Karl Doran
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Founder and Creative Director of multi-award winning design and production studio @We_Are_Flow
Manchester
Joined September 2010
What a year and a half it’s been! Stressful doesn’t get near it! 😅 but we’ve kept the faith in creativity and craft, we’ve worked hard and we’ve done some awesome work. Very proud of the Flow team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
💥 2021 ANIMATION REEL 💥 It's been a crazy year or so but we’re very lucky to have been busy throughout most of the last 18 months 🙏🏻 Here’s some of our favourite bits from our favourite projects from that time 🥳 Thanks to all our clients for trusting us 🙏🏻
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Blown away by the response to our recent project with the @metoffice and @GIPHY 🤯 The GIF pack has rocketed to the number one spot on the GIPHY site and has over 450 million views already! 😵 And we're on the front page of Creative Boom! 🙀 https://t.co/3tra6B7IYa
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The Manchester-based creative studio Flow has created an exciting set of animated GIFs and stickers for the Met Office, and they're proving to be a huge hit on GIPHY. How do you feel about the wea...
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Super fun project for the Flow team! It’s great to see serious organisations like the @metoffice using illustration and animation in innovative ways, and growing their audience on platforms like @GIPHY 🌧️☀️
NEW WORK! Great to work with the @metoffice on a new brand mascot and set of animated stickers in partnership with @GIPHY The sticker and GIF pack feature nine weather-themed situations to add some fun and character to all of our favourite topic of conversation - the weather!
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Nice to see our TV and cinema ad for TfGM getting some love 💛 thanks for the feature @ProlificNorth 🙏🏻
.@BeeNetwork campaign to ditch cars and use public transport with @We_Are_Flow
https://t.co/7HmSErtyY8
#Marketing #Creative #Transport #Manchester
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🐝 NEW WORK 🐝 from the Flow team. Really proud of this one. A big, collaborative effort and a fantastic film and campaign. It’s live now across ITV channels, regional cinemas, OOH, print and socials.
☀️ NEW WORK ☀️ Very excited to share our first project with Transport for Greater Manchester - a TV and cinema commercial for a summer campaign. The campaign, which aims to encourage families in the region to ditch the car and use the Bee Network this summer, is live now.
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A timely reminder before you head to the ballot box 🗳️
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Thanks for sharing CB! 💚
We begin with... Flow's powerful animation for The Trussell Trust helps break harmful poverty stereotypes https://t.co/dSM3dYAj6f 👀 @we_are_flow
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A strong line-up for BDF as always. If you’ve not been yet get yourself down this year. It’s such a well put together event. And exactly what a design festival should be - a welcoming, accessible, diverse celebration of creativity. Hats off to @luketonge and @DanielAlcorn 👏🏻👏🏻
Your BDF2024 line-up! We're so stoked to be hearing from this rad global bunch who will descend on the second city for 3 magical days in June to chat 'Process' & more 🎉 Speakers, https://t.co/OOBCoJxcKv Schedule, 29th April Tickets, 1st May RT's appreciated 🙏🏼
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How is this happening? In 2022 10,700 people said that they believed that the government should #KeepCaringTo18 for every child in care. Did they listen? No. Have things got worse? Seems so! Great work from @TogetherTrust 💛
Today data we gathered with @_tomwall on the use of unregistered homes for children in care has been published. It shows that more than 700 children were placed in unregistered accommodation, at a cost of more than £100m, and 2 in 3 children living there are under 16. 1/4
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💥 NEW WORK 💥 A radical rebrand for fast-growing indie games studio Radical Forge As companies scale up they often become more corporate and business-like and lose the character that made them unique in the first place. You couldn't say that about Radical Forge.
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🤘🏼 NEW WORK 🤘🏼 Great to see our rebrand for indie games studio @RadicalForge out in the wild! This was a unique project to say the least - a character-led, punk influenced brand with a skateboarding raccoon as a mascot! Thanks to @katylcowan and @creativeboom for the feature!
New character driven identity for expanding independent games studio Radical Forge https://t.co/E0hqEqbPdG
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It's almost time for Lunar New Year and it's the Year of the Dragon! So here's a bunny getting the celebrations started 🐲 🐰 Yes, we did share this last year for the Year of the Rabbit, and no, we have no remorse about sharing it again. It's too good not to!! #lunarnewyear
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I love working work with organisations that make a difference, that ask the questions that need to be asked, and try to create positive, progressive change. @IPPR / @IPPRNorth are a fantastic example of that
👉🏻 NEW WORK 👈🏻 We created this animated illustration for @IPPR's recent edition of their Progressive Review. The image visualises the 'breakdown of the social contract'
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Proud to be able to support our lovely clients @TrussellTrust whose fantastic work helps thousands of people up and down the country facing hardship this Christmas. If you can help support them please do 💚
Instead of sending Christmas cards this year we have made a donation to @trusselltrust to help them and their network of food banks provide emergency support to people facing hardship and campaign for a future where everyone can afford the essentials. 💚
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"The bad news is we're cutting your benefits. The good news is my kids won't have to pay inheritance tax."
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Our Flow Manifesto ✊🏻
When we put our new site live a few months ago the more eagle-eyed of you might have seen our Manifesto. We've spent a lot of time over the last year or so thinking about who we are as a studio, what is important to us and what we want to do going forward. More on that soon.
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9 police officers in hospital following violent clashes with right-wing thugs… Yet this rag focuses on the ambiguous ‘jostling’ and ‘abuse’ of a Tory minister who just happened to find himself among a Palestine protest @michaelgove & @DailyMailUK - utterly pathetic.
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📢 MOTION DESIGNERS! WE'RE HIRING! 📢 If you're a talented and ambitious motion designer looking for a new challenge, get in touch! - https://t.co/YIox2iSTqc
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This is perfect 👌🏻
Tories SMASHED in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections. (And I feel fine)
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