Of Blacklock Jewellery & reflected glory
We love it when clients we've worked with so closely, get recognition for what they do. Blacklock Jewellery have just been featured as 'Retail Stars' in Professional Jeweller's Hot100 for 2010. The Hot 100 "is a roll of honour for the retailers, jewellery and watch executives, established and emerging designers and businesspeople who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry this year." source
We wanted to extend our congratulations to the Blacklocks; we're excited about where you're heading and look forward to what the future holds.
On a personal point of chuffedness, the shooting location selected for the magazine spread was sourced by Paul Evans our Creative Director. "Art direction for the win!"
Blacklock Classic collection photo-shoot
It's a bit belated; this shoot took place back in 2009, just as the leaves were falling from the trees. For a small setup (art director, photographer and model), the shoot went brilliantly well, thanks to Aga and Marry for making it what it was! More images from the same set can be found on Flickr.
Blacklock Jewellery
Blacklock Jewellery are a family-run business, dating back to 1832. They specialise in bespoke jewellery design, and my goodness, do they do it well! This project has been somewhat epic in its scale, starting with a full branding exercise; progressing through a huge website design and build including a comprehensive CMS and fully-functioned e-commerce framework; right through to asset development involving a small army of content suppliers including 3D artists, photographers, models, stylists and copywriters.
We've thoroughly enjoyed working with the Family Blacklock, and we look forward to many more years of collaboration. Chris Blacklock has also done us the honour of writing a glowing endorsement.
UPDATE: On 14 May, we discovered that the Blacklock Jewellery website (3 months old at that stage) had beenshortlisted for 'E-tailor of the year' by the UK Jewellery Award 2010. A massive achievement that we're very proud of.
Endorsement: Blacklock
“RG&B have helped Blacklock Jewellery come back to life through the creation of a stunning new website that delivers on many levels. From the outset a thorough strategic review was undertaken and brand template created that gives real depth and leverage. What has impressed me the most is that the thought process has not stopped upon completion of the strategic review but has continued and evolved as significant development work has progressed. It is unusual to get such a thorough and complete 360 degree approach to marketing and it is something we are lucky to have had. As a business we could not ask for more and I would recommend RG&B to anyone.”
Chris Blacklock, Blacklock Jewellery
Blacklock Contemporary collection photo-shoot + making of
Part of the Blacklock project has entailed managing three photoshoots. Finding the right fashion photographer, models, make-up and hair artists, and stylists has been challenging, but we've loved every minute of it.
Here's a handfull of the bake-stage shots from the third of those shoots; for the Contemporary Collection. More can be found on Paul's Flickr stream.
We also took this opportunity to produce a 'behind the scenes' film of the shoot. Big thanks go to the guys at Big Llama Media for their involvement!
Care for Uganda image library
During January 2009, Paul Evans, our creative director and photographer, accompanied Care for Uganda on a development visit to Kampala and its outlaying districts where the majority of their work takes place. His brief was to develop a functioning image library which Care for Uganda could then use in its promotional material. Over the course of two weeks, Paul took over 3,500 photographs which was subsequently distilled down to 400 key-images.
You can find an extended gallery of samples on Paul's Flickr stream
