Marketing / Admin Assistant Wanted (Part time)

We're in need of a talented and lovely admin type person to help us with all sorts of challenging, exciting and (some) boring things for 2 days every other week here in the MDE studio. The successful candidate will be required to carry out general administrative duties and to get stuck in when it comes to helping us grow the business.

A passion for business, a high level of organisational skills, a strong work ethic and a serious amount of self motivation are a must. And of course an interest or experience within the design market would be nice - but by no means necessary. This is an admin and marketing role and shouldn't be confused with being a route to any design roles (sorry designers!).

The full job description can be downloaded here.

I look forward to looking through the applications and please do pass this onto anyone you may know who might be suitable.

Karl.

Crazy Pumpkins

I know halloween is a distant memory now, but check out these amazing pumpkin carvings I found online today!

Luke.

First bit of print for new brand

Always nice to see our work in print, and whilst at a client's today I finally saw some bits and bobs of print with their lovely new branding on. Really loved this branding job, and the whole package looks incredible - very simple and clean. We'll show the whole case study on the new website soon, but in the mean time heres a couple of snaps of their stationery.

WEDF Typography Talk

A full house last night downstairs at the Arnolfini for WEDF's latest evening of design related talks. Last night was a typography special (strictly for the nerdiest of us designers!), only for people who find themselves frequently saying things like "ohh, look at that kerning" or "mmm, nice use of Gill that" - so we fitted right in!

Inspiring and in depth talks by David Quay and Jeremy Tankard, discussing the City of Bath's signage and a 5 year type design project. They've got a few pics up on Facebook so take a gander!

We love the WEDF's events, and overall they're doing a fantastic thing for the design scene down here in Bristol. Make sure you get signed up to their newsletter for the latest events - and make sure you don't miss next months - a Christmas special with the founder of 'Home' agency speaking, and then a bit of an after party in the Arnolfini bar. Entitled 'Designer Djs', I will, along with a few others, be making some loud noises on the decks to get the festive party going - one not to be missed! KL

Introducing the Douglas Halocator!

Our lovely new clients Douglas Equipment are one of the world's largest manufacturers of aircraft ground equipment. Which, in short, means that all those massive tractors you see pulling airplanes around and ferrying your luggage across the runway - are in the most part, made by these clever chaps up in Cheltenham!

The first of many jobs for Douglas, a mailer to be given out at an exhibition in Munich next week promoting their new safety system. After a couple of hours in the boardroom throwing ideas around the brand name "Halocator" and a mailer concept was brought to life. And we turned the whole job around for them in record time - 3 weeks from initial meeting to having the final print in a crate on route to Munich! Not bad eh! I'd like to say a big thank you to all involved, Luke in the studio and the guys at Hartley Wilprint for turning a die cut job around so fast.

I'm off to Munich next week for meetings at the show so I'm looking forward to seeing the finished job being handed out. (And maybe getting a ride in one of the trucks!)

Karl.

Interactive PDF/USB offers 90% return from trade show.

Along with designing their exhibition stand at the recent trade show over in Germany; we were also approached by our client Hobbs Valve to help measure the success of the 'freebie' handouts that are so commonplace at these shows. Their new branding, brochures and website were all launching at the show, so together we decided an effective goal to aim towards with the 'freebies' would be one of driving more traffic to the new website.

After a little brainstorming we decided to produce an interactive PDF for Hobbs Valve which was installed onto some branded USB keys to be given out as a handout at the show in Germany. The interactive PDF would give access to the basic information most potential customers would need. The layout and styling remaining similar to the website to ensure brand consistency, and using USB drives also highlight certain sustainability benefits - they could be given out instead of brochures in some cases thus reducing the client's print run needs.

Within the PDF we then placed various links to the website enabling the user to find out more information. Behind these links we placed tracking codes so that using Google Analytics we can now monitor how many of the client’s website hits came directly from the USB drives. We could then report back to Hobbs Valve on how effective the USB drives were in reaching our goal of driving more traffic to their new website.

Well, after almost a month of the show opening we are very pleased to announce the USB drives have been a huge success. Of all the USB drives given out at the show 90% of them have been used to access the website. Illustrating a wise investment and a strong return means we can move forward using the USB drives and interactive PDF knowing that they help the client achieve a solid business objective.

If you’d like to talk to us about thinking more strategically regarding your marketing please do get in touch. We’d love to learn more about your business and how Make Design Enjoy can help it grow.

Best wishes,

Karl Loudon.

Hobbs Valve Exhibition Stand

After months of preparation the Hobbs Valve "Why Triple Offset?" exhibition stand has successfully launched at the start of this year's industry show - Valve World held at the Messe exhibition halls in Dusseldorf. The show launched yesterday and it has been a huge success after only it's first day. Aside from the overwhelming amounts of positive feedback regarding the design, some of which has come from some seriously big names, the sales team from Hobbs have not stopped!

The concept has really come through and the stand is attracting a lot of people onto it, they are interacting with the educational elements really well and then enjoying the comfortable areas. The team have a total of 4 days to sell sell sell, and they are off to a flying start. We'll post up full photo shoots etc to the design area of our site shortly. But in the mean time these images give a good overview of the stand design.