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 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.

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!

Pixel8, the Manchester based design and marketing agency continues to win website design and web development projects which have become an important part of being a full service agency.

Recently completed web design projects include Livewire in April, a flash animation website, and a new website design for Lorimer Foster Services in May, which includes advanced website search facilities.

Currently being developed are new web designs for Boxfresh Organics, including a complex postcode search facility; a new website for BJ Toys, which is a fully automated e-commerce website and a new web design project for Leighmann’s, another e-commerce website design that includes 1000’s of products. Both of these new e-commerce websites will be live in July 2008.

We are also proud to announce the development and progression of a number of add on services such as sophisticated and yet simple content management (CMS) software through to new web hosting services.  These include both shared and dedicated servers, both fully managed with excellent track records.