Blogs

  • Structuring your site
    Posted by Sophia on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 19:34

    With the startling variety of sites there are on the web – from on-trend scrolling one-pagers to design-led showcases to crowdfunding juggernauts (to pull just some examples from our portfolio) – you might think that structuring a website could be a challenge, even a bit of a headache.

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  • Once upon a time and again
    Posted by Simon on Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 19:37

    I had a major technology déjà vu today. The subject - 'Pinterest' - apparently the latest social media fad. (Ok, I know a fad can be valued at $100bn these days, but it is still a fad.)

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  • Just a tad of culture
    Posted by robm on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 14:38

    Design museum ticket

    As a designer, a creative, a human, I need to get out of the office occasionally to get my head unfuddled. I decided to take a trip to the Design Museum as there was a showcase for the 2012 Design Awards and also a Terence Conran exhibition. Admittedly on my way I was thinking that the design awards would interest me more, lots of lovely print, architecture, digital and interactive work. In hindsight the Terence Conran exhibition blew me away.

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  • Worth sharing
    Posted by robm on Friday, March 23, 2012 - 11:57

    Around the studio we often share interesting, humorous and sometimes the odd rude link that we have found on the internet. As we have started to gather quite a collection we thought it would be a good idea to start sharing these with the outside world. A regular post will be going up that may include articles, photographs, websites, videos and the sort. We can promise they will be informative and entertaining and we will keep the rude ones to a bare minimum. Enjoy our shares from this week.

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  • Arial, Georgia, Courier New... Comic Sans
    Posted by robm on Monday, March 5, 2012 - 17:18

    Probably not the most inspiring of font choices but they all have and still do serve a purpose… all except Comic Sans. Their availability on every browser from Internet Explorer 4 to Chrome 10 makes them highly usable on the web, but does this make them suitable for a brand?

    Over the years I have worked with varying degrees of brand guidelines, some only a few pages, some a little longer (suddenly recalling a 346 page monster), but the similarity I see between most of them is the choice of web fonts.

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  • I like the look and feel...
    Posted by robm on Monday, February 20, 2012 - 14:15

    As a designer I often hear the term 'look and feel'. Personally I find it an infuriating choice of words but what does the term actually mean? A few collated responses were:

    'Look is colour, brand and design style. Feel is an emotional tone, anger, desire, love.'

    'A tone or aesthetic'

    'Design'

    'Character, angle and assumptions'

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  • Entice me with your testimonials ... really?
    Posted by robm on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 14:32

    Personally I don't buy into testimonials. 

    If I, as a potential customer, visit your website and testimonials are scattered around the place will this really entice me to buy your product or sign up for your service? Unfortunately not, but instead I will become skeptical as to the validity of these testimonials and possibly your products and services to.

    Were they really written by your customers? Were they heavily edited to alter the overall impression?

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  • Long time, no blog...
    Posted by Simon on Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 22:21

    These blogs, to some degree, reveal how damn busy we are! No blogs = no spare time.

    In little more than 8 months, we've moved on from twelve to around twenty staff. Most of the intake have been experienced and we have solid induction processes to bring them quickly up to speed. We've had some misfires, (miss-hires?), but mostly we've shown that the agency is starting to attract talent all on its own. People who get our story and want to contribute. Which is nice.

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