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13 July 2011 at 10:59
OK, it's taken a little longer than necessary to post this entry about the new Stewart Signs website which went live in January, but you know, we've been busy...
Anyway, after a very successful launch of their rebrand in 2010, we turned our attention and considerable tech wizardry - in collaboration with Utopia's web development partners Hostpipe - to the design and build of the new and quite frankly massive Stewart Signs website.
Stewart Signs new website
This baby's got everything including a full bespoke Content Management System and an Ecommerce package that functions on multiple levels.
The back end (easy there) is a mammoth and stacked full of clever functionality. And it needs to be given it has to service the impressive Stewart Signs customer portfolio, including: Transport for London, BT Openreach, Osborne, BSM, First, Saga, JC Decaux...and on and on.
We took this:
And made this:
So what's next?
Well, the website isn't standing still. It's alive! Help! By which we mean, it's a constant work in progress with all the best connotations of that word: progress. That's what Stewart Signs are all about, constantly forging ahead and leading the outdoor media, signage and livery industry, which they've been doing for decades.
Marketing communications
Away from the web, they are now turning their attention to the year ahead. To kick things off, Utopia paid them a visit last week at their base in Southampton with a rather fetching document in hand containing all sorts of ideas and plans for marketing Stewart Signs over the coming 12 months, including:
- Email marketing
- Printed literature
- SEO and social media marketing
- PR
- Direct Mail
- Advertising
Obviously, we don't have any designs or words to show you yet, so instead and by way of signing off this post (hahahaha!), here's a photo of some Utopians in front of a Stewart Signs branded van.
JP & TJ signed, sealed and delivered
Tags: Stewart Signs | marketing | website | design | email marketing | Utopia | Hostpipe | SEO | social media marketing | PR | advertising
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15 February 2011 at 15:55
A major client with major clients
When you’re the market leading specialists in road and rail livery, signage and outdoor media and your customers number BT, Transport for London, Shell, National Grid, First Capital and Sky, you need a brand identity that embodies confidence, experience, expertise.
Stewart Signs are renowned for delivering projects of the highest standards and have been for over 40 years, but then you already knew that....just look around you, there are examples of their work everywhere, such as the BT Openreach vans, every sign and poster you see on London's tube and bus network, the huge train wraps on Eurostar, countless vehicle wraps on lorries, the signs that show us the way around the UK, and the media displays that surround us in airports and stations.
Utopia take the branding challenge
Starting with a session on marketing and brand strategy, we created a new visual identity for Stewart Signs. Giving them 6 design routes to choose from, they went with our favourite . One particular challenge was to consolidate the various areas of the company, most notably bringing their Rail brand - Halo Rail - in house under the Stewart Signs umbrella.
Our brief: design a brand identity that's both versatile and conveys the scale and scope of their business. A brand identity that's colourful, vibrant, dynamic and contemporary.
So, we took them from this:
to this:
Brand roll-out
In our next blog, we'll look at the challenge of designing and building a (pretty) vast eCommerce website . But we’ll wait until it’s launched...any day now.
Meanwhile, here’s a glimpse at one of our favourite documents – Brand Guidelines. Where would we be, moreover, where would our clients be, without a few carefully devised rules and regulations for keeping their brand new brand on track? Yes, it’s a rail pun, we had to get one in.
See more of our work for Stewart Signs in our portfolio
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28 December 2009 at 11:14
What have we been up to in Utopia?
Don’t give me that look. I know it’s been ages since the last post, but we’ve been busy. Since the launch of the MASCo rebrand, their marketing activity has grown and grown, culminating in the Christmas-lights-style-switch-on of their new website.
Designed with the customer first, it’s already had lots of positive feedback. So what’s the focus for our marketing of MASCo in 2010? PR, email, and internet marketing. I want to bring that advertising spend down and hike up their exposure with a combination of traditional editorial and clever online activity. We’ll keep you posted.
What’s new?
Word of mouth has so far been the winning formula for our own client wins, but with the new Utopia Communications website about to launch (yes, finally!), we’ll be pushing more. The site includes a showcase of our recent work, which you can also navigate by service criteria (marketing, creative, web, PR), and there’s a client area that will keep communication flowing on individual projects.
A flurry of quotations and commissions ended the year (including two requests for copywriting arriving on Christmas Eve), so we look forward to leaping into spring (we don’t like winter) with all sorts of new challenges and interesting clients…apart from a new travel company coming on board in November, the construction industry seems to have taken a shine to Utopia. Resist urge to weave in building puns.
Happy New Year!
To all our clients, suppliers and friends, we wish you all every good fortune for 2010.
Utopia Communications
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