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hassle free emails

hassle free emails

Emails are a way of life now. Whether we send long, detailed missives, carefully thought out and thoroughly checked, to a one liner, on the go, on our phone, they are one of the key ways to communicate. They are an efficient way of communicating with your client base...

we’re not just about websites

we’re not just about websites

It's true that website design takes up most of our time. Websites are what people usually enquire about, and a website is often the first project we'll collaborate with a client on. From the website, other design work then usually emerges, once a client realises that...

work hard. work anywhere…

work hard. work anywhere…

If you've come here to take a look at what we do, we expect that you think our productivity is a bit limited, given our lack of social media posts. Not so. We've been very busy. 2024-2025 has been an interesting time, to say the least. As well as working with our...

our take on projects

our take on projects

We now never take on projects that don't personally interest us. If we don't get that feeling immediately, from experience, we know it's not for us. In the past, we had to take on projects which, if we are honest now, looking back, didn't float our boats at all. Our...

Hosting

Hosting

We’re sometimes asked what “hosting” involves and what people are actually paying for, so we thought it would be a good idea to provide an explanation for what the annual charge of £120.00 covers. We pay for server space and like any company who does this, we then...

what’s a vintage car got to with design?

what’s a vintage car got to with design?

What, indeed? Well, quite a lot when you think about it. And we did think about it. And that got us thinking we could offer a new service to our design clients. A service that a client could either go with or not, but a service where everything was laid out...

feat of clay : website

feat of clay : website

We get clients in a variety of ways - but never via doing the rounds at breakfast meetings or putting ourselves on random websites which promise to deliver lots of new clients. Breakfast meetings are an absolute oxymoron, as far as I am concerned. If you can't have...

delivering exactly what *you* want

delivering exactly what *you* want

It would be very easy for us, as designers, with presumably the knowledge and expertise that clients might not have - otherwise they would design their own websites - to push an agenda. To convince clients that what they need, is really what we want to deliver. To try...