Our Partner - The Co-operative    In 1844, a co-operative store was established in Toad Lane, Rochdale, the start of a global movement one billion members strong. Today, The Co-operative Group, whose origins can be traced to the Rochdale Pioneers – is the UK’s largest mutual business owned by over seven million consumers. It’s the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, a major financial services provider, number one funeral services provider, third largest pharmacy chain and one of Britain’s largest farming operations. It set out its social and sustainability goals in its groundbreaking Ethical Plan, and operates 4,800 trading outlets with annual turnover exceeding £13bn.

Project Overview
Mill Co. were asked by regular clients Hyper Naked digital agency to create a seriese of motion effect stills of the Fast Show characters for the Fosters Funnies campaign. The brief was to shoot each character and create the effect of them morphing into each other. We did this by using a strobe and long exposure and then a lot of post production work. The campaign was featured online and on London Underground stations.

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We were initially asked to produce a stills shoot for Dr Martens to document the manufacturing process at the factory in Northampton as part of ‘The Art of Industrial Manufacturer’ campaign. What we actually did was to produce the stills but we also directed and shot a series of short films which were used on the site, each piece documenting a part of the process. The film in this clip is actually the full edit.

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Following on from the success of the AW10 shoot, we drafted in the dream team again to work on the SS11 shoot on location in Fuerteventura. We spent a long week, trawling the island in search of some of the most inspiring appropriate locations. The weather was perfect, the skies, the deserts, the rocks just Canterbury all over.

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Canterbury have now opened their own retail store in Bath, have successfully presented four lifestyle collections and are selling into NEXT and John Lewis.

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Lucy in Disguise asked us to come up with a series of illustrations for both their new collection, the look book and the invitation to their launch event in Harvey Nichols, London. Working with Lisa Stannard we produced all assets which later appeared in Vogue.

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The illustrations were well received in the industry and by consumers and what started out as an initial look book project, rolled out to swing tickets and the Harvey Nichols invite. The illustrations appeared on numerous fashion blogs including Vogue.

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Our clients Argent asked us to create a space in their Manchester ‘Hive’ development which would act as a drop-in work//meeting space for freelancers, creative and business people.
The theme of the space was ‘Classroom’ so we sourced vintage classroom paraphernalia such as a vaulting horse, science room props, signage, vintage educational books and a globe etc to give it a real cool but retro school style feel.

Mill Co. illustrator Lisa Stannard adorned the walls of the classroom with graffiti style illustrations of mathematical equations, science symbols, formulas and other style school doodles.

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Renewable Energy Co. Blue came to us for the whole package. Art Direction, naming, branding, promotional tools and website look and feel. Inventory Studio worked with us to create all the assets.
They also came up with the well loved strapline “Blue is green with a business hat on.”

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Blue have recently built the largest solar farm at Westmill. It took a remarkable 8 weeks. The company is going from strength to strength expect to see great things.

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Completed in two weeks, within a limited budget. A touring functional, tailored brand space that can work well on any level.