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Edwin Ellis was commissioned by Colmore BID to produce a special digital guide to raise awareness of online and cloud safety during October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. With more people working from home… Read more

Proud faces all around at Edwin Ellis as the first edition of Colmore Life magazine designed and produced by yours truly is distributed across Colmore Business District, the commercial heart of Birmingham city… Read more

Plans for a Birmingham-based sign museum and archive have been revealed. Called the British Sign Museum & Archive, the community interest company is believed to be the first sign salvage and typography project… Read more

‘In the city there’s a thousand things I want to say to you’, snarled Paul Weller for the opening line of his era-defining band’s debut single. One of those thousand things Weller should… Read more

Historic lettering and original building signs must be treasured for future generations, a Birmingham typography academic told Edwin Ellis Creative Media. We spoke to Birmingham City University postgraduate research student Geraldine Marshall after… Read more

Who knew Birmingham was once home to the largest neon sign in the world? Yes, legend has it the much-loved Coca Cola logo that once graced the top of the Rotunda was exactly… Read more

A fascinating insight into Birmingham’s civic history has been discovered as part of the Hidden Spaces project. The original planning application and hand-drawn blueprints for the Municipal Bank building on Broad Street have been… Read more

While there’s no denying Birmingham made some pretty ghastly planning mistakes in the post-war years, not everything went the way of the bulldozer. Take a walk around Temple Street, Bennetts Hill and New… Read more

Hello! As you’ve probably guessed this is the Edwin Ellis Creative Media blog. In this section of our cracking new website we’ll be writing about the things that interest us… design, typography, architecture,… Read more