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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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Vivid Awarded Google Partner Status

Vivid Awarded Google Partner Status

 • Web & Digital
Fallback background for blog articles

Vivid Creative are pleased to announce that they have been awarded official Google Partner status. With only 5,000 Google Partners worldwide, this accolade is Google’s acknowledgment that Vivid meet the very highest of standards in paid search and display advertising methodology. The status was awarded following a 60-day best-practice and customer satisfaction assessment and completion...

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Vivid Achieve Recommended Agency Register Status

Vivid Achieve Recommended Agency Register Status

 • News
vivid studio shot

We are pleased to announce that Vivid has once again achieved Recommended Agency Register Status and are highly recommended by our clients. The Register is designed to help companies looking for a marketing partner find agencies that have been highly rated and reviewed by their clients. To be ‘Recommended’ agencies require at least three high ratings in a given service category in last...

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Jumping in the saddle at Vivid, my journey from University to agency

Jumping in the saddle at Vivid, my journey from University to agency

 • Insights
La Squadra kit designs

Fresh out of Uni Back in April this year doomsday was fast approaching, university was coming to an end. This institution had been my life for the past 5 years – it was all I had come to know and now I was heading into the unknown. Half of me was excited about the start of...

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Marketing in Europe & Beyond

Marketing in Europe & Beyond

 • Web & Digital
The earth from space

It’s not every day in the life of an agency that you get searched, found and selected by international clients. But that’s exactly what our new website and re-brand has bought to Vivid in 2016. We’ve been working in the Netherlands with a multinational company called Krehalon who are part of the $1bn turnover Kureha...

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