Some professional relationships begin with a formal introduction, a carefully prepared brief or an enquiry about a new website. Others begin with someone entering just about every competition you ever run. Many years ago, when we were running Didsbury Life, our...
The last two months haven't been our most creative. We haven't been bouncing design ideas around. We haven't really touched much design work. But, all for a very good reason. Like the birds, we've been migrating. Not us. We haven't migrated - to be honest, we're a bit...
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...
Business cards. Are they really still a thing? Well, yes. We think they are and so do a lot of our clients. But why, when everything is pretty much online? Call us old-fashioned, but we think a beautifully designed, subtle, on brand, tactile (because we think about...
It happens. Best laid plans and all that. Websites do sometimes seem to have a mind of their own, and sometimes decide to play up, just when you absolutely don't need them to. Like when you're about to launch a new product or a new line. Or, when you have a time...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...