The year started with several large projects, the first of which was a total new concept for The Lynnfield Hotel. This large hotel in Kirkwall, next to the Highland Park Distillery, was acquired in February by Malcolm Stout and Lorna Reid, who had sold their four-star Cleaton House Hotel in Westray. A full suite of stationery, brochure and web site was designed and delivered in time for the beginning of the tourist season.
On completion of a total renovation and upgrading of the hotel beginning the first week of January 2007, the hotel will be re-opened after a closure of two months. A new brochure is planned in 2007 using the new interiors.
Books were a high priority in the early part of the year. The first was a history of the Westray Sailing Club, using photographs and reminiscences supplied by past members. Copies are available on the Westray Studios web site www.westraystudios.co.uk.
The second book was produced to raise funds for MS Research. Called “On Holy Ground”, research and photographs of sites of worship on Westray were compiled by Iain MacDonald and Sam Harcus, resulting in a B5 full colour publication.
Again, copies are available from the Westray Studios web site www.westraystudios.co.uk.
“The Spy In Black” is a book written by J Storer Clouston, an Orcadian author. To coincide with events taking place in Scapa Flow in May 2007, this book is going to be reprinted some 90 years after it was written and 70 years after Pressburger’s film was produced. We have been commissioned to deliver a new pressing of this book, to include essays by local historians looking into the plot and location of the story, which is set during the first world war, involving a plot by a German spy, to blow up the fleet sheltering in Scapa Flow. As the client AOP (Another Orkney Production) is a charity, in order to finance the production of the book, it is being pre-sold prior to the May event. It can be ordered from the Westray Studios web site: www.westraystudios.co.uk.
RK Ceramics, a trade only tile and bathroom supplier, commissioned us to produce two brochures on Villeroy and Boch bathroom fittings.
At the end of the year, Westray and Papa Westray Tourist Association commissioned us to produce a new 12-page brochure and large poster for the 2007-9 seasons.
Once again we researched, designed and produced the 2007 Southend Airshow programme, a 44- page brochure detailing all aircraft appearing at the two-day event.
Towards the end of the year, we updated the Pentland Ferries brochure. This is to last for the coming year prior to the company receiving its new catamaran for the 2008 season. The brochure is backed up as usual by national advertising when and where appropriate, which we do throughout the year.
And finally, in spring we formed a new business Westray Studios, setting up a new gallery to display paintings, prints, photographs, wood turning, pottery, straw-backed chairs and furniture.
Backed up by a brochure and e-commerce web site www.westraystudios.co.uk, the gallery serves as a base for creating and selling artwork, both directly to the visiting public and online.