Season's Greetings!

And thank you to all of those who have visited this blog page over the past year.

Christmas knits

This year's Christmas e-greeting designed for Hong Kong based client, Contract Dispute, also features a knitted theme.

Jack Pennington 40th Anniversary brochure

To celebrate its fortieth year in business, Jack Pennington Ltd of Shipley wanted a commemorative book to send to clients and suppliers. Working closely with copywriter Tim Wyatt, Aldred Design has designed and produced a 48-page book showing the company's history and development since its beginnings in 1974.

Postcard # 4

WISE infographics

Another batch of infographics produced for client WISE Campaign.

Bauhinia identity

A logo has been created for Bauhinia Sandbanks, a luxury holiday home on the Sandbanks peninsula, near Poole, in Dorset. A number of options were presented but the client settled on the image of the bauhinia blossom (the national flower of Hong Kong), dissolving into reflected ripples of water. The logo has been applied to stationery and a website.

Bradford Gang Show

A design for the next Bradford Gang Show, Bring It All Back!, has been created by Aldred Design. It will appear on posters, programmes and advertisements.

Postcard # 3

Another postcard design for Cabo Bar, this time advertising an upcoming charity fundraiser.

WW1 Exhibition

As part of the centenary commemorations of the start of the First World War, a series of 16 A0 informative display panels have been designed for client Saville Creative Communications. These formed the main focus of a 10 day exhibition at St Margaret's Hall in Horsforth, Leeds, that not only honoured and remembered those from the town who fought and died during the war, but also told of the role that Horsforth people played in sheltering Belgian refugees, how the town coped with food rationing, raised funds for the troops, made armaments in the local shell factory and how it honoured the dead after the war was over. Accompanying the exhibition was a set of workbooks (also designed by Aldred Design), aimed at local schoolchildren who attended the exhibition as part of their studies during the week leading up to Remembrance Sunday.

Two smaller information panels were also designed for permanent display adjacent to 'The Boulder Stone' on Stanhope Drive – an existing memorial to the 249 men and one woman from Horsforth who died.

The commemoration events and materials, largely funded by a grant from the Heritage Lottery, also enabled a book and materials for a history trail to be produced.

Postcard design # 2

Second in this occasional series - this postcard design also doubled as an advertisement on client Cabo Bar's Facebook newsfeed.

Christmas comes early...

... well it does when client Christmas cards are designed in early October! The first one out of the trap this year is a card for client Emerson Crane Hire. More to follow in the coming weeks!

Trend trekking

This 16-page A4 document was designed, printed and delivered for client Insider Trends to a very tight lead timescale. The Trend Trek involved visits to over 25 retail venues in central London to discover and experience state-of-the-art merchandising technology, cutting edge retail concepts. packaging and apps. Only thirty copies of the document were required which necessitated the use of digital printing - however, the document also needed to retain a 'top end', luxury feel for its users.

Postcard design # 1

Aldred Design has produced dozens of different promotional postcard designs for restaurant review client iTrueReview since the start of the year - this is the first of an occasional series.

Horsforth WW1 Trail Map

As part of the World War I commemorative events taking place in Horsforth, Aldred Design has created this trail map for client Saville Communications. The self-guided trail leads to information boards (also designed by Aldred Design) placed in shop windows and other locations, that link people and events in WWI to them. The event takes place from Saturday 2nd August to Sunday 10th August and will be run again from Saturday 1st November to Sunday 9th November to coincide with  Remembrance Day and Armistice Day memorial services.

See also: Horsforth: The Great War book

Yorkshire Doors brochure

A 12-page brochure has recently been completed for client Yorkshire Doors. The company offers high quality solid core composite entrance doors, patio doors, aluminium bi-fold doors and garden rooms.