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In The Studio This Week

In the studio this week… five stylishly inspiring blogs

June 18, 2010

We had a great day at the blogging workshop yesterday, some wonderfully inspiring business owners and great headway made. In a moment of rare modesty I showed the delegates lots of beautifully designed blogs from some of the world’s best bloggers. But what I didn’t show them was any of the blogs that we’ve designed [...]

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In the studio this week… 4 Logo concepts for venue stylists Distinctive Elegance

June 15, 2010

I have been sooooo excited about sharing this one. Venue stylist, trained florist, passionate cook and all round stylish-lady Colleen approached us a few weeks ago to help her create a new identity for her business Distinctive Elegance. I am especially excited about this identity because Colleen is offering Afternoon Tea Weddings (amongst other things), [...]

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In the studio this week… Logo designs for Idyllic Moments

June 4, 2010

Idyllic Moments sell cakes. Cupcakes, traybakes and other cakes. And you know how much we love cakes at Flourish! Jody and business partner Wendy won our “Win a logo makeover” at this year’s Grow Your Business event and I’m delighted to be able to show you the initial concepts of their identity.
The brief was all [...]

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In the studio this week… An emotive and engaging website for Customer Essential

June 3, 2010

I’ve been looking forward to blogging about this site now for several months, and I’m delighted to say that after much blood, sweat and tears, the Customer Essential website is now live <drum roll please>.
We have loved every moment of creating this website because of the freedom and encouragement that MD, Liz Machtynger, has given [...]

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In the studio this week… a corporate folder for Dalkia

June 2, 2010

So as you probably realise if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, we mostly design for small businesses and start ups. But every now and again we’ll work on a big corporate job, like the Nakheel employer branding project and this current job for energy giant, Dalkia.
The folder you see above is the [...]

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How to create a blog that’ll win you business Workshop – early bird offer expires this Thurs!

May 30, 2010

My, doesn’t time fly? Here I am enjoying my long bank holiday weekend (and I hope you are too!) and I realise that this Thursday is the deadline for the Early Bird discount offer for my blogging workshop with Tom Evans on 17th June. So I just wanted to give you a bit of a [...]

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In the studio this week… A new brand identity for Weybridge Florist The White Orchid

May 28, 2010

I’ll be honest, things have been a little quiet on the blog front for me over the last couple of weeks. A phenomenal Grow Your Business exhibition, and all the associated follow up that comes with that; combined with recruiting for two new positions, driving the business forward and doing a lot of marketing strategy [...]

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A brand and marketing strategy session for a garden designer

May 25, 2010

Running a business is tough isn’t it? Marketing, budgeting, planning, sales, people management, troubleshooting and then those “challenges” that seem to crop up that throw us off track – for a matter of hours, days, weeks, whatever! It’s sometimes easy to lose track of why you went into business in the first place. We’ve certainly [...]

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The Flourish Stand at Grow Your Business

May 13, 2010

Just thought I’d give you a bit of a rundown of the Flourish stand from yesterday’s Grow Your Business. We put a lot of time and effort into creating a stand with instant wow factor and that, importantly, would evoke an emotive reaction. I think that this sense of emotion is something that we put [...]

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Blogging workshop in Surrey, 17th June just launched

May 11, 2010

Just wanted to let you know that Tom Evans, The Bookwright, author, mentor and clearer of writers block, and I will be running a blogging workshop on 17th June at The Talbot Inn, Ripley. In amongst plenty of delicious refreshments (bacon rolls, homemade biscuits, two course lunch and homemade cakes anyone?) we’ll both be sharing our [...]

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