It pays to be thick!

Or so it seems as we have recently taken delivery of our new, super thick layered business cards! We are always looking for something new and different, especially for our clients and these wonderful new business cards are certainly going down a storm. Made from a quality Mohawk Superfine stock, our cards are triple the thickness of most ordinary business cards, the cards also have a coloured layer sandwiched between the outer cards enhancing the effect and finish giving them that lovely thick feel. These cards are beautifully tactile and are available at truly competitive rates, if you’re looking for business card design and printing that is truly unique and memorable then get in touch with us and let us prove how much it can pay to be thick!

Tees Components new display banners complete

A recent new client, Tees Components, of Skelton, East Cleveland,  approached us to offer marketing support for their international engineering business. Tees Components was established in 1963 as a machining and fabrication sub-contractor.  Over the past 45 years the company has been involved in a wide range of major power generation, marine, and tunnelling projects, building the six-acre site into one of the UK´s most comprehensive heavy engineering facilities.  They also design and produce the Tees White Gill Thruster propulsion unit, fitted in vessels worldwide.

As part of their marketing activity, Tees Components were looking to deliver an exhibition in the USA promoting their Tees White Gill Thrusters business, for this we created some new VT banner display systems and an associated A3 brochure. Whilst the background ‘superwaves’ graphic was unavailable for us to use, we were tasked with recreating this to a large format 2m x 2m area! Needless to say this pushed the RAM boundaries of the studio Macs to breaking (no, stalling) point! Thanks to the addition of some new RAM from Mr Memory, the now turbo charged Macs coped quickly and more efficiently in finalising the new background using Photoshop.

PD Ports exhibition graphics – new

We have just received some photos from our client PD Teesport from a recent exhibition they attended. The main display boards were previously produced but for this exhibition they briefed us on delivering a new infographic to depict the recycling services they were offering. The large format graphic can be seen in the middle of the panels, the schematic illustrates the various recycling services our client offers and makes what can be a complicated process easier to explain.

Saxon Princess Exhibition Now Open

We are proud to have been chosen to create some new display graphics for the Saxon Princess Exhibition which is now open at Kirkleatham Museum in Redcar. This is a permanent exhibition based in the old school building and houses a lot of local and rare discoveries from around the East Cleveland region. We have produced some of the display material from initial visuals to final printed large format laminated wall panels.

Have a look at the images and you will see the fitting of the feature piece which was a 2.5m square single piece canvas print which included the fabrication of the wooden frame, stretching of the canvas and subsequent fitting. This was capped off with a hand made enlargement made in three layers of the main Saxon Princess jewel, printed to gloss stock and mounted to foamboard and attached to the canvas display.

We also created the design and print of a historical timeline wall display which wraps around 3 walls of one of the display rooms. Checkout further information about the Saxon Princess Exhibition here.

Saxon Princess exhibition graphics complete

We have completed the various graphics for the new Saxon Princess Exhibition opening on the 28th May 2011 at the Kirkleatham Museum in Redcar. This exhibition is the culmination of a six year archeological project from a local excavation which dates back to the 7th century. The exhibits are unparalleled in the Anglo Saxon world and included the discovery of 108 graves. Jewellery items from an Anglo Saxon Princess have also been discovered and will be on display at the museum. VIA Creative are proud to have been chosen to create some of the associated display materials for the exhibition which is a major exhibition attracting a lot of media interest for the Redcar and East Cleveland area. We will shortly be posting some photos of the large format exhibition display panels we designed and project managed for this Redcar based museum including a massive 2.5m x 2.5m single piece canvas print!

If you go down to the woods today

You may get lost in the our brand new wall covering, a wonderful woodland scene adorning our office walls to make us feel at one with nature! The experts over at Sign Art Saltburn have this wonderful new wall art graphic that will liven up any dull and dreary office or studio. This special wall graphic application is a great way to showcase an image on a large wall area. For further information on how these guys can help contact Eddie on 01642 493 366 or visit their site: http://www.signartsaltburn.com

VIA Wall Planner Extreme Close Up

We have just been sent some nice shots from our commercial photographer Cathal Carey. To Quote the man himself: “I’ve been playing around in the studio with my new macro lens and I’ve taken a couple of shots of the VIA logo from the wall planner you sent me. I think they show real attitude and good design in a gutsy way… see what you think.”

Couldn’t agree more Cathal.

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Doing our bit for Comic Relief

From today until next Friday 25th, all print orders through our Redcar print franchise, we will donate 10% to Comic Relief. We can take nationwide orders so we can handle all your offices stationery and print requests.