11th July 2009
In a detour from our regular “Chippy Friday” lunchtime taste sensation, this week we picked up a couple of Chip Shop Awards last night! One for Best Stationery Design and one for Invent Your Own Category, both in collaboration with Ian Hogg.
With a night of befriending bouncers and getting a little too intimate with the chips after the awards show behind him, Andy managed to drag himself and the trophies back from London this morning so we could all wallow in the majesty of the handmade yellow beauties and set up lighthearted photos of them with our usually-sofa-bound stuffed toys.
You can check out the full list of winners on the Chip Shop Awards site.
17th April 2009
After making a great impression with our work for Manchester United Soccer Schools, we were invited to pitch for, and subsequently won the contract for the 2009 Manchester United Premier Cup (MUPC) website. The MUPC brings together talented young footballers from around the globe to show off their skills internationally and to compete with the best young players in the world.
Creative Spark have worked together with MUPC’s in-house design team to further develop and refresh the MUPC brand for the newly-launched website. Alongside the branding and visual design, we needed to create a site that would better the already high technical standards of the existing one, and continue to improve its placement in search engines.
Feedback on the new site, launched two weeks ago, has been immensely positive from both the end users and from MUPC themselves, and the traffic to the site has noticed a marked increase in traffic of over 100%.
12th February 2009
Continuing Creative Spark’s flourishing relationship with Manchester United Soccer Schools, we were asked to design a new “Player Journal”; a booklet given to kids on the Soccer Schools courses to record their course progress, get written feedback from the coaches, taken down notes and messages from friends, and read up on skills tips and nutritional information.
The journal called for a fun, young, fresh approach that would appeal to the relatively wide-ranging age range of eight to eighteen year olds and would carry as little resemblance to a schoolbook as possible. We combined a faux-leather embossed cover with uncoated, recycled inner pages, filled with hand-drawn doodle illustrations.
20th January 2009
After the huge success of Soulmate and their Creative Spark-designed website, the company was ready to branch out into other avenues and again approached us to develop their online presence. Their original website didn’t have the right feel for where Soulmate was moving, they needed to reposition themselves as fresh, healthy and approachable.
We have created a clean and friendly site split into a number of key service areas such as food and fitness, that should give Soulmate a new lease of life moving forward hand-in-hand with their recent printed material.
The initial response the new site has been excellent, with a significant increase in visitors and much improved search engine rankings due to the attention paid to web standards and a well-structured navigation.
24th July 2008
The nominations have been released and our video ‘The Move’ has been nominated for the Dadi Awards in the ‘Best In-House Website or Campaign’ category. The winner will be announced at the awards on the 31st October. Fingers crossed!