About

What is Arecibo?

Arecibo is a one-man brand design studio, the one man being me, Graham Anderson.

I’m a freelance designer & creative director here to help, engage, inspire and playfully challenge you and your audience. If it’s to do with making brands or audience engagement, I can usually help, and if I can’t I should be able to point you in the right direction.

My work gets you noticed, helps you connect with your audience and team, it helps you make decisions on marketing, business and engagement, express your brand’s authentic story and generally look good.

What can it help you with?

Identity

  • Brand strategy
  • Verbal and visual brand identity
  • Branding toolkits
    • Logo
    • Typography
    • Graphics
    • Photographic direction
    • Illustration direction
    • Colours
    • etc.
  • Marketing campaign art direction

Space

  • Branded spaces
  • Events
  • Exhibition design
  • Installations

Things

  • Print
  • Merch
  • Publication design
  • Motion design
  • Web design
  • Promotional items
  • Packaging

Who can it help?

Mainly working with creative people or cultural projects but open to anything, the uniting thread between all my clients is not sector but attitude. 

I gravitate towards those who are trying to challenge the way things are done, create new things for good and open people’s minds to new experiences. 

I’ve worked with:

  • Architects
  • Production companies
  • Art galleries
  • Film directors
  • Makers
  • Artists
  • Craft brewers
  • Academic researchers
  • Creative business owners and soon to be business owners
  • Night clubs
  • Curators
  • Cultural organisations
  • Community groups
  • Yoga teachers and
  • Festivals
  • National Galleries of Scotland
  • Glasgow Life
  • STV
  • Gallus Brewing
  • Dead End Brew Machine
  • Dress For The Weather
  • Search Party Edit House
  • Make Works

My approach

Thoughtful Strategy

Working with you to identify and problem solve your challenges. Creation of frameworks for behaviours to meet your challenges.

Divergent Creative

Unexpected ideas for message and vehicle informed by strategy that will connect with and move your audience.

Radical Output

Working without a preconceived style in mind I deliver output that grabs attention and leaves an impact.

Collaboration

Assembling the right team per requirements. I pull on a large network of talented creative suppliers and friends that work in many different specialisms. I’m also happy to link in with your team or suppliers.

What people say

People love the brand and it’s the right people that are getting in touch to say that. Thanks again!

Pete Fullarton, MD of Search Party

You know I’ve always liked your work, but I’m really impressed.

Jack Gemmell, Freelance Senior Producer

Awards

ScotPulse, project for STV Creative:

  1. Winner of Corporate Identity, Scottish Creative Awards 2016
  2. Bronze in Brand Strategy, Marketing Star Awards 2017
  3. Highly commended for TV & Cinema Campaign, Scottish Creative Awards 2016
  4. Nominated – Scottish Design Awards 2017

Press

  1. Visuelle
  2. Aiga – Eye On Design’s socials
  3. httpsters

Exhibition

  1. ‘A Day Out’ at The Lighthouse. Scotland’s national centre for design and architecture
  2. Re:Ply skateboards. ‘Re:deckorate‘, ‘Re:deckorate x SkatePal’ and ‘For Cop’s Sake‘

Teaching/Talks

  1. Mentor and workshop leader at the Graphic Design Festival of Scotland: 2014, 15 and 16.
  2. Speaker at Unknown Errors

About me

I’m Graham Anderson, a creative pro with 14+ years experience. As the lead designer at STV Creative, I’ve art-directed various complex advertising campaigns for Scotland’s national television company and it’s clients. I also founded A Day Out, a design studio focusing on spaces, brands and audience engagement for Glasgow City Council and National Art Gallery of Scotland and more.

As a skateboarder, I’m inspired by the community and creativity of the sub-culture. My values—creativity, curiosity, openness, and integrity—drive my work, adding authenticity to clients’ branding and design projects. I just can’t stop creating; learn more at grahamanderson.co.uk.

Why the name?

I do all sorts of creative projects so needed a suitably pretentious name to define my branding work.

The Arecibo Telescope, an alien structure nestled in the lush Puerto Rican landscape, scoured the universe for 50 years and transmitted Carl Sagan’s pictographic messages to the cosmos. Led by a love of sci-fi, it felt right for an explorative design practice. (Although Glasgow doesn’t get the weather)

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