This week, our graphic design team in Manchester created a new brochure design for 2ergo – the global provider of mobile enabling technology for marketing, business, entertainment and media.

Brands including O2, Orange, Vodafone and AT&T to name a few, have all benefited from working with 2ergo. So naturally we were thrilled when they asked us to help out with our graphic design services.

Our designers took the existing 2ergo brand guide and pushed it to new limits by developing a series of simple, modern icons to fit in with the brands established style.

These were then introduced into the design of a new 12 page brochure, which was printed full colour. The new brochures are for 2ergo staff to hand out at the 2010 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

The web design and corporate branding teams at Pixel8 in Manchester have launched a new brand and a new website for a UK business locations portal.

locations4business provides comprehensive and comparable information on all potential business locations in the UK. It’s a one-stop-shop for companies within and outside the UK looking to establish new business operations.

The website helps existing companies, start ups and investors to find the best locations for their organisation and provides detailed information required to make an initial evaluation.

Pixel8 created the brand identity, a new logo design, the website design and web development of a CMS system and an integrated database.

The new website be found at www.locations4business.com

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”.

Having established the logo design for the Starters Orders café at Sportscity in Manchester, the next step was for our graphic design team was to create the look and feel for the new canteen area, which is situated in the National Squash Centre in Manchester. This was visualised at the proposal stage as an illustration.

Once this was approved, our first task was printing out a selection of deep red swatches, so that decorators could colour match for the paint for the walls, to tie in with the brand identity.

After this was completed, work began with the Pixel8 design team creating artwork for a larger Starters Orders logo. The logo was digitally printed in colour directly onto a 10mm Foamcor panel, measuring 700mm wide by 430mm high. It was then fitted to the wall using 20mm stand off fixings.

As with any canteen, an essential requirement is menu panels! Our graphic design team were supplied with items to be featured on double-sided panels. One side with a regular menu for non-event days, and the reverse side was a meal deal menu for Manchester City match days.

There are 5 menu panels altogether, all designed to be in keeping with the Starters Orders brand identity – using elements like the star, stripes and fonts. Each panel measured 700mm wide by 920mm high, digitally printed full colour onto 10mm black Foamcor panels, complete with holes and hooks for attaching to the wall. This made it easy for staff members to turn the menu over for the relevant days.

The canteen is now almost complete. Furnishings are in place and we have just been asked to create artwork to ‘brand up’ the tabletops.

To see more of Pixel8’s design and branding work for the Starters Orders café including our graphic designs for the café interior, embroidery designs for uniforms, printed logo cups and confectionary bags, please visit our Starters Orders design portfolio.

The Pixel8 graphic design agency in Manchester has designed and printed large format vinyl graphics and graphic designs on canvas for Manchester Sport and Leisure Trust.

The Trust, which manages 19 sports facilities in Manchester, went through a massive gym refurbishment at two of its locations, Sportcity and Belle Vue leisure centre.

As the incumbent design agency for Manchester Sport and Leisure Trust, Pixel8 we were on hand to enhance the Trust’s brand awareness at both venues; and also to help with installing the large format graphics.

Pixel8 were asked to use the “swoosh” element from the brands logo design to create a full colour, large format printed vinyl graphic design, to be placed  on one wall, and a single colour vinyl graphic design on the facing wall at the Belle Vue venue. The full colour printed vinyl graphic design measured over 26ft wide, whilst the single colour graphic design measured over 40ft wide. Both of these graphics stand 11ft high.

Large format printed vinyl graphic designs were also installed at Sportcity. The first in the main gym area measured 30ft long and over 6ft high above a large mirror. The second was applied to the upstairs gym area, it measured over 17ft wide by 13ft high.

As a finishing touch, Pixel8’s design team created full colour artwork for a series of ‘inspirational’ graphic designs on canvas featuring images of people working out in the gym.

All of the full colour designs were printed in-house using Pixel8’s large format colour printers.

Pixel8 will be providing additional large format graphic designs for the Trusts’ remaining 17 gyms in Manchester as each one is refurbished.

For more information please call the Pixel8 design agency in Manchester on 0161 228 6489, 0845 230 1336, contact us by e-mail or visit our graphic design portfolio.

The graphic designers at Pixel8 in Manchester have been providing graphic design services for Manchester United for ten years.

This year we are very pleased to have designed the 2010 Manchester United Wall Calendar, Desk Calendar, the Football Planner and the Manchester United Calendar Block which brings the 2008/09 action back to life with questions about the season, and trivia from throughout the years.

The Manchester United 2010 calendar range can be seen on our calendar design portfolio page which also shows our calendar designs for Wayne Rooney and for George Best.

The new Manchester United 2010 calendar is available online from danilo.com and from retail shops throughout the UK.

The Pixel8 Design Agency in Manchester was chosen to design the 2010 calendar for glamour model Lucy Pinder.

The new calendar design features exclusive photographs of Lucy, two of which can be seen on our calendar design portfolio page. The new Lucy Pinder calendar is available online now from danilo.com

This week we had something to really smile about, as we will once again be working with one of the UK’s top dental experts Dr. Paul Tipton.

Tipton Training have asked us to design a new logo, create a new website design with search engine optimisation (SEO) and to design new print materials including business stationery and marketing leaflets.

Based on our previous successful creative graphic design work we carried out for Paul whilst at St. Ann’s Dental, it’s a job we’re really looking forward to sinking our teeth in to!