Simcoemedia Design Consultancy

Via Mat A0 poster design

Pete Simcoe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:13:59 +0000

Via Mat International are a transportation and logistics company based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company specialises in the transportation of precious goods around the world – their corporate moto being “safe from safe to safe”. Simcoemedia was asked to design some A0 promotional posters for the various services offered including transport by road and air, storage of precious items, company philosophy and global networking. The end result is a selection of 5 images designed to be used at a conference in March and internally eg board room, meeting room, entrance etc.

Drawing Research Network website

Pete Simcoe — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:54:10 +0000

The Drawing Research Network was established in 2003 and now has over 400 members. Participants are based in universities and colleges of art and design with established teaching and/or research profiles in drawing. Some have an interest in, for example, drawing therapy, the cross-curricular role of drawing in schools or digital drawing others simply have an interest in drawings and the drawing process which might include in making, thinking about and communicating on drawing. Individuals and institutions use the Network to communicate news, to explore possibilities for cooperation in drawing research, to formulate collaborative projects and to share outputs. Membership of the Network is free.

iStockphoto Travel Images

Pete Simcoe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:23:53 +0000

iStockphoto is an online stock photography company providing access to a low – medium budget photography library produced by semi-professional and professional designers, photographers and illustrators. The library can really make a difference to a project if the user requires a stunning photograph or illustration without the stunning price tag traditionally associated with these organisations. check out Simcoemedia’s online portfolio from iStock. You can purchase some iStockaudio tracks produced by Simcoemedia from this same portfolio.

Greenbarnes Aluminium brochure

Pete Simcoe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:51:11 +0000

Greenbarnes required a design update for their 2005 Aluminium brochure. The previous brochure had also been designed by Simcoemedia and it was a great opportunity to look at how both Greenbarnes as a company had developed and also new design skills and experience would allow for some fine tuning of layout, style and presentation techniques. The great thing about using desktop publishing software such as Adobe’s InDesign is that it is very easy to create output for both printed and web based media. Download the brochure to see how it turned out!

Design-Designed to help clients online

Pete Simcoe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:54:04 +0000

www.design-design.co.uk has been set up as part of the Simcoemedia Network of sites to assist clients in their daily tasks. Most clients use the web on a regular basis or require printed material and have benefited from the weekly research carried out by Simcoemedia to keep up with the latest activity on the web, new technologies, future products, hardware and software issues relevant to their activity. The idea is that Design-Design compliments this portfolio by presenting more objective news to the client allowing them to experiment in their own online experiences and compare notes or learn new techniques.

Lboro Social Sciences and Humanities

Pete Simcoe — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:38:11 +0000

The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University required a new website. Simcoemedia was asked to facilitate and manage the production of the site which included liasing with Design and Print, various academics and managers regarding the content and direction and some video production elements. The gallery pages are ongoing in terms of development – images and video will be added and removed as projects evolve.

Project management for Torse Ltd

Pete Simcoe — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:13:49 +0000

Torse is a UK based energy purchasing and management group with a focus on providing informed choice in an increasingly complex energy market. Simcoemedia has been working closely with the company in a project management and design role since the company officially began trading in 2004.

During summer 2008, two placement students worked on a variety of projects from analysis of databases for improving workflow to the production of a knowledge base in the form of the Torse Wiki. Simcoemedia was responsible for the management and delivery of these and responsible directly to the Operations Manager, Mark Johnson.

There have also been instances where it has been necessary to be involved in generating agreements and project overviews with companies such as Nottingham University based Environmental Technology Centre.

New Loughborough School website

Pete Simcoe — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:11:42 +0000

Loughborough University needed to amalgamate the Sport and Exercise Sciences and Human Sciences departments together to form the new School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. This new school would officially be opened on 1 August 2009 and both departments required an assessment of the existing information, amalgamation of the relevant information and removal of any information no longer necessary. This process was completed within the 4 month deadline.

Music Therapy Research website

Pete Simcoe — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:44:40 +0000

Dr Eddie Norman and Liz Norman have worked together to produce a music therapy research website giving an overview of research and encouraging participants. The site also provides a selection of YouTube clips where an accurate and concise overview of many of the aspects of this subject are covered.

Since the original design and production, the site has expanded to feature video contributions from students in the Department of Design and Technology demonstrating some of the products they have designed responding to a therapists brief. Simcoemedia has mainly been involved with the overall layout and design of the site as well as contributing to maintenance.

Greenbarnes website revamp and CMS

Pete Simcoe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:24:05 +0000

Another Simcoemedia design using the Wordpress engine to drive it. The Greenbarnes website now features a reasonably sophisticated Content Management System allowing pages to be edited, images to be added and new products to be announced using the news page. Some of the highlights of the site are the Product pages featuring the product popup images for ease of browsing through options, the animated Tag Cloud as a unique way of navigating and broadening horizons as well as a densely packed Zeemaps product map page amongst many others!