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Mar, 2019
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Jan, 2019
NHS Apprenticeship Awards 2019
We were very pleased to be invited back to be a part of the Northamptonshire Health & Care Partnerships annual Apprenticeship Awards Celebration for 2019.
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Mar, 2018
Featured Project: NHS Apprenticeship Event
We’ve posted here on the blog before on the work we did last year for the NHS Apprenticeship team developing a new brand and set of materials for the team, so we were delighted to be asked back to design a number of items for the recent Apprenticeship Celebration Event that took place in Northampton a week or two back.
The project was a really interesting challenge and gave us the opportunity to work across a range of different areas.
The first area was the printed material required for the night. We worked up a range of tickets, fliers and the awards brochure itself making use of some beautiful card stocks and effective use of Spot UV finishing to give the finished products a real lift. Little flourishes like Spot UV – as well as other options like embossing or foiling – can provide stunning little details to pieces of work like this and we were really pleased with how this turned out.
In addition, we also provided a range of branded merchandise for the event including their awards – and even designed the certificates for awards finalists and a backdrop to photograph themselves against!
Its always fun watching a brand like this come to life across a range of mediums and by the event we were really happy with how it all came together.
If you’ve got an event or awards night coming up – talk to us to see how we could do something very creative for you too!
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Mar, 2017
Featured Project: NHS Apprenticeships
We are very pleased to share with you the first glimpses of the work we’ve been undertaking recently for the NHS here in Northamptonshire. The team at the NHS , first approached us at the end of 2016 with a variety of design and print requirements to deliver a range of marketing collateral to support their campaign to recruit local apprentices.
After an initial meeting with the team it became clear there were a number of key ‘tent poles’ that we had to hang our designs onto.
- The team were keen to utilise a visualisation such as a mind map to try and demonstrate the breadth of opportunities available within the NHS and we all agreed that a mind map was a great way to bring that to life in a simple, easy to digest manner.
- We had to come up with something impactful and bold – that grabbed attention at events like jobs fairs where employers are fighting for attention in a sea of marketing material.
- We needed to create a brand that aligned neatly with the nationwide “Step into the NHS” campaign whilst retaining a uniquely “Northamptonshire feel”.
We have shared here the results of this work and we’re really excited with how its all turned out so far. To bring the mind map to life without having add a huge amount of text we utilised a series of icons to represent the various job types and responsibilities available to people within the NHS.
Moving forward these icons will be a great device to help translate the branding into specific pieces of marketing materials or online assets.
We will share more of this project as pieces of work continue to come back from the printers – once this phase of the project is complete, the next task is for us to adapt and update the materials to an internal audience who are already employed within the NHS.
In the meantime, to find more examples of our work you can browse the archive here, or alternatively, feel free to get in touch with us to discuss your requirements today.
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Feb, 2017
A Week in the Life…
One of the things we love most about running a small studio, is the sheer variety of work we get to throw ourselves into on a weekly basis. While at times it can get stressful moving from completely different disciplines at speed (and thats without counting all of the new things like accounting and admin that is all a new world too!) it helps to stay inspired and motivated and quite often, ideas that spark in one project will inspire something on another part of our to-do list.
One of the things that helps to keep our to-do list quite so varied is the scale and range of our customers. Here at SVC, we look after the creative and digital requirements of businesses from local councils and training providers, to multinational companies and small local startups.
These will all obviously have their own distinct range of requirements – some companies approach us with a very distinct requirement in mind – “I need a new website” for example – while others outsource all of their marketing and creative work to us on a monthly retainer. We try and keep our solutions as flexible as possible to ensure our customers are always getting the most of amount of ‘bang for their buck’ whilst offering cost effective options.
This approach means that on a weekly basis we can be doing anything from writing and delivering social media content, designing and building website, managing the printing and production of marketing materials and collateral and even bespoke requirements such as training or delivering workshops.
This variety helps us to grow as a business and keep our fingers on the last creative and digital developments for the benefit of our customers.
You can find some examples of our recent projects by clicking here, or alternatively why not contact us to find out more about how we might be able to help…
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Jan, 2017
Featured Project: SVT Group
From a designers point of view there are very few things that are as exciting as the endless possibilities afforded by a blank canvas. While it can occasionally be quite daunting – we were recently given exactly this kind of project when we were tasked with a top to bottom rebrand of the SVT Group.
The SVT Group is a group of companies based in Northampton that offer a range of manufacturing and engineering solutions across the specialist cleaning sector. Some of their companies including SpaceVac and The Gutter Devil who we also count as clients as you might have noticed elsewhere on this website.
The requirements for the rebrand were a complete top to bottom rebrand including;
- The design of a new uniform for staff
- Designing new vehicle liveries
- Development of new website and social media presence
- Design of new printed collateral and stationery
It was quite literally a top to bottom redress of the company and we quickly got to work on brainstorming ideas. The nucleus of the whole idea actually came about while exploring typefaces for the main company logo. The font we settled on was called Neoterique and a quick google search led to us finding that this word meant “A person who advocates new ideas” – which actually, given the companies focus on innovative solutions and continued investment in research and development made a lot of sense.
From there we took these concepts and married to them to the colour scheme the client had in mind to create a look and feel that felt modern, sleek and polished.
Where we think these designs will really come to life is in print where we can utilise specialist finishing options like Spot UV and silver foil blocking to really bring out some of these details and make their printed versions look beautiful.
We have enclosed some examples here of how that branding is going to be looking when applied. Let us know in the comments below what you think!
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Nov, 2016
Is it too early to say Christmas?!
With less than 50 days to go until Christmas – its time to get organised with our great offers on Christmas cards!
At So Very Creative we know all about the great stuff that Christmas brings – the opportunity to reflect on the year, the chance to catch up with family and friends and most importantly – the opportunity to eat a lot of chocolate!
Its also a great time to reach out to your customers and partners and thank for them for their business during the year.
Rather than send generic cards though – why not send a custom card in line with your companies branding or personality? To make the process as simple as possible, we have teamed up with our favourite Northampton based printer to create a range of special Christmas offers for card printing – with prices starting from as little as £152 (including envelopes, delivery and a full art-working service).
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Apr, 2016
Events Management at The Manchester Cleaning Show
Well, we are back in the office now after having a great week this week up in Manchester supporting one of our clients onsite at the Manchester Cleaning Show – one of the larger events in the sector calendar.
Over the last five years, we have built up a lot of experience in events management and we drew on all of that experience this week wearing all kinds of hats including;
- Completing all of the pre-event checks and processes – health & safety declarations etc
- Production of the exhibition stand itself (pictured above)
- Design and print management services to prepare printed marketing collateral
- Onsite social media coverage
Essentially what we offer is a complete end to end package for event support – right down to executing post-event follow up email campaigns etc – designed to take the stress and pain out of attending these large scale events.
Contact us today to discuss your requirements with us and see how we can help!