Premise Property Maintenance Mugs

Premise Property Maintenance is a Southampton based company that provides a comprehensive range of domestic and commercial property maintenance services.

We designed and printed these mugs for them. Just one of the many promotion items that we can produce - see our website for more details. Mugs are a great give away to remind your customers about all the things you do while they are having a cuppa!

We can produce single colour standard mugs (as above) but also full colour mugs in a variety of different styles, e.g. latte mugs, pop into the studio to see some examples.

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.

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.

Design Awards

Every year printing.com hold a design competition amongst the c.280 outlets. There are 5 different categories that are judged: Functional (e.g. calendars), Identity (logos and branding), Hand Out (e.g. flyers), Prestige (high value items e.g. booklets) and Websites.

Under the Identity category Southampton's designer Dan Ebbrell was the runner up. Dan designed the corporate id for Innovative Technology Solutions (www.itechsol.co.uk). The judges said "The icons visually explain what the company does in a clean, clear and easy to read manner". So if you need a logo designed come and see Dan - a "Highly Commended" designer.

Hoody Top

Horizons is an outdoor pursuits and socialising club offering a wide range of activities each week to people across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire (www.horizonspursuits.co.uk).

We’ve just produced these hooded tops for them. The challenge was to take the logo that we designed for them a while ago and turn it into a decent stitch pattern. This involves converting all the colours used into suitable thread colours, making sure that the lettering works (e.g. you can’t have big gaps) and actually designing how the stitches will create the logo. Also because the logo was going on the reverse of the top it needed to be large. This resulted in a stitch pattern that consisted of 50,000 stitches. Of course these are sewn but machine, not my aunt Ethel, but is still difficult to produce large, complex stitch patterns such as this. However the results were great as you can see.