Design Musings

The Guadalupe Hills Holiday Apartments website has been one of the largest we have worked on for a while, but it needed to be, to reflect the region in Spain where the complex is situated. It also needed to represent a number of apartment owners both jointly and independently. We suggested creating the site in a way that would provide visitors a useful resource, while at the same time presenting the complex in a pleasing way. There are three different categories of self catering apartments, all luxurious with wonderful views. The Costa del Sol is packed full of activities, one of the most popular being golf, so we dedicated a large portion of the site to letting visitors know what was in store for them. The golfing page includes a map of the numerous clubs within walking and driving distance. Along with photographs and guides to the local region and the well furnished apartments themselves, we added an availability checker and booking facilities. Considering the amount of apartments an...

We have recently completed a website for The Crown Hotel in Lynton, North Devon - you can see a screen shot of the homepage above. The Crown Hotel is homely but they make an effort to give you a feeling of luxury as well. We chose an image to give the impression of wallpaper, and applied it to the background of each page. Similar elements were introduced to sit behind the title and overlay the inset images. This is a simple website, but the focus on the design ensures that it is an enjoyable experience for visitors.

Lorraine from Wadebridge Bathroom Studio popped into our studio today and volunteered to model one of our girls' fit t-shirts, and as it was such a lovely day we took a few shots outside. The shot above was the only one where Lorraine managed to behave herself and not pull a face! The graphics on the shirt have caused a lot of interest. Emma, who created the illustrative piece, was aiming for an abstract graphic based on recent projects and other scraps of inspiration throughout our studio. It took us a little longer to find a guy that would model the male shirt, but finally we nabbed Jonny who looks over the moon to be on the internet!