Unique Performance Coaching Unique Performance Coaching (UPC) is a new health and wellbeing company based in the North East, ran by two personal trainers, Gavin Cogdon and John Bowes. They are more than just personal trainers though, they strongly believe in fully educating their clients so they can become self-sufficient, from technique and nutrition, to […]

Procure Smart Who are Procure Smart? Procure Smart are a brand new B2B service switching provider with a smart future. It’s brand voice is more reminiscent of a comparison website than a utilities broker, with language like “switch smarter” and “get smart” alluding to the business’ tech related ambitions.   The Brand & Logo Procure […]

Kleara Logo & Branding You may have seen the ITV documentary John and Joe: Life After Deaf where John Bishop tells the story of how his family came to terms with his son, Joe, becoming partially deaf after a particularly bad viral infection when he was a teenager. Offscreen, John and Joe had discussed how […]

The Future Hub What is the Future hub? Great Annual Savings created a work experience scheme in partnership with Sunderland and Hartlepool colleges. Students of all ages could gain real world experience in a work place, improving their communication skills and self confidence in the process.   How did I help? I was tasked with […]

Is it worth paying for a professional web designer to make my website? I learnt to write code when I was working at a marketing agency in Manchester. I was the only designer based in a room with five developers who all had degrees in computer science. I was in awe of what they could […]

Spennymoor Town FC Web Design | Social Media | Print Design | Signage Being the big football fan that I am, when I was asked to redesign and rebuild the website of Spennymoor Town FC (STFC) I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. Now I know some of you reading this may be thinking […]

Great Annual Savings Web Design | Print Design | Ad Campaigns When I first joined Great Annual Savings (GAS) I was brought in to simply create graphics for the website as well as any print collateral they needed. However, when I found out they were spending £30k a year on the website and it would […]

Logo Design & Brand Development Top Tips Examples of Work Get in Touch   Imagine you’re going to a job interview, a first date, or meeting your other halves parents for the first time, what would you wear? Shorts and footy top? Of course not, why? Because first impressions matter – a lot! Now think […]

The Professional Web Design Process Following a detailed and well explained web design and development process speeds up my workflow and thus saves you money and save everyone involved a lot of headaches. Hopefully once the process has been explained you’ll feel much more confident and comfortable with the services you’re paying for. This article […]

Tailor your website content Designing a website without content is like designing a tailor made suite without the measurements. The finished product may look great but if nothing fits, you’re going to look stupid! There are many articles debating which is more important, your websites content or the design of your website. The truth is, […]

SEO Tips for Clients If you’re in the process of having a new website designed and made for you, and you’re a little confused about SEO and what it is/does. Don’t worry, a lot of it is common sense and I’ll give you a few quick tips to consider when planning content for your website.

JD Williams Web Design | UX Design | UI Design Overview I was the Senior Web Designer for JD Williams. My main responsibility was to make sure the brand guidelines translated well in an online presence, resulting in a consistent cross channel look and feel. I worked with the offline design team to communicate any […]

Fashion World Web Design When I joined JD Williams in January 2013 one of my first major tasks was to redesign the Fashion World e-commerce website for the Autumn / Winter 2013 season. In the Fashion World brand pack it describes how Fashion World is a down-to-earth, straight talking, no nonsense brand. I wanted to reflect […]

Joe Deen Web Design | Logo Design Joe Deen are a new multimedia design company based in Greater Manchester, who specialise in video production but offer many design services. Due to a very busy schedule they came to me and asked if I could help lighten the load. I was more than happy to help […]

Prime Chiropractic Web Design | Print Design Prime Chiropractic were opening a new practice in Grantham, Lincolnshire. The owner, Mark Jessop, got in touch with me asking for a leaflet design and a new website. As well as creating the leaflet and website I also gave his logo a make-over. Previously the website was built […]

JD Sports Web Design | Email Design I spent 2 weeks as a freelance web designer for JD Sports to help out during their busy Christmas period. During my time there I designed and developed promotional web pages for their JD Heroes campaign and Christmas Most Wanted campaign, including promotional web banners for their website […]

New Business Cards? I’ve recently had my own business cards printed and this inspired me to write an article about the design process and the options available to you. Content Comes First Content is king so make sure you have all the relevant information and corporate messages you want to communicate before we start the design […]

Illustrator Screencast I’ve been wanting to do a screen-cast for sometime now and I’ve finally had the chance. The video shows me using Adobe Illustrator to create some wall art for upstairs in the First Internet office. I was limited to 5 minutes recording time which was almost enough! Watch the video and see the finished artwork […]

Andrew Swift Web Design | Logo Design Andrew Swift is a modern, cutting edge hospitality recruitment consultancy that has redefined the role of the agency, bringing a uniquely tailored approach to each and every single client and candidate enquiry that they receive – and they chose me to design their logo and website. Andrew Swift […]

Children’s Adventure Farm Web Design | Illustration The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust had been a client of First Internet’s for quite a while, and their website needed a revamp. Since they’re such a great charity we didn’t hold back on the creativity and cool features, such as; the flying Twitter bird, the interactive map of […]

Simplicity New Look Web Design Simplicity came to First Internet wanting us to redesign their website. I kept the design as simple and minimalist as I could, obviously taking inspiration from the name of the company. This is my original design, but the client made a few amends of their own, to see the final […]

AIDA in Web Design Ever since 1897 when E. St. Elmo Lewis started to contemplate about advertising principles we’ve abided by his four step process of selling a product or service to potential customers, attract attention, maintain interest, create desire and get action, which has been turned into the marketing acronym AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire […]

Better, Safer Nights Out Multi-Channel Advertising Campaign Problem People who can’t handle their drink and spoil nights out for other people. Growing health problems related to binge-drinking. The Government raising taxes on alcohol. Using passports/driving licenses as I.D. and then loosing them.    Solution A drinking license for individuals. You will need a drinking license […]

PUMA – Olympic Games Concept The main concept behind my PUMA campaign is related to meditation. People throughout China practice meditation as part of their religion so therefore I thought it would be an appropriate theme. The way I related meditation with PUMA was through their Sports Couture clothing range and the idea is that […]

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Anti-Bullying Illustration | University Work Brief Outline Create an activity pack to promote anti-bullying that children will receive free inside popular children’s magazines and comic books. The pack will contain the following; a paper toy character that the child can to make themselves, a blank template of the net so the child can design their […]

Portland Wine Web Design Portland Wine is an independent wine merchant with five stores (with a sixth on its way) across the North West.  Selling fine wines from around the world, along with spirits, glassware and cigars, Portland Wine called upon First Internet to design a site that would reflect the merchant’s impressive product selection and […]

Sarah Stevenson Web Design This was my very first WordPress site that I both designed and built (with help from the guys at First Internet). A bit of a gamble considering the person who I was creating for was Sarah Stevenson – the World Tae Kwon Do Champion! I was worried in case she didn’t […]

NOA Energy Solutions NOA Solutions primarily offers advice on and installation of solar panels, alongside asbestos surveys and advice and information on the government initiative, The Green Deal. They did not have an online presence and approached First Internet to design and develop their website from scratch. The site features a ‘solar calculator’ to help […]

Nailease Web Design | Email Design One of the first projects I did at First Internet was creating an interactive and eye-catching e-commerce website for Nailease. They had invented a  brand new beauty product and needed to appeal to young and trendy females aged 18 – 30. As part of ongoing work I designed and built […]