Airside (company)
| Airside's Logo(2006) | |
| Company type | Small and medium enterprise |
|---|---|
| Industry | Graphic design |
| Founded | London, United Kingdom (1999) |
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom |
Key people | Alex MacLean, Co-founder Nat Hunter, Co-founder Fred Deakin, Co-founder Anne Brassier, PR & new business Colm Larkin, Accounts Henki Leung, Designer & typographer Mark Swift, Interactive designer Richard Hogg, Designer Sibylle Preuss, Project manager Chris Rain, Designer & typographer Emma Hodson, Studio manager Roz Davies, Airside Shop Manager (Left in 1999) |
Number of employees | 11 (2006) |
| Website | www.airside.co.uk |
Airside are a specialized graphic design company best known for their stylized and colourful animation and illustration work, based in London, United Kingdom.
Company
Airside was founded in 1999 by Alex MacLean, Nat Hunter and Fred Deakin, and is currently a twelve-strong team of both creative and business specialists with diverse areas of expertise.
Co-founder Fred Deakin is one half of ambient/electronica music duo Lemon Jelly. All promotional material for Lemon Jelly to date including posters, album covers and videos has been produced by Airside.
Stitches
Stitches are small knitted creatures produced as strict one-offs by Airside, and are rapidly achieving a cult status both within the United Kingdom and further afield.
We Love Stitches (official site)
From April 2006 it has been strongly encouraged by Airside PR & new business manager Anne Brassier that all stitch adopters keep a blog of what their stitch gets up to. These are all linked from Anne's own blog.
Clients
Airside already have an established list of clients, including:
- Coca Cola (in the United Kingdom)
- Lemon Jelly
- MTV
- Orange
- Panasonic (in Japan)
- The Royal College of Art
- Suzuki
- Thomson Holidays
- Yakult