Styal Lodge is a premium wedding venue, nestled in the picturesque National Trust Village of Styal, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside. We first encountered the team, through an introduction from our friend, client and wedding photographer extraordinaire, Jonny...
Just like that! Almost in the blink of an eye, the festive season is over and we're already back, designing. We hope that you, like us, had a thoroughly relaxing time, spent with family and friends. We feel thoroughly recharged after a couple of weeks of hosting...
Although we'll still be working this week, in the lead up to Christmas, we're going to be applying the brakes a little and affording ourselves a bit more of a festive holiday. This year we have family coming out to stay with us, and so as well as doing last minute...
As Christmas approaches, we find that a fair number of clients want branded gift vouchers to be designed, whether to be sold online via their websites, or as versions for print, for physical sales. We do love designing vouchers, as these can be totally personalised,...
It was probably in 2015 when Claire Currie, founder and owner of For Baby & Me, came to us to redesign her website. She wanted to develop her brand and put herself and her business on a more professional footing. This we did, designing a more "serious" looking...
Our own website has gone through a variety of versions since we started our company. In the beginning, we worked with another designer, who led things design-wise, but since we went solo, our own style has emerged. But, even with updates and sometimes quite wholesale...
We're probably all used to - and now very wary of - the obvious scam emails that seem to drop into our inboxes on a daily basis. You know the ones... the sender is on their deathbed, with no living relatives, and you have been chosen to be the recipient of all of...
If something seems too good to be true, then it very often is. Not always, but usually. As we found out not so long ago... Completely out of the blue, we received a contact via our website from a well known events venue, enquiring about a new website, with a pretty...
WHAT MIGHT PUT US OFF TO SOME PEOPLE: 1. We work from home 2. Home is no longer in Didsbury, but in Istria 3. We don’t drive big, flashy, executive cars 4. There’s only two of us – me (Helen) and him (Pete) 5. We don’t bombard clients with salesy bullshit. We...
One of our latest websites, designed for Life Coach Kerry Sutcliffe, has been another one of those projects we really enjoy being involved in. We met Kerry quite a few years ago now - introduced to us by another longstanding client, Thyme Out Delicatessen - when we...