Recycled Sleep.
Mark Bailey • February 24, 2022
New 6o second animation showing how Millbrook’s new Nemo mattresses should help rest your worried head when it comes to recycling drinks bottles and mattresses at the end of their life.
Last Autumn we were lucky enough to start working with Millbrook Beds. We recently updated a 6o second animation we created that needed to illustrate how their new mattresses were made from recycled plastic drinks bottles. Not only are they made from recycled bottles but at the end of this mattress's life, rather than becoming landfill like the majority of mattresses it can be easily stripped down and recycled again, helping the environment and your conscience.

This is the second project that we've worked on with the Environment Agency. After a successful set of illustrations were created for the Pevensey Bay to Eastbourne Coastal Management Scheme, we were approached by project lead, Emily Webster, regarding the proposed sea defence improvements for Sandown and Yaverland. Emily and the team required two main illustrations and several cameos. These would be supplied to their design team to create public consultation material - posters, online assets and other communication assets.

Recently our client, the IOW Group, was looking to expand the number of partners they deal with to help promote and sell their products. They asked us to look into marketing assets to support this activity. There are several issues with partner programs. Businesses can waste a lot of time with prospective partners only to find that they aren’t suitable. This can be for a number of reasons: they aren’t established, they promise the world but don’t have the staff or funding to provide the required support for installation and support for the products, or in real terms, they simply aren’t motivated enough to sell the product. So, the process had to promote the new program and be upfront about the requirements necessary to become a partner.

We had the pleasure of working with Sarah Martin and Andrew Walker at the Environment Agency in Chichester and were tasked with creating 8 to 10 images that would be used as part of a wider presentation to help show the public different options and choices that could help protect properties along the Pevensey Bay to Eastbourne stretch of coastline. Initial illustration reference provided by The AE were more traditional (a more typical arch/vis water colour look) although they were happy to go with something different. We pulled together an initial look and feel that was more contemporary in approach which was liked and helped get the project moving. Rough sketches were provided by Andrew and along with our own research initial roughs of each illustration were submitted and amended before creating the final illustrations.