A to M's Blog http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:08:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Choose Disco http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/choose-disco/ http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/choose-disco/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:08:51 +0000 Mike http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/?p=296 I Heart You But I Choose Disco

Get some love.

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My ability to hit fluffy balls over nets with sticks and string has never been my strong point. Mind you, I never had the training, or the ideal creative coaching equipment. Great product photography (and a great team over at Zsig) has meant that the brief to create a clean site, that’s friendly and easy to use, appears to have hit the target though. Phew! I even managed to avoid lobbing in any bad tennis puns. Ooops.

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More info. Bonus remix below.

Mosca – Tilt Shift [swing ting remix] by Samrai

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UPDATE: Spotted by Gavin Lucas on the Creative Review Blog.

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Here we have them in wonderful combination, our new Piccadilly Records T-Shirts with Circle Logo are on sale now at a recession-proof £10.

While we’re on the subject, they’ve got a bunch of our ‘Vinyl Genius’ design tote bags back in for sale too. Perfect size for carrying a 15″ MacBook Pro, a notepad & pen, and your lunch (risotto today, in case you were wondering).

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Pictured is the latest release, though the RUN EFC edition is my personal fave (NB. lapsed Robins supporter right here).

Perfect xmas prezzie for the shirtless Evertonian in your life. Oh, and get a wriggle on, they’re selling out.

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First of a new set of digital releases on Preston’s Lowroom Recordings drawing on found images, and referencing centre labels.

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We’ve just popped up a nice little one-pager for Charango. Caliente!

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A little update: our mixtape is available to check once more. The Mixtape Club celebrates it’s one year anniversary (happy birthday guys!) and as a result they’re offering the entire archive of mixes for the month of September. Trés bon, non?

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That’s right. We’re seven. It’s seems hard to believe that we started the company with a little help from some friends at the end of the Summer way back in 2003. I was the tender age of 22 and working a couple of evenings in an Offy in Fallowfield at the time, Nick was teaching part-time, Andy was working part-time in a bar and Ben had just left the worst job in the world somewhere in a factory in Openshaw. Of course, these were propping up our fledgling freelance careers having all of us just moved to Manchester. We were naïve but ambitious. It seemed the only thing to do was start a company and do it our own way.

Fast forward to 2010 and A to M is now A to M Design Associates LLP with Ben & Mike the sole partners. This year we wound up our sister company A Rude Movement to concentrate fully on A to M. In the meantime Nick and Andy have gone on to pursue their successful careers with different companies. There’s a bit less hair in A to M now, and the waist sizes have gone up a couple of notches, but we can reflect on some pretty amazing times that got us to where we are now. We’ve had some great projects, worked with some brilliant people and we’re looking forward to more of the same.

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