littleangel's 2nd birthday :)

Spacey wanted a new site to give information about tattooing, piercing and also his studio details. The design was populated with existing content, the gallery is to be updated with new images. We thought that presenting the site on skin might be a fun idea...

www.bizarreink.co.uk

Imarni required a brochure site to showcase their beauty products and therapies, they wanted a design to reflect the aqua theme that runs throughout their treatments and products and worked with their existing branding.

www.imarni.co.uk

av dynamite sells premium home cinema equipment and accessories, designed to maximise your home cinema experience. Corporate branding was developed with a focus on the symbol, which reflects the business name and the feel of the company, this works in tangent with the clients consultancy service av doctor.

The site design was developed to showcase the products in a crisp clean stage, the red background and watermarking adding the "spark". This technical build was done in conjunction with rg-cs.

www.avdynamite

We have had a couple of calls from concerned clients regarding domain name registration, the following article may be useful to you if you have experienced this:

Some unscrupulous companies are running various domain name scams intended to mislead or frighten you into transferring your domain name to them or to register an alternative domain name with them. This document is intended to provide some advice for identifying these domain scams and for reporting them to the relevant authorities.

"Another company is trying to register your name"
The first type of domain scam often involves a company phoning you claiming that someone is trying to register an alternative version of your domain name. They will offer you the chance to register that domain name at a high price to "prevent the other person from taking your domain name". They will often give you a short time limit, maybe only a few minutes, to decide whether you want to register that domain name and prevent someone else from taking it.

The people allegedly about to register the other name rarely, if ever, exist, although there have been instances where the alternative domains have been registered by "the other person". If this happens, it is most likely that the domain scammers are "the other person" and have registered the domain name themselves.

Our advice is not to register any domain names with any company making such claims. If you feel the domain name is important to you, register the domain name online with us or another provider at much lower prices. You may be able to do this even while you discuss matters with the domain scammers.

"Renew your domain name now or lose it!"
Another type of domain scam is where a company sends what appears to be a domain renewal invoice through the post, even though they are not your domain registrar. These "invoices" warn you that you should renew your domain registration with that company or risk losing your domain name. The design and wording of the "invoice" has often been carefully chosen so that it appears to be a renewal invoice, whilst technically and legally it could be classed only as a transfer notice.

Our advice is to only accept domain renewal notices from the company that you registered your domain name with in the first place. If you are in any doubt as to who you should pay for domain renewals, contact your existing domain registrar.

Dealing with domain scammers
We also recommend that you obtain as much information as possible about the domain scammers and report them to the relevant authorities. Ask for their name and address, their website address and any other information you can think of.

If the domain name scammer is UK based, report them to your local Trading Standards office. It may also help to report the incident to your local police as an attempted fraud.

If the domain scammer is outside the UK, especially in the USA or Canada, you can report them to the IFCC, the FTC and many other organisations. Complaints are taken seriously in the USA and Canada and there have been some successful prosecutions.

source: www.lwdinternet.co.uk

Francis Cassidy was looking for a redesign of his branding, site www.acu-wellness.co.uk and also of his stationery including business card, letterhead and an A4 leaflet folded to 1/3 A4.

Acu-wellness is an auricular (ear) acupuncture service the branding was to hint at the origins of acupuncture, and work in an up to date format.

We worked on and developed ideas inspired by Chinese woodblock and contemporary signage keeping and developing an original illustration of the ear used in earlier renditions of Francis logo.

www.acu-wellness.co.uk

larkin and catcher asked for a logo and illustrations for their online boutique.

We worked to create a unique / sinister /eccentric feel with hares taking on the characters of Larkin and Catcher.

To see all of the illustrations and a letterhead proposal go to work portfolio 3 >>

different. little. things.
www.larkinandcatcher.com

happy new year

littleangel design wishes you the all best for 2007 :)

Cotterell Light Centres asked for new flash presentation to highlight the range of products on sale within their online shop and in stores. We have used various roomsets featuring many of their products along with their strapline "lighting, furniture, accessories" to this end. There are various of these presentations so we can swap around to keep the site looking fresh.

www.cotterell-lightcentres.co.uk

Stephanie May Performance Centre required a logo to be used initially on their corporate stationery with a variation to be embroidered on to black hoodys for the dancers to wear.

They wanted a logo that reflects the modern dance styles that they teach and to be attractive to the young people that participate.

to be included in the portfolio - watch this space...

littleangel design has been very busy over the last year and a half and is very pleased to announce that as of December, will be working with rg-cs (really good computer services).

littleangel design and rg-cs will be subcontracting work to each other on a project by project basis. littleangel providing design and build services, rg-cs providing technical support and assistance on technical builds.

In addition rg-cs can provide technical support services including:

• reliable small business & home pc support
• professional solutions & friendly advice
• networking
• email
• internet & wifi security
• support contracts
• installation & upgrades
• hardware & software maintenance

If you would like to find out more about what rg-cs can offer your business call on 0773 346 8124 or visit the site to see a list of services.

www.rg-cs.co.uk

.Wedding list Scotland is currently being rebranded as Wedding List UK, as such the site will be changing shortly, the new url is www.weddinglistuk.co.uk

littleangel has just sent to print designs for Wedding List UK's new leaflet, cassette banners and exhibition board to be displayed at the The Best Scottish Weddings Exhibition – Braehead Arena
23rd & 24th of September 2006

In development are designs for new corporate stationery and a Wedding Pack

www.weddinglistuk.co.uk

bliss has an existing brand which has been developed further to create their website design. This site is currently under construction, it will comprise an ecommerce shop and news & events diaries for dance and dancewear in and around the edinburgh area

www.blissdancewear.co.uk

smr-fitness.co.uk and cpd-fitness-training.com are utilities for fitness instructor Susan Rowley, over the last few months we have developed corporate branding and stationery including, a duel company business card, a one stop postcard, tshirt designs and adverts.

Two sites are currently being developed with online shop, class booking, newsletter, blog and much more..

www.smr-fitness.co.uk
www.cpd-fitness-training.com

Cotterell light Centres have a new venture "igloo" which is their new high street store, reselling lighting, furniture and accessories.

littleangel design has created a logo and symbol. The logo is based around the styling of the existing CLC logo. The symbol depicts an igloo but is abstract enough to suggest a home, a light or even an accessory, depending upon what you want to see...

www.cotterell-lightcentres.co.uk/igloo

bjr systems ltd. required a professional showcase for their product ranges and for their design and bespoke manufacturing capabilities.

The design compliments the curve of the eye in the branding, the eye is used further in the framing of some of the images and this method of framing is used further in other framing shapes.

This site is undergoing development, and will be maintained by littleangel as

www.bjr.co.uk

Larkin and Catcher asked me to come up with a logo and idea of it's usage on stationery and some illustrations which are to be used on their stationery and website, the results are in the web & print 3

The Ocean Jewellery site has been updated with new products which also appear in the latest edition of their catalogue, photography by Iain S Wallace. this is edition 3, you can see their new range on their updated site as well...

www.oceanjewellery.co.uk

littleangel is now maintaining kup-ratdesigns.co.uk for Karoline Kuprat, illustrator and card designer, Karoline has just added a new greetings card range the "Rabbit Range" to be published in July 2006.

www.kup-ratdesigns.co.uk