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.

Coffee Republic Menu

We design and print menus for restaurants, takeaways, juice bars etc. Here's a menu we've done for Coffee Republic in Southampton (www.coffeerepublic.co.uk).

We had to recreate the branding used by the franchisor for the Southampton store. Many franchise businesses have artwork and even print provided centrally by the franchisor.

However often it's easier and cheaper for us to produce local campaigns for the franchisee. We normally have to get any artwork we produce approved by the franchisor as we did in this Coffee Republic menu.

Hanger Farm Ticket Holder

This is a “ticket” holder we did for Hanger Farm Arts Centre. Hanger Farm is part of Totton Colleger (www.totton.ac.uk/hangerfarm).

In this case it was theatre tickets were for the wonderful productions that they put on. It’s basically a folded leaflet, in this case on uncoated stock, which enables tickets to be slotted in. It’s a nice way of presenting tickets to customers and using holder to promote other things at the same time.Of course the “tickets” don’t have to be tickets. They can be receipts, invitations, vouchers or any piece of paper that you want to present to a customer.

Southampton Hospital Charity Leaflet

Here is a 3 Panel A5 Folded Leaflet on 100gsm silk that we did for Southampton Hospital Charity’s Red & White Appeal. Making sure the end product is fit for purpose is something we always advise on. So in this case it was essential that people could fill in the detailed donation form on the end panel. We also added a dotted line and a pair of scissors so that it was clear to the user that the end panel needed to be separated.

The aim of the Red & White Appeal is to raise £2.2 million for a transplant treatment centre for patients with leukaemia and other blood disorders. The Appeal is named 'Red and White' in recognition of the particular importance of red and white blood cells for haematology patients.

We often get ask to support various charities or discount jobs if they are for a charitable event. Obviously we can’t support every charity but there are a few, including Southampton Hospital Charity, that we support.

Folded A4 Leaflet

We designed and printed this gorgeous folded silk leaflet for Julian Porter Photography (http://www.julianporter.com/). The leaflet introduced their "So Sensual" boudoir photography service. Julian provided us with some images and a brief and we pull together the artwork.

Parker's Key Ring

Here's an example of a key ring we did for Parkers Letting Agency (http://www.parkerslettings.com/).

Promotional items can be an effective and subtle way to promote your business. This key ring, for example, is useful as it obviously holds keys but also has the contact details of the letting agent so the tenant or landlord know who to call. That means they will hang onto it and promote your business every time they get their keys out!

Other promotional items such as pens, sticky notes, pads etc. work in a similar way.

City Limits Flyer

People often come to us with a designed leaflet and ask us to print it for them. We often oblige but sometimes they want us to jazz up the leaflet and make it a bit more interesting.

Here is an example of a leaflet we did for City Limit’s Employment. On the top left you can see the original design. We took this as the basis for a brief and redesigned the leaflet. We added a map, as it was important people knew where the venue was, and tried to make it appealing to its target audience, i.e. young people.

City Limit’s Employment are part of Southampton Council and are an employment agency that offers help, advice and support to people who have a disability or are disadvantaged. They are a free service and help people to find paid and voluntary work.