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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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New to the team

New to the team

 • News
Fallback background for blog articles

I’m delighted to be joining Vivid Creative as an Account Manager this month. They have some very interesting clients and I’m excited to get stuck in. I’ve joined Vivid from The Sheffield College where I ran an apprentice marketing agency, working with clients from local SMEs to the NHS and Sony. Recently I’ve been helping...

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2017, time to secure your website with SSL

2017, time to secure your website with SSL

 • Insights
SSL icons

Google are now showing its users a ‘Not secure’ message if a website domain is not protected with an SSL certificate. As Google Partners, we follow Google and other search engines very closely. Not only to better understand how to optimise our clients’ websites for search engine rankings, but because search engines promote (and reward) good user...

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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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Vivid shortlisted for the UX UK Awards 2016

Vivid shortlisted for the UX UK Awards 2016

 • Web & Digital
UXUK Awards 2016

We’ve been shortlisted for the UX UK Awards 2016 for Informi; an information website for small businesses by AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians). The awards recognise excellence in user-focused digital and service design and celebrate organisations that take pride in the best online and joined-up experience. We lovingly created Informi; from initiation of the brand...

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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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Pencil before pixel: The importance of sketching

Pencil before pixel: The importance of sketching

 • Insights
Sketching

The creative briefing has taken place. Full of information the ideas are starting to bubble away. So how do you get from this initial stage to producing a final logo that’s ready to be unleashed into the world? For me there’s only one place to start – pen and paper. Well technical pencil and paper...

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Four tips for aspiring designers and developers

Four tips for aspiring designers and developers

 • Insights
Noting design ideas on a pad of paper

Getting a gig in the creative industry is tough. It’s a crowded market with employers looking for multi-disciplined creatives, so standing out from the crowd can be difficult. At Vivid, we actively encourage applications and enquiries from students, graduates and developers who are new to the industry. So if that’s you, here’s a few tips...

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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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The art, formally known as Print!

The art, formally known as Print!

 • Creative design
Pictoral Meadows design

I admit, I have a guilty pleasure. Print. There is something slightly obsessive about print, which, (in my opinion) can’t be replicated digitally. I’m just not quite ready to throw out all my magazines and books in place of a mass storage device, where fumbling fingers slide up and down, right to left to turn...

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Reviving a Bed Business

Reviving a Bed Business

 • Brand creation
Revival Beds logo

When we were asked to revive a bed business we needed to sleep on it;) The next day we started on elevating their website sales, achieving 30% growth in the first month. It was a huge uplift for the business and it continues to grow. Once we had secured the online position of Revival using...

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Hanging around with a British Mountain Guide

Hanging around with a British Mountain Guide

 • News
Someone halfway up a snowy mountain

Being chosen to design and build the website for the British Mountain Guides was a privilege and a dream job for myself and Vivid. I’ve got a lot of friends who are qualified mountain guides, dating back from when I was an active climber. Yes, those days are long gone but every now and again...

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