Kevin Saunders Creative Services

This is an interactive microsite designed and built for Herts County Council Youth Connexions to promote positive relationships for young people. This is just one small part of a year-long project involving residential workshops with groups of young people to generate ideas, which I then knocked into shape as this website – as well as a series of live music events and printed material. I wrote the press releases, organised the events and worked closely with Youth Connexions on compiling the report for presentation to Herts County Council.

CLICK THE PICTURE TO SEE THE SITE!

BOXPARK BROCHURE & PRESS RELEASE

Roger Wade, creator of Boxfresh and owner of Brands Inc and Donna Lambert (Lamb to Slaughter) asked me to write the launch brochure and trade press release for Roger’s latest retail revolution: BOXPARK – the world’s first pop-up mall!! I’m very chuffed to have taken part in this project because it’s one of the very few times that the word ‘revolution’ is used correctly and appropriately. This is exciting and radical stuff!!

Here are a few excerpts from the brochure, designed by Hamish Makgill of Studio Makgill, Brighton

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I’m part of a team (including BAFTA-winning Director Matt Lipsey) working on a TV documentary – for which this is the website! In four hour-long episodes we tell the tale of four hotels whose names evoke the memories of artists who always said YES to excess: the Joshua Tree Motel, Chateau Marmont, The Chelsea Hotel and the Algonquin. Since writing the website I’ve written a detailed treatment, verging on being a finished screenplay, for the Chateau Marmont episode. I was also the one who came up with the name ‘Heartbreak Hotels’! Once the film is in production, there are plans for a coffee table style book (written by yours truly), a series of albums featuring artists who lived and died in these hotels and even a three-dimensional  interactive hotel experience – online and in the flesh!

Check out Heartbreak Hotels here: www.heartbreakhotels.co.uk or click the picture!

Written recently by yours truly, this is a very cool website offering some of the coolest grooves on the planet (and off it) from the likes of Marden Hill, Beamish & Fly, 45 Dip, Defoe, Spacehoppa, Sugarman and many more. There’s a huge range of music of various styles for use in TV, film, ads and so on – and among the tracks on offer you’ll find a few of my own! CLICK THE DOORBELL TO ENTER!

Jonathan Miller at M-Y Ebooks asked me to come up with a complete exhibition solution that got across their message – that it’s easy for individual authors and publishers alike to turn their literary works into published ebooks with turning pages when you work with M-Y Ebooks. I had a bit of a vested interest, since I work as an editor for M-Y. Far be it from me to plagiarise – so i’m calling this ‘an homage’!

I came up with a complete exhibition stand, A5 leaflet, a set of postcards and business cards with the straightforward theme of: SIMPLE

CLICK THE PICS TO CHECK OUT M-Y EBOOKS!

EXHIBITION PANELS FOR M-Y EBOOKS at Frankfurt Book Fair

M-Y EBOOKS - leaflet copy and design for Frankfurt Book Fair

Acumus Insurance Home Page

Acumus Insurance, the leading social housing insurance company, asked me to rewrite their entire website and ensure that the new copy fitted comfortably within the space available in the new design without the need for visitors to scroll down. Quite tricky to be that concise with such a complex subject with lots of detail to cover!

Click the picture to see it full size – and check out the complete site at www.acumusins.com

In 2007, Rockfish Design Consultancy asked me to handle all the copywriting for the Mercure Hotels account. That meant writing brochures for all 27 UK hotels, plus weddings and conferencing-specific brochures and a ‘catalogue’ of ‘off-the-peg’ local press promotional ads.

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‘Wotcha’ – a contraction of the 15th century English greeting

‘what chere be with you?’

Watch.er n – a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur.

Say Wotcha! to Bart Raines, who’s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can’t not see, he’s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry.

Say Wotcha! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard ‘Winston’ Smith who’s watched by millions – among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who’s orchestrating revenge for Winston’s teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain.

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BUST

Short comedy I wrote and made thanks to UK Film Council/Screen East Digital Shorts. Starring Cavan Clerkin (EASTENDERS, COUPLING, Smack the Pony, Gangster No 1 and loads of other stuff), Gus Brown (THAT MITCHELL & WEBB LOOK, MY HERO, HAPPINESS) and Michael Bertenshaw (EASTENDERS, THE DA VINCI CODE, DR WHO, MURPHY’S LAW, CASUALTY, SILENT WITNESS and loads more) and directed by Jon Sen.  BUST was premiered at the Brief Encounters Film Festival, screened at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival 2003 and the Cambridge Film Festival and was featured on Anglia TV’s STEPHEN FRY’S SHORTS series.