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Reel Heroes. Individual sleeves

rennie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:09:52 +0000

A bit late, but here you go. Some of our best work has just hit the shelves of HMV. Please support great creative initiatives and purchase one of these babies. A massive thanks to Universal and Carlie Spiteri who’s idea this whole thing was. Thanks too to Universal UK’s Maya Jenkins and last-but-by-no-means-least our very own Super Hero Illustrator Rafal Szymanski. Well done lad, you can have as many fag breaks as you want from now on. You’ve earned them.

Some flattering tweets for Reel Heroes go like this:

@edgarwright Edgar Wright (director)
The good people at @wearehicksville have done some great new artwork for Shaun/Fuzz/Pilgrim as an @HMVTweets exclusive. http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2011/08/11/reel-heroes-hmv-exclusive-sotdhf-and-spvtw-uk-limited-edition-dvdblu-ray-packaging/

@hmvtweets HMV
another tweet?! You’re spoiling us! Thanks @edgarwright and thank you to @wearehicksville for the incredible artwork! #hmvreelheroes

@FilthWizard Julia Clark
@edgarwright @wearehicksville Working at HMV I get to stare at these awesome covers all day and now I own them too!

@poppyhmv Poppy Rose
I wish @wearehicksville could design the actual world from now on…it would look amazing!

Kinda makes life worth living.

The Woman Theatrical Quad

rennie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:44:07 +0000

Having finished our latest theatrical quad, we thought we’d share it with you. Thanks Revolver for a great brief. Keep ‘em coming!

Read all about it. www.totalfilm.com/news/exclusive-poster-for-horror-flick-the-woman

Hicksville closes Design Week

rennie — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:19:03 +0000

Or more accurately we should say, we see out the last ever hard copy of Design Week with a front cover mention for our comic book re-sleeve project for Universal Pictures, ‘Reel Heroes’. We’ll blog more about this when we’re allowed to. Click here for the online version of the article.

So long printed Design Week, a british institution. Hicksville salutes you.

Hicksville joins Bezier Group

rennie — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:00:57 +0000

It’s fairly big news so we should have mentioned it earlier. Hicksville has a new owner and lot’s of nice, clever new friends. They even have their own website and on it you can read about why we’ve merged with their current design team to form a dedicated through-the-line, entertainment division. Here’s what two of our favourite clients had to say:

“Hicksville has consistently delivered superb creative work for SPHE. This creative heritage combined with Bezier’s expertise in production and delivery will undoubtedly make for a formidable offering going forward.”
- Jordan Peters, Head of Product Marketing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

“Hicksville and Bezier – what a perfect match! I am looking forward to working with this new ‘blended family’ and just know you will complement each other’s strengths brilliantly. Separately you were great, together you will be unstoppable! Congratulations – it’s great news for you and your clients.”
- Kay Vincent, Senior Creative Services Manager, Disney Home Entertainment.

BAM! View our portfolio!

rennie — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:00:08 +0000

At last we’ve got our arses in gear and have posted our portfolio. It’s a big clump of pretty much anything that still looks halfway decent from the past and the most interesting examples of our recent work. Click the ‘portfolio’ link to the left and have fun!

Hicks-Vile 2010!

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:39:27 +0000

This party was scary good! Thanks to everyone who came and made such an incredible effort to dress up! Biggest thanks of all to Mari though, our poor cleaner!

Movie Feast TV & Press

rennie — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:33:26 +0000

Paramount Movie Feast – TV campaign by Hicksville from hicksville on Vimeo.

Hicksville’s first TV campaign (there was press too). A seminal moment in our short history so far! Thanks to Sara Dobson and Paramount for believing in us… Thanks Raoul and Philip for doing a great job…

Jackboots on Whitehall Theatrical Poster

rennie — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:39:32 +0000

Our fate was in their tiny plastic hands. The poster was in the grimy, enthusiastic ones of Raoul, Dan, David, Rafal and Rennie. Thanks to Dave ‘knight takes’ Bishop, Sony Pictures & Vertigo for one of the most fun briefs in a while.

Black Dynamite Quad for Icon

rennie — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:57:51 +0000

We haven’t put much of our work up here so far, due to the fact we spend most of our time pistol-whipping and round-housing for justice in the streets, but this job was worth taking a break for in particular. Thanks to Chris, Andrea, Rebecca, Nic and Zak at Icon for a righteous b**chin’ project.

Black Camel Commission Intro & Title Sequence for Outpost 2

rennie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:23:16 +0000

It’s time we started mentioning our work here on this blog. What better a commission than this to start us off? Kieran Parker (Producer) and Steve Barker (Director) today confirmed that Hicksville will be completing the beginning animated sequence, titles and title card for Outpost 2. What’s more they ran through the plot with us and it’s cool as. What’s not to love about Nazi zombies? Unless they’ve got you tied to a V2 rocket of course… (NOT part of the film).