Ecommerce for Raglan Garden Centre website goes live

Designworld have designed, produced and maintained the website for Raglan Garden Centre for the last few years, but we are proud to have just launched a brand new online shopping facility for the garden centre as part of a complete overhaul of the website including ecommerce.

The custom-designed web shop has been produced exactly to RGC’s requirements and features a comprehensive, but easy to use, Content Management System to allow garden centre staff to maintain and update products themselves.

The fully-featured web shop also allows Raglan Garden Centre to sell tickets for their in-store events throughout the year, including the ever popular Breakfast with Santa in the lead-up to Christmas.

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The Raglan Garden Centre website online shop has recently gone live

 

Congratulations to our client Preston & Thomas on their 100th Anniversary

March 1st is a memorable date in the calendar of our client Preston & Thomas as it marks the company’s one hundredth anniversary. Plans are underway for celebrating this historic date in various ways and the special marque that we designed for P&T will feature heavily.

P&T are a leading manufacturer of bespoke chip shop frying ranges and have been based in Cardiff since they started in 1913, including having premises in the city’s famous Caroline Street at one point.

Congratulations to Simon Preston and all at Preston and Thomas.

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Designworld’s anniversary marque for Preston and Thomas

 

Hard drive security, backup, blah blah blah – until the worst happens

We all have files everywhere today – on PCs, phones, tablets, memory sticks, external hard drives and even in the cloud. And, of course, everyone has a backup of every single file they will ever need!

After over 20 years in the business, we’ve been disciplined (and a little lucky), but I suppose it was inevitable that we’d finally have a hard drive go “phut” which contained that one vital file that we needed and didn’t have saved anywhere else.

Step forward Fields Data Recovery, who have a facility conveniently located just down the M4 from us in Bridgend. Fields were able to rescue all of the data from our drive (14 DVDs worth in the end) and the crisis was averted in just a matter of days. We’d recommend them without pause, should the unthinkable ever happen to you.

Let’s hope you never, ever need this service! But just in case…

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Yes, Designworld ARE also there for the little things in life!

When we deliver a project to a client, our service doesn’t end there. We like to be thought of in the same way as any other part of our clients’ organisations – “an in-house service from an external provider” as we put it. This goes for exhibition stands, too.

This was never more true than last week when we were asked to supply at short notice a single replacement pole for a set of roll-up banners we produced back in 2010 for the School of History Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University.

Not a problem for us to get sorted and the replacement part was delivered in time for the important event in the University’s Great Hall. “Thank you for going the extra mile for getting it to us!” wrote Laura Henderson, External Affairs and Marketing Officer at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.

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Display roll-up banners produced for Cardiff University’s School of History, Archaeology and Religion

 

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New branding from Designworld for Torfaen Women’s Aid

Designworld are proud to have just created the new branding for Torfaen Women’s Aid. After submitting several logo designs to answer the brief, two final designs were put before the organisation’s staff for them to choose their favourite. Of 26 votes cast, 14 were for the chosen logo.

Helen Swain, Director of Torfaen Wonen’s Aid said “In changing times it is more important than ever that we have a quality image and gold standard reputation.

“I am really pleased with this outcome and it’s a credit to Designworld that the staff found it so hard to choose!!” Helen continued “[with] the abstract flowers you can read a few different things into it – daffodils, stars, gold stars, mother and child, raising stars… Thanks Lou, fantastic!!”

The bilingual logo will be launched shortly, with the branding to be rolled out over stationery, support literature, display material and the organisation’s website over the next few months.

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The new Torfaen Women’s Aid logo created by Designworld Ltd

 

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18 Shades of Grey, Blue, Red… a different kind of bedtime story book for graphic designers

Not sure if we’d call ourselves designer geek parents, but we do love this new book designed just for little kids which features the Pantone colour range so beloved of graphic designers everywhere.

It’s an oversized board book which aims to introduce kids to the ranges of colour within the broad titles of yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green and brown. Plus there’s a page of grays from white through to black. Each of the colour variations within the swatch is given a name which is understandable to kids such as peacock blue, cherry red and bumblebee yellow.

Now Pantone may not officially be giving their colours cute names but who wouldn’t prefer telling a client that their logo is “Shark Grey” rather than PMS 7544. For the sub set of designer geek pedant parents there’s a UK version available which spells “colours” correctly, but sticks with the American “gray” inside!

It’s not going to replace The Gruffalo as the bedtime standard in our house any time soon, but it certainly a lot of fun for us designer types. It’s available now from Amazon.

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The Pantone colour book for kids. Just don’t get me started on Bluebird Blue

 

Spice up your walls with a bit of personalised wall art from Wallspice

In between all of the other projects, we have also just launched our own new website selling personalised typographic wall art – Wallspice.

Born out of a couple of ideas we came up with for our own decoration and presents for loved ones, we thought that we could put our skills to good use by selling our work online as prints and canvases. We use the personalisation available through e-commerce to create unique artwork for every customer.

The shop has just gone live and we’re spreading the word through the wonders of social media. Have a look and see if there’s anything that takes your fancy…

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One of the exciting personalised prints available from Wallspice

 

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Our new website design for The Egmont Trust goes live

The “Go” button has been pressed and our new website design for The Egmont Trust has just gone live. The result of six months collaboration between Designworld and the team at Egmont have produced a comprehensive, but easy to use resource which we hope will prove successful for educating,, informing and fundraising.

Linnea from Egmont (a charity which aims to tackle and reverse the impact of HIV & AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa) said “a huge thank you for all your brilliant work on our new website and for being such a pleasure to work with. You’re part of the Egmont family now :-). We’ve already had rave reviews and that’s before it’s even been officially launched.”

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The Egmont Trust website


PS – Unfortunately we don’t really have a “Go” button to launch new websites, which is a shame, though it’s probably exiting enough seeing them live for the first time anyway. We do, however, have a red “panic” button purchased from the Design Museum a few years ago. Luckily we’ve never needed than one (ahem).

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New website design: Structural steelwork has never looked so sexy!

Just as well we’re not a superstitious bunch as this Friday 13th saw the “go-live” of the second website design we have produced for Rowecord Engineering, the structural steelwork company based beneath the famous transporter bridge on the banks of the river Usk in Newport.

The new website is for their “Rowebeam” product, a piece of software which the company has developed in-house which helps their customers with the analysis and design of steel beams with web openings.

The new website features an installation photo gallery amongst many other resources and also allows Rowecord customers to register and then download the software to their own PCs to use on their projects. The comprehensive back-end that we developed for Rowecord allows administrators to keep track of all registered users and software downloads. This is the major second website we have produced recently for Rowecord, following the successful launch of the main company website in 2011.

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Rowebeam software helps produce the web openings in steel I beams

 

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New logo design unveiled for local welsh-medium nursery

We were pleased to recently complete a new logo design for Cylch Meithrin Grangetown a’r Bae, the Welsh-medium nursery based in Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff.

The logo had to be bright and colourful so that it appealed to kids and staff alike. It also had to work on the hoodies and sweatshirts which were going to be produced for the nursery- and these were going to be available in four different colours.

Luckily we were up to the challenge and produced a bright, fun logo design which all of the staff and children seem to love. Can’t wait for the summer when they’ll all be seen toddling around the Bay on their trips out, hopefully proudly sporting their new colours.

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“Lliwgar a hwyliog!”

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