Author: Regine Wilber

Laying down the branding law for Burley Law

February 14, 2024

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Burley Law Take a peek at my work with Burley Law! Together, we’ve jazzed up their brand identity, whipped up a sleek website, sparked engaging social media conversations, designed some cool merchandise,...

The art of patience: mastering time for better creative thinking

February 14, 2024

Creative thinking in a Birmingham graphic design studio

Have you ever felt that rush of excitement when you’re handed a new design brief? That sense of eager anticipation mixed with a dash of creative anxiety as you ponder over where to begin? If...

Restaurant Branding for The Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars

May 27, 2023

Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars Branding and menu / collateral design four distinctive F&B outlets at Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars showcasing our commitment to exceptional hospitality design,...

Let’s talk fibres

April 13, 2021

Your brand connects with your customers in many different ways. Some call it touch points, but simply-put it’s all the varied ways someone will come across your brand in the mind, online and...

Your web tech wrapped up

March 19, 2021

It’s geeky time again! Let’s talk web tech… If you have a website, you probably know there’s a lot more to the site itself. My clients won’t notice most of these extra things to think about when...

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021

Today is international women’s day. It’s a day we always observed and celebrated back in the former East when I was a child. Our pen pals from Russia would send these amazing cards for...

Hotel marketing ideas for the way out of the pandemic

February 23, 2021

Hotel marketing ideas may not be on your mind right now… but with the new timeline to opening up announced, it’s going to be critical in the coming weeks to secure much-needed bookings....

What’s a media kit and how do I create one?

February 7, 2021

A media kit (or press kit) is a package of information relevant for the distribution of information for companies, charities or other organisations. They include facts about the people involved, the...

Marketing Ideas for Hotels and Hospitality in 2021

January 16, 2021

While 2020 took every business by surprise, it revealed a new shift in customer trends that are likely to continue in 2021. As we head into the New Year, now is the time for your hotel or hospitality...

hospitality marketing

Kiss your brand

January 14, 2021

K.I.S.S. stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. It’s a a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy back in 1960. If you are a linguist, you may just need to ignore the obvious flaw in the abbreviation…...

Brand colour swatches and why they matter

November 29, 2020

Have you ever wondered why so many companies of a certain type use a certain colour in their brand identity? And how it gives you a funny feeling when you see one that just doesn’t kinda fit? Most...

brand, brand advertising, brand design, Brand Identity, brand identity design, Brand Strategy, Branding

Tech, branding and ducks

November 22, 2020

I just mentioned a paragraph I have in our brand strategy workbook to my other half, techy Steve, and he taught me yet another new thing. Duck typing! (“Duck typing in computer programming is an application...

Brand Strategy, programming

What is a logo?

November 12, 2020

A brand is not a logo. A logo is not a brand. “A logo is the gateway to the brand.”Milton Glaser Weirdly, in some ways the brand used to be a logo. Going back to the origins of branding, when...

logo

What is an aperture

November 1, 2020

Both in photography and in typography, the aperture describes an opening. In cameras, its size correlates with how much light goes in. In typography, it’s closely related to what’s called a counter. As...

anatomy of type

Serif Typefaces and their lesser-known sub classes

October 25, 2020

A serif is not a serif, so there are sub categories, pointing to the origin of each class. Serifs can be categorised as Venetian, Old Style (Geralde), Transitional, New Transitional, Modern, Slab Serif...

serif fonts

New brand identity for High-end Tour Operator Luxury Vacations UK

October 10, 2020

Luxury Vacations UK had outgrown its existing brand we developed for the client over a decade ago. The timing was planned to coincide with a major re-work of the tour operator’s website, as well...

Colours, colours, colours

October 7, 2020

Fast becoming one of my favourite colour palette sites is http://colormind.io (Yes, they should have an ssl certificate, but I don’t think they will steal your date – you can just use it...

The Woodlands Suite

October 7, 2020

The private wing of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham needed a completely new website. The site is based on Joomla and uses our fully customisable page builder to create a new, clean and...

Existential holiday reads

September 15, 2020

If cats could talk, would they cry… by Anatoli Scholz I kept the book for my holiday so I could read it cover to cover. I mean – if cats could talk… I have so many thoughts about...

Brand management in a locked down new world

September 14, 2020

175 days into life with Corona, businesses are getting used to developing ways of dealing with the volatility and uncertainty the pandemic keeps throwing at us. Surveying smaller companies we work...

SVG files and Joomla – a workaround

June 22, 2020

SVGs are super exciting especially if you are working with platforms that allow animating strokes and controlling the svg file with css. It’s also really convenient to have super sharp logos...

joomla, svg, web development

A little trick when you hit a locked installer in Akeeba

June 10, 2020

If you ever need to restore a backup with Akeeba Kickstart, follow their documentation video from their website and before you click ‘run the installer’, read this: If you have ever...

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Screen caps magic

June 5, 2020

Whether you are trying to put together a presentation or you want to share a bit of news in an email – or you are trying to present some creative work to a client – screen caps are super useful to...

screen cap, shortcuts

First day on the bus

June 2, 2020
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I’ve just received some lovely photos from the school bus’ first trip to Mukwashi Trust School. All the kids are wearing masks because of the covid crisis, but they have a place to go to...

charity, graphic design, signage, vehicle design

A shortcut to building bridges

June 1, 2020

When you are in photoshop and want to just quickly open bridge to look at a bunch of pictures you may want to use, it’s a little shortcut that comes in handy: Command + Shift + O. It’s...

bridge, shortcuts

The marvellous Mrs Hollingsworth

May 30, 2020

This has been one of my favourite projects recently. Creatives are like doctors – the worst patients. I am not sure if I read this somewhere or if it’s an unspoken gospel. For me, I know how...

brand design, Brand Strategy, Design, website design

How to add free apple fonts

May 28, 2020

Apple has released more free fonts as part of Catalina. You can see the complete list of fonts to download here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210192 When you get to your FontBook app and...

Apple, Catalina, free fonts

Mukwashi Trust School

May 26, 2020
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Design for charity It’s not always about the money. And when a client of mine mentioned his new charity project, helping a school in Zambia, it felt right to be involved. With branding and...

charity, education, marketing

Fooled by Progress

April 20, 2020

Complex problems require simple solutions. This book, by acclaimed British journalist Ross Butler, explains why. This book is a survival guide for humanity. It explores the concept that progress...

Corona Crisis help for directors of Limited Companies

April 8, 2020

Martin Lewis has looked at how limited companies may be able to get help from the government. Key points: If you are having PAYE, you can go on the furlough scheme. You CAN’T work...

Clap for our carers

March 26, 2020

Annemarie Plas shared the idea for an event that united the nation. 8pm was the time to make some noise for our carers – 2m apart of course – to show how thankful we are for all they are doing right...

What brands do in a crisis

March 25, 2020

Another day in isolation, another day where brands are being made or broken by how they react, how they communicate and how they connect to us during this outbreak. I get really annoyed now by all...

attitude, brand loyalty, brand management, Brand Managment, brand message

How to stay sane working from home

March 24, 2020

If you are usually working in an office, motivated by your team and the structure put in place by your managers, working from home can be quite a daunting experience. It can be easy to feel that...

attitude, business, corona crisis

Working from home – with your significant other

March 23, 2020

We are living in crazy times right now, that’s for sure. No matter what your working circumstances are, it’s going to be a wild ride before anything gets to be the new normal. One thing...

attitude, business, corona crisis

How to lock down documents

March 20, 2020

Amidst the current corona crisis, one of my clients needed a quick fix to communicate some potentially scary documents with their staff without alerting the public, and they didn’t have an intranet. We...

coronacrisis, workarounds

Admin? The stick of creative work.

February 28, 2020

I filled in a business health check and one of the questions was how you cope with admin. It’s the dread of most businesses – it has to be done, someone has to do it, and sadly, being a...

What is a masterpage in PowerPoint?

February 27, 2020

It’s also called a slide master in Microsoft PowerPoint, and it’s basically the slide that sits above all the other slides and as such it controls the visual elements of the theme, such...

master pages, master slide, PowerPoint

How do I create a new blank presentation in PowerPoint

February 27, 2020

Press CTRL + N 😊 This short cut also works in most other adobe and Microsoft software – Word, Excel, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop etc…

PowerPoint

A new website for Interior Designer James Charles

February 28, 2019

James contacted us with the need for a new website, initially featuring his past successes, soon to be enhanced with his current projects in the world of architecture and design. James has been...

New brand identity for Hemp’s CBD Oils

February 28, 2019

Just finished – a new brand identity for natural food supplement business Hemp’s CBD Oils. This has been a great project to work on, not just because I know the client from other projects...

Stonebridge Talent Branding

October 16, 2018

September has been a really productive and busy month – perhaps businesses are getting their ducks lined up for the winter months or perhaps it’s a general vibe of wanting to get things done after...

Luxury Holidays in the UK – Can I book now please?!

September 10, 2018

We’ve been working with Luxury Vacations for more than 12 years now – rather shocking how time flies! The team have always been amazing in a graphic design sense, appreciating and demanding good...

Brochure Design

Layers of Deception

July 15, 2018

This has been a great project. We’ve been working with Leo James, a UK crime author, to create his latest book cover design for his crime thriller Layers of Deception. We created a ‘layered’...

book design, graphic design