Aubin Gallery are delighted to present 'Dream In Colour', a series of new works and reinterpreted archive imagery by leading London creative studio Stylorouge. The exhibition will run 11th January - 3rd February 2012.

To celebrate their 30th anniversary Stylorouge have let their creative minds loose on a whole new series of art pieces for a groundbreaking exhibition of personal artistic work with their whole team entering a process of self-directed artistic creation specifically for the show. The resulting video installations, assemblages, painting and photography give a unique insight into the concerns and motivations of one of the most progressive and engaging creative studios once freed from commercial constraints. Rather than the usual cohesive collaborative work that the studio produces, this exhibition charts the individual journeys of each of the participants.

Stylorouge's campaigns for Pure London and Stitch Menswear got a good airing alongside each other in August.

Although the riots kept a small percentage of visitors indoors on the final day, Pure London, the UK fashion calendar's leading buying event brought buyers in from Fenwick, Harrods, Selfridges, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Debenhams and Urban Outfitters. Other key visitors included independent retailers such as American Pie, Choice, Sarah Coggles, Sunday Best and Village Bicycle. Online stores included Amazon, ASOS, Figleaves and My Wardrobe. Over 1,000 brands were represented at the three day show.

McFly's Super City award-winning website gets a makeover. Without the aid of Colin or Justin, Stylorouge's Aaron Munday gets his wallpaper paste out and improves on the already fantastic... someone hold his ladder! The new-look subscription-based-ultimate-online-fan-experience went live on October 10th. Our Super City headers were animated at Lab 10, and The Unit built the beast, and ensured a clean transition on D-Day – www.mcfly.com

Stylorouge joins hands with Jvan Morandi's Placing Shadows to create some spectacular video projections for Italian politico-rock giants Negramaro. Tattooed ladies and spacemen were given the Jamie Gibson treatment in the edit suite making for some striking images to accompany their 24 date Casa 69 arena tour which opened on October 4th, the whole affair is promoted by global entertainment leaders Live Nation. The Stylorouge-produced clips form part of a multimedia show that features thousands of euros worth of hydraulic platforms, and multiple shifting video screens. (By the way, the tattoos in the clips were provided by the divine Nina Kate Downer, Astronaut – our own Aaron Munday) Watch the montage excerpt

After a short delay we can now reveal the promo for The Brilliant Things single Something To Say – shot at The All Stars Gym in North west London. The whole crew got a real workout on what was surely the hottest day of the year, it wasn't just the sandwiches curling at the edges.
A few ladies were KO'd by our boxer, the sultry Jamil from AMCK Models, but the stars on the day were the Brilliant Things who, as Louis Walsh would say, 'owned' that ring.

Something To Say was released by Universal on October 7th. Video clip directed by Rob O'Connor and produced for Stylorouge by Fran Lima.Watch the video

A new contender in the outrageously popular dubstep market – Big Step For Dub is a fresh compilation brand launched by new dance specialist imprint D1D2. Stylorouge were commissioned to create the identity and campaign for the new series, including a TV commercial, album packaging and a micro-site. Including key tracks by Rusko, MJ Cole, Caspa and  Flux Pavilion. The album jumped into the charts at no.16 on August 14th.
The TV commercial was created in-house by Jamie Gibson, the sleeve by Aaron Munday, and the microsite by Michele Rossi and Alessandra Sangermano. View the TV Commercial here.

The UK fashion industry's two big trade events, Pure and Stitch opened on August 7th at London's Earl's Court 2 and Olympia, heralded by accompanying visual campaigns by Stylorouge. The three day events brought thousands of buyers and other fashion industry professionals from the retail sector from around the world. Celebrating their own recent successes, Menswear labels Weekend Offender and Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green hosted after-show events added a little spice to proceedings with live music and fire-eating burlesque acts.
Photography for both Stitch and Pure Spring/Summer events was by Rob O'Connor, with design and art direction by Jojo Ma and Antony Wallis.

Irish pop-rock four-piece The Brilliant Things celebrate the release of Something To Say with an open rehearsal day at Dublin's legendary Windmill Lane Studios on Thursday 18th August. The day was designed to give the media a taster of what they are about as a live act, and to launch the first single to be released by the Dublin-based band through Universal Music. Stylorouge have produced a promo video clip for the track, directed by Rob O'Connor and produced by Fran Lima, shot on location at All Stars Boxing Gym in London's Notting Hill. Edited by Jamie Gibson. Video clip coming soon

After several years in the making, Music and record sleeve enthusiast Matthew Chojnacki publishes his labour-of-love book Put The Needle On The Record, a very personal review of his favourite music packaging, mainly culled from his own collection of 1980's releases.
Stylorouge's sleeve for Jesus Jones' Info Freako (Psycho remix) single made it through the edit – quite timely as the band have reformed to play a tour of Japan and the far East. See the book on Amazon.com

The latest Stylorouge designed and built website to go live is for Independent investment advisory service Chatto and Co, our first foray into the dizzying world of the financial sector and it looks pretty cool. Check out your Futures, or, if you don't know your CFD's from your Forex take a look anyway or just use the groovy world clocks display to check out the time in Tokyo and Zurich...  See the website at http://www.chatto.uk.com/  

The August issue Digital Arts Magazine picked the brains of Stylorouge creative director Rob O'Connor for contributions to it's feature "The secrets to success as a designer, illustrator or artist". The specialist creative mag reviews the opinions of a handful of company directors engaged in various areas of the creative business in it's usual, inimitable soundbitey style, and as usual, it makes for an interesting, if brief read in its online form... must grab a real paper copy to compare... See the online feature here.

Blue Touch Paper launched their new website on July 12th, designed and built by Michele Rossi and Alessandra Sangermano at Stylorouge. For anyone who missed our previous posting on Blue Touch Paper, they are an extraordinary, new six-piece band that composer Colin Towns has put together to echo the great Jazz/funk/rock output of '70's crossover acts such as Weather Report and 'electric period' Miles Davis. Readers of Wire magazine will be familiar with the line-up: guitarist Chris Montague from Troyka, Polar Bear's Mark Lockheart on saxophones and Benny Greb on drums. Stephan Maass (percussion), Edward McLean (bass) and Colin himself (on keyboards).
Stylorouge have also put together a promotional film and designed the album sleeve for the debut album, Stand Well Back.
Photography and video direction by Rob O'Connor, Design by Mark Higenbottam with Jo Thomson and Jojo Ma. Jamie Gibson at the edit suite.

http://www.bluetouchpaper.com/

On Friday July 1st, the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Digital Innovation Award went to McFly, for the Super City website, to whom we offer our sincere congratulations.
We can now justifiably blow our own trumpets and declare ourselves proud to be the designers of the award winning online Super City! The band's commitment to this new, subscription-based model resulted in a turnover of £500,000 in the first month online, and it continues to increase income, media interest and the band's worldwide fanbase.
Conceived by McFly, Designed by Sarah Foley and Aaron Munday at Stylorouge and built by The Unit - credit where it's due eh!

American-born opera singer Maria Romo gave up the razzle dazzle of Broadway and touring in musical theatre to study Classical music at the National Conservatory of Music in Nice. She met hit Swedish rock producer Olle Romo, and put her musical career on hold to raise their three children. They now live in Geneva, where she has recorded her long overdue dream album, Tesori, a collection of some of her favourite songs from the Baroque era. The album sleeve and her fanatical opera-blogging website have been designed by Jo Thomson, using images from a shoot with Maria by Rob O'Connor, in the beautiful surroundings of Nettlestead Place, a medieval manor in Kent. A short video clip of the photoshoot is currently being edited for online use.
Styling by the fabulous Cheryl Konteh and Hair and make-up by the equally fab Alison Butler.
http://www.mariaromo.net/

Digital Arts Magazine asked us to contribute to their upcoming feature – The Secrets of Success. See next month's issue to read serious answers to pertinent questions, given to Digital Arts' Michael Burns, by creative director Rob O'Connor.
For those preferring the well-penned thoughts of the arty blogger, check out what he and colleague Antony (Wally) Wallis had to say about the new Stylorouge campaign for Stitch Menswear in an interview with Joey Dean in his "Hard Up, Hungover and the Bastard Landlord" blog.
http://www.harduphungoverandthebastardlandlord.com/?p=1273