Category: Branding

Supporting your business during Covid-19

4/15/2020

Looking at your business's marketing and design during Covid-19

We hope you are staying fit and well as we find ourselves in unprecedented times, a global and invisible threat to our livelihoods, communities and loved ones. Like most small businesses, AVD has had to adapt quickly to be able to offer a high quality service to our customers. As a positive by-product of having more time on our hands, why not use this time to 'reset' your business aims / design / marketing. Here are some ideas:

You could use this time of Covid-19 to review your business:

Write a growth plan: where are you going, how will you get there?
Write a marketing plan: our friends at Obsidian Content Creation recently shared the importance of continuing to market in these tough times.
Logo design: we are specialists in this (see some recent examples below), just get in touch
Order print of leaflets / business cards production and delivery to an address of your choice (see some recent examples below)
Review / rewrite your business plan
Research new customers
Use Office for National Statistics to back up your business's claims
If you use conferencing apps, why not have a pull up banner made with your branding on to use as a backdrop instead of pots and pans in your kitchen! (see below)
Apply for funding available to you (this is the kind of thing WE tend to put off during 'normal' working times
Review your website: we can support with this
Our sister company Real Arts Workshops has launched a web page full of creative activities that AVD has designed for families to do during Covid

Creative (and free) things to do with your family during Covid-19

Free resources family real arts workshops

Free art resources during Covid

Branded pull up banner backdrops for video conference calls

If you are delivering training or attending business meetings using video apps, why not order a branded pull up banner from £70 for a more professional look?

video conference branded pull up banner wolverhampton black country

Packaging design for a shaving oil

Branding for a specialist education tuition company

A nurturing logo symbolising the growth of knowledge through high quality education, simply denoted in three strands of the business, Home, Online and School

Branding for a men's clothing brand

A highly personalised and illustrated logo for this brand from which certain graphic elements are pulled to create a fabric print

Logo for The Dandy English Fox clothing brand

Fabric design

Logo and stationery

letterhead reasonable cost free quote business stationery

Logo, business cards, leaflets, social media and vehicle graphics

Vehicle graphics design transport company wolves

Stationery, branding and socal media

Stationery business card letterhead tech repair codsall

Stationery design for a local tech repair company

Logo for a tech repair company in Codsall

Logo, stationery and magazine advertising

Business cards for Wolverhampton based hairdressers

Magazine advert

Other logos / identities

Logo for a local loft conversion company

Branding for a podcast radio drama

Branding for a construction consultancy

Website design

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Thank you 2018!

1/7/2019

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A look back at the major projects we undertook in 2018. Watch the short video below.

e worked on at least 15 company logos for a mix of established middle size businesses and start ups.

"Alex has done a superb job helping us redesign our logo, adverts, signage and packaging to create brand consistency." https://www.cranesbillnursery.com/

We designed business cards for many companies and sole traders and managed the printing of 20,000 business, cards and over 6,000 fliers, leaflets, brochures, folders and letterheads.

"Super creative and helpful! Great for new and current businesses that want support on design and branding." https://www.theluminaireclinic.co.uk/

Letterheads and leaflets for JST Just Straight talk

We illustrated 2 children's books and created several digital avatars for business people including the Website Inspector: https://wickedspider.com/website-audit/

We designed and produces numerous pull up banners:
"Alex Vann is my banner man. He's a creative genius." https://www.meljriley.co.uk/

One of our logos also made its way onto a men's silk pocketsquare!

We designed T-shirts for local businesses, featured in a magazine and also on a poster for Q3 academy where Alex attended as a child.

Alex also found time to complete a few portraits including his first ever digital drawing on iPad, using an Apple Pencil (see cat drawing below).
See Alex's separate site for more of this sort of work https://www.alexvann.net/art.html

Oil painted portrait for a private customer

Pencil drawing of beautiful Miya

Digital illustration of a cat (Ziggy) made using iPadPro, ProCreate app and Apple Pencil

We are grateful and thank you for all the individual and organisations who supported our growth and in particular SPEED start up and Access to Business

Also thanks to all the networking event organisers, including Wolverhampton Business Forum

Here's to 2019!

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It's all about branding - recent work from the AVD studio

8/25/2018

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Cranesbill Nursery logo design

2018 has been a busy year for AVD in terms of branding SMEs.

Some of these companies are established and looking for a fresh look and others are start-ups, needing a professional identity to be able to compete with other companies in their market place.

Below is a gallery of a few of these projects and their application in the 'real world' - signage, vehicle livery, business stationery, merchandise items and packaging.

While I totally agree with new businesses keeping costs / outgoings to a minimum - some things are better delegated to specialists (like us). As I always say: