We know how hard and expensive setting up a new business can be and with this in mind we are offering new or recently established businesses the opportunity of working with us on their new brand.

The start-up pack information can be viewed here and contains information on various pack variations. We’ve tried to cater for all eventualities; from companies who just require a logo design to those who need logo, stationary and website, but if there is something we’re missing and you’d like to work with us, please get in touch.

Recent work can be viewed here and here and a selection of logo designs here.

We look forward to working with you.

Did you recently receive our promotional postcard?

We sent out 100 to marketing departments to gauge how effective a targetted a promotional campaign can be on a limited budget - and to introduce our services.

Please your feedback of the card here , the most useful will receive a free ‘bod .

It hasn’t been that long since we launched a new our website but along with added updates to the portfolio sections (print , web and identity ) we’ve also been monitoring how visitors are using the site. With that in mind we decided to introduce icons to help with the navigation from the homepage and through the site.

Earlier in the month we also launched our ’start-up’ packs to help new or recently established businesses set up a website, get a logo and or stationery designed, all within a budget. Information on these packs can be viewed here.

And while we were at it, we also painted the site black. We hadn’t intended to but it seemed to work and so we’ll stick with it… until the next time we get restless.

The blog is going to remain the same, as will encore (our monthly infoshot) which you can subscribe to here .

In other news the newly launched Creative Wolverhampton blog is gaining more and more interest and we  have plans in the pipeline to develop this further.

The ‘100 project’ has been launched with 100 A6 postcards beeing mailed to 100 Marketing Departments/Companies to both introduce ourselves to them, in the hope of working with them in the future, but also to gauge how effective a campaign like this can be. We’ve set up a webpage to monitor the responses here . You can view the card via this page and also give us your feedback.

A handful of projects that had been running for a few months all completed in April (part of the reason for the lack of blog posts) and so we’ll have some nice fresh images uploaded to our portfolio shortly.

We’ve also made some minor updates to our site, nothing too major just minor tweaking.

Some of the work completed in April included the second ‘fresh’ newsletter for the School of Art & Design, Postgraduate Study Cards, also for the School of Art and Design and a new resource publication for Language Networks for Excellence - Mandarin and the associatted promotional material for it. Work has also begun on the updated WH Marren website and thingybod.com - the bods are getting too big for our website and so now need a site of their own.

We’ve having some photography taken of some of the printed material to update our portfolio but in the mean time, here are a few screen grabs.

WH Marren website: currently in development

School of Art & Design Fresh newsletter

Recent graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, Sean Bird has joined our team for a 10 week placement through the KITTS Scheme. Sean’s online portfolio can be viewed here.

As he is part of the team for the next 2 and a half months we decided to make him feel at home with a bod.

Below is a selection of other bods we’ve recently completed.

We’ve had our heads down over the last few weeks….

We finished off the updated version of Marie’s website: mariecampbell.com in between all the other projects.

The updated Glass Routes websites is also now live. The original version called for the website to highlight the event and give access to visitors to the event guide and a little information on the exhibiting artists. The updated version has been converting the entire 130+ page pdf guide into web pages, in both English and Chinese: glass-routes.com

More updates coming soon…

It has been a few months since we last updated Creative Wolverhampton, mainly due to how busy we’ve been her at debut. But we’ve decided to make more of an effort with updates starting with an updated blog.

We’ve also got plans to be involved in more events and developments within the Wolverhampton area, so watch this space.

For anyone who current subscribes to CW, please update your feed.

If anyone has any articles, events or updates for the blog contact our studio.

Back in November, when we launched our updated website, we discussed the importance of continuing to monitor your website ranking and behaviour which then helps to generate the most traffic to your website.

Using Google and Alexa as a guide, our website wasn’t found on any of the search terms we wanted (not in the first 5 or so pages anyway) and our Alexa ranking was 2,502,689 (dated 17/11/2008).

As of today (17/03/2009) that ranking is now down to 797,474 - having been down as low as 500,000 in January - and our ranking on search terms are listed below:

design wolverhampton (1)
graphic design wolverhampton (1)
debut design (1)
debut (13 - bottom of the first page)
branding wolverhampton (2)
branding services wolverhampton (2)
graphic design services wolverhampton (2)
logo design wolverhampton (9)
marketing communications wolverhampton (1)
creative industries wolverhampton (1)

These results weren’t achieved by just optimizing the website, although the content and the updates to it were important - along with the link building and our e-newsletters. To compliment our website we have generated PR stories, networked within our local area and generally made people aware of who we are (if they didn’t already know).

This marketing activity has increased the flow of traffic to our site, which in turn has ranked it higher and then subsequently placed it in a position to be found by the casual Google user.

This month alone we’ve had articles on the University of Wolverhampton & Computer Arts Magazine websites, along with printed articles in the Express & Star (local nightly paper), and business 2 business magazines and newsletters.

If you would need help with your SEO and Marketing Communications please get in touch.

Get your own bod!

Our ‘bods’ are generating interest through Twitter and Facebook as users are updating their profile with the custom designed characters.

Send us a recent photo, along characteristics that you’d like taking into consideration and then in a few days we’ll hit your inbox with a personal character to use for your social networking sites.

We’ve recently completed bods for web designers Calloway Green and poet Dave Finchett.

Get you own…

We arranged our team photo for last Thursday (7/3/2009) and Lee Allen Photography came in to make us look good. Below are a few of our personal favourites from the shoot…