Apart from a hero detective crime book cover, which was requested to have a vintage look, we designed and printed bespoke rolls of festive crime tape, and reworked the existing Waitrose Red Velvet Bauble Dessert packaging box, simplifying the design and making the cellophane window larger to show more of the product, and increasing
Acme Graphics have a one stop, off the shelf solution - we have created a set of fictional, royalty free graphics covering 60 years: wartime 1940s graphics, 1950s props daddy-o, far out 1960s set dressing, groovy 1970s hand props, cool 1980s prop graphics and wicked 1990s prop artwork. All of the designs are fully researched
We regularly generate new designs which are intended to look convincing, but without infringing any existing brand copyrights. We add them to our library of film and television prop options, which can be ordered 'off the shelf' - making life easy. Prop beer bottles and beer cans are a regular request we receive from
One task was to recreate lots of snacks to fill an entire vending machine, filled with the 2006 packaging designs which are all slightly different from the present day versions. Although a short sequence which would have been missed by many viewers, those with an eye for details would have picked up on the
Set in the 1950s and 1960s the graphic props required an authentic period look and feel, we printed and bound multiple versions of the Duchess’s personal red leather diary. As the diary was written on in action, they needed to be practical and complete in terms of every day of the year being
Making authentic-looking prop passports is one of our specialities. We have created U.K., foreign, fictional, period and contemporary passports which have appeared in many different productions. A range of our official documents are now viewable on our new website, in addition, to prop passports you can also view our driving licenses, security passes, tickets, utility bills
One of the requests was to create illustration artwork for the hero beef cut chalkboard style poster. Every detail was thought-through including using the correct cow outline, highlighting certain cuts of meat with tonal variation while creating an authentic chalkboard effect. We have been very luck to supply graphics for previous McDonald’s campaigns including
'Year of the Rabbit' is a spoof, police comedy-drama for Channel 4 set in Victorian London and stars BAFTA winner Matt Berry as the unlikely East End detective. The Victorian-themed sets required period graphics to set the scene, Acme Graphics were on hand throughout production and filming, we created many period items from matchboxes to signage. The
We were asked to create Hero Props for the Emmy-nominated anthology series Urban Myths for Sky Arts. Last season we worked on the ‘Sex Pistols versus Bill Grundy’ episode, based on the infamous 1976 Bill Grundy interview on the Today Programme, this time we designed and made props for the ‘Paul McCartney - Scrambled Eggs’ episode
Timewasters are back for a second series, this time around the South London jazz band have travelled back in time to the 1950s. Acme were tasked with creating two hero props, the first showcased in Episode 4, which focuses on the scene where Horace’s private diary is found and published. We designed the prop book cover