This is an archive of essays, lecture notes, press cuttings and other text-based ephemera from Graven (we used to be known as Graven Images). Sometimes we write things. This is where we keep them.

Re:Motion

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Re:Motion, our award-winning travelling exhibition is now showing in Glasgow at The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City.


Scottish university branding

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Initial processes are underway in a brand development project for one of the Scottish universities.

Implementation is expected late summer 2004.


Burns Cottage Museum update

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As Burns night passes for another year we can start to look forward to the prospect of the next stages in developing the Burns Cottage Museum project.

Since Graven Images was appointed to design the new museum, we have been collaborating with Carricks and Sutherland Hussey in what promises to be one of Scotland’s first great buildings of the 21st Century.

The existing museum has the world’s most important collection of Burns artefacts, including original manuscripts of Auld Lang Syne and Scots Wha Hae.

Burns Cottage is the original thatched house where the Bard was born and lived for the first seven years of his life.

For more information: www.burnsheritagepark.com


Birdlife

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RSPB is working with Graven Images to develop its approach to outside interpretation in cities. Engaging city dwellers and comuters is a huge challenge, but if people can be encouraged to LOOK, in the right place, at the right time its amazing what they will see. Fulmars, falcons, kingfishers and dippers all co-exist with city residents.


Page and Park, new identity

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Page and Park Architects launch their new corporate identity, designed by Graven Images.


Graven Images Gains Investors In People re-accreditation

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It’s official!!! Staff were interviewed today.


Beagle lost

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Beagle may be lost in Space, but at least the exhibition made it to South Korea.


Coffee

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Exciting new in-store concept under development for major UK based retailer.


BBC HQ wins BCO Award

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BBC Scotland HQ was crowned regional winner in the Corporate Workplace category at the British Council of Offices awards ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel, London.

The judges were impressed “at the way often contradictory objectives were achieved, combining technical space with office areas as well as providing a creative interactive environment.”

The judges also commented  that the project team “created a world class facility that is now used to benchmark other projects”.

Our Managing Director, Ross Hunter, attended the ceremony with the project team to collect the award.

Congratulations to all the team.

To view the BBC Project and all other winners click here.


Harris Tweed Hebrides

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Graven Images is collaborating with Harris Tweed Hebrides to launch a new range of products in Japan.

Working with Harris Tweed Hebrides, we have created a new range of products and fabrics for interior designers and architects. The new collection, designed and manufactured to meet contract specifications, will be launched at 100% Design at Jingu Gaien-mae, in the heart of Tokyo in October 2008.

The new capsule collection of tweed fabrics extends the reach of Lewis-based Harris Tweed Hebrides’ hand woven pure wool textiles – with its unique protected provenance – into contract interiors.

The innovative product range includes a sumptuous capsule collection of contemporary tweeds, upholstered furniture, lampshades, bed throws and soft furnishings. Further products, including heavier weights of fabric with enhanced performance characteristics and a more extensive range of colourways, are already in development.

Ross Hunter, Director of Graven Images said, “Harris Tweed Hebrides is a Scottish success story. These hand woven, 100% pure wool products have a fabulous depth of colour that’s far superior to piece-dyed fabrics. The blend of colours used to make each strand of yarn mimics nature in its complexity and gives designers the option to coordinate each fabric in the collection with many other colours – making them perfect for interior designers. We plan to use them in our hotel designs worldwide”.

Established over 22 years ago Graven Images works for international brands including BBC, Missoni, Standard Life and Volkswagen. The company also designs prestigious award-winning boutique and luxury hotels including Tigerlily in Edinburgh and Radisson hotels worldwide.