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The Girlguiding directory season is upon us and another production for Girlguiding Somerset North has been produced by Hooper Graphics. This simple but effective design incorporates standard and metallic printing. The finished booklet is quite impressive even though I say so myself.
Hooper Graphics has designed a number of adverts for The New Homes Company. The Palm Court Campaign is coming to an end and the only unit left to sell is the Show Flat which looks great, as you can see in the pictures on the advert.
One of Redruth’s “grot spot’s” has been given a makeover.
That hoardings that have been placed around the derelict land has been designed and illustrated by Hooper Graphics. It also features the new logo for Redruth, that highlights its place as the financial heart of Cornish Mining, also designed by Hooper Graphics.
Behind the hoardings is a mural that was created jointly by pupils from Redruth School; textiles artist, Tony Minnion and lighting artist, Peter Freeman. This mural really comes to live at night when it is lit with different colours.
It has been a big collaboration of local businesses, including Perimeters, Ellis Electrical, Control Print, URS Scott Wilson and Cloth of Gold. The project has been many years in the making and Mel Martin was the Project Manager whilst working at CPR.
However special mention should go to Anne Pascoe, of Redruth Education and Economics Arts Partnership (REAP) who has put in hours and hours of work, over the last few years. Well done Anne, it really has transformed this part of Redruth from a grot spot to a great spot.
Earlier this year I designed Receipts for West Cornwall Business Club and they were very pleased with them, as they felt it demonstrated the professional status of the club, who hold Networking Breakfasts once a week at Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives.
Tregenna Castle is a superb location for the Breakfasts meetings, the room we use can alter depending on what other events are taking place that day. So the Business Club organisers decided it would be helpful to have a large Banner outside the room, giving people a clear indicator where people should go.
It would also serve as a promotional item to other people at the Hotel that day, or could be used at other external events in order to encourage new members.
The Banner needed to reflect the personality of the Club and its members, and they are delighted with the final result.
It was printed by KallKwik and I am delighted with the quality, so thanks to Karen Schofield for her help.
As part of Redruth Action Plan Project (RAPP), it was recognised that better signage was needed for visitors to the town, so when they arrived at the car park they would know the best places to visit.
Hooper Graphics has been delighted to design the signage for Redruth’s New Cut Car Park. This includes a new illustrated map of the town centre, produced by Oxford Cartographers, and incorporates Redruth’s new brand identity, part of which will feature one of the cheeky Tinners Hounds, that are to be seen lurking in Redruth’s Fore Street!
Photographs of selected places to visit in Redruth are also incorporated. Redruth’s main attractions all have free entry so you can discover all about Redruth’s past.
Contract Signs will be producing new updated signage shortly, but in the meantime this temporary signage will help out our summer visitors.
Redruth is undergoing a period of regeneration that is being managed by CPR Regeneration, known as Redruth Action Plan Project (RAPP). It was identified that it needed to improve the promotion and marketing of the town, and as part of this plan or vision a new brand for Redruth has been created.
Redruth was the financial centre of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site and its role needed to be clearly communicated in its new logo.
It also has a new strapline “The Heart of Cornish Mining”, which also reflects what makes Redruth distinctive. This strapline has a double meaning, not only reflecting its position within Cornish Mining but also the friendliness of the townspeople, which was recently highlighted when the shopkeepers came fourth in a national poll as offering good service.
Being based in Redruth, Hooper Graphics were delighted to be involved in this project. The colour scheme is based on the current street furniture, whilst the green reflects how it is surrounded by beautiful countryside, with mines dotted amongst its landscape.
A well known advert says “It is good to talk”, well I say it is also “Good to listen”.
If you have visited my website before just have a quick browse around (after reading this blog of course), you may notice some small changes after getting some very important feedback.
Basically it seems I was getting a little Green/Purple obsessed and the purple mono-tones were not the right sort of imagery for all of the pages. So we have more colour on the pages!
Also on the photography and watercolour painting pages there is a small amount of text explaining why they have been included, hopefully it all makes sense.
It has been good to listen, and I am still open to more feedback, so please either drop me an email or leave a comment below.
I hear the new buzz is about having a QR code on your business card.
When meeting someone instead of handing over your business card to a person you meet, if they have a smartphone they simply scan the qr code via their phone and have all your details in an instant.
What do you think? Of course as a Graphic Designer I think the design of your business card tells you so much about yourself, but on the other hand how many of us have a drawer stuffed full of business cards that we never look at.
I found a really good Code Generator that includes all the information you would have on a business card.
So I am off to get some more business cards printed, although I may play safe and have some with and some without it!
When people talk about nice logos, invariably they refer to national and international logos, and I am not denying they are very good but also very expensive.
I have decided to showcase some nice logos that I have seen locally that I really like. Whilst I have no idea how much they cost, I would imagine they would have been a lot cheaper to produce than the BP Logo!
Here is my selection.
I noticed this logo on the side of a van in a supermarket carpark, it is for Adrian Nicholls who is a builder – really clever, nice and simple but says what he does.
Another one on the house theme, this time for Hus Estate Agents. I like the roof on the “u”, but I also like the choice of font for the Hus.
Another one using the roof, but this time it utilises the “l’s” to reflect the hill on which it is situated.
I really love this logo, they have also combined it with a lime green colour scheme, which is really bright and vibrant. The shop and bakery have all been revamped in line with the new logo and I think it looks super, however they have managed to keep a feeling of the old logo, as these two photographs show.
It is not easy to design logos that really work, because the logo has to work across such a wide range of media, including print, on-line and signage, to mention a few.
Last night was the official launch of the Book – The Condurro Story 1939–2010, produced by Girlguiding Cornwall to record the history of their campsite at Condurro.
The book was produced by the Committee responsible for Condurro, along with Senior Section Guides from the Falmouth and Penryn area.
The content was gathered from Girlguiding Cornwall Archive’s, The Cornish Studies Library as well as recording personal memories of happy times spent at the campsite. A cd-rom has also been produced to accompany the book, where more of these memories can be heard.
Jane Bennett was the overall project manager and the project was given financial support from The Young Roots part of the Heritage Lottery Fund. This has enabled a high quality final product to be produced and certainly I felt privileged to be part of recording the history of such a special place.