2011 – Thank you to our clients and suppliers

Creating Media — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:47:41 +0000

A huge thank you from the team at Creating Media to our many clients, suppliers and friends from 2011.

Creating Media have had a terrffic year with sales in significant double digit growth which can mainly be attributed to referalls from existing clients, networking and website referrals.

Creating Media have designed and developed a record number of websites and ecommerce sites this year in addition for clients across South Wales from Chepstow, Monmouth, Newport, Caerphilly, Torfaen, Cardiff, Cwmbran across to Bridgend, Swansea and beyond. In addition we have developed sites for clients such as Bee Clear in Nottingham, Innovate IP in Bristol and clients in London, Birmingham and the South West.

Some of our favourite logo and branding projects took place in 2011, the Creating Media team enjoy working with start up businesses to ensure that their brand identity provides a great start for their new venture. Taking established businesses through re brands is a delicate balance of respecting the existing brand identity whilst tweaking the visual to reflect the years ahead.

Thank you to all of our clients, we look forward to working with you again 2012!

And thank you to all of our trade suppliers who have helped deliver the excellent service our clients enjoy – we look forward to doing more business with you in the New Year.

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Herbert Lewis, Chepstow launches new brand identity

michelle — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:05:25 +0000

Herbert Lewis in Chepstow have launched their new logo identity following a re brand by the Monmouthshire based Creating Media team.

The re brand represents the established department store in the heart of Chepstow and through the use of colour and fonts represents tradition but with a modern feel.

The project included a new logo design communicated through signage, stationery, letterheads, business cards, marketing materials and store visuals.

Dee Griffth, Managing Director of Herbert Lewis, Chepstow is delighted with the new look and has launched a marketing campaign with Phil Terrett from The Third Stage to enhance the brand awareness with their valued store card holders. Phil Terrett and Creating Media have worked together to produce branded materials including Bag For Life shopping bags in the distinctive Herbert Lewis purple, a Christmas card book and various other initiatives.

Creating Media are delighted to be involved in such an important local branding project. Herbert Lewis and Creating Media met through the Chepstow Chamber of Commerce.

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Shire Hall Monmouth website goes live

michelle — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:57:01 +0000

Have you visited the new Shire Hall, Monmouth website yet?

Creating Media were commissioned to create the look and feel for this important local website that profiles the historic Shire Hall, Agincourt Square in Monmouth. Shire Hall has had an extensive renocation project to reinstate it’s position as a major Monmouth attraction. Shire Hall is now also home to the Monmouth Tourist Information Centre.

Creating Media worked with Mike Booth, General Manager to design the website visuals, logo redraw, corporate branding pack, photography, stationery, signage, printed marketing materials and website content.

The new website will be updated with forthcoming events and community information to ensure that local people and visitors to Monmouthshire are kept fully aware of what is happening at Shire Hall.

To view the website please click here or get in touch with the Shire Hall team.

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Make It Happen Monday launches with Creating Media in Cardiff

michelle — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:20:48 +0000

Make It Happen Monday, a new venuture from national business networking organisation 4 Networking launched at The Village Hotel, Cardiff on 21st November 2011.

Michelle Dalley, Director of Creating Media was the facilitator for the launch event and will be running the meetings once a month in Cardiff, South Wales.

Make It Happen Monday encourages you to get the best possible start to your business week. In just 3 hours, gain energy + motivation AND relevant new info + skills AND an action plan to apply them STRAIGHTAWAY. Motivation + Action = Results.

Turbocharge your week and your business with Make It Happen Monday. It’s new, different and inspirational. You’ll leave with greater clarity and purpose and a transformed level of belief in what you can achieve. If you are on Twitter please follow the #MIHM hashtag for feedback and details on future meetings.

To read feedback from the launch meeting click here.

To book in for the next event please click here.

Testimonials from the Make It Happen Monday Cardiff launch event:

“Michelle pulled together an incredible launch for Make it Happen Monday, attracting a high calibre of attendees and organising a fabulous event at short notice and a brief that was light on detail until very late in the preparation stage. In true Michelle style, everything was impeccably organised, with attention to detail and yet a high degree of flexibility to accommodate the inevitable last minute changes. A dynamic powerhouse who truly makes it happen any day of the week.”

Lesley White, Marketing Angel

“Loved being with Michelle at the launch of Make It Happen Monday. You can totally rely on her to get the group on track and send us all away feeling energised and ready for the week. Totally reliable, totally awesome, great to be there with you on this one. “

Cathy Presland, Business Strategist And Growth Expert

To book in for the next event please click here.

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Bee Clear Windows Nottingham

michelle — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:33:11 +0000

Creating Media are delighted to announce that the website for Bee Clear Windows based in Nottingham, Leicester, Burton on Trent and Derby, has now gone live.

The team at Creating Media were commissioned to design the creative and brand identity for this important business. The client wanted a logo design that was visually strong and would work across various medias including the website, vehicle graphics, printed materials and signage.

Bee Clear windows specialise in understanding their individual clients’ requirements. The team of technicians (not sales people!) can then recommend the best solution from a choice of many options including replacement glass, UPVC, aluminium and wooden frames.

Creating Media look forward to working with Bee Clear again in the future, as a business that also has credible environmental ethics, they are an absolute pleasure to do business with.

Testimonial for Creating Media from Jason Rodd, Managing Director of Bee Clear:

“If everyone was as easy and reliable to deal with then I would have a lot more time for fishing! Thanks Michelle, Jason” August 24, 2011

For further testimonials please click here.

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Creating Media create logo and tattoo Design for Brad Burton, The Business t shirt brand

Creating Media — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:15:49 +0000

Creating Media were delighted to be commissioned by the energetic Brad Burton, director of the 4 Networking the UK's largest joined up business network. Brad Burton is launching a new T Shirt range that will be worn as part of his own personal branding, these t shirts will also be available to purchase on line. Brad had previously commissioned three other design companies, but none had achieved the design that Brad was looking for. The fourth call was to Creating Media who rose to the challenge and met with Brad to gain the design brief. The final results can be seen below and Brad has now had the designs tattoed onto his forearms, t shirts to follow. Brad's feedback has been fantastic, you can follow his tweets (and many images) on Twitter.

Brad's testimonial for Creating Media "She NAILED it {The Business - my tshirt brand design} after a 25min hurried brief IN ONE. Let me put this in context i'd worked with 3 of the netwprks best designers for over 6 months. Yet a workable design eluded us. special design, special company. I'm sold. Expect more work. YOUR TEAM ROCK"

Creating Media joined 4 Networking over two years ago and over that period Michelle Dalley, Sales and Marketing Director, has built trusted relationships with clients, suppliers and friends. Michelle is the Area Leader covering the fantastic networking groups for SME's that run in Chepstow, Monmouth, Newport and Cwmbran. Through the 4 Networking membership Michelle has built a profile and reputation for producing excellent web and graphic design work, with over 70 clients across the network, UK wide. Please click here to see the testimonials provided by clients. To find out more about 4 Networking please contact Michelle.

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Michelle Dalley’s shiny new 600gsm business cards with QR code

Creating Media — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:52:13 +0000

Today is an exciting day in the Creating Media design studio. The highly anticipated new cards have arrived for Michelle Dalley to give out frequently and frivolously across the very regular networking she does in South Wales and Bristol.

Michelle, as you may already know, loves business networking. This is a very good thing as over the past two years we have gained many new clients for our logo, brand and web design across Monmouthshire, Cardiff, Newport and Bristol.

Michelle’s shiny new business cards are the thickest on the market at 600gsm and never fail to impress. Being a design studio we have, of course, added a few tweaks to the last design. Firstly the addition of marketing as a service (done naturally, with real results and a no nonsense approach), plus a QR code taking the recipient off to Michelle’s own web page with a cheeky photograph and contact details.

Creating Media have been supplying these 600gsm business cards to clients for the past six months and the repeat orders and referrals are coming through thick and fast. The standard business cards on the market are usually a maximum 350 or 400gsm quality, so these new super deluxe business cards look far superior and get great feedback. They certainly have the “flickability” quality! (made up word – but try it and see!)

Of course the part the creative team are really interested in is producing stunning deisgn work. This means communicating a clients brand identity and contact details ina memorable, professional and sometimes quirky way. Latest clients include Genesis Vehicle Solutions based in Chepstow and Abergavenny, Oakley Solar Solutions in Newport and The Chepstow Cupcake Company.

Michelle will be handing these cards out from tomorrow at business networking in Monmouth. If you see her, ask for one and let us know what you think!

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Business networking in South East Wales

michelle — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:27:45 +0000

Creating Media are huge fans of business networking across South Wales and the South West. We are constantly asked where we get clients from and of course we get lots of leads through our website but the majority of our clients come through business networking and referrals.
Gone are the days when business networking meant standing in a room full of people pretending they were very important, not talking to each other and checking their phone every ten seconds.

The SME market has recognised that the best way to find more business is to share contacts and buy from the people that you meet, like, know and trust!
Michelle Dalley from Creating Media is an active member of 4 Networking, a national business networking platform with over three hundred groups across the UK. Michelle joined 4 Networking over two years ago and in that time has launched the follwing groups in South East Wales – Newport, Chepstow, Cwmbran and revitalised Monmouth. The groups are run by friendly, local, well connected business people who are on hand to put new visitors and members at ease and help them make connections. With up to 40 people attending each meeting they are the most popular networking groups in the area.

The 4 Networking platform also has an active forum with over 40,000 members. Michelle has utilised both the forum and 4N meetings to develop strong friendships, relationships and clients. With introductions from people she has met, Creating Media now have clients across the UK from Peterborough, East Anglia, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Bristol, Bridgwater, Chepstow, Cardiff, Newport, Cwmbran, Monmouth, Hereford and so many more areas.
If you would like to come along to a breakfast or to find out more please get in touch.

Remember be yourself, be memorable, pay it forward and it will come back to you.

Of course networking is fantastic but you will of course need a great business card and branding to leave with the people you meet….we know someone who can help! Get in touch to find out more.

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Local company Genesis Vehicle Solutions go live with Creating Media

michelle — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:42:56 +0000

South Wales based vehicle company Genesis Vehicle Solutions have recently commissioned Creating Media to create their new logo, brand, marketing materials and website.
Peter Gabriel, Managing Director of Genesis Vehicle Solutions has offices in Abergavenny, Pontypool and Chepstow and pride themselves on service levels which can be reflected in their testimonials.

In a fiercly competitive market space Peter was certain that a strong visual identity was imperative to stand out in the crowd. The brand identity represents the three elements of the Genesis business model – Sales / Lease / Hire and Any Make, Any Model, Any Way! Peter is thrilled with the work from Creating Media and has had extremely positive feedback from clients and prospects already. Within three days of the website going live Genesis have already received enquiries.

In addition Peter commissioned a roller banner stand which has received fantastic feedback at networking events.

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Monmouth Buy Local logo design goes live!

Creating Media — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:28:34 +0000

Creating Media are delighted to be involved with the Monmouth Buy Local campaign. The campaign which represents all shops and businesses in Monmouth has been created to remind people in Monmouth and the surrounding villages that Buy Local supports small business. The campaign was launched at Shire Hall Monmouth and co-incided with the return of the market to the Shire Hall courtyard.
Jacky and Andy Knapp from the Best of Monmouth were in attendance promoting the initiative and received a lot of interest from local shoppers and retailers.
Creating Media were commissioned by the Monmouth and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce to design a visual identity logo to represent Monmouth. The graphic design of the logo includes the iconic Monnow Bridge and works with the strong visual identity of the Best of Monmouth logo design.
Michelle Dalley of Creating Media has been an active member of the Monmouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce for over two years and supports the Chamber through recruiting new members and supporting Monmouth initiatives.
Michelle recently spoke about the project “Monmouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce is of vital importance to the Monmouth community and the Buy Local, Buy Monmouth is a great example of the work carried out. Creating Media are thrilled to be the chosed graphic design company for this important local project”.

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