Graphic design, logos, typography and print...

We have many years experience of designing for litho print, speccing and print buying together with experience of display work in different media. Work includes page layout, managing print production, creating logos and typefaces. We have experience of designing, speccing and managing substantial print runs up to 100's of thousands, including arranging distribution and letterbox delivery.

Packaging and display

This work includes packaging, freestanding installations, work in Perspex and PRIPLAK, design for product badging including enamels and acrylics, large format architectural banners etc.

Web and new media work

Digital media work has been mostly in the area of websites and web tools. We have developed small and medium sized sites combining hand coded HTML with custom PHP/MySQL tools, and have developed a number of client sites based on Open Source Content Management Systems Mambo and Joomla. We are currently looking at Wordpress with off the peg or custom plugins as a more flexible alternative to full CMS sites especially for individuals and smaller organisations.

Consultation, training and education

It hardly needs to be said that all our work is about people, ideas and communication. Our priorities with client websites have always been to design sites that work and grow as the organisation and its audiences develop. Some of our website contracts have become long standing relationships with the client organisation allowing us to develop new features and ways of working with the client over several years. For this reason consultation and training are a very important part of our work and we can draw on many years in arts education, training and community development. As clients develop their own skills the working relationship changes to include more partnership and support, complementing our role in technical and design development.

Our preferred way of working is increasingly to put together a project team for a particular job. We can draw on a network of freelancers and independant organisations who all bring their own skills and resources. The Common Knowledge Collective has been particularly important in this respect.