Christmas Cards In Southampton

Here are some of the Christmas Cards we've recently printed for local Southampton companies.

It's some much better getting a real Christmas Card than an e-card. In a recent survey conducted by the University of Salford, 71% said that e-cards were impersonal.

Unlike many online Christmas Card printers you can completely customise our Christmas Cards - so we can print front and back and come up with a unique design for your company. Alternatively you can pick a image from our stock library for us to work with - Merry Christmas!

My Boat Share Leaflet

At this time of year we do quite a bit of work of companies exhibiting at Southampton Boat Show. We can help them with flyers, exhibition stands, posters, invitations, business cards or as in the above example, leaflets.

We designed the above leaflet for Southampton based MyBoatShare. It offers membership sailing as an alternative to owning a boat. From just £299 a month you can have the use of a fleet of modern 31ft to 39ft sailing yachts for up to 49 full days per year.

This 3 panel A5 leaflet packs a lot of information into an easy handout - great for exhibitions like Southampton Boat Show. So if you need a handout but haven't got enough information for an 8 page booklet then a 6 page 3 panel A5 leaflet could be the answer.

Pure Home Technology Stationery

The importance of stationery design is often overlooked. Customers often ask for something "simple" without really thinking about how the stationery is to be used. For example, if you're sending a tender to a large company, along with other potential suppliers, then it's vital that your stationery not only looks professional but also stands out from the crowd.

One of the ways to make your stationery grab attention is to use both sides. Above is some double sided stationery we designed for Winchester based company Pure Home Technology. They design and install home cinema, multi-room audio video and smarthome technology.

So if you're thinking about getting some business stationery then give us a call or visit the Southampton design studio to see some of our inspirational designs. What's more if you order any size, style or quantity of Letterheads and Compliment Slips, then add any number of Business Cards (any size, style or quantity) we take 20% off the total print price.

Wastemasters Southampton Flyer

Above is an example of how we turned a customer’s ideas into an actual piece marketing material that can be used to professionally promote a business.

Wastemasters (Southern) Ltd, based in Fareham – Hampshire, provide tipper and grabber lorry services to the building and construction industry.

Like many of our customers Wastemasters had a great idea for promoting their business. But knew if they tried to produce their own flyers they would come across as amateurish, which is not a great way to build confidence when selling your services to prospective customers. However by using our Graphic Design service they have been able to win new business with this well designed flyer.

Southampton Restaurant Business Card

We are often asked for a "simple" business card. I think what most business owners want is a business card that not only gives propective customers their contact details but a business card that also helps sell the business. Afterall is you just want to pass on contact details why not use a bit of paper?

The above images show the initial brief given to us by our customer (My Dreams in Southampton) on the left and the final design and printed business card on the right. The cardboard effect is printed onto the business card - click on the image to see this better. The business card on the right is far more interesting than a bit of paper and importantly through its design gives prospective customer confidence in the business.

Southampton Restuarant Menu

My Dreams is a new restaurant on Shirely High Street near Southampton.

The owners wanted a menu (or leaflet) that reflected the style of their restuarant and had come up with some ideas - see the images on the left. After a consultation we thought we could come up with something much more creative that would actually sell the restaurants to customers. The actual printed menu is on the right. Note on the bottom right menu the creases are printed onto the menu - click on the image to get a better view.

The owners were delighted with the finished menu that we designed and printed and agree that if two menus were posted through their letterbox they would definately pick the resturant with the menu on the right.

Steamy Windows Business Cards

Steamy Windows, based in Romsey near Southampton, replaces damaged doubled glazed units. If double glazed units loose their seal, water gets in and they become "steamed up" - hence the company name. Steamy Windows can also fix other related problems with windows and doors - see the business card.

We designed and printed these business cards for them. This is a well designed business card, over and above a plain business card, for 3 important reasons :

1. It includes confidence building "trade" logos - namely "Buy with Confidence" and "Check a trade". These 3rd party organisations vouch for the credibilty and reputation of member business - vitally important for referrals.

2. The card includes a detailed list of what services are offered. This is also important when getting business via referral to make sure the recipient of the card knows exactly what the business does.

3. The card is good quality, well designed and has an eye catching spot UV finish on the back that looks like steam! The recipient of this business card will be impressed and therefore think better of the company that it advertises. Again vital for referrals.

Remember you can get referrals from your contacts and customers passing on your business card to people you haven't met. Which is why a business card is so important as it is effectively advertising your business.

Natural Beauty A4 Folded Leaflet

Natural Beauty, based in West Wellow near Southampton, offers beauty treatments using the ultimate in skincare products. They offer facials, massages, waxing and manicures for discerning clients.

The above leaflet was initially drafted by the client using MS Publisher. We quite often get artwork given to us in MS Publisher and MS Word. Neither of these products are great for producing print standard artwork - they just don't have the features to make the fine adjustments needed.

However we can finish off artwork for our clients and quickly turn it into something that looks professional. In the above example we added some stock photography, designed a flowery swirl to add interest, formatted the text for the roll fold, made all the type consistent and allowed for the artwork to bleed off the page, e.g. so there was not gap at the page edge.

Power & Sail Leaflet

Power & Sail provide marine electrical design, installations, sales and repair for the sports, leisure and charter boat sectors that includes motorboats, powerboats, ribs, fishing vessels and racing/ cruising yachts. They are based in Lymington and Southampton but operate across the south coast.

It goes without saying that boats don’t come cheap and so boat owners are very discerning when it comes to selecting a company to handle their maintenance. That’s why it was vitally important to Power & Sail that their marketing material reflected the high quality, premium service that they offer.

For the above leaflet Power & Sail provided the text, images and logo - then following their brief we produced the leaflet design.

It’s immediately obvious that this leaflet has been professionally designed. Therefore anyone picking up this leaflet will feel reassured that they are dealing with a professional company. The images on the front grab attention while the reverse provides the necessary details.

ETC Folded Leaflet

ETC Training Centre is specifically designed for committed football players who want to develop to make the step up from grassroots football.

Based in Southampton, they bridge the gap between professional clubs and grassroots football by offering talented players opportunities to continue their football development through professional coaching and competition matches.

We designed and printed this A4 half fold leaflet for them. They supplied the text and images and we developed the concept and design. Having a professionally designed folded leaflet such as this makes it much easier for ETC to sells their services to prospected customers – in this case talented footballers. The design will immediately catch the attention of people interested in football and then allow them to easily digest all the information. Including a high profile testimonial from Lukas Jutkiewicz, a professional Everton player.

Statham Business Stationery

We designed the above corporate identity and business stationery for Statham Property Maintenance who are based in Southampton.

It’s easy to forget how important business stationery is for a company. If you are trying to win a new contract by writing to the prospective customer on what is obviously a home produced letterhead it won’t inspire their confidence. In trying to save a few quid in printing costs you could loose thousands of pounds worth of business. Business stationery typically consists of letterheads, compliment slips, business cards and sometimes continuation sheets.

How can you tell the above stationery hasn’t been produced at home?

• The company has a corporate identity (see below)
• It’s obvious some thought has gone into the design of the letterhead and business card
• Good quality paper has been used for the letterheads and compliment slips
• Heavier card has been used for the business card
• It’s well printed – lithographically as apposed to inkjet or laserjet (you can tell the difference)

The corporate identity is the combination of the text, graphics and colours used. You know how you would like your business to be perceived but the art is to make sure your marketing material conveys this consistently. A corporate identity helps customers familiarise themselves with your brand and so instantly recognise that the message is from you.

The clever idea in the above logo is that the different elements, i.e. the logo and icons, can be used in different way across a range of marketing material.

Digital Booklet

We print a range of high quality lithographically printed booklets (or magazines) with many different specifications, e.g. size, stock weight, finish, covers etc. However for runs of less than 500 we also produce simple digitally printed booklets too. Printing digitally doesn't offer the same quality finish or variety but if you only need a few and are on a tight budget then they are a good solution.

Above is an example of a 12 printed page (12pp) A5 digital booklet we did for the New Naturalist. Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history book series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over 60 years.

So if you need a booklet printed the chances are we have a product to suit. Prices of our booklets start from £75 for 50 - see our website.

Fresh Therapies Voucher Card

We designed and printed these voucher cards for Southampton based Fresh Therapies.

Fresh Therapies operate from a beautiful, relaxing, and well equipped studio in North Baddesley. They offer their clients the chance to fully escape the stresses and strains of everyday life, and to invest a little time indulging themselves, their bodies and minds for a better well being!

Voucher cards are a silk greetings card but with an extra tear-off voucher panel. They can be used as gift certificates, as in this example, or as a card with a thoughtful gift or special offer, saving or discount.

So if you’ve got a service which you can give as a gift, like Fresh Therapies, then why not try selling some voucher cards.

NGS Sticky Notes

We designed and printed these sticky notes for NGS.

NGS supply winter maintenance vehicles, complete with skilled operatives, to undertake the pre-salting of highways, car parks, paths and roads. NGS customers are typically local authorities, NHS Hospital Trusts or companies with large sites.

Sticky notes are a great way to subtly promote your business. They’re useful so people hang onto them and every time they’re used they gently give reminder of your businesses services. And next time they need that service – who are they going to call? They tend to work best for business to business, e.g. solicitors, accountants, courier firms etc.

Choose from a range of sizes and colours – prices start from 42p each.

Logo Design Southampton

We help companies with their branding. Be it an established business or a brand new start up we have the experience as well as some trusted tools and techniques to help our customers.

Here is an example of a logo we designed as part of a branding process. The first image shows the initial idea our customer had for his company Oyo Mesi Productions.
Oyo was a 15th Century West African Empire and the Mesi were it’s elected councillors.
We developed different concepts for the logo – using different typefaces, colours etc. The second image shows the preferred concept. The earpieces of the headphones make the two Os and the wire the Y.

However as part of the development we questioned the company name. This ultimately led to the renaming of the company to Fitilla Productions – fitilla means lamp.

The third image shows the revised logo.

The last image shows the business card design and how we’ve reinforced the “brand” by using the headphones independently of the company name – this is a spot uv finish.

Intech Fat Folder

If you need to hand out lots of bumpf, thick brochures, CDs, samples and the like then Fat Folders could be the answer.

Above is an example of one we designed and printed for INTECH in Winchester. INTECT is a great hands-on interactive science and technology centre - my kids love it, the planetarium is amazing. INTECH is also an educational resource that supports learning in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). They needed a folder for the information packs that they hand out to teachers.

We do a range of different presentation folders to suit different budgets. From just 23p each, presentation folders can seriously improve how professionally you business is percieved. Not sure if they will work for your business - then give us a call.

Jury's Inn Southampton Leaflet

We designed and printed this 2 panel DL leaflet for Jurys Inn in Southampton.

They wanted a leaflet (and some posters) to promote their cruise packages. Jurys Inn offer special pre and post cruise accommodation as well as day guest packages for people to relax before embarking. The packages include transfers between Southampton Airport and the cruise terminals as well as car parking.

We worked with Jurys Inn to design the leaflet and to make sure it fitted in with their corporate branding. It was printed on 150gsm gloss paper.

Leaflets folded down to DL size, like in this example, are so versatile. They can convey a lot of information but are also easy to hand out, leave in leaflet dispensers or use in a direct mail campaign. They look great in glorious full colour and are a very cost effective way of getting your message out.

John Lewis Booklet

We designed and printed this 12 page booklet for John Lewis in Southampton.

They were launching a Leadership Team Development Programme and needed a booklet to inform it's members about the programme and events. Working with John Lewis we developed the "climbing" concept and designed the layout of the whole booklet. The booklet was printed with 170gsm silk inner and a 250gsm Matt Laminated cover.

We design and print a variety of booklets for our clients. They are a great way to impart large amounts of information in a structured way, as this example demonstrates. Other customers use them as catalogues, magazines or swanky brochures - they can't fail to impress. There are lots of different options for different paper stocks for the inners and cover - we can even add business card slots or perforated pages!

Designing a booklet takes a bit of planning so if you are thinking of doing one gives us a call so we can advise you right from the start.

Sherlock Boswell Website Gallery

Sherlock Boswell Architecture is a highly successful and well respected practice combining the skills of Chartered Architects and Chartered Building Surveyors. One of their houses was a finalist in this years Grand Design Awards.

The brief was to create a site that could display the numerous images that had been collected for the various projects that they had worked on. The design allows you to easily navigate to a project page where you can click on an image that then displays a pop up gallery. This enables the visitor to view the full size images for the various projects.

Hendy Parts Promotion

We design and print Hendy Parts’ regular offers leaflet – see above.

Hendy Parts, based in Hedge End near Southampton, is the premier supplier for vehicle parts and accessories in the South and South West. They supply parts for a range of vehicles including Ford, Iveco, Mazda, Kia and Honda. Through their buying power they are able to offer their trade customers some great special offers.

This is a great way to keep in touch with your customers. Even if they’re not interested in that month’s special offer they get a reminder of what else you can do for them.

We designed this leaflet as a generic template. So as offers and products change we just replace those sections of the leaflet. This not only saves time and money but also makes it easier for customers to navigate the promotions.