The Pixel8 Design and Marketing Agency in Manchester, UK is proud to present “Powered by Smarter Pixels”, a short animated video showcase of our services.

See Powered by Smarter Pixels now on our home page at www.pixel8ltd.com

If you like our animation, please visit YouTube and click on the “Like” button to vote for us at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kl4Dwz9lmY or tell us what you think by contacting us.

The animation was originally hand designed on storyboards by Pixel8’s creative team to showcase our top level service categories, called WOMGE…

	Web Design
	Online Marketing
	Multimedia
	Graphic Design
	Exhibition Services

Powered by Smarter Pixels also shows the high levels of creativity that Pixel8 consistently delivers.

As a small agency our clients get immediate access to our senior creative, technical and management staff. Our in-house design, development and production teams regularly deliver fast turnarounds because we’re not a 9 to 5 agency. We don’t clock off till your work is done.

Pixel8 is working smarter so your company can get all your design, branding and advertising requirements from one agency. We manage the complete process from concept to completion.

Whether you’re a small business that needs a new logo design or an international hotel chain that’s looking for creative corporate branding, call Pixel8 in Manchester because we’re Powered by Smarter Pixels!

Pixel8’s WOMGE services:

Web Design: Website design and development of SME and PLC websites, eCommerce and CMS websites, database development, blog designs, online brand guides and mobile websites

Online Marketing: Search engine optimisation, SEO copywriting, online press release distribution, social media marketing, email marketing, mobile website marketing and Smartphone applications

Multimedia: Animation, video, virtual tours, 3D page turning magazines, Adobe Director and Flash presentations and recyclable corporate PowerPoint presentations

Graphic Design: Logo design, corporate Branding, brand guide design and development, graphic designs for calendars, sales collateral, leaflets, brochures, business stationary, packaging design and product mock ups, t-shirt design and printing

Exhibition Services: Exhibition stand design, build and removal, light boxes, pop up and pull up banner, in-house large format printing for exhibition stands, vehicles and building exteriors.

If you want your advertising and marketing to work smarter in 2010 and beyond, call Pixel8 in Manchester on 0161 228 6489 – 0845 230 1336 or contact us by email today.

Sorrymate are specialist “bikers for bikers” solicitors that handle motor bike accident claims. They’re all too familiar with accidents caused by motorists who say “Sorry mate, I didn’t see you” after their car has collided with a motor bike.

Sorrymate wanted to inject some vitality into their brand, but to keep elements of their existing logo design. Pixel8 immediately understood that the client wanted the brand refreshed, and not completely changed.

Initial branding design concepts were quickly developed, and Pixel8’s logo design team created a new version of the Sorrymate logo featuring a biker’s helmet with a cracked visor. The new logo and brand design concepts were shown on storyboards to the client who was really pleased with the look and feel of their new branding.

The new logo was then applied as a stand-alone icon across all other print advertising, marketing materials and business stationary. Pixel8 also developed a credit card style SMIDSY (Sorry mate, I didn’t see you) card for bikers to carry in case of an accident.

Pixel8’s exhibition design team got to work creating a 16 panel exhibition stand for a Sorrymate exhibit at the NEC in Birmingham, this included wraparound artwork for the exhibitions’ stand counters. The exhibition graphics were printing in-house on Pixel8’s large format printers.

To complete the new branding, Pixel8’s web designers developed a new website for Sorrymate which is now live at www.sorrymate.com

To see all the final branding designs please visit the Sorrymate design portfolio.

If your company is looking at rebranding, you may find our branding questions answered blog helpful. For more information, please call Pixel8 in Manchester on 0161 228 6489 – 0845 230 1336 or contact us by email

Each year the Pixel8 design agency in Manchester creates an invitation to a day at Chester races for our client, Vodat International Limited.

Last years invite was an email invitation designed and distributed by our email marketing team. The 2010 invitation was created by our graphic design team, and the invites have now been printed and posted to 50 lucky recipients.

The A5 size invitations were designed with an upmarket look and feel to suit the prestigious sporting occasion, but kept in line with Vodat International’s brand guidelines. To emphasise this we included a spot UV varnish on the front of the invites over the Vodat logo.

The invitations were digitally printed double sided, full colour, on a 300gsm gloss art board.

To see more examples of Pixel8’s designs, please visit our graphic design portfolio.

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.

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 t-shirt design team at Pixel8 recently organised the design and print of 100 t-shirts for an Eastlands Homes Event, a housing company based in Manchester.

Working to a tight deadline, our graphic designers put together the artwork and got a quick sign off from the client to ensure that the t-shirts were printed and delivered ontime and within budget.

We are looking forward to further projects with Eastlands Homes and hope to maintain a great working relationship with them in the future.

Following on from our calendar design work with Danilo in producing the Manchester United 2010 range, the Pixel8 graphic design team were asked to design the Lucy Pinder 2010 Calendar. Well, we jumped at the chance!!

Images of Lucy were supplied to us for the calendar, and we came up with the overall look and feel for the 12 pages. The calendar is to be printed and on the shop shelves in time for Christmas 2009.

Zenith Media are a new company based in Manchester that provide businesses with a ‘one-stop-shop’ solution. As a way of introducing themselves, Zenith asked us to design and print their sales and marketing literature.

The folder was an oversize A4 with pocket, which is handy for holding A4 inserts. It was printed full colour plus a spot colour – to keep consistency over future print jobs – onto a gloss board with a high gloss finish on the outer. This job was a shining example of our graphic design skills for sales literature that Pixel8 can quickly design and print for your company!

It’s that time of year again where the Pixel8 graphic design agency is proud to have completed the calendar design and artwork for the official Manchester United 2010 Calendar Block, Desk Calendar and Pocket Diary.

The new Premier League Champions range will be hitting the shelves in time for Christmas, and it’s sure to score a success with all Red’s fans across the world.

Next on our list of graphic designs for MUFC are the Manchester United 2010 Wall Calendar, and the Manchester United 2010 Football Planner.

To see more of our latest designs please visit our MUFC portfiolio page.