01 TIMELINE
1996 - Present
Haberdashers' Monmouth Schools
Branding; campus signage; display graphics; exhibition stands at Independent Schools Show, Battersea. Mobile unit show graphics; annual magazines (22 editions); newsletters; advertising, admissions booklets, annual reports and vehicle livery.
Something a bit different
Various large scale community projects celebrating village life and heritage: brand development for SMEs and start-ups; unusual commissions such as celebration cakes, orders of service, silk and watercolour paintings, gift cards, cushions; video for Monmouth.
Edgbaston High School for Girls
Design of new concept for annual magazine – three successive editions.
Natural England
Illustration and design of interpretation panels at Avebury Wiltshire; Uttoxeter, and Royal Forest of Dean
Brecon Beacons National Park
Range of map and information signs for ten sites, walks leaflet and events programme; biodiversity project. Information panels in Abergavenny Station.
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage
Successful tendering for a comprehensive programme in Arabic and English, to interpret the Emirate’s history, traditions, wildlife and customs.
Contemporary Art Society for Wales
Annual Reports and newsletters for 12 successive years.
Cooper Security
Technical literature, instruction manuals and product information sheets.
Gifts4all
Shopfitting, product catalogues, and promotional material
Celtic Spirit Company
Establishment of branding, stationery, POS material, trade advertising, sales literature, packaging for Black Mountain Liqueur, Danzy Jones and Poteen.
Certo
Design and artwork for a book providing recipes for jams, jellies, and marmalades. Bottle labelling and outer packaging design.
Watkins Hire
Design of trade advertisements, sales and technical literature for the UK’s leading provider of heating, air conditioning and dehumidification equipment.
Wisbech Grammar School
Design and production of a series of newsletters.
Unitech
Design and production of display graphics for headquarters building; photography and simulation of nuclear laundry equipment footprint.
J W Bassett Pubs
Design of special occasion drip-mats and print ephemera; leaflets promoting individual public houses.
Skyway Europe
Suitcase box packaging and leaflets
Redrow
One of the country’s leading developers commissioned us to produce, in collaboration with the architectural practice, a sales brochure and associated literature for a new housing scheme.
J J Merchandising
Perhaps one of our more complicated jobs, the company specialised in personalised gifts, for which we produced a range of diverse and complicated artwork.
Hands Around the World
Fundraising quarterly newsletter and stationery for 6 years.
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)
Research, copywriting, design production and installation of WW1 commemoration - Poppy Trail; illustration and manufacture of soldiers through the ages; research, design and production of a timeline illustrating 500 years of the regiment’s history. Regimental Gin label design, Annual Journal, Regimental museum signage and graphics.
Monmouthshire County Council
Design and installation of 'Food with Provenance' and 'Dragons of Prosperity' showcase stands at Royal Welsh Show. Design of a programme celebrating the Olympic Torch tour of the county; building wraps; creation of a permanent exhibition in Victorian Chapel of Rest; business expo displays, Geoffrey of Monmouth exhibition; banners; Wye Valley signage; and visitor guides.
Rolls Royce
Design of event logo and programme commemorating life of the early motoring pioneer and aviator Charles Rolls.
AFI Uplift
Branding and logo creation, corporate brochures, machine specification documents, flyers, advertising, vehicle livery. Dubai ARG logo creation. Exhibition stands and display material. Workplace logos. 13 consecutive years.
Dartmoor National Park Authority
Interpretation programmes for Widecombe-in-the-moor comprising graphic panels, walks leaflets, maps, booklets and waymarkers. Wray Valley Trail – introduction of map panels along disused railway line, writing and recording of an oral history of the industry of the area.
Kay Premium Marking Films
Retained for 10 years to write and distribute trade press releases; design of advertisements; design and production of worldwide travelling exhibitions and stands at NEC Birmingham and ExCel, London, and conference PR.
Revelation Piccadilly
Product catalogues, advertising and sales literature.
Brass and Traditional Sinks
Advertising, brochures and exhibition stands over 20 years
Lillywhites, Piccadilly
Sales posters
Felinfoel Brewery
Corporate brochure, advertising, point-of-sale and literature
Talyllyn Railway
A series of interpretation panels tracing the history of the world’s first preserved heritage steam railway; a map of the line; and wildlife illustrations.
Models Made Easy
Design, illustration, and artwork commissioned for a range of cardboard models – Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Monnow Bridge, British Museum, Millennium Stadium Cardiff, Twickenham and Craven Cottage (Fulham FC).
RAF Leeming
Design and production of Christmas cards.
Marigold Gloves
Design and production of sales/technical leaflets covering the domestic and industrial gloves range.
BHS
Sales leaflet
Flying Bridge Theatre Company
Design of logo and stationery, posters and flyers for innovative Welsh theatre company.
Cirencester Town Council
When we were invited by Cirencester Town Council to design a toposcope, we first had to discover that it’s an orientation table directing the viewer to notable landscape features – in this case, principal towns and roads established by the Romans. The design is completely hand-drawn and then printed onto super-tough lavastone.
Hell Beer
Concept designs for labels, tee shirts, POS material, and exhibition graphics to help launch this imported premium lager in the UK.
Wilson Sports
Product Catelogues
County Forge
Logo design, stationery, advertising and brochures: brand development.
1985 - 1996
Nationwide Access/Lavendon PLC
Vehicle branding, Advertising, Sales and technical literature, H & S manuals, product launch of ‘Skylift’, corporate book and Annual Report.
Garden Festival Wales
Design, artwork and production of graphic panels to interpret various aspects of global biodiversity for the tropical house exhibition.
Epicurean Europe
Supplying packaging and literature design for over 30 years.
Halfords
Packaging design for UK-wide suppliers of the entire product range.
Siebe Gorman
Design and production of sales leaflets..
Tubex
Design and production of a range of sales/technical leaflets for tree protection specialists.
Goldtec
This established engineering company produced very high-quality cycle gears. Photo direction, copywriting, design, artwork and production of a sales catalogue and trade advertising
Comasec
Design and production of sales/technical leaflets covering the domestic and industrial gloves range.
Kalmar
Leaflets and advertising design.
Whitecroft Scovill
Product catalogues and packaging design
Royal Ordnance
Series of technical and sales leaflets for protective clothing, HM Forces.
Brain’s Brewery
Design, copywriting, direction and editing of Corporate promotional video.
Simon Access International
Multi-lingual sales and technical literature; exhibition stands at Olympia and Paris.
Tri-Wall Europe
Retained to help develop designs and promotional literature for X-ibox; stand designs and construction at NEC, Birmingham.
Nimbus
LP and CD Covers and trade magazine advertising.
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers
Construction and installation of exhibition stand in Guildhall, London.
Ultralight Ltd
Branding, packaging, sales leaflets, product catalogue, trade advertising, exhibition stands at NEC, Birmingham and Harrogate.
Hoffman Engineering
Assisting the establishment of a UK division through the design and production of a range of technical leaflets aimed at trade customers.
I.G. Lintels
Technical leaflets for new products as they came online. Exhibition material. Vehicle livery.
Crown Buckley Brewery
Design of packaging, POS material, posters, sales literature, promotional brochures for individual pubs and outlets.
Gwent Wildlife Trust
For some ten years, we designed and produced advertisements, newsletters, flyers, a walks handbook for the Trust’s 40 reserves, interpretation panels, and graphic display boards for their flagship centre at Magor Marsh on Severnside.
Cardiff Bay Chamber Orchestra
Establishment of a brand for this newly formed orchestra, comprising logo, brochure, template programme, posters and flyers.
Leading Edge
Sales literature
Suflex
Sales and technical leaflets, display material and exhibition graphics.
Powell Tuck
Property Development brochures
Cambrian Woollen Mill
Press releases, trade advertising, sales catalogue and POS material.
British Steel
Design and production of business stationery; Health and Safety posters for use in Strip Mills.
British Coal
Comprehensive planning document – 80 roll-out pages, for regreening of mining areas in Brecon Beacons.
Royal Mint
Medal commemorating Gerald of Wales.
Bedwas Bodyworks
Detailed illustrations, design and production of sales and technical leaflets: exhibition graphics for Motor Show at NEC, Birmingham.
1969 - 1985
Bass Wales & West
POS material, bottle labels, development of new Worthington Best Bitter brand, conference material, Hancock’s Centenary logo and promotion. 15 years.
Dunlop Semtex
Trade advertising, sales catalogues, display material produced and installed in UK showrooms; displays at Dunlop Masters Golf Tournament. Exhibition stand for Interbuild, NEC Birmingham.
Dendix Brushes
Design of logos for Dendix, Osborn and Brushes International, products manufactured for the steel, medical, automotive, and aerospace industries, and dry ski slopes.
The Post Office
Two illustrated aerogrammes for Wales, launched at Llangollen International Festival.
Linpac/Spong Housewares
Sustained period of designing sales literature, exhibition stands and packaging for a range of household products.
Herman Miller
Production of a series of technical drawings covering the range of high-quality office furniture.
Bulmer’s Cider
Design of Point-of Sale material including drip mats and posters; exhibition stand at World Beer Show, Olympia.
Mitel Telecom
Design of a wide range of user manuals and sales literature for telephones and handsets.
Longleat House
Design of a brochure to promote the newly-opened restaurant, decorated with paintings by Lord Bath
Bristol Corporation
Design of City Council tent at Bristol 600 on Clifton Downs, housing a tapestry and interpretative panels: visited by Queen Elizabeth II.
Formwood
Retained designers for the production of sales and technical literature, packaging, display graphics and scheme for overseas trade exhibitions.
Newport Borough Council
Event promotion, leaflets and posters. Historic information panels covering Roman Settlement at Caerleon to Bronze Age Settlement on Severnside.
Wales Arts Council
Poster designs for numerous art shows.
South Hereford Garages
Concept design, copywriting, and illustrations for a portfolio of advertisements: trade show graphics and production of cut-out cartoon characters.
Haeffner & Co
Series of technical, sales brochures and labels for new products.
Coates Gaymer’s Ciders
Recipe book with illustrations and photographs; leaflet and display material for Malvern County Show.
Teacher’s Whisky
Design and Illustration for the company history, distributed throughout the world.
HTV West
Provided cover for the design department’s leave, producing graphics for the Newsroom, often last-minute while it was on-air!
Ford Farrow Advertising
A number of conference presenters including for Weetabix
CONTACT
Our office is in the centre of the beautiful market town of Monmouth on the Wales/England border.
Platform One,
The Market Tavern, 26 Agincourt Square, Monmouth NP25 3BT
Please contact us for a no-obligation quotation and/or a free initial consultation:
Tel: 01600 714600
Email: design@platform-one.co.uk