Welcome!

You have entered a zone where professional design and marketing has been practised, honed and perfected since the days of Letraset and scalpels.

Today's marketing expectations not only include PR, sponsorship, conference organizing, merchandise design & production, but also photo retouching, web hosting, web design and animation, and social media - a range of platforms that can be properly harnessed to achieve unrivalled success.

Our clients have included banks, cosmetics, tv/radio, internet, sports, charity, medical, legal, public institutions, and many other areas where accuracy and quality are paramount. Our original background is in product and events for the Music Industry. Dealing with the back room crew, record companies and related publications, where one-off ideas were as important as lengthy campaigns, was ideal preparation for today's marketing expectations.

The examples of our work here are a snapshot of what we’ve been up to over the years, and the good news is that the best is always what we do next.

Every day brings a new request for innovation and ingenuity. No two days are the same since one morning we might be writing and laying out sleevenotes for a music release and in the afternoon optimising artwork for a t-shirt and publishing it online for sale.

Old school skills combined with a sound knowledge of 21st century technology means that in recent times we've been doing a massive amount of work restoring old photos for a range of clients.

Meantime airship graphics, subway ads, magazine layouts, dynamic copywriting, social networking by proxy are all in a day's work, and new challenges in developing technologies are part and parcel of what this graphic design team enjoys. We hope you'll give us an opportunity to impress.

New skills, old photos...

In old photos we can often reveal previously obscured information in dark shadows, correct over-exposed or damaged areas and enhance poor developing to reproduce faithfully what the camera recorded, rather than what past materials allowed. It's now accepted practice to coax obscure information from old prints and negatives to provide a more accurate historical picture, as long as the integrity of the source material is preserved elsewhere.

If a 1970s slide was badly made it doesn't mean that's the way it should ever be printed. If that were the case, many would be too dark to view. Likewise 19th century cyanotype prints don't have to appear in blue. Many contain much more detail than was visible when they were first reproduced, and a sepia, or similar, finish can suggest a character more in keeping with the way the photographer saw things.

That should be what it's all about - seeing the world as it was for those at the time, rather than through blue tinted or technicolor spectacles. With proper research monochrome photos and film can be accurately colorized too.

You could say we're in the business of miracles!