Category: Studio Journal

Website now live: EOS HSQE
We’re delighted to launch the new website for EOS HSQE, an independent health, safety, quality and environmental consultancy. With 20 years’ experience across rail, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and health and social care, EOS helps businesses stay compliant and keep their people safe. The new site brings everything together in one place, from tailored HSQE consultancy…

New site just gone live: FWT in Shirenewton, near Chepstow
FWT has been with us for more than 15 years, and this is the second website we’ve built for them. This time we also took on a full rebrand. Based in Shirenewton near Chepstow, FWT designs, installs and maintains water and heating systems for homes and light commercial sites across the UK. They handle boreholes,…

Website now live: PuriCheck
PuriCheck is a new business, and we were involved from day one – creating the brand identity and the website together! Based in Monmouthshire, PuriCheck offers independent water testing for private water supplies across South Wales, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and the Forest of Dean. They serve: The brand is built around what makes PuriCheck…

Website now live: Bignell & Son
Bignell & Son is another long-standing client of more than 15 years, and this is also their second website with us. Like FWT, they’ve had a full rebrand as part of the project. 🎨 The Chepstow-based family business has been going for over 50 years and is now in its fourth generation. They offer oil…

Personality Over Templates: Your Business Isn’t a Clone
Why have a boring, flat AI generated website that looks like recent AI websites when you are an individual and your business is not a clone either? Things to look for in an AI clone website: What to also look for: Have fun spotting these bland, cloned websites just like the fun you can have spotting…

Driving Growth for FTM Materials Handling: A New Website & Marketing Partnership
FTM Materials Handling in Bridgend have been in the game since 1981 — forklifts, telehandlers, excavators, parts and servicing, supplied UK-wide. We’ve built them a new website that finally does the operation justice, and we’re delighted they’ve signed up to an ongoing marketing package with us too. Onwards 💪 👉 ftmbridgend.co.uk Take a look at…

Juggling freelancers
Have you ever found it difficult to get hold of the designer directly or have you never actually spoken to your developer? Actually the developer has never spoken to the designer or the copywriter and on it goes – the project manager sits in the middle stitching it together but their not in the same…

Be an honest designer – trust matters
I looked at a site last week, stock layout, obviously AI written copy, sold to the client as bespoke design. I’ve got no issue with AI as a tool. I use it myself for research and speeding up the boring bits.What bothers me is someone paying handcrafted prices without knowing that’s what they got. That’s…

Needless meetings for meetings sake
At large agencies the need for meetings is almost invented – quite often the junior or middle weights are doing the actual work and the heavy weights are tied up in meetings and pitches and hospitality. I rebelled against that conveyor belt years ago so all our team are middle weights and heavy weights and…

Locked out of your own site
Ask your agency for the login to your own website and see how that conversation goes. A business owner did exactly that with us recently, half expecting to be told no. She wasn’t used to being handed the keys to something she had paid for. This makes no sense to me if you have paid…