The Big Ideas Collective

So you have a new website: Congratulations.
And it has a load of extras in the form of a CMS with additional parsing facilites for a plethora of...

"CAN'T YOU JUST SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE!?!?!?!?"

Welcome to the not-so technical world of your website.
Isn't it about time that us IT type guys made life just that little bit easier for you to look after your website - after all, who knows what better to say about your company than you?

Dolly Daydream first appeared in a song in the 1890s so she's been around doing what she does best for over a 100 years; man, however, has been doing it since time immemorial.

I recently sent a job to print which had an orange logo in the design of the letterhead and a glossy leaflet.
I prepared the documents for print using 2 different printing processes, and as a result had to pay special attention to the orange colour...

People continue to ask me what it is about photography that captivates me.

One day I reckon we’ll be able to wire up our brains, and record real time. Editing the precious frames captured as we see them. I’ve still got some really cool, but slightly fuzzy footage stored in there from 20 years ago…

BIG is virtual; that doesn’t mean we don’t exist. We’re very much in the real world, but our processes, day-to-day communication and information sharing is done online.

Now, this has many advantages to our experts and more importantly to our clients. All this virtuous virtuality means a highly cost effective alternative to housing and heating our team in bricks and mortar, a saving that goes to ensure our fees are highly competitive for the kind of creative talent on offer.

People ask me what it is about photography that captivates me...

It is always good practice to check over any copy you have written, especially if it is for presentation or distribution to others. You need to try and ensure that you correct all the typos, spelling and grammatical mistakes. Missed errors within your copy can be embarrassing and frustrating, but read on, we’ve got some ideas that will help you produce perfect copy every time.

For the start of this New Year we want to encourage thinking about those less fortunate than ourselves and what, I ask, is more ignored and diminished than the long suffering semicolon?

This diminutive, subtle, yet powerful grammatical signpost is to good writing what a shaft of sunshine is to a dull afternoon: a bit of a boost.

A "Corporate Philosopher in Residence" at the Cass Business School, London, people say that I have a really cool job title. . . And as well as being cool, it also nicely describes my work: thinking about Big Ideas. 

The spark behind the concept and rise of the Big Ideas Collective

Yes, it’s coming up to Christmas, and no, I’m not encouraging being a scrooge, but if you haven’t already been doing so, you can start thinking about yourself for once!

Fonts are an amazingly powerful tool in branding, which are often left till last or forgotten about completely. A font can tell you so much about a product, purely by the curve or slab of its serif it can speak volumes about quality or reams about rubbish.

It may seem simple but one rule to follow when creating and building a brand, to ensure its success, is... consistency.

Helping our clients with creative communication includes working to ensure that they and their printed and online sales tools are prepared well in advance of the coming deadline.

It's the f. in Photography that counts!

People enjoy finding like-minds, swapping information, sharing a joke, learning new stuff and getting ideas. Ultimately this kind of activity leads to trust and trust, as we all know, can lead to all sorts of exciting possibilities... 

Say 'hello' to the blog and find out why it could be great for your business, your customers and your bottom line.

Surely nothing could be simpler than an email signature - it's only a design thrown into an email. So why, in the age of web-standards and uniformity, is it so tricky to get one stationery design to work in all email clients?

The power of the computers we use today has brought the ability to use design software to many users. The ability to have the software on your PC does not however make the user a designer.