Small project: Vital Accessories

As well as logo design, branding, publicity and unique solutions to a problem, I also do some run of the mill work including promotional flyers, which I think is worth mentioning here. I worked with Vital Accessories to produce an A5, colour, double sided flyer that promotes their mobile phone repair workshop.

Vital Accessories flyer (Front)
Vital Accessories flyer (Front)
Vital Accessories flyer (Back)
Vital Accessories flyer (Back)

The flyer attempts to break out of the trap that many of these type of flyers fall into, with oversized type and far too much information to the point where it’s overwhelming for the viewer. Instead, this flyer strips the information down to a few bulletpoints with some relevant images to go with it. A simple project, but one which will hopefully help Vital Accessories to gain more business than its rivals.

If you’d like to work together to produce something similar, just get in touch and I can help you promote your business too.

The Final Countdown

Last night I began the work of uploading all of my artwork to my newly designed site. It didn’t take as long as I thought, which is a good thing. It means that adding a single piece of work in the future will be quick and simple.

Once it was all uploaded, I had a quick browse through it and tried to put myself in the position of a potential client or visitor and I felt quite uncomfortable looking at my own site. I wasn’t happy with how it looked. I didn’t think that I had displayed my work well enough. After viewing it a few more times, I’m slowly coming around to the idea. It’s strange, really. I mean, I designed it exactly how it looks, no one else so in theory, I should be completely happy with it, but I’m not. I think perhaps what I’ve done is design the website as a standalone design, rather than considering what the site will be used for. I’ll see how things go. It’s certainly an improvement on my previous design, though.

The only thing left to do is point my domain name at the site, since it’s hosted somewhere differently to my current site and this is proving problematic. I should hopefully get that sorted within the next few hours. Hopefully. And then all that’s required  is a little bit of patience for the domain to take its time repointing to the site. I’m excited about finally getting it launched.

It will be a soft launch, though. It’s coming up to Christmas, which means I can’t really do much self promotional work in terms of actually getting out there and making people aware of me, simply because it’s a little too expensive to get anything printed. While at University I can use the discounted printing to my advantage. I have a few ideas on how to increase my hits to the site.

One thing that I’m hoping I’ll be able to promote along with my site is this blog, which is proving more popular than I thought it would be, considering I’ve yet to link to it anywhere. Although it’s not been advertised anywhere, I’ve currently recieved 200 hits to it, which my article on the BBC News theme tune being a good four times more popular than any other post I’ve made so far. It’s nice to see that there are people really interested in the same kinds of things that I am.