20/08/10 Brand for 2011 European Wave & Tidal Energy conference

Project: Fresh public identity for EWTEC 2011
Client: University of Southampton
URL: www.soton.ac.uk
Our solution: Concept and design of new brand

The Ninth European Wave and Tidal Energy conference, a gathering of leading international scientists and academics, is to take place at the University of Southampton from 5-9 September 2011.

As host of the 2011 conference, the University’s school of Civil Engineering and the Environment asked Eight Wire to give the event an updated identity and logo. We designed a clear, contemporary new brand for the conference, incorporating the idea of waves and motion into the typographic logo.      

06/08/10 2010 Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week handbook

Project: ‘The Book’ for all competitors of Falmouth Week regatta 2010
Client: Port of Falmouth Sailing Association (PoFSA)
URL: www.pofsa.co.uk
Our solution: Design, copywriting, publishing and management of 48 page full colour handbook  

Eight Wire is delighted to have once again produced the official Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week handbook on behalf of PoFSA. A copy of the smart A5 handbook goes to each entry of Falmouth Week, Falmouth Classics and Falmouth Dinghy Week 2010.

In addition to designing, compiling and managing the production of the book, we also wrote lively topical articles, edited all copy and provided advertising space to local businesses connected with Falmouth’s thriving marine sector.

We hope everyone involved had a successful and very enjoyable Falmouth Week.      

23/07/10 Portfolio website for In Casa Interiors

Project: Online brochure website for independent interior designer
Client: In Casa Interiors
URL: www.incasainteriors.com
Our solution: Design and build of new website

In Casa’s Anna Cappuccini creates beautiful residential interiors throughout London and Hertfordshire. She required a cost-effective first website that would give In Casa an all-important online space to display its work tastefully and seamlessly.

We designed an elegant yet economic portfolio site built around In Casa’s project photography, linking the images to fade in and out of one another.

08/07/10 Postcards for UCF Careers Service

Project: Post-graduation careers service postcards
Client: University College Falmouth
URL: www.falmouth.ac.uk
Our solution: Set of two laminated A6 postcards

The Careers Advisory Service at University College Falmouth provides help and guidance for students and alumni up to three years after graduation.

Eight Wire has produced a set of dynamic promotional postcards for UCF to raise awareness of the support available. We intensified the colours of an original image supplied by UCF and created a second postcard design using the Careers Service logo, before adding a glossy laminate finish to both.

18/06/10 New website for Beachside Holiday Park

Project: Website redesign and expansion
Client: Beachside Holiday Park
URL: www.beachside.co.uk
Our solution: Design, build and launch of website

Family-run Beachside Holiday Park offers great value accommodation and camping pitches from an idyllic setting in St Ives Bay. Granted the task of building a new and improved website for Beachside, Eight Wire’s brief was for an attractive, engaging site that would better represent the park and boost bookings.  

Working with Beachside’s existing brand and image library, we designed and wrote new copy for a bright, dynamic site incorporating video, flash images and virtual tours. The new site has an emphasis on interaction throughout, encouraging visitors to book, check availability and sign up to Beachside’s mailing list and social media groups.

04/06/10 Booklet for Cornish Assured Oysters

Project: Brochure promoting oysters with raw food safety certification
Client: Cornish Assured Oysters
URL: www.cornishassuredoysters.co.uk/
Our solution: Design of 6 page A5 full colour booklet

Cornish Assured Oysters is a new venture supplying oysters certified free of norovirus. Having successfully created the concept for the brand, Eight Wire was also approached to design a promotional booklet.

Using a high quality recycled stock, we accompanied detailed copy about the origins, ethos and science behind Cornish Assured Oysters with beautifully textural images of rock oysters.

21/05/10 Discover Falmouth and Roseland accommodation guides

Project: 2010 publication of two accommodation guides for Falmouth Tourist Information Centre
Client: Visit Cornwall
URL: www.visitcornwall.com/
Our solution: Design and management of one 54 page and one 28 page A5 full colour brochure

For the second year running, Eight Wire has co-ordinated the production of the annual accommodation guides for Falmouth and the Roseland. Both glossy brochures serve as comprehensive handbooks for visitors to each area, featuring only hotels, guestshouses, bed & breakfasts and self catering accommodation quality assessed by either Visit Britain or the AA.

We sourced and laid out all content for over 150 listings for both guides before confirming proofs with each individual accommodation owner. Our smooth running of the project ensured that both guides went to print in time to meet their tight deadlines.

06/05/10 Promotion of day sails aboard ‘Artemis’

Project: Marketing of day sails aboard the tall ship Artemis, visiting Falmouth in June 2010
Client: Falmouth Tall Ships Association
URL: www.tallshipsfalmouth.co.uk
Our solution: Offline and online event marketing campaign

Eight Wire is pleased to be the official marketing agency to support Falmouth Tall Ships Association and its work in bringing tall ships to Falmouth. Working across a range of marketing tools, we are keeping the association's website updated, have organised press coverage, created print media and mounted a popular social media campaign through Facebook.

The magnificent 59-foot vessel, one of the world’s last traditional square-rigged former whalers, is today a luxurious tall ship with her own bar and dance floor. She sailed to and from Falmouth Docks on two spectacular sails in the vicinity of Falmouth Bay on June 12 and 13, 2010.

30/04/10 Brand for collaboration of local solicitors

Project: Public persona for new conveyancing network
Client: The Key Network
URL: www.the-key-network.co.uk/
Our solution: Concept and design of new brand

With the purpose of making property sales quicker and more efficient, solicitors from across Cornwall have come together to form the Key Network. The new alliance approached Eight Wire to create a clear-cut brand and logo.

We developed initial design concepts into an accessible, memorable brand that met the approval of members of the Key Network committee. The brand will go on to become a marque of association that sits comfortably alongside each member’s individual company identity.

23/04/10 New website for Armada Marine Hydraulics

Project: Website renovation and redesign
Client: Armada Marine Hydraulics
URL: www.armadamh.co.uk/
Our solution: Design and build of new streamlined website with bespoke CMS

Eight Wire has created an efficient and polished website for Armada Marine Hydraulics, engineering and design consultants of global hydraulic systems. As a world leader in the field of hydraulics, Armada needed a website that would successfully convey the company’s professional expertise.

Working closely with Armada to reaffirm the company persona, we produced a sleek, restructured website optimised for superyacht and commercial marine hydraulics engineering and with a specially designed content management system. This CMS allows Armada to update the website with corporate news and categorised case studies at liberty.

07/04/10 Raymond Blanc approves oysters brand

Project: Corporate identity for oysters with raw food safety certification
Client: Cornish Shellfish Company
URL: www.cornishassuredoysters.co.uk
Our solution: Concept and design of new brand

Cornish Assured Oysters, a new brand by Eight Wire, is the only scientifically tested assurance marque for top quality native and rock oysters certified free of norovirus, meaning they can be served raw with confidence.

Eight Wire worked alongside the Cornish Shellfish Company to develop a clear communicative brand, ready for a meeting with renowned chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc, one of the project's supporters. Having exceeded the celebrity chef's high expectations the brand was given the green light. Cornish Assured Oysters are now the preferred choice of Blanc’s flagship two Michelin star restaurant in Oxford, Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons.

19/03/10 Pendra Loweth email marketing

Project: Development of contact database for seasonal email marketing
Client: Pendra Loweth Cottages
URL: www.pendraloweth.co.uk/
Our solution: Postal address conversion campaign and targeted suite of HTML emails

Self-catering holiday park Pendra Loweth Cottages sought to expand its email address database. We mounted a successful postal campaign to convert Pendra’s postal addresses to emails of people interested in special offers and last minute deals.

Each respondent received a branded, personalised HTML email relevant to their area of interest and offering them a discounted 2010 cottage break to boost bookings. We now send promotional email campaigns for Pendra on a regular basis.

Click here to join the Pendra mailing list.

26/02/10 E-Commerce website for Inlight

Project: Website redesign and expansion with online store and client interface
Client: Inlight Organic Skincare
URL: www.inlight-online.co.uk/
Our solution: Design, build and relaunch of e-commerce website with custom-made CMS

As creators of ethically-sourced balms, oils and ointments, organic skincare specialists Inlight are led by homeopath Dr Mariano Spiezia. Inlight needed a highly-functional website and online store that would enable the addition and customisation of new content simply and quickly.

Starting with a stylish re-imagining of Inlight’s existing site, Eight Wire went on to build a user-friendly e-commerce facility and a bespoke content management system, giving Inlight the freedom to edit many areas of the site themselves.

12/02/10 Pendra Loweth brochure 2010/11

Project: Brochure redesign and update
Client: Pendra Loweth Cottages
URL: www.pendraloweth.co.uk/
Our solution: Design and management of eight page A5 concertina brochure

A new year requires a fresh brochure and that’s just what Eight Wire have produced for Pendra Loweth, a secluded village of self-catering cottages set in award-winning landscaped gardens.

Developing our original brochure design and content from the previous year, we combined essential tariff and booking information with evocative images of the park at its best. The finished result was printed on a high-quality, recycled stock.

29/01/10 New website for Manage Cornwall

Project: Website expansion and redesign
Client: Manage Cornwall
URL: www.managecornwall.co.uk/
Our solution: Design, build and relaunch of website

Headed by Dr Mairi Mclean, Manage Cornwall offers development coaching, management training and mentoring for businesses and individuals. They needed to build upon their existing website in order to showcase their full range of expertise.

Having designed the Manage Cornwall brand, Eight Wire incorporated its themes and colours into the new site, complete with a beautiful collection of original photography and iconic images of scenic Cornwall.

18/01/10 Meudon Hotel newsletter 2010

Project: Annual newsletter for hotel guests and enquiries
Client: Meudon Hotel
URL: www.meudon.co.uk/
Our solution: Design and management of eight page A5 concertina newsletter with A6 insert

Each year, Meudon Hotel in Mawnan Smith sends its clientele a friendly round up of news, events, offers and information for the coming seasons. For this year’s newsletter, Meudon asked Eight Wire to refresh the format whilst staying true to the hotel’s quintessential style.

Working with Meudon on the content, we designed and print managed an elegant, glossy newsletter complete with images of the hotel’s stunning grounds taken on our recent on-site photo shoot.

16/12/09 Branding for West Cornwall Youth Trust

Project: New public identity for Cornish youth charity
Client: West Cornwall Youth Trust
URL: www.westcornwallyouthtrust.org/
Our solution: Concept and design of new logo

Eight Wire are delighted to be supporting local charity West Cornwall Youth Trust with the design of a new logo and brand.

The Trust provides invaluable financial and emotional backing to socially disadvantaged and differently abled young people throughout West Cornwall. We worked with them to develop a clear, instantly recognisable identity through which the charity can promote their vital work.

30/11/09 New website for Outboard Motor Locks

Project: Online product portfolio for motor lock manufacturer
Client: Outboard Motor Locks
URL: www.outboardmotorlocks.co.uk/
Our solution: Design, build and launch of new website

As specialists in marine outboard security, Outboard Motor Locks wanted a smart yet functional online brochure for their range of in-house designed locks. Having reinforced the brand, Eight Wire created a neat and vibrant website with clear yet detailed pages for each individual product. We also wrote and added new editorial copy throughout the site, fully optimising it for organic searches.

16/10/09 Lyndon Design HTML email invite

Project: Launch night to celebrate new showroom for furniture manufacturers
Client: Lyndon Design
URL: www.lyndon.co.uk
Our solution: Design and distribution of HTML email invitation

A new showroom in London gave furniture manufacturers Lyndon Design the perfect excuse to host an exclusive launch night.

Eight Wire designed and co ordinated an elegant email mailshot inviting clients and guests to toast Lyndon's success at the launch night and managed the responses.

02/10/09 Purely Flowers online portfolio

Project: Online brochure for floristry business
Client: Joanne Cooper
URL: www.purely-flowers.co.uk/
Our solution: Design, build and launch of new website

Eight Wire have created a new online brochure for Falmouth-based floristry Purely Flowers. Joanne Cooper, Purely’s flower designer, needed a simple, cost-effective online platform that would allow the beauty of her work to speak for itself. Using images we produced from an in-house photo shoot, we designed and built a bright, clean brochure-style website that showcases Joanne’s original arrangements.

25/09/09 New website for PSG Cornwall

Project: Website redesign and expansion
Client: PSG Cornwall
URL: www.psgcornwall.co.uk
Our solution: Design, build and relaunch of new website

Local property information firm PSG Cornwall required a strong, informative online presence to showcase their services including home information packs (HIPs) and energy performance certificates (EPCs). Eight Wire provided a total website redesign and relaunch, presenting the information clearly and concisely and optimising the site’s content, structure and natural search position.

17/09/09 PSG Cornwall public relations

Project: Media exposure highlighting company growth
Client: PSG Cornwall
URL: www.psgcornwall.co.uk
Our solution: Creation and distribution of press release with photo shoot

With the recruitment of a new operations manager and a relocation to larger offices, Redruth-based property information specialists PSG Cornwall commissioned Eight Wire to publicise their expansion. We put together a lively press release and carried out an on-location photo shoot to illustrate the story. Thorough PR distribution resulted in liberal coverage of the story by local press.

04/09/09 Purely Flowers photo shoot

Project: Promotional images for new Purely Flowers website
Client: Joanne Cooper
URL: www.purely-flowers.co.uk
Our solution: Studio photo shoot

Eight Wire’s in-house studio was bursting with beautiful blooms as part of the design and build of a new website for flower designer Joanne Cooper and her brand Purely Flowers. Our photographer Matt Tipler captured images of Joanne’s collection which includes original arrangements in silks and naturals and custom bouquets for any occasion. The images form the basis of Joanne’s on and offline portfolio and will feature on the forthcoming Purely Flowers website.

28/08/09 St Mawes & The Roseland Guide

Project: St Mawes & The Roseland accommodation guide
Client: Carrick Tourism
URL: www.stmawesandtheroseland.co.uk
Our solution: Design and management of 28 page A5 full colour booklet

Due to popular demand, Eight Wire has reprinted the trusted accommodation guide for St Mawes and the Roseland, which we originally created in March 2009. We were commissioned to design the new edition of the guide, with original editorial, images and information to truly emphasise all that this beautiful area of Cornwall has to offer.

14/08/09 The Art of Happiness online gallery

Project: Online gallery
Client: Suzanne Crook
URL: www.theartofhappinessgallery.co.uk
Our solution: Design and build of gallery website

Falmouth mixed media artist Suzanne Crook chose Eight Wire to unleash her successful collection of highly original and impressive artworks onto web. A smart yet low-key black background does digital justice to Suzanne's originals, allowing site visitors to view her back catalogue, whet their appetites and commission her for new work.

01/08/09 Brochure for Falmouth Week Regatta 2009

Project:NORSI Booklet.
Client: Port of Falmouth Sailing Association (PoFSA)
URL: www.pofsa.co.uk
Our solution: Design and management of 64 page full colour brochure

As the region’s premiere sailing event, Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week Regatta attracts thousands of sailors, tourists and local visitors every year. The official ‘Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions’ (NORSI) brochure, contains the complete programme of events as well as a wealth of information about local sailing clubs, race rules and event history.

We designed, compiled and managed the production of the brochure from concept through to completion, giving it a fresh look for 2009.

03/07/09 South East Seafood brochure

Project: Brochure promoting line-caught fish.
Client: South East Seafood
URL: www.southeastseafood.co.uk/seafood/
Our solution: Design of double-sided full colour DL

A worthwhile project to promote the environmental and quality benefits of buying line-caught fish, tagged at sea by fishermen before it’s landed was promoted by a special brochure to raise awareness and tingle the tastebuds.

From initial client input, we wrote the copy for, and designed, the brochure in order to best-deliver the information to the target audience and raise interest.