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Branding
Strategy and Identity
What do they do? How do they do it? Why do I need it? In a brand driven world it’s important that the answers to these questions are clearly communicated through your brand. We believe we should be able to answer these questions (and others) on behalf of our clients before we start working for them. Once we’ve dug around in your heads for a bit and understood a full picture of what you’re about, we can then help form a strategy and identity that will be about the same things. Out of this we’ll deliver a brand that works in the space you’re looking to occupy and more importantly opens a strong channel of communication with your target audience. A brand is more than just a logo, it’s should knit together every piece of communication you put in to the public eye and work across every type of media. In recent months we’ve had the privilege of creating some great brands from scratch as well as working with some you’ll know already.
Advertising and Engagement
The second tier of our branding offer is advertising and engagement. This is all about engaging with your potential audiences on their terms and on their turf. 383 can help identify what media applications can best put your brand in front of the audiences you’re after and then design a creative that ensures you see a return on your investment. As a full service agency this can be delivered by us online or in print, and designed to engage with a variety of different demographics. In recent months we’ve delivered complete through the line strategies for clients across the UK as well as working on one off campaigns both above and below the line for brands both big and small.
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Web
Web Design and Development
Perhaps the most important thing about our web design and development team is that as well as being designers and programmers, we are also web users. Because of this we believe that the websites we build should work from a users point of view, just as we expect websites we haven’t built to work when we use them. We currently develop in PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, MY SQL and Actionscript.
Content Management Systems
Content management systems handle the day to day administration of most of the sites you can see in our portfolilo. As well as building bespoke content management systems from scratch we also produce a lot of sites using the brilliant Open Source platform Wordpress. Having our feet in both camps allows us to pick a CMS that suits your project, not the other way round.
iPhone Apps
Developing an application for the iPhone is a great way of reaching new audiences and developing for a platform which offers a number of key benefits over other digital communications. Within the iPhone SDK we can develop applications that allow users to tap in to location based information, access data on the move and keep in touch with conventional media through one device. An iPhone application offers clients an alternative platform for new projects as well as a new choice to extend the reach of an existing campaign. You can view a number of our apps in our iPhone section within the portfolio.
ECommerce
As well as having a brand to promote, many of our clients also have a product to sell. After trialing a few e-commerce solutions we’ve settled on the lovely Magento as a powerful yet affordable open-source platform. Using Magento we can develop sites with all the industry-leading features you’d expect in a package that is user friendly and useable on a day to day basis.
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Print
In a digital world it’s easy to forget the value of well designed print work. We still love print and believe in the unique benefits it can offer our clients versus other media. We’re passionate about paper, type and image, and better still believe we can blend the three to create designs that have hands on impact. In recent months we’ve helped organisations in both the public and private sector take a fresh look at their print collateral with engaging and communicative results. We work across a range of print disciplines from brochures and mailers to POS and exhibitions.
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Illustration
Illustration can be one of the most useful disciplines a design studio can offer clients. It allows a design to engage targeted audiences through a specific style and can help position a brand more quickly either on or off line. We can offer a range of illustrative styles from hand drawn monsters to simple clean vectors. In each case we’ll make sure the creative is on brief, receiving due love and attention, without being self indulgent.
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Interior Design
3D Visualisation
3D visualisation offers a number of benefits to clients looking to turn their ideas for restaurants, shops or developments in to reality. We can help you space plan environments, trial layouts and then produce lovely looking renders to see how everything will look (all with the benefit of keeping your clothes paint free and your walls from being demolished!).
Project Management
Once we’ve helped you design your interior we can also help you deliver it. Through close links with shopfitters and architects we’ll ensure that only tried and tested contractors working to the highest standards are involved on the project. Crucially, to ensure you don’t go insane, everyone in the team will understand both the vision we’ve created and the budget you’ve specified!

