About Ech Design
Ech Design provide advanced web design and development, and sublime graphic design and print work. We believe that everyone has the right to good design. We invite you to explore this site to find out how and why……
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Entelechy Arts
Entelechy is a participatory arts company based in south east London who work with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to produce high quality theatre, music, dance and video events and performances.
They asked Ech to develop a new website that is clear and simple to use to ensure their range of stakeholders can get involved, find out more about their work, and get in contact. Our solution: A minimalist design run from a Wordpress system to allow Entelechy to add new information whenever they wish, including font-resizing, news feeds, and use of film footage captured from recent Arts projects. The website uses the popular Vimeo service to allow easy hosting of video, links with Flickr to allow Entelechy to easily add and amend their extensive photo galleries and allows visitors to leave comments agains projects and news.
Save the Planet Posters
The Matrix Knowledge Group asked Ech Design to design a series of Posters for display in their office to assist the company’s efforts to reduce energy wastage and minimalise environmental damage. We have developed a series of icon based designs as part of the Matrix brand.
In the hope that they can help other companies with their environmental efforts, Matrix asked us to add them to their website and subsequently we have developed a standalone site to enable easy downloading of the posters. Our objective over the coming months will be to build the search engine presence and to encourage other contributions of materials which can help companies achieve corporate social responsibility aims.
Larissahoops.com
Ech have just launched a portfolio website for up and coming Kenyan focused artist, Larissa Hoops.
Larissa’s priority was to showcase her work to best effect and we have concentrated our efforts on designing a gallery layout to the site that allows visitors to keep up to date with Larissa’s latest exhibitions and work. Visitors can leave feedback, read recent news and click image thumbnails to view the artwork at larger sizes.
The site runs on a content management system to allow Larissa to add new artwork and news as required and has been designed to provide a modern stylish interface that places the emphasis on the artwork itself - Ech believe that content is king!
Chart the Stars
Chart the Stars is a new online business offering unique gifts to those interested in finding out what the stars have to say about the future.
Ech were brought in to develop friendly and fun branding for the company and to develop an easy to use website allowing visitors to browse and purchase star charts. The website allows viewers to check out what the stars have to say about people in the public eye and to enter the details of themselves, friends or family to obtain their very own interpretation. It provides information about astrology and allows customers to place orders, check on the status of their orders and leave feedback.
The project involved an appreciation of design aesthetics, ecommerce and search engine optimisation (SEO) and was developed at pace to enable our clients to meet the Christmas rush.
Beaumont Estate
Ech Design have been working with London agency Thring on a suite of new printed materials in support of the Beaumont House conference venue and hotel.
The project has entailed coming up with something fresh and new, working with the Principal Hayley branding to create a range of branded materials to support marketing the venue, including a popup map, branded keycards, conference and hotel brochures and html emails.
We are currently developing materials in support of the relaunch of the White House on the site - a fantastic building, refurbished back to its best.
Matrix Knowledge Group
Having completed a comprehensive rebranding exercise for the Matrix Knowledge Group in 2007, Ech have been supporting the company as they launch to new markets in the US and Europe, adding new features to the website, including a flash intro page and developing new branded stationery.
Recent projects have included the development of logos, branding and web design for Matrix’s new product for supported housing organisations VFM Support and the development of designs for the interior of the office as well as the production of the design for a monthly staff newsletter to keep all staff in this rapidly growing company, up to date with what’s going on.
Access Partnership
The Access Partnership is an NHS based healthcare consultancy which is commissioned by PCT’s, NHS Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and the Department of Health to help improve access to services and to reduce unnecessary waiting. They asked Ech to design a new website for them that would present a clean, professional and approachable resource for visitors, clients and service improvers.
We have focused on developing a blog style website that allows the Access Partnership to keep their information up to date, share best practice tips and factsheets, advertise events, describe their services and allows visitors to send them questions. The home page of the website uses a random feature, to display a different tip every time someone visits. In addition, all of the content on the website is controlled by an easy to use Wordpress content management system, to allow the AP team to keep the website up to date.
Maes Yr Haf - Restaurant with Rooms
Listed in the Times as one of the top ten restaurants to open in the UK in 2007, Maes-Yr-Haf offers fine cuisine and luxury stays to those seeking total relaxation on the Gower coast. They needed a website that captured the well-designed elegance and luxury of a visit to Maes-Yr-Haf, allowing people to explore the restaurant and rooms.
Ech have provided a design based around the interior design of the hotel (utilising wallpaper textures and the colours of the furnishings), undertaking photography and building a site that combines html (clear to search engines), flash movies, javascript enhancements (to add to the interaction) and a content management system to allow the Maes-Yr-Haf team to make regular updates.
Visitors can tour the different parts of the venue and find out about upcoming events, special offers and rates deal, while soaking up the atmosphere.
News Feed
Summer’s hotting up 9th June, 2009
Ech are currently hunting for new premises in the run up to a hot summer - a few new print products in mind and more partnership working with other agencies puts the need for space on our list of to dos for June / July.
On the project front, we’ve been installing some IP direction code on a series of upcoming websites so that visitors are directed to the right section of the site for their country of origin when they type in or search for the site. We’ve also been playing around with some neat flash and Flickr image galleries
A number of websites 9th May, 2009
Websites are like buses in that you wait for ages for one to be released and then three come at once. Well, admittedly that is tortuous analogy, but the truth in it is that we have been working on a series of websites for a range of our clients since the beginning of 2009 and in the next couple of weeks we will have the great pleasure of launching them to the world. From small websites through to giant content managed websites, we’ve been wrestling with PHP, CSS, MySQL, Flash and Javascript to come up with a bespoke, cutting edge approach to our clients’ website challenges. Feeling really great about the new batch and really can’t wait to get them out in the open so we can talk about them in greater detail!
Report Designs 11th April, 2009
We’ve recently completed some NHS executive summary designs for Qmonde. We put together their branding for their launch in January 2008 and its been great to revisit and build on the styling we developed back then.
Putting aside some resources for the design and layout of front covers and executive summaries is a really cost effective way to raise the impact of your published reports. A clear introduction and a compelling image to grab attention can be the difference between someone reading your report or leaving it on the coffee table.
Events and Searchable Databases 24th March, 2009
This week we have been finalising banners, gobos (glass lenses etched with designs for projection), flyers and booklets for an event for the Private Equity Foundation and on the web side, developing a searchable database of pdfs of surveys for a marine surveying company. A few websites on the go at the moment and looking forward to showcasing some of these in the next month.
Web applications and database driven sites (I want it to work like Facebook) 17th March, 2009
As people use the internet more and more and we become used to the slick interfaces of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and the BBC, people are demanding more from their websites. Brochural websites still have their place, but in the last six months we’ve seen an increase in our clients asking for database driven applications and functionality that allows their viewers to interact with, store information and generate content by using their websites.
With tighter margins and a really tough economic climate, companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves from their competitors and their website is becoming increasingly important as a means to attract the business there still exists out there and show that they are forward thinking, willing to share useful features with their clients and open to innovation. Read the rest of this entry »
Swiss Ecommerce explosion 2nd March, 2009
As big companies look for ways to beat the recession, and technology makes it easier to communicate across great distances more firms are choosing to locate away from the traditional business centres of the UK, US and Europe.
Two recent movers are Ebay and Google who both now have big offices out in Zurich in Switzerland. Ever keen to keep up with what the big players are up to, half of Ech are out in Switzerland at the moment setting up some new contacts and seeing if that popular email forward about Google’s offices really is true!
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Ech
Ech Design Ltd, based in London, UK, specialises in web based design and development, graphic design, and print work. The company is three years old and employs a small dedicated team with expertise in graphic design, illustration, branding and consultation, web design, web development and search engine optimisation (SEO). Additionally, we work with a large network of associates and can provide other services such as PR, marketing, proof reading and animation / motion work.
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