A good time to be Hughes Design!

It's been a busy few months - we've moved to a central London office, new and existing clients are keeping us nice and busy and we've got plenty work on the horizon. Hopefully this trend will continue.

We've just completed - along with our digital partner DJA - two websites, one for our PR pals at Trinity  and another for italian politician Renato d'Andria promoting his book on his life in Italian politics. Our first site all in Italian.

We've also got 3 brand exercises in development - for a jewellery business, a social network and an orchestra - details of which will be posted when appropriate.

Of course we're always on the look out for new challenges so please get in touch to discuss your design and online needs.

Olympic Posters

The Olympic folks put up a huge banner outside the East Finchley tube station asking if we are ready to be a good host...

That got us thinking... 

In the spirit of "Keep Calm and Carry on" variations of which are just about everywhere at the moment, we knocked up our own Olympic posters instructing Londoners how to behave during the games... 

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Enjoyed this talk no end. Hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

When debate breaks down

While reading the comments regarding a video on the TED site, we came across this, which made us smile.

To be worn with some irony...?

After flying the other day with the "orange alternative" and landing at London Luton Airport, I got to thinking about the airline no one seems to say anything positive about and why I only use it reluctantly. It got me thinking, this airline is in need of positive PR - especially when faced with an online anti fan sites or BBC Panorama's programme. So we thought - for free - we could invert the negative and crete a feel good message and emblazon it on some merchandise. So we fused the brand name with a Milton Glaser heart and voila! Either completely unsellable merchandise, or cult hit to be worn with an ironic smile...

Ferguson Hill Launch FHOO9 Home Theatre System

After much fine tuning Ferguson Hill launch the long awaited FHOO9 Home Theatre System to rave reviews.

This stylish addition to any home won 5 stars in a 3 way test in iCreate Magazine and was equally well received in the Daily Mail, the former saying "The clarity of the Sound is amazing" and the latter saying "The best home cinema speakers ever made"

Read more reviews here.

Hughes Design have been working with Ferguson Hill for many years supplying creative direction. Aside from Copywriting, Art direction packaging design, together with DJA online we recently updated the Ferguson Hill website.

Yo ho ho!

What a year it's been! Big thanks, we couldn't have done it without you:

And everyone else we worked with in 2011

We hope you have a great break and come back refreshed in the new year. Hughes Design will be closed from Friday 23rd December 2011 and will be back properly on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 to address all your digital, design and copywriting requirements.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Mike, Julia, Dan | HUGHES DESIGN