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Foreign Office R.I.P (1997-2013)
The Foreigners have signed off. Thank you to all our staff, clients and collaborators through the years, from the basement off North End Road to the top of the world! Love to all,
Sonia, Matteo and Fredrik
Foreign Office R.I.P (1997-2013)
The Foreigners have signed off. Thank you to all our staff, clients and collaborators through the years, from the basement off North End Road to the top of the world! Love to all,
Sonia, Matteo and Fredrik
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A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING
Our moody hand-painted animation opens Crispian Mills’ weird and wonderful feature starring Simon Pegg in a pair of well-worn briefs. Inspired by Jack the Ripper’s London and the dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe, we also created the microfiche scene featuring the Criminal Stare. Well worth watching!
© 2011 Sensitive Artist Productions Limited © 2012 Universal Pictures
client: Sensitive Artist Productions Ltd/Keel Films
project: Title sequence for feature drama
date: June 2012
LAGO
Inspired by LAGO’s modular furniture designs, we created an alphabet of shapes that were used to design a group of characters. Launched at the LAGO store in Barcelona and later at Milan Design Week, our characters were then projected onto the furniture in a series of short animated gags.
Music: Al Boorman (wevie.tv)
client: LAGO/Ground Control Milan
project: Animated characters/map projections
date: Spring 2012
MARLEY
A fantastic collection of never-seen-before photographs became the starting point for our animated collages, title sequence and rostrum-style work on this critically acclaimed feature documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald.
client: Cowboy Films
project: Graphics and animation for feature film
date: Spring 2012
GOOGLE MORE THAN A MAP
We loved the paper engineering of Google Maps’ promotional mailouts so that became the starting point for these animated campaign films…
client: Across The Pond Productions/Google Creative Lab EMEA
project: 2 x 40 sec animated films
date: Spring 2012
VIASAT FILM IDENTS
After completing a rebrand for Scandinavia’s Viasat Film, we jumped at the chance to shoot idents for the six genre-based channels. Together with Devilfish we created mini-scenes in cinematic style, each with just a whiff of a story pulling you inside…
A Devilfish project in collaboration with Foreign Office
client: Devilfish for Viasat
project: Channel rebrand and idents
date: March 2012
VIASAT FILM REBRAND
Cinematic light, from Panalux flares to the glitter on Bergman’s sea, spotlights and refractions in a police light became the inspiration to our design of all six channels, to bring the spirit of cinema into the living room.
A Devilfish project in collaboration with Foreign Office
client: Devilfish for Viasat
project: Channel Rebrand and idents
date: March 2012
GOOGLE ENTERPRISE
Upbeat ideas and simple animation style brings life to these instructional promotions for Google’s set of web-based work tools.
client: Across The Pond Productions/Google Creative Lab EMEA
project: 3 x 90 sec animated films
date: Winter 2011/12
ZDF WINTERSPORT
Foreign Office collaborated with German company Made in Munich Filmproduktion in animating a microscopic winterworld using traditional model train figures.
Curling and ice hockey are the two disciplines featured with particular love for detail in this year’s little stop motion winterworld.
client: Made in Munich Filmproduktion for ZDF
project: 2011/2012 trailers for winter sports programme
date: January 2012
CURRENT
A simple, strong idea based on Current’s editorial motto Open Up – the viewers literally open up their screens.
A Devilfish project in collaboration with Foreign Office
client: Devilfish for Current
project: Idents
date: December 2011
TOP BOY
Inspired by London’s rich mix of communities living cheek by jowl, Foreign Office’s title sequence sets the mood for Yann Demange’s brutal and beautiful drama circling around inner-city gang and drug culture. The series attracted over 1 million viewers when it aired on UK’s Channel 4 in November 2011.
client: Cowboy Films
project: title sequence for TV series
date: November 2011
CINEPLUS IDENTS
“Essence of genre” was the motto when we created the new identity for Canal+ movie channels. Lovers of all genres will recognise how the key scenes we created infuse every channel with the appropriate feel.
A devilfish project in collaboration with Foreign Office and Daniel Eatock
client: Canal+ France
project: Rebrand for seven pay-TV channels
date: Summer 2011
CINEPLUS IDENTITY
“Essence of genre” was the motto when we created the new identity for Canal+ movie channels. Lovers of all genres will recognise how the key scenes we created infuse every channel with the appropriate feel.
A devilfish project in collaboration with Foreign Office and Daniel Eatock
client: Canal+ France
project: Rebrand for seven pay-TV channels
date: Summer 2011
HARRY POTTER 8
Classic typographic title sequence for the phenomenal last chapter of the Harry Potter film Saga. One day we hope to be able to tell you what the original plans were for this sequence, but for now we leave you to enjoy this phenomenal film at a big cinema near you. Wait for our credit at the end!
Brilliant 3D and stereoscopic work by Will Macneil.
client: Warner Bros. Pictures/Heyday Films
project: Animated title sequence
date: Summer 2011
CANAL PLUS FAMILY
The job: create a new identity that somehow speaks to children and grownups in the same frame. Our solution was to create an animated child layer on top of a live action parents layer and have them play with each other…
Looks like the layers are having fun, no?
client: Canal+ France
project: Rebrand for Family channel
date: Summer 2011
5 STAR
Bold retro styling, marks the Fiver change to 5*. Foreign Office were asked to produce a series of idents for this channel rebrand.
client: Channel 5 UK
project: Channel Idents
date: March 2011
NELONEN
Bright and elegant identity package for a family of Pay TV channels from Finland’s Channel 4. A collaboration with Devilfish who shot the magical circular idents.
client: Devilfish Creative for Nelonen, Finland
project: Broadcast packaging
date: February 2011
ICE MEDIA CONTENT
2025. A greedy oil giant goes too far and causes global climate disaster in this hi-tech thriller starring Sam Neill. Foreign Office created all scientific animation, satelite shots, computer displays, TV content and weather data, to bring the story eerily close to reality.
client: Pure Films
project: Media content for feature film
date: November 2010
THE FADES
A fantastic if unlikely mix of teenage outsider angst, sex, witty banter and zombies is the starting point for our dark, moody title sequence for this brilliant new series on the Beep penned by shooting star Jack Thornton, coming up on BBC3 in early 2011.
client: BBC
project: Title sequence for TV series
date: Winter 2010/2011
HARRY POTTER 7
Darkness has fallen over the world, as you-know-who seems to have the upper hand. The Deathly Hallows cast heavy shadows over our end titles and finally reveal themselves as a spectre of the final battle to come…
client: Warner Bros. Pictures/Heyday Films
project: Animated title sequence
date: Autumn 2010
COALITION OF THE WILLING
20 animation studios were given one paragraph each from a manifesto for the war on global warming. Foreign Office’s response is a stopmotion musing on the amazing and chaotic creativity of swarms. A collaboration with Simon Robson and a bunch of other animation heroes from all over the world.
client: Knife Party
project: Stop motion animation
date: August 2010