Tickets Anywhere is a holiday company suited to today's sophisticated traveler. A great holiday should be one of the best experiences in your life. It should go beyond your expectations, refresh you in mind, body and spirit and provide wonderful lasting memories. Smooth created a website to inspire and to convey the personal touch characteristic of Tickets Anywhere.
Specialising in supplying commodity chemicals, Woburn Chemicals needed a website that gave its existing and potential clients an insight into their business and highlighted their less known areas of expertise such as chemical warehousing and hazardous waste disposal. Adam Griffiths, Managing Director of Woburn Chemicals, commented: “The service that Smooth provided us with from start to finish was excellent and we are delighted with the end result.” Chris Underwood of Smooth added: ...
ICETWICE is considered to be the most intriguing, innovative and entertaining contemporary commercial art gallery in the Milton Keynes/Bedford/Northampton triangle, providing a focus for talent and a destination for consumers. Smooth was commissioned to create it's online gallery and the result is a beautiful yet functional website.
Having completed brand development and implementation for a new risk management company, Smooth has recently been working with them to organise the African financial event of 2010. The seminar will discuss business trends, capital management and also draw on parallels, lessons and experiences of the more developed Western banks through the global financial crisis.
European Premier Seating (EPS) is a UK manufacturer specialising in industrial, laboratory, office and soft seating. Smooth created the website to showcase their key ranges.
For when it was raining on the golf course, these sturdy umbrellas made sure our client's team got noticed!
This new risk management company caters to a wide range of banking and financial institutions at varying stages of their evolutionary cycle to build formidable risk management, regulatory, governance, audit and control structures to meet strict legislative, regulatory and practical business requirements. Over the past year, they have chosen Smooth to help them with their brand building which included a design of their stationery.
This boutique recruitment agency has taken a proactive approach in this difficult times and decided to revamp their online presence for both sides of the business. Smooth created two websites where powerful imagery is combined with a crisp layout, expressing the personality of the agency. "Smooth have an un-canny ability to understand your business brand, ideas and direction almost as well as us!! From the moment we started working together we ...
These are just some examples of our stationery design: business cards, compliment slips, letterheads. Our stationery sets normally also include continuation sheets, envelopes in all different sizes, as well as electronic stationery such as email and PowerPoint templates.
impact4 have launched a Centre for Health & Safety Studies together with Buckinghamshire New University and Missenden Abbey. To support this initiative, Smooth has created a new website for impact4 on a blogging platform which will enable them to be more interactive and responsive then ever before. "I have worked with Chris Underwood on several brand design and website development projects - both as a client and as a partner. The ...
Orange & Gold needed to mark a difference and to reflect what it had become: a nimble, flexible business that could continue to grow despite the changes in legislation. Having developed a fresh service proposition to respond to the new business climate created by the new legislation, Orange & Gold needed a brand to engage with new audiences and re-assure the existing ones. Accountancy may be about figures, but successful accountancy ...
While the Department for Health has been busy coming up with some scorching advice (not) about how to protect ourselves from the imminent heatwave, Smooth has had some better ideas. How about a dip in the new pool at the Channel House? See the updated gallery for more...
Smooth created a new brand for the oldest firm of chartered accountants in Milton Keynes, Keens Shay Keens MK, who specialise in profit improvement and international company set-up. Below is the Press Release that accompanied the launch of their new website following the re-brand. Mar 31, 2008 – The firm’s key objective is to provide a premium service to individuals and to business owners, who naturally expect a high quality personal service. ...
For the second year running, Smooth is the creative force behind the UK's preeminent event for the discussion of issues affecting bilateral economic relations between Russia and the UK. With the opening session presented by HRH Prince Michael of Kent and HE Yury Fedotov, Russian Ambassador to the UK amongst others, and with such prestigious sponsors as Shell and BP, the Forum is promising to be a great one. Extra ...
Moving from a sole trader to a small and then medium sized business is a challenge which PRObuild has relished. In 2006 having quietly grown its turnover to become a multi-million pound business, it recognised that it could no longer simply rely on its passive approach to gaining business. In securing its eleventh place in the Sunday Times Fast Track 2007 league table it realised the next stage of its evolution ...
Horn [+] Co. Solicitors, based in the heart of the City of London, specialises in Shipping, Energy, International Trade, Insurance, Corporate & Commercial Law and Consultancy. Having created a new brand identity for the firm, Smooth developed a website to reflect their areas of expertise. Result: a visually powerful site.
Larato are experts in marketing for telecommunications, media and technology. Their products and services deliver your business with a compelling, sustainable and clear advantage. Smooth has helped them bring their marketing materials up to date - starting with a stunning brochure and stationery that showscases the expertise, know-how and imagination that Larato brings to their customers. This was then followed by a website and blog to match. "Neli is very passionate ...
Challenge 1: Are we one brand?
Looking at a global consulting or accounting firm, one immediately assumes that all offices work in lockstep, processes are uniform, services and methodologies are consistent, and all information is shared in real time across the organisation. Often, though, global firms are loose-knit confederations linked only by a logo.
The reasons for [...]
Press Release
IP Runner, UK’s top experts in Unified Communications, unveiled its new company website showcasing an updated design, expanded content and product demonstrators.
The site includes products and services offered to boost your competitive advantage with smart use of Unified Communications, focusing on High Definition videoconferencing, VoIP, and other networking and productivity tools.
With so much information [...]
There’s something to be said for face to face contact. But time is short and there’s hell of a lot of people/customers to get to in an ever decreasing 24-hour day. But for those of us, who thrive on knowing who we’re talking to, understanding what people are about or just connecting with others, the [...]
If websites have one overarching goal it is to create confidence in whatever the website is promoting and who’s promoting it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a product, a service, a sales campaign, or an idea, if the presentation is not minimally credible or optimally motivational, then it fails as a means of marketing communication.
Communicate [...]
Brand development is increasingly accepted as the way forward for businesses with ambition to grow.
This is because ‘branding’ is so much more than merely good design or a well establish logo – unfortunately a common held misconception.
If I dive straight in at the deep-end and say that brand development, in real terms, is actually about [...]
While there are many grey areas when it comes to the online world, one thing is certain: Internet has made brand building and marketing cheaper. Or rather, it has made it relatively inexpensive when you compare the cost and reach of your online marketing activities with your traditional methods.
“Costs and Budgeting Involved in Brand Building [...]
Analysis v Action Research Findings
Report Highlights:
27% see internet marketing as a way of overcoming the challenges that an economic downturn presents
61% believe data analysis would help to inform decisions that drive sales
79% of businesses capture internet traffic, but only 30% modify websites as a result of traffic analysis
To stop just monitoring and start acting, give [...]
These are just some examples of our stationery design: business cards, compliment slips, letterheads. Our stationery sets normally also include continuation sheets, envelopes in all different sizes, as well as electronic stationery such as email and PowerPoint templates.
This is our new website – we hope you like it!
It will enable us to let you know what’s new at Smooth, what we’ve been up to and also what we think – not just about the world of branding, marketing and design, but also the world in general.
Let us know what you think – [...]
