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Design and Development of the Papillon Bleu Partners Website

Monday, July 12th, 2010

papillon bleu partners website design

papillon bleu partners provide comprehensive consulting, advice and skills development. They help clients establish an effective portfolio and projects management culture and processes that are linked reliably to business strategy.

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Design and Development of the DLP website

Monday, June 28th, 2010

DLP website design

The Dawlish Learning Partnership (or DLP) is a partnership promoting learning at the heart of the community, encouraging collaboration between all community organisations involved in supporting learning. Back in March we were approached by the Dawlish Learning Partnership  to create a logo for the organisation. The process went well and we created a logo which the client (as well as ourselves) were particularly pleased with. The logo has now been applied to a range of media as such as posters and letterheads.

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Scuba Diving Store Website Development

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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Scuba Diving Store is an online retailer located in Paignton, Devon specialising in a wide range of Scuba Diving equipment. Store Manager Anthony designed and built the site himself 2 years ago and after some promising sales decided it was time for a visual change.

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What have we been up too?

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Barry Palmer album artwork design

We’ve been beavering away here at Eightyone Design so thought we’d share with you a short selection of projects we’ve been working on. (more…)

Website design for AIS - The International School, Sydney, Australia

Monday, November 9th, 2009

AIS website image

AIS is an International School based in Sydney, Australia. They provide education to the highest academic standard, and have a practical approach to teaching and learning while catering to both international and local students with its integrated Australian and American curriculum.

AIS were looking for someone to re-design their website and found us through our graphic design blog. Several Skype meetings later they accepted our proposal and had a strong brief to work to. AIS already had a team of programmers in house and required us to design and build template HTML pages that they could use to build, edit and expand the website themselves.

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What’s your favourite part of the graphic design process?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Favourite part of the design process

A client recently came to us with an excellent idea for a site and I couldn’t wait to meet with them and get stuck into designing the visual. However when I thought about building the site I could feel a mild headache coming on. This got me thinking, what’s your favourite part of the graphic design process? I realise every project is different and some projects are a pure pleasure from beginning to end whilst others are just painful from the outset. However I still think there must be one part of the process where you think “I’m really looking forward to working on that…” (more…)

7 essential Wordpress resources, hacks and plugins

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Essential Wordpress Resouces

As we keep mentioning, we recently redesigned the Eightyone Design website. Over the long and painful 7 months it took us to get the new site up and running, we uncovered a lot of things we didn’t know about Wordpress. Ranging from plugins to hacks, we found there were a great deal of ways you can customise Wordpress to suit your needs. So I thought I would share with you some of the Wordpress resources I found and used for the redesign of our website:

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20 Cool RSS and Twitter Icons

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

20 Cool RSS and Twitter Icons

Following the recent re-design of the Eightyone Design website we are now questioning the inclusion of some extras in the site design. First off is the RSS icon. Do wee need to have the RSS icon displayed on our website in order for users to instantly recognise they can subscribe to updates from us? Secondly is the Twitter icon and accompanying feed. Should we include our latest tweets on our blog? Similarly, should we also include a twitter style icon to allow people instant recognition that we are actively using Twitter? (more…)

Eightyone Design launches a brand new website

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Eightyone Design Launches brand new website and blog

Sorry for the lack of blog posts and Twitter updates lately but we have been hard at work getting our new online graphic design portfolio and blog completed. It has taken us 7 months to develop, build and launch the new Eightyone Design website and we thought we would share with you the process we went through to design the site as well as some alternate designs, thought processes and other discussions along the way! (more…)

Our Graphic Design Process - Part 2: Web design

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Our Graphic Design Process - Part 2: Web design

In The Design Process - Part 1 we outlined the initial stages of the Design process. This is the same Research and Development process we go through for every project we work on, regardless of whether the project is for print design, web design, clothing design or logo design.

We ensure we have received a brief from the client, we complete extensive research on the industry, competitors and target markets and ensure we have clear objectives and messages for the piece. We finished this process at the point where we were starting to realise our initial design sketches by hitting the computers. In this follow up blog post we continue with the design process we go through for a website design. (more…)