Nick Smith is a specialist in the area of Interiors and Architectural photography. He also has a super keen eye and tremendous skill when it comes to fashion photography, portraiture and fine art photography.

We have recently built and launched his new blog. The blog will house monthly updates of his work. Friends, clients, colleagues and interested parties can now keep up to date Nick Smith’s progress.

You can view his blog here or visit his main website here.

Friends, partners, colleagues and associates happy new year to you all!

2012 is set to be a big year for offset media. As well as our plans to expand the team, we are also in the process of opening an office in India.

Why India? You may ask. Well apart from India being one of the world’s biggest and fastest growing emerging markets, we also see a huge potential in the native highly skilled I.T. and software development work force. We will be just a short distance from the Microsoft and Google head offices situated in Bangalore (the new Silicon valley of India). Besides the obvious prestige an international office affords us, Bangalore is well-recognized for its speciality in relevant industries such as software, telecommunications and aerospace.

Even though we are set to be busy with these new changes, we will keep our commitment to delivering quality design and creative technology.

We just returned from a promo video shoot for Deluxe 142, media post production house situated in Wardour street, London. We were asked by our coleagues over at MY Production to help support the shoot with our lighting & videography skills.

Deluxe 142 offers the highest quality, sound and picture post production services for the media industry and are responsible the post work on many major Hollywood and home grown movies and television series. Such as “Death in Paradise”, ” The Inbetweeners “, “One Life”, “One Day” & “The Hurt Locker” to name only but a few recent works.

We were honored to be asked to play a part in this project. watch this space for the upcoming video promo soon to feature.

We are proud to announce the launch of PremaeSkincare.com. Over the last month we have been working hard alongside Clare Eluka (C.E.O and Founder of Premae Skincare) to build their online sales platform and create their product packaging designs.

Clare is a advocate for allergen free, eco friendly products and ethical principles in business. Premae is the world’s first totally allergen free beauty brand. She has spent much time in the area of research and development in order to discover how to create her comprehensive cleansing and moisturising system. What makes the Premae product range so special is that they are made with only 100% natural allergen free ingredients.

Looking for something special this Christmas for a loved one?  PremaeSkincare.com

DVL Smith, established for over 25 years, is a highly specialised insight and marketing development agency.  They have recently gone through a rebranding process and we were pleased to be invited to attend their launch party last week at the auspicious Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

We have worked alongside DVL Smith for some time now on many varied projects. It was a lovely evening with an insightful presentation from David Smith (founder of DVL Smith) who talked about the companies beginnings and the future goals of continued high quality services. We also received a highly entertaining and interesting presentation from Stephanie Davies of Laughology regarding the positive impact that Laughter can have on business.

We wish DVL Smith continued success and we are looking forward to working on further exciting projects together in the future.

Christmas is nearly upon us, and here at offset media, we are feeling festive already. Who benefits from our overly festive mood? You of course! We have created a set of 20 festive vector icons as our gift to you.

l Download The Free Festive Icon Pack.

Over the weekend we attended Aquatics live 2011 at the London Olympia. This was the largest event for aquarists in the UK for over 20 years. For the run up to the event we were busy producing banners, poster, leaflets and other marketing materials on behalf of our client Chris Englezou from C.E Fish Essentials.

We have been working with the innovative C.E Fish Essentials brand for some time now and we are very glad see them go from strength to strength. Over the last year they have been working very hard on research and development for a range of highly nutritional and colour enhancing Discus fish foods. We are responsible for designing their packaging / branding and we are looking forward to working with them creating more new and exciting world first products.

All in all it was a great show, I would highly recommend next year’s event to anyone who already keeps fish or might be interested in doing so.

On Monday the 31st of October, I was invited and attended a dinner with Boris Johnson – our Mayor of London. He was introduced by our local MP Mr David Burrowes and about 200 other guests also attended the event.

The renowned Boris Johnson gave us a great and personal speech regarding all of the things he has been successfully fighting for and the current issues his office is working on. I do like Boris, as well as being an honest public speaker (I say honest because his speeches are not pre-written by a team of swing artists but rather passionate, off the cuff and entertaining ramblings) but also because of his passion towards driving progress for London. He is an environmentalist, an intellectual and a strong believer in building up the strength of London on the world stage. Don’t get me wrong, not every plan Boris has pushed forward has been a raving success but the point is he not scared to try new things and bringing new ideas to the table.

He said to us that we can be expecting the new eco-friendly Routemaster bus to start appearing on the roads very soon. The new Routemaster is built by Londoners for Londoners and will support job creation and in turn the London Economy. Most of all the new bus will be quieter, safer, more comfortable and much more environmentally friendly then the now obsolete bendy bus. The new bus is at the forefront of cutting edge technology and design and will serve as fantastic replacement. In terms of design, the new bus pays homage to the original and much loved Routemaster which has stood as a beloved icon for London and Londoners for so many generations.

Responsibility for the Environment as well as encouraging growth for the London economy is something we at Offset Media hold very close to our hearts. As well as the new Routemaster bus, Boris and his office are fighting for further advancements to transport and business in London. Also look out for plans of a new orbital over ground network which will connect up the whole of London and offer better connections to our airports.

Here is a very interesting idea by Alexander Chen, a project called Baroque.me. A visualisation of Bach Cello Suites No. 1, Prelude where notes are replaced by strings and their pitch is determined by length. To get a better understanding of the project check out Chen’s blog post.

We just released a tabbing plugin for jQuery—tinytabs. It is open source under the MIT license. You can see it in action and download it here.

While jQuery UI and a bunch of other plugins support tabbing, sometimes, you don’t need all that overheard just to render a simple tabbed UI. I wrote tinytabs for this reason, to eliminate the unnecessary overhead. At less than 1 KB (minified), it does exactly what it is designed to do.