website development
design, build, hosting, training, management ...
graphic design
branding, brochures, sales and marketing literature, exhibitions ...
Design Centric is an established creative agency specialising in design for digital environments, also with firm roots in the design for print market. We work with start-ups, multi-nationals and government departments – in fact anyone who values good design.
Bringing ideas to life…
Whether it’s developing your website, creating a corporate identity or designing your sales and marketing literature, we’ll apply our creative skills and a good pinch of common sense (plus a few years experience), to bring your marketing project to life.
Perfectly formed…
We’re a small team of professionals with heaps of experience over many sectors.. If you are looking for a specific service within our capabilities or a holistic design services partner, we would love to hear from you…
Core SERVICES
Strategic Direction
Knowing where you want to be is a good start. Getting there requires a good map and a little know how. Design Centric will help you establish your marketing plan, and help develop your marketing resources. Our consultancy services include planning and management for print and digital media, branding and campaign management.
Making your Mark
Our creative services are tuned to help you make your mark across a multitude of different media. From websites to packaging – direct mail to brochures – exhibitions to advertising. We’ll help you make your mark with a strong visual identity, develop a brand you can build upon, and launch a campaign to bring in the business.
Creative Delivery
Creativity is at the core of all we do. Our services include full end-to-end design and production for print and digital media. We can also help you source complimentary services such as photography and copywriting or other specialist services and technologies.
Support & Services
We’re a service company and we take that seriously. No matter how detailed our proposals are and how fancy our design work is; service comes top of the tree. We’re down-to-earth, and enjoy what we do and who we work with. That has an impact on how we do it.
Design for PRINT
Sales and Marketing literature
The epitome of print; the ‘glossy brochure’, is still the most esteemed piece of marketing collateral a company can poses. A brochure is a tactile asset and serious positioning statement that digital media can’t compete with. A brochure reinforces the commitment of a business – but it has to be good…
The Helpful Holidays 2015 brochure, is a 230 page, full colour production with over 2,000 photographs, and printed en masse via web. Design Centric have produced the Helpful Holidays brochures since 2012 – together with many other marketing pieces.
Sales and Marketing literature
The beauty of print can be seen in many forms and utilise many substrates. The Gidleigh Park brochure is bound in hand-died racing green leather with blind embossed logo to the front with a lime green suede inner. The litho printed internals are die-cut to shape and finished with a matt lamination and spot UV varnish. A truly sumptuous piece.
Bovey Castle required something on quite a different scale for their estate map. This small item is designed to snuggly fit into a jacket pocket.
Advertising
We have created advertising concepts and generated artwork for most advertising media, including; London cabs, public transport, 48 sheet posters, periodicals, newspapers, and many one-off and specialist items, such as beer mats, and posters the size of an average semi!
The Exeter International Airport campaign included on-site advertising, external banners and hordings, signage and various forms of press advertising over a 12 month period.
Direct Mail
Despite the growing trend in social media and digital marketing, well targeted direct mail is still very much alive and well. We design and produce many direct mail pieces, often paralleled with our on-line marketing services (campaign micro-sites, data gathering and email marketing).
We offer full campaign management and fulfilment services, plus, of course, our usual creative design and production services.
Campaign Management
The Tutankhamun Exhibition at the O2 involved a tremendous and varied amount of design and production work for all sorts of collateral, including; advertising, livery to public transport, POS, display banners, newsletters, booking website, ticketing and itineraries, brochures, branding and style guides. All of which required maticulous project management to ensure the show when on.
As a full-service creative agency, we can help you from first principles to delivery.
Display & Exhibitions
Looking for a presence at an exhibition or conference? Design Centric have experience with open space and shell scheme exhibition spaces, plus of course the many pop-up systems available.
Design for DIGITAL media
Microsoft SharePoint Branding
Microsoft SharePoint has become the standard collaboration platform for businesses around the globe and is often configured as the corporate intranet. Branding Microsoft SharePoint is an important part of a businesses’ corporate communications strategy, ensuring consistency of look and feel and the projection of brand values.
Design Centric work with both the modern experience Communication and Team sites and the Classic SharePoint publishing sites. See our dedicated page for Intranet and Extranet development here.
CMS
A Content Management System (CMS) allows you to change your website’s content using a browser-based interface – without having to go back to your web developer. We have taken time to research and trial many content management systems, looking at both flexibility of site development and end-user usability. Perch stood out as the best system in-class for the majority of websites we develop (from business sites to campaign micro-sites).
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) use Perch to good effect and is typical of many sites we develop for marketing campaigns and sporting tournaments. Past website projects utilising Perch include; The Rugby World Cup, The Tutankahmun Exhibition (UK and USA), The Cricket World Cup WT20 – official hospitality site, Twickenham Stadium, The Wimbledon Championships, Cheltenham Race Course (micro-sites) and many more.
End-to-end Service
Most customers really don’t want anything to do with DNS settings, domain management, PHP, hosting, MySQL and all the techy stuff that can be horribly complex but neccessary.
We offer a full end-to-end service, designing and building your website, hosting it and managing all the stuff in-between. Leaving you to focus on the crucial bit – the content (or playing cricket if you prefer).
Site example – ICC World Twenty 20 official Cricket World Cup hospitality site (Client: ICC West Indies).
Email Marketing
Email has become the principle communications avenue for businesses worldwide. It therefore makes sense to leverage the power of email in your marketing campaign. MailCentric is our dedicated email marketing platform – built to perform and deliver immediate results.
Send and create your own volume HTML emails with full access to reporting and data management tools, or leave the graft to us and look forward to reviewing full report and analysis stats for your latest campaign – in real-time.
For more information go to our dedicated website: www.mailcentric.co.uk