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The evolution of a logo – Recognise & Relieve

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Your logo is the main element of your branding which you’ll use pretty much everywhere along with your brand colours. Two people who understand the importance of logo design and brand colours are our very own Tamlyn Hall from TLD and colour consultant Karen Haller.

Karen Haller is an Applied Colour Psychology Specialist.  She helps business owners to communicate their brand’s authentic business personality in colour, further strengthening their marketing message to increase brand recognition by standing out from the competition and increasing sales.

BEFORE: Recognise & Relieve old logo & brand colours

Recognise & Relieve old logo

Recognise & Relieve old brand colours

In analysing the old Recognise and Relieve brand colours Karen Haller found that the brown colour palette is from the colour family related to the Autumn season. The monotone variants of brown give an overall subliminal message of safety, seriousness, reliability and support.

Looking at the brand’s core values – aiding positive change, healing and self awareness in a calm and nurturing environment, the old brown monotone colour palette may have, over time, reflected a feeling of heaviness, reluctance for change and seriousness.

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“Make Do and Mend” – 8 free or almost free ways to improve your presence online

Friday, January 27th, 2012

We have been working hard on our newsletter, as we always do. And it’s ready to send! In this one the illustration was done by Tina and Amy worked on the graphics for the rest of the newsletter. Other newsletters often feature illustration work by Tamlyn – who drew our owls! Those of you who dont subscribe, you’re missing out! We almost always do special offers, games and prizes. Our latest creation involves a theme – “Make Do and Mend” which goes with the whole “January Austerity” feeling. No point in being frivolous and overly extravagent – it’s just not the done thing! So, in our newsletter we have listed “8 free or almost free ways to improve your presence online.” We do like the number 8!

We also like the number 3 – so watch out for the 3 offers within the newsletter.

Read it here and let us know in the comments below what you think!

Tina Webster Illustration blog’s about our “Owls” Pinterest board

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Tina Webster Illustration blog's about our "Owls" Pinterest board

You may have seen Keren’s blog post about Pinterest last week. Well over the weekend I blogged about her “Owl” board and found some inspiration for my first illustration of 2012.

Here are a few of my favorite “owly” delights from Keren’s Pinterest board.

Tina Webster Illustration blog's about our "Owls" Pinterest board

Images from Keren's "Owls" Pinterest board

And here’s my “Twit Twoo” illustration, inspired by all the “owl” talk here at Top Left Design. Hope you like it!

Tina Webster's "Twit Twoo" illustration

Tina Webster's "Twit Twoo" illustration

A collection of websites for Food Businesses (designed by Top Left Design)

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Food – Its yummy and we can’t live without it! (even if you tried). Designing a food website presents an interesting challenge – the design has to look good enough to eat!
Whether it be for a restaurant, or a company that sells food online, the focus has to be on the product, which in these cases, are the food itself, or the venue in which you will be eating the delicious consumables.

Good professional photography is essential for this genre of website, and thankfully, our clients recognise this with the beautiful images they have supplied to us in the past.

Read our blog post on professional photography in web design for more about that.

So without further ado, below are a range of fantastic food business websites that have been designed by Top Left Design.

Carmen Bar De Tapas

Carmen Bar De Tapas is an intimate tapas restaurant located in Clapham, London. The decoration and the friendly attentive staff create an atmosphere that will make you feel right at home.

A perfect venue to enjoy a romantic dinner for two, while also catering for larger groups of family and friends – It is a place to come and relax, and enjoy food as it is meant to be.

Carmen Bar De Tapas Homepage

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9 great “Meet the Team” pages designed by Top Left Design

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

We pride ourselves in making an effort in designing each page with a purpose. This way the website doesn’t look templatey and the information on the page gives the information it needs to and looks visually appealing. Below is a specially compiled collection of Team Page Designs we have done here at Top Left Design. Feel free to comment and enjoy!

Aprirose

With this site we made a super cool script where you click on the person’s face and the box expands to show more information – check it out:

Aprirose team page

Aprirose team page

Fish Financial

For each member of the team, there is a unique testimonial which you get by clicking on the Read Testimonial link – genius!

Fish Financial team page

Fish Financial team page

Long Way Round

We kept with the textured postcard look and feel on this page that you can see on the whole site, and included nifty little “more” links.

Long Way Round team page

Long Way Round team page

OLIM

The profile pictures taken by their photographer were a unique landscape shape which makes this one a little bit different. And we have the little “More” link as well!

Olim team page

Olim team page

Petrus Financial

A cool little rollover script allows you to meet all the team by rolling over their heads!

Petrus Financial team page

Petrus Financial team page

Prescience

More outdoorsy shots of the team here.

Prescience team page

Professional Financial Centres

The team here each have their little note card which we think is a nice touch!

Professional Financial Centres team page

CWB IFAs

Close up shots for all and another rollover script for support staff.

SWB team page

Association of Women Art Dealers

This allows an at a glance look at the current members of AWAD

Association of Women Art Dealers team page

TLD’s homage to Saint Patrick’s Day

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Top Left Design Facebook banner image for Saint Patrick's Day

Here is an illustration I did at the end of February for Top Left Design’s Facebook fan page. We used it for the  banner image on the page and you can see it in all it’s glory here. Keep a look out for more themed Facebook banner illustrations soon from the team here at Top Left Design.