Wengen, Training For The Snow-Show
Wengen Training For the Snow Show
07/02/2012 Category: Leica, M9, Swiss, Wengen No Comments 
London’s Perfume River new Look Website
London’s Perfume River have launched their new look website featuring the logo designed by Exeter’s Design Credo.
The Perfume River website is an update of their existing site created by Eyemyweb. As part of the original logo work Design Credo was asked to advise Perfume River’s Owner Ha Ngo about how to move the site on.
Ha Ngo contacted Design Credo as a referral from an existing client, Sarah Treble whose website we had recently re-developed. Although we create websites, on this occasion our advise was to stick with the existing supplier (if it ain’t broke don’t fix it) but radically simplify the styling. In essence we were suggesting that a much stronger use of ‘white’ would be appropriate an give the site added ‘freshness.’ In addition we suggested that each page should start with a strong ‘hero’ image.
It is always nice to see advice taken, implemented and developed. A couple of our discussion concepts are shown below.
23/01/2012 Category: Branding, Design, Less is More, Logo, Website Design No Comments
Hazelwood Holiday Park Brochure Print
OK, let’s cut to the chase, I love getting print back from the printers. Yes, it still feels like getting my exam results but I love it. Currently the office reeks of print and to me at least that is great news.
Design Credo have up-dated the annual brochure for Hazelwood Holiday Park in Dawlish Warren, South Devon. This latest brochure is part of a wider project for Hazelwood, we previously reported on the updating of their logo and brand. This brochure implements the updated logo and branding, at the same time the copy has been re-written by Samantha Shaw.
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19/01/2012 Category: Advertising, Design, Printing No Comments
Life’s a Bowl of Goldfish
A friend of mine once suggested that the size goldfish grow to is affected by the size of the environment that they live in. Rather unfairly I suggested that her boyfriend must have lived in a small house. Subsequently she found another boyfriend and, last time I saw her she was living in a much larger house than I will ever live in.
I don’t know if the parable of the goldfish is true but the reality of things is that I am constantly outgrowing my environment. My house is overspilling with the detritus created by too much time in charity shops, my garage has more cycles than I have recently counted and some might say at least one too many motorbikes. The Ercol Day-bed that hangs from the ceiling has now become a storage device in it’s own right.
The garage has recently become an answer to my digital spread though.
Don’t Get Burnt
Some-time ago I wrote about the need to back-up. Since then I have grown (digitally) to a great extent due to my cameras banging out chunky RAW files.
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12/12/2011 Tags: backup, cloud
Category: Apple, Technology No Comments
Biel Ballester Trio: Just Because
I came across the Biel Ballester Trio through the soundtrack to Woody Allen’s film Vicky Christina Barcelona. No real reason for this to be here other than I like it and of course if you hear it sometimes it helps to see if what you are hearing is true.
Biel Ballester studied classical guitar at the prestigious Luthier School in Barcelona, Spain. There he spent two years under the instruction of teacher/concertist Alex Garrobé and four years with teacher/concertist Fernando Rodriguez. Complimenting his formal musical studies, Biel has also taken guitar master classes from respected musicians such as José Tomás, David Russell, Aniello Desiderio, Manuel Barrueco, Marco Socias, Hopckinson Smith and Jordi Savall (the last two specializing in Baroque music). Biel finished his curriculum at Barcelona’s superior conservatorium in the year 2000. Subsequent demand for his awe-inspiring style and technique have enabled him to perform in several countries such as Spain, France, Holland and Germany including multiple appearances at Barcelona’s International Jazz Festival, The International Jazz Festival of Terrassa, and the International Guitar Festival of Mallorca. Making waves on both sides of the Atlantic, two of Biel’s tracks featured here were selected for inclusion on the Various Artists compilations, Django Festival Volumes 3 & 4, produced by Hot Club Records in Oslo, Norway, placing the Catalan guitarist in the company of international jazz stars such as
Jimmy Rosenberg and Angelo Debarre among others. A young talent holding great promise, Biel Ballester is on the short list of possible artists slated to perform at several upcoming international Django Reinhardt Tribute Festivals including those in the United States. So be on the lookout for the Biel Ballester Trio performing in a city near you.
12/12/2011 Category: Design, Music No Comments
