The Outside Agency

Photech pro photo lab website design

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:03:56 +0000

Professional photography lab BPD Photech where facing a dilemma - their loyal market of traditional film photographers was becoming a smaller specialist market, with high-street digital printing services increasingly taking a market share of their high-end professional, exhibition and canvas digital printing services. It was time to carefully reposition them in the bustling digital photography printing market, with a high-end rebrand of their public facing presence, across all their print materials, advertising and most importantly, their website.

We produced designs for a suite of print materials, magazine advertising and redesigned and expanded the scope of their website to educate, allow sample orders, online print ordering and digital image upload. We also took the chance to get the company up and running with an educational photography and print blog, email newsletter and set up facebook and twitter accounts.

Passionate about photography

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:25:04 +0000

The key with this photoshoot was to keep the background very clean and bright, so it was easy to remove the characters from the background in post-processing.

The results of the photoshoot will be used within our advertising campaign and on the website we are currently designing, but here is a sneak preview.

Sefton Court Hotel Website

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:03 +0000

This website and hotel booking management system was commissioned by North Walian Hotel Sefton Court. The brief was to simple; to have the best hotel website in the area. We think we did pretty well, even with client expectations like that to manage! The website features a dedicated, custom-written bookings management system and online booking/payment for new customers. The aim is to impress the socks off potential hotel guests visiting the website, then make it as easy and quick as possible for them to book their holiday, ensuring a high conversion rate from the website.

AstraZeneca coverflow

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:05:16 +0000

Produced as an internal resource for AstraZeneca, this interactive helps staff source key speakers and opinion leaders for conferences and events. This feature uses a scrolling ‘coverflow’ navigation to aid visual identification.

Wacky Warehouse Illustration

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:49:08 +0000

These hand-drawn illustrations were produced for the Wacky Warehouse chain of activity centres for children. The brief was to slightly increase the age of the existing ‘Wacky Warehouse Kids’. These designs also lend a funky Manga styling to the Wacky Warehouse brand.

Happy Birthday Firefox!

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:08:24 +0000

Happy 5th birthday, Firefox!

After its release on 9th November 2004, the open-source browser quickly became a firm favourite with web desigers and developers alike.

In only five years, Firefox is now the world’s second most popular browser (after Internet Explorer).

As well as being a stable and fast web browsing platform, for web developers like us, Firefox’s real advantage over other browsers, is the add-ons system which allows us to use invaluable add-ons like the powerful Firebug.

So why are you still using Internet Explorer?

Aptium Cancer Care Website

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:11:04 +0000

The UK online presence for the oncology company Aptium Cancer Care. The website is specifically targeted at key decision makers within the NHS.

Adelphi Healthcare Group Website

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:43:49 +0000

This corporate website is the online focus for the Adelphi Healthcare group of companies, serving the pharmaceutical industry. The website is CMS enabled (Content Managed), and integrated with the group Intranet.

Corporate Board Game

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:32:34 +0000

Working in conjunction with Learnflow Training, these custom board games were designed are used in ongoing corporate training workshops.

Veolia event animation

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:23:32 +0000

This corporate animation was used to launch a new flagship recycling unit. This supporting audio visual product was authored in Adobe Flash and displayed in a conference center, fed into a large-scale overhead projection and PA system.