Karl-Heinz Richter
Entity Partnerships
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"We were delighted with how Steve was able to successfully interpret our
initial brief and work patiently with us to refine it. The final logo design and brand is modern, timeless and sophisticated. It is consciously understated and achieves impact through innovative print technologies which create a tactile and memorable stationary set. More than a year later and I'm still delighted by the positive reaction I get when I hand
out a business card. Recently someone commented on how expensive it felt
– in reality it isn't, just very cleverly designed and well produced." |
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Andrew Pyrah
CEO, PokerTrillion
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"If Steve suggests that your
company needs a complete
design over-haul then I’d
strongly suggest listening to
him – As a company in a very saturated market
PokerTrillion.com needed to stand out from the rest, and I’ll always remember a few words spoken by Steve when we first sat down with him, ‘no poker site has ever won a design award, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.’
Steve ‘got it’ straight away –
We had a new brand within a couple of days and he has a
client for life." |
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Bastien
Hibon
Creative Director, Friends of the Earth
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"The reason why Friends of the Earth wanted
to work with Steve, especially with our Big Ask campaign and our magazine
Friend, is because Steve has an extremly sharp and contemporary design
that is helping to communicate better to our targeted audiences. In
the last two years Steve, has always been extremely helpful, delievering
on sometimes pretty intense deadlines.
He alway brings his personality to projects, taking a very thoughtful
approach to the briefs, with very sharp delivery." |
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Neil Chivers
Partner, LD Communications
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"Our new site is exactly what we wanted. It’s clean, crisp, simple and perfectly executed to marry with our stationary and new branding created by Steve.
Our new site [design and produced by Plan-B STudio] is fully content-managed. Before we were updating our site on a monthly, which was not always convenient or cost effective.
Now we are fully able to look after our own site and update it as and when we need to. The CMS is easy to use and we have two or three people in the office
who manage it." |
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Rachel Curtis
Events Manager, LD Productions
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"Setting up a new sister
company dealing in production meant that we wanted to create a new brand that was individual, but married to the LD Comms brand.
Steve [Plan-B Studio] created the new identity with a new colour scheme and perfectly executed it across stationary and our web site.
Being a start-up we were
limited with investment and
really only needed a ‘showcase’ site. Steve designed and produced a site that equals our
LD Comms site, albeit without a CMS; although it does have a showreel video on it, which Steve also edited and produced!
It’s perfect for us." |
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Eben Halford
Technical Director, JGP
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"Our web site was in dire need of a refreshment to bring us in to 2008 and beyond.
As part of a long-term strategy we brought Steve [Plan-B Studio] in to art direct and design the lookand feel for our new site; with an attention to the UI experience.
This resulted in Steve presenting not one, but two directions that we loved. The designs were fresh, and gave a much more human feel; which being a public sector recruitment company, was brilliant.
In September (one month after launch) our unique visitors soared to over 400,000, our biggest leap ever.
"
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Tom
Pike
Design Director, RedDot Clothing
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"Steve's technical skills across the
different projects on which we
have worked together have proved invaluable to us. Not only does he
deliver the results he also brings loads of creative ideas to the
table...and genuinely gives a shit." |
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Craig Coulton
Creative Director, Concept Guardian
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"If you want a design consultant who effortlessly bridges business-strategy and design then Steve is your man. This (of course) requires a confident client, one who trusts their designer to challenge the brief and 'appropriately' respond with work which has longevity. Give Steve an inch and he'll deliver a mile! You'll experience profound results." |
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Davina
Whitten
?What If! Innovation
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"I was stuck. I had 3 weeks to devise,
plan and execute a website to co-incide with a publicity campaign. Then Steve came into my life. He completely understood our values and mission
and shared with us brilliant ideas, combined with a unwavering calmness.
Without him I'm not sure we would have been able to achieve our target.
The results were tremendous. We had a site that was interactive,
enlightening and had loads of hits. He made the management of the
site simple for a web novice like me to be able to operate. I am indebted."
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Andy Griffiths
Head of Communications, Diesel
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"Steve's work is very cool. He is the nuts! And he's pretty good at designing too." |
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Kieron
Hurley
Brand Director
Red Dot Clothing
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"We have found it very difficult to find
people to work with on Red Dot. As a general rule they either don't
get it at all, get it but can't take it forward, or get it, could
maybe take it forward but can't get it together. Our experiences with
Steve have been that he got it, moved it forward and all without any
drama ... I'm not sure what this says about him but it's been very
good for us." |
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Anis
Laila Yap Abdullah
Head of Graphic Design BA
KBU International School of Design
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"Steve's workshop was just excellent, it
was amazing that the students could pick up so much knowledge from
him in this short engagement.
The 'pitching' excercise had injected so much excitement in this workshop,
students were pushed not only to conceptualise, but also to 'perform'
a professional presentation that Steve had required. Steve's portfolios
and his work experiences had no doubt given so much inspirations to
all of us here at KBU School of Design." |
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