Today sees the launch of Birdcage, a new up-coming bar/restaurant in Eskmills. A chic typeface, modern colour palette and playful use of illustration have been combined to create a flexible suite of marketing materials and a brand which captures the spirit of Birdcage. Have a look at some of the work below.

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We just finished designing a new website for Wemyss Properties, visit the site at wemyssproperties.com

Over the last six months we have been working on our own corporate stationery. Business cards, presentation documents, comp slips – they’ve all had a refresh.

Once it started going in front of clients it was important that our website had the same look and feel, so that prompted us to take a fresh look at the website entirely.

Wireframes

With our previous website, we chose to make the blog the main focus of the site. While this worked well for showcasing our most up to date work and articles, it didn’t enable us to communicate what we do as effectively as we would have liked.

The wireframing process helped us nail down what content we wanted to bring to the forefront of the website, and the hierarchy of that content.

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It was a brilliant night for us to win such a prestigious award at the Scottish Design Awards. Big thanks to The Drum and of course the client – Hawke and Hunter.

A long term client of ours, Wemyss Properties, came to us in November 2009 with a new development in the heart of the New Town, Edinburgh.

The projects deliverables include:
- An identity for Albany Street Residences
- Signage
- A sales pack with inserts
- Stationery
- E-newsletter
- Website

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I’m delighted to announce that H&A (and more specifically our Senior Designer, Shen Foo) has been nominated for a Scottish Design Award.

We are nominated in the Craft category, for our work for Hawke & Hunter. Also nominated in this category are Freight, Navy Blue, Tayburn and White Space.

I am very pleased to announce the launch of the new Highland Experience Tours 2010/11 brochure. To everyone who helped to create this brochure, great thanks as always.

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We were approached by selling agents Rettie & Co. and Administrators KPMG to overhaul the marketing campaign for Horizon, a prominent development of apartments in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh.

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Ian McGeechan: Good coach. Nice guy. Thinks with his tongue out.

As I rest and prepare my liver for this weekend’s Calcutta cup match (tickets courtesy of Strawberry Scotland – thanks Aidan), I thought I would give this blog a rugby theme.

In a past life, as I may have mentioned before, I was a rugby player.

And I had the good fortune to play under two of the finest coaches in world rugby – Bob Dwyer, World Cup winning coach with Australia and Ian McGeechan, Grand Slam winning coach of Scotland and five times British and Irish Lions coach.

Whilst my time as a player wasn’t covered in glory, it did teach me a few lessons in life – some of which I find extremely useful in the running of H&A. I thought I’d share them with you – you may find it useful too…

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We have just received official notification that we have been recognised as an Investors In People company. A big thank you to Julie Shiels for her hard work on helping us achieve this, and to Gordon and Stephen at Moon Developments whose advice and guidance has been invaluable.