight to hear from up & coming talent, and answer some of their insightful questions about the future of the industry.

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Last week, the team set off to Hertfordshire for our mid-year away day. Alongside a well-deserved celebration of the year so far, the activities involved pottery, pigs and pints, all in the idyllic setting of Birch in Cheshunt.

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Our workshop at OFFF Sevilla last month honed in on how to use photographic exploration as part of the creative process. These stunning photos are some of the results from our participants – using macro lenses to explore the finer details of textures and light.

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Two new members have recently joined the Found team. Meet Kieran Gee-Finch, our new Senior Designer, and Karolis Arbaciauskas, our latest Design Intern. Kieran joins us from INK, with a background in Houdini-led motion design. Karolis joins us with experience at both Blue-Zoo and Harvard University.

We couldn’t be happier to have them both on board for our next series of exciting projects – stay tuned!

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Designed to evolve, our brand is open for the team to explore and develop. In this latest iteration, the Found logo sits in a world of translucent materials, shadows, and grounding stone surfaces.

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Meet Rain and Drew!

Rain Osgood is the latest Producer to join the Found team, with a stellar background in immersive storytelling and experience with luxury brands. She’ll be leading the production process alongside Felix and Sophia. Drew Thompson is our new in-house Finance Manager, joining us from Nucco Brain, and taking over the reins from Emma, who is moving over to join our friends at Output. We’re excited to have both of them on board!

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We’re excited to announce our partnership with Creative Lives In Progress, who provide invaluable free educational resources for entry-level creatives. We’ll be providing mentoring to up & coming designers in the CG and 3D industry, and are preparing talks and workshops for the near future – stay tuned!

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When motion design becomes reality, and vice versa… Our Creative Director Clayton has been behind the camera to capture lenses and light behaviour as part of our continued R&D practice. Hear more about these studio processes at OFFF Sevilla this October.

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Our first intern has joined the team. Meet Kiril Trashliev, a recent graduate from Ravensbourne University with a killer background in CG animation and product design. Keep your eyes peeled for more of his work with Found in the future.

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Last week, the team met up in sunny Brighton for our first full-staff social since 2020! A scenic walk across the South Downs made room for a delicious pub lunch, followed by a few celebratory drinks to watch the football with.

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This week, we’re delighted to welcome Dan Kennington, our new Creative Lead, to the Found team. Keep your eyes peeled for more of Dan’s work with us in the near future.

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A pop of colour on a cloudy day. An experiment in layering materials and motion, by our Creative Lead, Ryan.

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Thanks to Visuelle for featuring our work in their latest print issue, Edition 5ive. Grab yourself a copy here.

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Our Creative Director, Clayton, will be joining Creativepool as a guest judge for the 2021 Awards in the Animation category.

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Floating away with this dreamy fabric exploration by our designer Jay.

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Incoming! Fresh merch landed this week, featuring our brand new logo, and is currently en route to the Found team and friends.

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Linear component and airflow product research. Air in zero gravity.

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We’re delighted to announce that we are now a climate positive studio. We’ve signed up to Ecologi, which means we’ll be offsetting carbon emissions from our energy usage and funding planet-saving projects, like tree planting in Madagascar.

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Exploring formations and natural refractions through layered ice structures.

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Graphic engineered forms and precious material beauty set from Ryan.

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Melting glass to investigate caustics, refraction and close-up material tests for Forward Festival.

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Visualising the mix of our real and virtual experiences. Crossing the threshold.

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Research into audio movement, frequency filtration, noise cancelling technology and creation of unique sound signatures. 

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Experimenting with in-camera optics and CG effect combinations.

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We are pleased to announce that B&A is now representing us for the UK along with the US. We’re excited to be growing our partnership with these standout reps.

 

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A series of experiments fusing the translucency of glass with mineral forms.

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Ongoing exercises in audio form, flow and surface relationships.

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This month we welcomed Ellie Koepke to the Found Marketing team. A killer blend of strategic and creative, we can’t wait to see her work in action.

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Visualising the relationship between musician and instrument. Inner mechanisms, response and energy conservation.

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Colour, crystals, caustics – further play from Olly, following a R&D sprint for a recent beauty project.

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Experimenting with luxurious flowing fabrics and resin optics – another beauty R&D set from Will.

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It was a real pleasure to contribute to our favourite sound studio Echoic’s idents project. Check out the whole collection here.

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This month we welcomed Jay Culley to the Found design team. Jay joins us from Stink Studios, bringing a keen eye for detail, texture and abstract forms.

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It’s been a pleasure donating work to the NYC SALT holiday print sale this year, alongside so many of B&A’s talented artists. 100% of the proceeds go to benefit NYC SALT’s programming and mission to ensure that young artists of colour have the necessary opportunities and platforms to share their voice.

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This year we made a call to donate our Christmas client spend to The Felix Project, an organisation committed to getting nutritious food to London’s most vulnerable people.

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Networking laboratory vessels, scientific flow systems and optical glass.