Chichester Design

Information: there’s plenty of it about nowadays, perhaps too much. I think separating the wheat from the chaff is fast becoming an essential life skill in our digital age. Equally as important, as a business, is how you present a wealth of data in a format that will appeal to consumers with notoriously low attention spans and will fit into a limited space. This is where infographics come in.
Infographics are fast becoming the way to present a large amount of key information in a small space, such as on a business website or in a brochure. I think it …

Chichester Design was out in full force for the SCDF fifth anniversary bash at the Oxmarket Arts Centre in Chichester. There was a good crowd and I was impressed by some of the work on display.

We did a good job on our showcase (thanks team). We had a big Mac set up showing examples of our web design and development work, including for local companies Summersdale Publishers, Harbour Cars, Vanilla Catering & Events and Rostand. We also had a few panels on the wall, including a big Chichester Design logo and an outline of our …

Very interesting news from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) annual report: the UK online advertising market grew by more than a quarter in 2010 to reach almost £1 billion. What was the key growth driver? Social media.

A move by advertisers into the social media world was a principal factor in the marked upturn in online advertising, itself irrefutable evidence of the digitalisation of the general marketplace. Where are we forming our opinions? Where are we making our purchasing decisions? Where are we doing that purchasing? Online.

So, it follows that more and more companies should be investing in online …

With the South Coast Design Forum’s fifth anniversary exhibition at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts set to open its doors next week, I thought this was a great time to mention the event again and to give people a sneak preview of the work Chichester Design has produced for the forum’s special fifth birthday book.

Our contribution to this one-off publication has been created by our web designer Oli. The artwork comprises the number five made up of pixels, code, words and pen strokes, which is surrounded by a circle created from the same components. According to Oli, each …

Another week, another excuse to pop over the road to Pallant House Gallery. This time I was there for the inaugural South Coast Design Forum (SCDF) conference on design and the modern interior, which was the first design event of its type held on the south coast.

It was a really interesting day, opened by SCDF chairman Wayne Hemingway, who got stuck straight in to the importance of design in today’s marketplace. One of his main points was that the design industry as a whole needs to emphasise that design adds value. He also argued for greater focus on …