Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

September 1st, 2010

Ahhh, September…

BEN AINSLIE – From HA Calender, Sept 2010

Born in 1977 he began sailing at the age of 8 with his family in Restronguet, Cornwall. Within a few years he was winning sailing championships not only locally but at international level, culminating in a silver medal at his first Olympic Games in 1996, aged 19. Going on in following years to win Olympic Gold not once, but three times making him Britain’s most successful Olympic sailor ever! Ben has continued to achieve success as a world class sailor, receiving many awards and accolades including a CBE, ISAF World Sailor of the Year three times and British Yachtsman of the Year five times.

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August 11th, 2010

Truro High School website launched

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new website for Truro High School. Following a complete redesign, the site has all the information associated with a busy school along with smooth functionality that allows the client to be in full control through a custom CMS.

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July 1st, 2010

July already…

FROM OUR 2010 HA CALENDAR – JULY

Richard Trevithick
Born 1771 in Camborne. He was an inventor and mining engineer, his most significant success was the high pressure steam engine which he then used to build a full-scale working steam locomotive – the first car! ‘Puffing Devil’ carried several men through Camborne to Beacon, inspiring the traditional Cornish song ‘Camborne Hill’.
His inventions and business ventures took him all over the world, but he eventually died penniless aged 62 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Kent. A statue depicting Trevithick holding one of his small-scale models now stands beside the public library at Camborne.

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June 30th, 2010

It’s all about colour today

andygilmoreI’m really enjoying the great colour combinations and patterns that Andy Gilmore creates. Good inspiration for Summer 2010!

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June 23rd, 2010

Cornish Cottages Rebrand

Cornish CottagesHudson Armstrong Design continue to work closely with Cornish Cottages having created their original brand.

We are delighted to have created and launched a new brand for this forward thinking letting agency and will be rolling out new marketing material through the course of 2010. New vehicle livery along with an exhibition trailer (see left) was recently launched at the Royal Cornwall Show.

On location photography has been undertaken and will be used in the production of their 2011 brochure along with associated marketing material.

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June 14th, 2010

Get another top spot on Google

Portscatho Holidays - mini website So many companies register multiple domain names but do very little with them. Domains are only really effective if they have their own website files rather than being forwarded to your main website domain. So how can you make better use of those extra domains and help squeeze out the competition from the top spot? Create a series of mini sites targeted to specific search terms, all with relevant and fresh SEO content and links that feed visitors into your main website. We have adopted this approach for Portscatho Holidays as part of their long term SEO strategy. Targeting St Mawes holiday cottages search terms we have launched a mini site www.stmawescottages.co.uk which is a domain this client has owned for years. Ensuring the same feel as the their main site, visitors have a very smooth transition from one site to the other keeping the visitor experience positive and helping with conversations. This approach is good for long term organic growth but seeing the results of this will be a slower process than doing other SEO activities such as a pay per click campaign. When looking at an online marketing strategy as a whole, mini sites offer value for money and a great way to secure another top spot on organic Google listings. If you could wouldn’t you rather have 2 out of the top 3 results?

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April 30th, 2010

Happy May Day

From our HA Calendar 2010


MAY


William Murdoch, (1754 –1839), a Scotsman working in the mining industry in Cornwall in the late 1700s was an extremely talented engineer and innovator. His most famous invention was the application of gas lighting for domestic houses to replace tallow and oil lamps. With the first domestic residence in Britain to be lit by gas being Murdoch’s own house in Redruth in 1792. The town has an Annual Murdoch Day in June celebrating his significant contributions.

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April 23rd, 2010

Invest in great photography

Hot off the press  – here are the first of the new photos of Leycroft Valleys new bar and bistro due to open in 2 weeks time. It was a fun day working with Bob Berry in perfect weather conditions, in just a few hours we managed to dress and style the bar/bistro and capture some fantastic new shots for the clients website and marketing material. Photo shoots can often be very long days – but I am happy to say we nailed it and enjoyed some cappuccino’s in the sun by lunch time!

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April 1st, 2010

Pinch Punch

From our 2010 Calendar…

APRIL

Loveday Tresidder
Born just after midnight March 31st 1700, Loveday grew up in Porthemmet on the north Cornish coast. One of seventeen children, her father and brothers all worked in the local mine. Whilst watching her mother’s endless toil preparing croust (packed lunches) for the men to take to work, Loveday came up with the ingenious idea of combining both a meal and a pudding in one edible package. Fish at one end, dessert at the other all contained in a specially reinforced pastry crust in case it was dropped. With the crimped edge forming a handle by which the miners could eat their meal without getting it dirty.
Who would have imagined that the humble pasty would go on to become such an emblem of Cornwall.

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March 29th, 2010

Handstand Away shirt

Handstand have just released the new Away shirt for the Handstand Rugby team that we recently designed. We here at Hudson Armstrong Design are always happy to be involved with this charity appeal and think the black and white design is really striking.

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