Coventry Blitz!

We are trawling through old shoe boxes, searching discs, scanning in photos and collecting pics for issue .01 of Blitz Coventry. Blitz Coventry is a Graffiti / Street Art fanzine documenting the past and present bombing (graffiti writing) of Coventry.

Tags, Throw-ups, Dubs, Pieces, street art, some old school treasures and a feature on one of Coventrys finest, Mean Mr Myer are all in issue 01.

If you have any photos that you would like to contribute then please send them to: blitz@bringcolour.com

Issue .01 out Summer 2010.

Simple IT

We have designed a logo (above) for a new Coventry based IT company called Simple IT Support. They provide IT solutions for the home and business. Networking, Installations, Upgrades and Virus Removal are some of the services they offer. Support local businesses!

Got Involved.

After designing the flyer for Get Involved, we were asked to decorate the venue. We decided to build a cardboard box divide with a Christmas vibe. 110 boxes were ordered, made up, numbered and decorated. The divide split the venue into room like areas and each area had a different painting, living room, dining room, bar, and a festive Merry Christmas!

There were some doubts cast weather or not the wall would withstand whatever antics the Christmas ravers would throw at it, and it did! all night! People even leaned against it!

Bud time again!

The Top Bud camp approached us a while back to bash them up a logo. We didn't have much time to tweak it but they were happy with the result. For 2010 they wanted a face lift, a bling bling Top Bud, so we went to the jewelers and iced out there logo. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for Top Bud nights, radio and more, comming in 2010.

Hillfields!

A few pic's of Hillfields YPC. We went down and with the group painted 20 boards with individual letters spelling out "COME IN AND GET INVOLVED". The boards are to be mounted on to the red window panels in the bottom picture.

Website Hell!

Websites! The bane of our lives here at Bring Colour for over a year now. Having bought www.bringcolour.co.uk & www.bringcolour.com over 2 years ago we have now got a site up and running.

It has been nightmare after nightmare with the website, firstly, after purchasing the domain names we designed our website (bottom picture) and gave it to the boffs @ Connoserv Media to write the code. The website was up but quickly grew outdated, so we went back to the drawing board.

Our second attempt at our website was going well, not only did we design the site but we wrote the coding for it too, the site was complete, saved, needed a little more tweaking but was ready to go live, and then......Mac Death! We retrieved the web files off the hdd but it was no good, they were corrupt (middle picture). We hung on to the hope that the wizards at Connoserv Media could work there magic, but no! Back to the drawing board we went.

Third time lucky! We did it all again from scratch, learnt some more coding, made version 3 a little better again (top picture).We decided that we wanted complete charge of the site so with a little help from Jason Law, we launched www.bringcolour.co.uk

In the midst of all of this website hell, due to bad communication www.bringcolour.com slipt through our fingers, Gutted!

Yesterday we purchased it back!!!!

No more hold ups! Please. x

Get Involved

The CV1 soundsystem decided to dust off the speakers and throw a Christmas Party. The CV1 crew managed to get some old school cov heads back to play, inc. the BOSH lot. We were asked to produce a flyer for the night, Dr. Mills gave us the concept idea that he had "old school", "Colour Artwork on the front", and "Details on the back in black and white". The result is the design above.

Aswell as producing the flyer we also decorated the venue!!
Read more and see some pics: "GOT INVOVLED"

HYPC

Just a couple of images that we found on the net, top on an action shot from the BBC SWAT event that we ran a workshop at, and the bottom photo is what Yardley St. used to look like before the event, to see the final piece click here.

Tip Toes Wall

Bring Colour took part in an event for Dj Tip Toe called Fish, Chips & Mushypeas. We gathered together five key players in the 2nd wave of Coventry Graffiti to produce a memorial wall for Tip Toes 10yr aniversary. Four Tip Toe Pieces by Dobe, Able, Kept, ESone and a mean character by Mr Myers. Wonder how long this wall will last?

Stretchy

Flier design for Club Stretch. A bi-weekly night at The Cellar, Rosie Malones, a building that has some nice size walls that would look great with a brightening up from Bring Colour.

Spot the difference!

Whilst perusing the internet we found this lovely lady standing next to a Bring Colour production we did last May for "Hair Fashion Music Glamour" @ the Warehouse. Dont they have an uncanny resemblance?

Party Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikg_fqdH8Xg

Everyone enjoys a good party and the Bring Colour crew are no exception.

Bring Colour produce Artwork, provide Graphics, deliver Workshops and our team can turn there hand to most creative media, but film is something we havent explored.
The short film above is our first attempt, filmed and edited by Bring Colour and the first track on the film was produced by Bring Colour's very own Doberman.

Hope you enjoy!

SUPER SAVVY

The Top Bud Camp were happy with there logo we designed that one of the main players, Savvy Bashman asked for one himself. Check out Savvy Bashman's skills yourself and get his November mix.

Fish, Chips & Mushypeas

Fish, Chips & Mushypeas was a Party in memory of Dj Tip Toe, who passed away ten yrs ago of Cancer. All proceeds from the event go to the cancer ward at Walsgrave Hospital. Djs, Live bands, Facepainting, Stilt walkers, Dressing up and Live Graffiti from Bring Colour. This event had the lot!
Bring Colour was contacted by the COOK CREW (tip toes family) to lend a helping hand, and we never say no to a good cause, so we were on board!
Bring Colour were asked to produce a flyer and a brochure including cd label for the event. The criteria we were given was strict and emotions were high, but it was a success!

Brochures Including a Remix Cd are still avalible for £2.50 + p&p.

Track Listing

01. What is it? - Tip Toe
02. Let there be light - Brough Family
03. What is it? (remix) - Rambozo
04.What is it? (remix) - Masta greenz
05. What is it? (remix) - Doberman
06. Butterkiss - Tip Toe
07. Blue Monday (remix) - Tip Toe, Dr. Mills

all proceeds go to the cancer ward at Walsgrave hospital

To get your copy email: ameliadaisycook@hotmail.com

Photos of the event will be posted soon!

Urban Disorder

Bring Colour were approached by Shane of the Shady variety, to sort out the logo for the Urban Disorder music collective. We were held up with the delivery due to Mac Problems but good things come to those who wait.

BBC SWAT Yardley Street

Bring Colour went to Hillfields and did some work for the BBC at Yardley St. YPC, Bring Colour painted a mural with the local young people, a tree was carved, the community alongside the BBC Springwatch SWAT team did some planting and the area got a good spring clean.

Primrose Park

A little bit of footage privilege of ITV from a while back. Primrose park was a project Bring Colour worked closely with. More info about Primrose Park will follow, when it is typed!

Bud Time

A little something from a while back. "THE TOPBUD HAS BEEN FORMED TO SHOWCASE A DARKER SIDE TO THE DANCEFLOOR FEATURING UP N COMING TALENT AND A GROWING ROSTER...LOOK OUT FOR EVENTS AND MATERIAL FROM THE TOPBUD CREW IN THE NEAR FUTURE...." Bring Colour were approached to sort out some graphics for Top Bud Promotions, it is a work in progress but here's where we are at!

CV1 Soundsystem

The CV1 Soundsystem has been making noise in coventry for about ten years now, here is a couple of pics of some of the graphicy things Bring Colur have done for the cv1 crew.

Living Roots

Bring Colour and Warwickshire Wildlife Trust did some work with a good group of lads from the hillfields area of Coventry. The project was called 'Living Roots' and with the group we did some logo design and painted a mural in a graffiti workshop, the lads were ace, and the results speak for there self!