Sleigh bells ring, are you listening..

This year's Christmas e-card for Hong Kong based Contract Dispute Consultants features just two of SC's reindeer pulling a sleigh with a wrapped parcel that speaks for itself.

Workwear Brochure

A new 14-page A5 brochure for bespoke workwear manufacturer Arivatex has been designed for client Photography Works, who produced the studio photography.

Shipley photographer's website goes live

A new website for Shipley-based Mathew Imison Photography has recently been launched with design by Aldred Design and website build and programming by Ichicoo Design. The website primarily showcases Mathew's stunning visual images and is divided into Portrait Photography, Wedding Photography and Commercial Photography. The website can be viewed here.

Special Issue of Around & About Yorkshire

A special feature issue of the Around and About Yorkshire series is now available through selected outlets in the Yorkshire region. Titled Discover Yorkshire, the latest issue explores over 50 cities, towns and villages throughout North, West, South and East Yorkshire with extended guides to York, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull. The DVD is presented and narrated by Geoff Druett who, for many years, was a presenter on YTV's Calendar news programme. Aldred Design produced the designs for the DVD case and disc for client Saville Creative Communications.

Ivizzit - a new information resource

ivizzit is a new online resource offering a diverse range of information on the history, architecture, culture and annual events of over 50 cities, towns and villages within the Yorkshire county region. The ivizzit website also offers a downloadable 'app' for smartphones and computers which contains guided walks around several of the major towns and villages within the counties of North, West, South and East Yorkshire. The ivizzit logo was designed for client Saville Creative Communications.

New Identity for Commercial Solicitors

Recently completed for client MI Associates is a new identity, stationery and temporary webpage for Crooks Commercial Solicitors.

A Fruitful Assignment

Recently completed for Bingley-based Premium Drinks are designs for two cider and two perry labels, each featuring a linocut-style illustration of the fruits that the respective beverages are flavoured with.

Shutters Ad

Aldred Design has recently completed the latest full-page advertisement for British Blinds to promote their real wood shutters and blinds. The ad will appear in various homes and furnishing publications as well as local business directories.

Whytehall Newsletter

A four-page A4 newsletter for Melbourne-based shopfitters Whytehall Services has recently been completed for Australian client 20m and will be inserted in to copies of the retail publication Retail FitOut.

Business Information company gets colourful look

An identity and strapline for new business information company Your-MI (Your Management Information) has recently been completed and applied across business cards and stationery. The business cards also feature a 'barcode' device printed on the reverse which, when scanned by a smartphone, transfers all the contact details from the card into the phone's address book. Clever, eh!?

A new website is currently under development.

Press ad for Whytehall Services

The latest advertisement for Melbourne-based shopfitters, Whytehall Services will feature in Retail FitOut, the leading shopfitting and retail industry publication in Australia.

AFSG Identity

An identity for the Armed Forces Support Group, a charitable organisation based in Bingley has recently been completed by Aldred Design.

Portraits Brochure

Recently completed for Shipley-based photography studio Mathew Imison Photography, this 12-page A5 landscape brochure showcases Mathew's talents for capturing superb portraits of babies, children, whole families and even their pets! The brochure comes as the latest project in a line of assignments that Aldred Design has completed for Mathew Imison Photography over the last two years, including the company identity, business cards and stationery, studio signage, promotional banners, leaflets and gift vouchers.

A new website, with design by Aldred Design, will be launched shortly.

Official opening of Menston Hall development

I was kindly invited by client Incommunities to attend the official opening of Menston Hall today, a £2.7 million housing project on the north west outskirts of Leeds.

The Menston Hall development comprises a full refurbishment of the existing hall and two new buildings which together provide 30 two-bedroom apartments. 17 of the new build homes are released through a shared ownership scheme, and five let exclusively to people over 55 years of age. The main hall has been converted into six apartments for private sale and two for sale through the Government’s Homebuy Direct scheme.

Earlier in the year, Aldred Design produced marketing literature for Incommunities to promote the development.

Two new ads

Two new advertisements recently completed - the first for Australian shopfitters Whytehall and the second for Hong Kong based Contract Dispute Consultants.

Australian shopfitters website goes live

The new website for Melbourne-based shopfitting company Whytehall Services has recently been launched. Working for client 20m, Aldred Design produced the visual design interface and the site was then completed by web company Hindsight. A series of advertisements (above) to promote the new website has also been designed and these will appear in various Australian retail and shopfitting publications in the coming weeks.

The new website forms part of a complete rebranding exercise for the company which has also involved the design and production of a new literature pack, including a 12-page brochure and 16 case study sheets.

Brochure pack for moorland services company

A marketing pack comprising four separate 6-page service brochures and a company profile, all 'half-Canadian' wiro bound into an outer cover has recently been completed for Dinsdale Moorland Services Limited.

The North Yorkshire based company specialises in contracting in difficult terrains and environmentally sensitive locations and provides a host of services as diverse as moorland management, GPS mapping and design and construction of mountain bike trails. Each of the four service brochures reduces in width for each successive document and slots into a pocket in the outer folder, thus revealing all titles in an indexed format. The brochures cover the following areas: Habitat Restoration & Management; Surveying & Consultancy Services; Infrastructure Services; and Mountain Bike Trail Design & Build.

Kung Hei Fat Choi 2011!

This year's Chinese New Year celebrates the Year of the Rabbit and the e-greeting that Aldred Design created for Hong Kong based Contract Dispute Consultants to send to it's clients and partners in the construction industry utilises stylised typography to make the connection.

Keeping it in the family

A new website designed for illustrator Catherine Aldred (yes, she's my sister!) has recently gone live. The website is primarily a showcase for Catherine's illustrations which feature architecture and landscapes. You can visit the new website here.