Chichester Design

A few days ago I was sitting at my desk in my office – which is now separate from the boys’ office and is very creative and harmonious with posters of Hello Kitty and postcards of Sesame Street characters and alike- and Simon said “Have you thought about a marketing plan for 2010? “Marketing plan!” I hollered, “By jeepers I should really get onto that and practice what I preach!”

To be perfectly honest, as I only joined the team on a regular basis this year, Chichester Design has been quite ad hoc when it comes to marketing, up until …

Yesterday evening Kate, Ben and Simon made their way to the Ship Hotel, Chichester, for an evening of networking with the industry’s finest. They gained a chance to pick up some great tips on how to promote Chichester Design, how to build the businesses’ reputation and how to protect that reputation, and there was most definitely some food for thought.

After a networking session where we met some new SCDF members and made some excellent new contacts we settled down to an evening of infotastic presentations. First up was Louise Fenwick of Coalition Communications. Louise talked about Promotion and …

We are pleased to present a fresh and exciting new website design for Ski Floralie. This beautiful Alpine ski chalet was bought by local businessman and Pallant House Gallery board member John Ayton. Having heard word of us on the street, John & Co called on the web design skills and technical know-how of the Chichester Design team to make the online forefront of his new business venture shine.

The brief for the design was to keep it minimal, using natural colours and tones, to keep it simple in functionality and style and easy to navigate for the reader. …

We bet you didn’t know that Chichester Design’s Managing Director, Ben Davis, isn’t just a hard working, boss type person, one trick pony.  He’s in fact as creative as the rest of us copywriters and graphic designers combined.

Ben comes from a background as a professional photographer with a degree in Photography Media & Society. He went on to share his passion for the arts with the public by working as senior administrator for Chichester’s Oxmarket Centre of Arts before co-founding Chichester Design as it is today.

Just as we bet you didn’t know that Ben shot the photography for …

I’ve been watching some pretty interesting webinars on B2B marketing of late as it’s always good to keep up with the Jones’. Just last Thursday, as I sat there before the purple laptop of inspiration watching Paul Cash, CEO of Hurricane Marketing, give a presentation I was taken back to my marketing studies at Bournemouth University and it got me to thinking about the Chichester Design brand.

Paul’s presentation was titled “How the underdog beats the market leader” and it focused on the implications that the recession is having on established brands and how smaller businesses such as ours …