September 2014
NHS Website – Brief A partnership between three statutory organisations responsible for the planning and buying of local NHS care across Newcastle and Gateshead, the Alliance required 4 new NHS websites (Alliance, Gateshead, Newcastle North East and Newcastle West)....
July 2014
Brand Identity Introduction ABCO are a leading company in the supply and distribution of dispensed soft drink syrups throughout the UK. They needed a strong brand identity to represent the ABCO organisation. Brief ABCO approached Urban River to create their...
July 2014
Introduction The Customs House in South Shields is one of the North East’s premier centres for arts and entertainment. They approached creative design agency Urban River to produce the design for print on a wide range of supporting materials for...
June 2014
Greatspace Architecture Website – Brief Greatspace are a young architectural practice based in Northumberland. They approached Urban River to create a new website which would be an improvement on their existing site from both a design and structural point of...
June 2014
Overcoming Theatre Website – The Brief Overcoming Theatre is an educational theatre company established in the north east of England. Via workshops and sessions in schools, they teach the 5 main techniques and theories of acting – notorious in...
June 2014
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is the first to be held in Eastern Europe. For the first time the tournament takes place on two continents – Europe and Asia. It is the most expensive World Cup in history with an estimated...
May 2013
North East creative design agency Urban River is celebrating 10 years in business. As a Newcastle design agency we create brands, creative campaigns and websites and after a decade in the industry we are still going strong. Although ten...
February 2013
ITV have a new logo, which obviously makes headline news in our world. This should be easy as no one was in love with the old one, but of course it isn’t. Just like the Olympics logo, the general...
July 2012
This summer a variety of companies featured the Olympic branding on both product packaging and on the products themselves. We take a look at our favourite selection of Olympic-themed design for everything from sweets to stamps! 1. Haribo New...
July 2012
The arrival of the London Olympics 2012 has caused a snowball of sports-themed TV advertisements popping up on our screens and capitalising from the events media coverage. To celebrate the countdown to Olympics we have selected our favourite Olympic...
April 2012
On 27 July 2012, the Olympics come to London. We all recognise the Olympics rings logo but what other logos have represented the world famous sporting event? We’re glad you asked. Check out the Olympic logo history and the...
March 2012
When construction of the tunnel began in 2008, the day when both tunnels were in full operation seemed a long way off. But on 21st November 2011 that mission was completed and 2 lanes of traffic (40,000 vehicles) freely...