The Skim team currently find themselves in the fortunate position of working alongside the multi-talented Giles Ward. He already has 20 years experience as Creative director and co-founder of Chalk and Ward, with the addition of writing a few books in his spare time and enjoying dabbling in fine art. I say dabbling, Giles doesn’t…
Artist Ruby Kean approached Skim with a design she wanted for her website and we happily obliged! The joy of working with an artist is that they usually know how they want their work to look, our challenge to make this work on a fully functioning website! Ruby’s amazing detailed collages are unique and therefore…
Cornwall based company Resilience Communications were one of our first local clients when we moved to Cornwall, meaning we have worked alongside them for over a decade! I am happy to report that over this period their dedicated team have been on an upward curve and are now the proud recipients of 2 Queens awards…
Skim Congratulates POTY Winner 2019 Great news and huge congratulations to worthy winner, Stuart Petch for his amazing image of a Sparrowhawk’s fine feathers. Chris Packham announced his image as a worthy winner – alongside other stunning images of birds for the 2019 Bird Photographer of the Year – amazing feathered creatures. Be inspired! –…
“Pleasure is your birthright” …What a fantastic strapline to encapsulate what Becky Price – aka the creator of Conscious Bliss – and a qualified Shiatsu practitioner, Sexological bodyworker and certified Somatic Sex Educator is all about! We at Skim hope the visual aspects of this website evoke warm and positive emotions, complimenting this highly interesting…
Love Ireland – not Love Island! You’ve probably been so busy (like us at Skim) that you haven’t noticed I’ve not managed to blog anything for about a month! (I am sure you have been up worrying what has happened to us :)) Mostly we have been glued to our desks, however, we did seize…
Awake • Heal • Transform A powerful positive statement from the empowered, wonderful woman at the forefront of Sound Heals. Katherine Collinge is on a mission – to heal, transform and tune you into your body’s ‘orchestra’. Skim were more than haapy to spread the word about this intriguing method of healing – Entrainment –…
Swishd – A new eco-friendly idea People power is what we are talking about. You need your package picked up and delivered – Swishd tell their collective and the nearest willing and able bodies person collects and delivers. All routes lead to less emissions, less fuel and less congestion in the cities. Get on board.
Pave the Path of your Desires… What a journey Skim has been on – nurturing, designing and developing the Imagination Spa website closely with our client – we’ve been exploring many incarnations of this final creation over the past six months. We are really proud of the final look and feel – so Join the…
WHO are Blacklight, WHERE are Blacklight, WHAT are Blacklight, Why are Blacklight..? All questions that can be answered if you visit their shiny new website. Skim New Media designed and produced the website, centred around the empowered photographic talents of Christian@ Schmick.tv – capturing the essence of the Blacklight Advisory workplace and personnel.
Fancy a slice of the action? – The Art of Functional Food book The countdown has begun and we are on a mission, a food mission (the best kind, apart from gin perhaps). We are giving you this heads up about a glorious new book Skim will be photographing and designing, – The Art of…
Retreat to a spa in Spain – or build a website… It’s just started raining again here in Cornwall so looking through the Imagination Spa Retreat website immediately warms your soul and transports you to the Spanish retreat location – sadly not flown out there to take the photographs… delve in and plan your reward…
March work at Skim New Media Certainly for us at Skim – March has stormed in like a lion, with the first day of spring bringing with it a flood of interesting work from Spa retreats, ceramics, & architects – (completed) to a Devon based hotel, landscape designers, consultants and a sound therapist (in progress).…
Valentines day is all done and dusted for another year – but learning about yourself and how heart and head connect could improve your own happiness and your relationships! We’ve just uploaded these polished new films – created by talented Schmick.tv for the glorious Shakti Tantra team, so delve in and explore…
28 days – 28 Photographs Skim are working continuously on client work (we have to pay bills!) but we love to stretch ourselves artistically and technically. Dave thrives on a project – so this month we are challenging ourselves to take a different photograph every day in February – using various lenses, subjects and locations.…
CassPLUS – The Movie Ok – so it’s more of a short promotional film for an amazing charity based in the South West rather than a ‘movie’! However, the work and support CASS+ provides is invaluable. They approached Skim to take on the challenge of 1 day of filming interviews with employees, trainee volunteers &…
Happy New Year all you lovely friends, clients, countrymen and city girls – lend me your eyes! (that sounded less sinister in my head) – OK – back on track we have built a shiny new website just for you – Well it was about time I know… We hope it shows you in a…
Composer James William Blades required a portfolio website A.S.A.P – something that he could easily add his new soundscapes, installations and other commercial audio project to. Happy to oblige James – onward and upwards in 2019. Check out the Portfolio page and run your mouse over each project – hmm.. nice.
If you need a semi-low loader trailer look no further as STG can supply one! For this job we created a custom plug-in for the website which allows the customer live trailer availability – wow, I hear you say, well yes pretty useful if you want a flat bed trailer to transport your specialist item…
Food Plymouth are an all action – always on the go – extremely busy organisation – with lots of important things to say and do about FOOD! – one of my favourite topics! It is an honour to be involved with this focused group of people on a mission to promote increase local Sustainable Food…
What a wonderful way to work – with lots of happy pregnant mothers-to-be! A clean, pure and simple website with lots of white calm space – no stress, as you would hope with a lovely yoga client! What ever you do keep breathing and STAY CALM!
Five fabulous properties in a fantastic location! After looking at these lovely properties whilst building this website I want to stay there more and more! Avon Farm Estates holiday cottages look amazing, have loads of rural space to enjoy, free eggs, happy farm animals around, close to both Bath and Bristol – plus all have…
Working with Christa Mackinnon on the design, build and functionality requirements for her website was certainly a positive experience – an added bonus to meet our client in person! We work in this online world, which does mean we don’t always (often) have a chance to meet the people we work for.. so this was…
Skim film of a portrait Our mission: Make an introductory film for the immensely talented portrait artist Rupert Alexander. The piece in question, an impressively large family portrait, on loan from the owner, for a short period of time, so the pressure (and heat) were on! Working with Rupert we hoped to produce a short…
Taking photographs and making films is a creative outlet we love to explore at Skim New Media. Time consuming, all consuming, but always enjoyable. If you have a band and want us to film it our new Nikon has amazing capabilities – even at really low level lighting. Watch The Morzim in action >>>
A is for Architecture Skim loved photographing our client architect Chris Munson’s most recent properties he has been involved with, certainly an interesting range! This job involved carefully planning to keep in within the timings as they were dotted in various South East Cornwall locations – sweaty work, but definitely enjoyed two days out of…
Always interesting to work on a project which is about sustainability and reducing carbon emissions – so being asked to work with the well established, wonderfully talented Chalk Ward team was exciting. Company CleanEarth are striving to develop and invest in sustainable technology – we all need to engage and understand this more so find…
Aaron Jaffe is super talented, award winning music composer who resides in NYC. It would have been great to pop over to the big apple to meet him in person, but sadly skype and email are sufficient apparently… Take some time out to have look and listen and spread the word about our USA buddy.
So Skim & family had lots of fun at the weekend – filming local band ‘The Morzim’ – just working on the mix down of the sound and the final edit, then if you are interested we will show you next week.. Here are some stills from the gig, we are certainly up for more…
This is not a demand – just a request! One of our amazing music composers Alex Harwood has recently released the soundtrack to new movie – ‘The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society’ (phew that rolls of the tongue!) If you need a moment of calm and loveliness in your day take a listen. (Plus…
Marazion is a marvellous location with views of St Michael’s Mount and sandy surrounding beaches. Have I sold it in yet? Skim have just updated the website design and functionality for this historic hotel and look forward to heading down to photograph the newly refurbished interior very soon.. !
