Promotional hanger for Energie Fitness Clubs. The hanger entitles the holder to a free 3 day pass at the club and is distributed by local restaurants, hotels and garages (hung on rear view after an MoT).

Provide Design are proud to announce that our hard work and creativity have bagged Dunstable College a FE First Marketing Excellence award for the ‘Heroes’ recruitment campaign.

The campaign itself was entered in the highly subscribed ‘best 14-19 year old campaign’ category, and came home with the silver.

This national award is strong recognition for the campaign that has largely contributed to a massive 30% increase in full-time age 16-19 student numbers at the College.

We have just been re-comissioned to develop the visual identity of the 2010 Heroes Evolution campaign so watch this space to see how we raise the bar for next year.

You can see some of our work from the 2009 campaign here: Dunstable Heroes Campaign

Or visit: www.dunstable.ac.uk to see our work in action

Gavin and Alex bring their amazing skill with lighting, shooting and editing video to the team. We are proud to have them on board.

So if you need video for you website, an advert for TV or short film producing please contact us.

Please see below some examples of recently completed video work. A full show reel is coming soon.

Design and build of a comprehensive website for Dunstable Downs Golf Club. The club needed a new website that gave them greater control over it’s content and allowed them to communicate news and important dates to its membership.

The site was built on a full content management system with several unique features such as live, dynamic weather reports on the site and an interactive scorecard that tours visitors around the course.

Take a look at: www.dunstabledownsgolf.co.uk

An integrated campaign across many forms of media for Dunstable College. The brief was to create a new visual identity for the 2009/10 recruitment campaign based around the popular TV series. It’s aim was to represent the ability for students to achieve high standards whilst keeping the concept strong, accessable and fun. The campaign was rolled out through websites, internal marketing and external marketing, vehicle graphics and local area advertising.

Dunstable College Heroes website

Dunstable College main website

3 years ago I was asked to put forward suggestions for a quick, personal, update app that allowed a company to put a ‘friendly’ face on their website and grow their social network. I put forward Twitter. At this time they barely had a 50,000 users and was very much in it’s infancy. However, the company in question felt it wasn’t ‘corporate’ enough and shelved the idea.

Moving forward 3 years and Twitter, with it’s few million users, has recently become an integral part of the companys website. This isn’t just a one off. Many companies are now using Twitter to reach a wider audience, to promote their products and increase their traffic. It seems Twittering is fast becoming the new blogging, so much so that the mighty FaceBook has restructured it’s homepage to rival it.

Twitter takes less time to write and perhaps more importantly it take less time to read and with the use of such tools, (FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace et al), the possibilities have now been totally realised by many companies, especially in the doom and gloom climate we all seem to be living in today. There seems to be a certain sense of urgency, to be a “part of it”.

But what about good old fashioned blogging? A well written blog will always attract more attention than a tweet. It becomes indexed by the search engines and it’s not confined to a user, it is far more global. The possibilities of using a blog (or blogging platform) when considering a website should never be under-estimated. We have had some great success from constructing sites based around blogging platforms and are continued to be amazed at the development that goes into them. Wordpress in particular is always highly recommended at the Provide Design camp. But now we have many more options/toys to play with.

With the amount of web apps available to web developers a company can reach their target web audience in more ways than ever before. We as web designers, can utilise this time of social networking to create that killer site that really works the way it needs to work as well as look darn pretty.

And that really does make us want to blog more!

Are you looking for a hotdesk near Milton Keynes, Leighton Buzzard or Aylesbury? FunkBunk, the home of Provide Design is now offering hot desks to writers, designers, freelancers, photographers, marketeers, muskateers and anyone else who needs a desk for just a few days out of the month.

In addition to full time desks being available there are 3 desks currently available for hotdesking. Prices for hotdesk spaces start from £30 per day depending on how many days you book in advance. Hot desk rental includes wireless or wired high speed broadband access, free parking and free tea and coffee.

The atmosphere here is non-intrusive, friendly and creative. With the added bonus of having somewhere to hold meetings and your own business address, hot desking at the FunkBunk is the way to go!

For more photos and information please visit www.funkbunk.com

If you would like to book a space or come over and have a look for yourself please email iwanttobe@funkbunk.com or call us on 0845 003 9559

The design and build of a WordPress based website for The Badminton Academy. Website features integrated news and blog system (which allows the players to keep their tour diaries up to date online), profiles for all of the players, their results and an events calendar.

The Badminton Academy teach some of the UKs top junior badminton players. Expect to see more of these kids at the Olympics!

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New identity for business and leisure development Liscombe Park near Milton Keynes. 2 Trees motif is based on the tree lined driveway at the entrance to Liscombe Park.

We also completed the website for Liscombe Park.

The design and build of a WordPress based website for Marketing agency BigBird. Website features integrated news and blog system with dynamic content through the use of Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript library technologies and Flash.

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