We’ve created a new home

We’ve created a new home

 • News
Inside the Vivid studio

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MAKING BRANDS BURN BRIGHTER – 1999 to 2019 We’re celebrating our 20th year in business by restoring one of Sheffield’s hidden industrial gems to create a sublime office for the future. Circa 1849, Wharncliffe Works was originally built for Steel & Garland, manufacturers of stoves and fire grates. Subsequently owned by...

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RAR+ Awards – Brand Strategy Winners

RAR+ Awards – Brand Strategy Winners

 • News
RAR Awards

Attending The Drum RAR Awards at Grosvenor Square, London on Tuesday 24th April was a thrilling experience. Having been shortlisted as finalists in four categories.

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RAR+ 2018 Awards Finalist

RAR+ 2018 Awards Finalist

 • Gerry's Blog
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We are delighted to have been shortlisted as finalists for four prestigious 2018 RAR+ Design Awards. Recommended Agency Register (RAR) is The Drum’s service to help brands to choose agencies, based on ratings. The RAR database contains over 55,000 ratings left by brands. Each year RAR download the ratings from the database to identify which...

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Re-branding Sport England’s National Mountain Sports Centre

Re-branding Sport England’s National Mountain Sports Centre

 • Brand strategy
Peaceful landscape

We are really happy to have been appointed by Sport England and the Mountain Training Trust to develop a brand identity for Plas y Brenin and the world-class adventure sport training it offers. We’ll be developing the brand following an extensive period of research with staff, stakeholders and customers, exploring the real value of the...

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Pyronix | HikVision

Pyronix | HikVision

 • Web & Digital
Pyronix HQ building

Vivid are pleased to announce that we have been chosen to build a new suite of multilingual websites for Pyronix, part of the Hikvision group of companies. Pyronix is a world-leading manufacturer of electronic security equipment for use in residential, commercial and industrial applications in the intruder alarm market. We will publish an update when the...

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Trust is earned!

Trust is earned!

 • Insights
Carrs Silver clever newspaper advert

As founder and managing director of Vivid, I was musing over Friday fish & chips that there are far too many people in our industry that can talk the talk, but very few who can walk the walk! From my point of view, experience is everything. That’s why we believe marketing, brand and digital skills...

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Harmony in your home

Harmony in your home

 • Brand creation
'Harmony in your Home' sign for Symphony kitchens

Symphony Group PLC is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of fitted kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture. Under license, they also manufacture the Laura Ashley Kitchen and Bedroom Collection and also have a suite of their own branded collections that are available through hand-picked, specialist, high street retailers. Symphony contacted RAR+ (The Recommended Agency Register)...

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RAR+ Recommended Agency

RAR+ Recommended Agency

 • News
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The new FY 2017 has seen us get off to a really good start! We are over the moon to see that our clients have rated us so highly by The Drum RAR+ register. From 39 individual clients surveyed, we achieved an average rating of 9.1 (91%). We are currently recommended for ten key service...

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Agency Direct Mail Campaign

Agency Direct Mail Campaign

 • Gerry's Blog
Brochure

Direct Mail Campaign for Loop Print. Loop Print wanted to let agencies know all about their brand new printing technology. It’s a game changing piece of kit so we needed to create lots of interest with a pre-installation teaser campaign in the run up to the new press opening event. The solution was a self...

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Happy New Year 2017!

Happy New Year 2017!

 • Gerry's Blog
Vivid team wearing sunglasses from Fluid Branding, wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2017! (Including Anto Heeley, Joe Taylor, Jon Dickens, Tash James, James Ayliff and Steve Dupree)

Wishing all our clients and partners a Happy New Year for 2017! We’ve started the New Year on a high with some amazing new project and client wins: Global brand roll-out for a London business that manufacturers planetary grinders for diamond tool making. Retail brand review and brand revitalisation for a leading UK kitchen manufacturer....

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Grow with Vivid + Google

Grow with Vivid + Google

 • Web & Digital
Grow Event logo

SAVE THE DATE – 13th October 2016 Vivid invites you to an exclusive search engine marketing event co-hosted with Google in Sheffield. Vivid would like to invite our customers and friends to a special event where Google will help you understand, learn and uncover the opportunities which exist to help grow your business. If you...

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Top tips for incorporating User Testing into your web budget

Top tips for incorporating User Testing into your web budget

 • Insights
Wireframing sketches

You need a website for your business, but what do your customers need? By putting yourself in your customers’ shoes (your users) you can design, build and deliver a website that works for them. Get that bit right, and it’ll work for you. Is user testing essential? Absolutely. And at some point, you’ll deliver it...

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