Warner Estate Holdings Plc., which manages almost £1.5 billion of property around the UK, has appointed Pixel8 in Manchester to provide complete design and marketing services for five of its North West shopping centres.

The Manchester design and marketing agency’s brief includes managing graphic design for both print and online, promotions, event management, advertising, PR,  website redesigns and Facebook sites.

The five shopping centres Pixel8 will be working with are Market Place Shopping Centre, Bolton, Fishergate Shopping Centre, Preston, Middleton Shopping Centre, North Manchester and The Grange and Pyramids Shopping Centres in Birkenhead, Wirral. Pixel8 will report to Jennifer Morris, Group Marketing Manager at Warner Estate Holdings Plc.

Pixel8 has already recruited a retail marketing manager to work across the five centres, has launched an Autumn fashion campaign, and redesigned and redeveloped the five shopping centre websites, and deployed a Facebook site for each shopping centre.

Pixel8’s joint MD Jamie Watson, who formerly held marketing roles with both Sainsbury’s and Iceland, said, “This is a particularly exciting win as it allows me to get back to my roots in retail.

“Given the tough environment, it’s an exciting time to get involved. There’s lots of uncertainty given the increase in VAT from January, but we relish the challenge and look forward to driving both footfall and spend in the centres.

“We are looking forward to bringing a new creativity and focus to the centres’ marketing strategy in the run up to Christmas”.

For more information please call Pixel8 in Manchester on 0161 228 6489 – 0845 230 1336 or e-mail

The Pixel8 design and marketing agency in Manchester is proud to announce the appointment of Alan Woods to the new position of Creative Director.

Al provides a real boost to Pixel8’s management team and will be fundamental to business growth.  The new position has been created to ensure that Pixel8 maintains its high quality standards as the agency continues to expand.

Al spent 10 years as studio manager at Manchester United Merchandising Ltd, overseeing a wide variety of projects ranging from product range design, right through to events and store concepts.

Most notably was his work researching and designing the style guide documents that were used to direct over 50 licensees with their creation of products spanning over 150 categories. His work creating and art directing the Manchester United Premier Cup events, the largest under 15 football tournament in the world, showed his ability to create a strong visual style and oversee its use throughout the tournament on various products, event signage, website design and event launch video, meant Pixel8 knew he was the right person for the Creative Director role.

Pixel8 already has over tens years expertise creating corporate branding, logo design, packaging design and web design projects for sports related clients including Manchester United and Manchester Sport and Leisure Trust.

Nigel Daws Joint Managing Director of Pixel8 said, “Al brings a wealth of experience, further cementing our credibility within the sport sector”.

The Pixel8 graphic design agency were delighted to be asked to create new design concepts for The Gentry Grooming Co. range of cosmetics.

Not only because it gives us the opportunity to demonstrate our wealth of packaging design expertise, but we are hoping that it might just rub off on some of the the guys in our design studio.

We created a number of product design solutions and await the decision to create the final artwork and see the product on the shelf!

The Pixel8 design and marketing agency in Manchester are pleased to announce that we have just delivered a refreshing e-commerce website design for Boxfresh Organics.

Having developed a unique brand design and helping the company to develop their brand and future marketing materials, we feel that we have contributed greatly to the business over the year and have provided a truly bespoke website design, we hope to see the Boxfresh blossom into one of the largest home delivery organic box services in the UK.

After 25 years of successfully selling toys to over 25,000 shops in the UK, BJ Toys goes online with a new ecommerce website design developed by Pixel8 in Manchester.

Pixel8’s ecommerce website solution is a sophisticated website that seamlessly links their stock management system with the website, ensuring that the products are available at the time of order.

Payment and delivery detail management is also automated making the whole fulfillment experience part of the main business. Fully managed and hosted on a dedicated server, an SQL database was set up with web services enabling seamless interaction with the main business data warehouse.

Visit web design for more information or see our web design portfolio for examples of our recent web design projects.

It’s new, it’s exciting and it’s set to revolutionise the world of packaging design.

Livewire replaces the need for costly product design mock ups enabling packaging designers to upload images and wrap them around their chosen product shape.

The Pixel8 design and marketing agency in Manchester is proud to have created the Livewire brand, new website design and assisted in the on-going launch and marketing of this world class product. For more info please visit www.livewirenow.com

As a full service graphic design agency, we relish packaging design projects! From initial concept through to creating the print ready artwork and product mock ups, we manage the entire process.

We’ve worked on many large packaging design projects with well known brands including Manchester United and Dorma and the development of sub brands for Virginware. Exciting new package design projects include a range of Halloween products using a character we designed for BJ Toys and a new sports drinks range which is currently under wraps!