We are currently working on a new design for the Scout and Girlguiding events ‘Sun Run’ and ‘Malvern Challenge’. You can see a preview of the website below.

It is to feature the latest news easily updatable through a WordPress system, a Flash front intro to give a simple outline, and a ticket application system for applicants to get their tickets through.

We are currently working on a proposal for a design for Pate’s Grammar School’s main school website. You can see what it looks like below:

We were asked to create a design voluntarily for the Pate’s Grammar School yearbook 2009. Working with the Yearbook Committee, individual and original designs were created for every single page using QuarkXpress 8.

The design process took around half a year to complete, with the comments coming back from the year being incredibly positive and complimentary.

We also negotiated with the school to go with new printers, with the previous price being £27.50 for a book with around a third of the pages in colour, to go to a company that printed the book at a price of £20.00 in full colour throughout and foil blocking on the front and spine of the book.

Some pictures of the students with the books are shown below. Samples can be provided upon request.

We were requested to create a new visual identity for a festival celebrating crimewriting in Torquay. Some of the features requested was for it to be eye catching, whilst simple, and that it also needed to include an item such as a magnifying glass or blood. A custom typeface was produced and the logo was supplied in Jpeg and vector form.

You can see below some of the media that the logo was eventually used in:

Sleuths event booklet

Local events booklet

The National Trust approached us to create a visual identity, the website design and printed media design for a volunteering festival in the South West. We created a vibrant identity to link with the age of the participants going to the festival.

Below you can see some pictures from the festival:

We created a website for the yearbook submissions for the school year 2008-2009. The website was designed in such a way that it could be refreshed and used time and time again with other yeargroups. An administration area was also created, and a help feature was added a few months later, to answer some of the questions the students had.

By the submission deadline, the site had received over 1,200 quotes, 600 stories and 1,300 photo submissions, with people giving very complimentary feedback on the website.

The site had zero downtime and was found to be a very secure design that the students were able to access from both school and home. Teachers were also able to log in and monitor what was being submitted.

A news area on the website also allowed the Yearbook Committee to quickly and easily inform all the students about anything they needed to know, using a built in news system.

A computer company based in York approached us to help with technical work on a new online shop to help get it up and running. We worked remotely and within a short span of time managed to get the site to a working, secure state.

We were later asked by the company to create a new design for the online shop. We completely refreshed the design of the website to how it looks now. The shop used the PHP and MySQL software called Magento Commerce, which was both reliable and flexible, and provided everything that the client had asked for.

We now have a blog which will keep you informed with the latest work that we have been doing, as well as some tutorials to guide with website and graphic design, and any other news from our design business. We hope you find it interesting!