SwearingDad Design

Challenge 7 Identity, Website and Social Media

Simon — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:17:49 +0000

I met Lee Goward whilst I worked on the iPaintPro website. In January 2011 he asked me to help him out with Challenge7 – a fund raising initiative in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Lee planned on completing seven gruelling cycling challenges over seven months, from cycling London to Paris in less than 24 hours, to riding west to east across the Pyrenees in five days as well as London to Monaco in six days!

To support this he initially wanted a simple website to help raise awareness of the challenges but after an in-depth discussion the list of requirements increased somewhat so I ended up working on the following:

Logo
From several concepts, Lee chose his favourite which I refined before producing versions suitable for professional print, web and in-house printing / presentations.

Website
Designed to be flexible, clean and modern I created and built the multi-page site www.challenge7.com which includes home page image and video slider, promotional areas, tabbed text layouts, bike GPS integration and SEO. I also arranged the domain purchase, hosting and set-up IMAP email accounts. At the time of writing I continue to update the site with relevant content and news stories as required.

Social Media
I created all the Challenge7 social media and Just Giving donation pages and added graphics were necessary along with initial content:

Facebook facebook.com/challenge7
Twitter twitter.com/Challenge_Lee
YouTube youtube.com/user/LeeGowardChallenge7
Flickr flickr.com/photos/leegowardchallenge7
JustGiving justgiving.com/challenge7

Business Cards and A5 Flyer
Utilising images I retouched from a photoshoot with Skinny Cat Photography (who I had put Lee in-touch with), I designed a set of cards for Lee and arranged for them to be printed. I also designed and copywrote an awareness raising flyer for Challenge7 and supplied repro-ready artwork for Lee.

Video
I created the original Challenge7 introductory video which is used on the website and I edited other videos Lee supplied to me, top-and-tailed them with logos, and added to his YouTube channel, website and Facebook.

Cycle Clothing and Support Van
I supplied logos in file formats as requested and made layout suggestions for the branding of Lee’s cycle clothing and the graphics on his support vehicle.

Click on a thumbnail image to view my work for Challenge7.

JoJo’s Website Featured at Themify.me

Simon — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:34:11 +0000

I was pleased to see the JoJo’s Restaurant website has been featured in the respected Themify.me showcase.

Links CRM Micro Website

Simon — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:14:33 +0000

Sue Wardle decided to set up her own customer relationships management business called Links CRM. Using a logo designed by Ellen Roelvink I designed and built a small microsite www.linkscrm.co.uk that succinctly summed up the services Sue offers her customers. A simple slide show was added on the home page for interest along with a contact form. Try as I might she wouldn’t let me add any other pages so I had to make do by artworking Sue some business cards and letterhead!

Click on a thumbnail image to view some sample pages.

TPW Print Website

Simon — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:03 +0000

I have worked with Phil Mead at TPW Print for many years and jumped at the chance to help provide them with a new content managed website that was clean, easy to navigate and would give him the opportunity to show-case some of the great print and finishing work they supply their clients. I designed and built their site www.tpwprint.co.uk and helped upload the first batch of work.

The site includes an image slide show on the home page, a contact form, categories for the uploaded work and a search function. It’s always difficult to balance fulfilling all your current client’s needs with promoting your business to new ones, however the site will allow TPW to easily and quickly upload new work, and highlights of their back catalogue.

Click on a thumbnail image to view some sample pages.

JoJo’s Meze, Meat & Fish Restaurant New Website

Simon — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:44:54 +0000

After seven years, and over 105,000 visits I felt it was time to re-design the original JoJo’s Restaurant website. There were two reasons for this, firstly I wanted to add a content management system to make it easier to update. And secondly JoJo’s had applied to the Transmanche Enterprise Network (TEN) Project run by Canterbury Council to have some parts of the site translated into French and Dutch so the new design needed to be able to handle more than one language.

The first JoJo’s website received a lot of praise for its simplicity and clarity so I endeavoured to keep the site extremely straightforward to use whilst making it stylish to look at and, of course, retaining the slightly quirky text style – these are all qualities of the actual restaurant and I felt it was important these were reflected in the new site. The new website went live in early October at www.jojosrestaurant.co.uk and I guess it must have been successful as I have had to twice increase the bandwidth limit since then!

Appreciation must also go to Virginie for the French translation and Kent Union Jobshop for organising the Dutch; thanks to Annie at Interactrice for telling JoJo’s about the TEN Project and Natalia at the Local Economy Team of Canterbury Council for facilitating.

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iPaintPro Logo Website and Social Media

Simon — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:33:47 +0000

Ann King and Lee Goward set-up a company called iKooky whose mission is to create innovative products that effectively and stylishly solve everyday problems. iPaintPro, their first product, is a personal decorating assistant. They required a website that allows potential retailers and business partners to see all the benefits of the product, how it is constructed, read about the backstory, image galleries, new updates and contact details.

I designed and built them www.ipaintpro.co.uk, a site that fulfilled all their requirements and which they can update themselves. I also helped with the logo design, edited and branded videos as well as creating and branding Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages. I also created a simple holding page for their company at www.ikooky.co.uk.

Click on a thumbnail image to view some sample pages.

Fish on BBC’s Britain’s Next Big Thing

Simon — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:39:00 +0000

Watching Britain’s Next Big Thing on BBC 2 it massaged my ego to see the identity and packaging work I did for the Fish range of hair care and styling products for men being briefly featured in a panning shot. Fish was used to illustrate the point that attractive and distinctive packaging is essential to a brand’s success in the high street.

Kent and Essex IFCA Website

Simon — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:54:32 +0000

Following on from the work I did with Comscientia on the Sussex IFCA website, the design has now been rolled out to the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority site www.kentandessex-ifca.gov.uk.

GKCS PTA Flyer and Ticket Design

Simon — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:17:55 +0000

A work colleague from King of Shaves, Sam Danzine, is a member of the Great Kingshill Combined School (GKCS) PTA and they wanted a promotional double sided A4 flyer and tickets designing for their annual themed ‘Best of British Ball‘. Obviously they had a tight budget, so I designed and artworked the flyer and ticket using royalty-free stock imagery with the aim of making it strong, colourful and easy to read. I also handled the printing on behalf of the GKCS PTA.

White Mountain Games Packaging Design

Simon — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:08:44 +0000

In addition to re-purposing existing artworks for White Mountain Games, they also needed new packaging designing for several compilations they were releasing. Again this involved downloading existing game artworks and then creating new layouts featuring pack shots of the individual games along with new backgrounds and designing logos for the titles in the spirit of the original game covers. I also designed mono CD labels for each compilation.

Once approved I artworked each pack and uploaded press ready CMYK PDFs to their FTP site. I also produced thumbnail images of the covers for the White Mountain online store and made up slide-show images for the home page.

Click on a thumbnail image to view the packaging.