Youtube

Check out our new youtube page and subscribe so you can receive all the upcoming videos as soon as we post them!

http://www.youtube.com/user/SketchCollective?feature=mhum

Nick Burton Garden Design Website

Check out the website we created for local Garden Designer Nick Burton:

http://www.nickburtongardendesign.co.uk

Tessa Frith - FREE DOWNLOAD

Happy New Year.

Tessa Frith's new single 'No More' is now available for Download and it's free!

Download it here http://www.tessafrith.com

The Sketch Collective supporting Cher Lloyd

ITV's X Factor finalist Cher Lloyd, with mentor Cheryl Cole, visited her home town of Malvern today, and we were 'front row' to support our local talent! Cher was met by crowds of fans outside her home and then again at The Three Counties Showground for her performance this evening, where she was welcomed with fireworks and more screaming fans.

Since amazing the judges at the audition with her rendition of Soulja Boy’s 'Turn My Swag On', Cher has gone on to make it through to this week's final, to compete against Matt Cardle, Rebecca Ferguson and One Direction. The Sketch Collective are keen supporters of any local talent and wish Cher Lloyd the best of luck in the Final this weekend.

We LOVE our Local shops

Shop locally, shop in Ledbury!

Enter your favorite local shops for The Telegraph Magazine Shop Awards 2010!

With Supermarkets and chain stores taking the independent shop owners regular customers, it is more necessary than ever to support our local retailers. Our local town is Ledbury in Herefordshire, a historic, picturesque market town filled with unique and traditional stores. Within Ledbury you will find shop owners with great personality and character, selling exceptional quality goods, who know there products inside out. They may not be able to beat the prices, but the wonderful service and choice of goods that our local shops provide is something you will want to go back for again and again. The majority of our clients are local independent traders and we would like to support them as much as we can. The voting for 'The Telegraph Magazine Shop Awards 2010' ends December 10th, so dont hang about, get your votes in now!

Click here to submit your votes!

Branding

As a start up company forming just over a year and a half ago, we have now realised how crucial it is to get the first stages of your business set up correctly from the word go. Particularly researching your target market and representing your business to signify 'who you are', 'what you do' and very importantly 'who for' and to consider if this target market is located near you.

These are hard questions to ask a start up business when you are trying to specify your prospective clients. As a design company we understood the importance of a good branding strategy, however, if you are targeting the wrong market or route the whole branding concept changes.

It is understandable for new business to be indecisive about the target market they are trying to approach as the first few months is a lot of trial and error and testing the water.

When we first speak to our clients we ensure we arrange a meeting at their business premises, get to know them, get to know what they do, to identify the character of the business. We will then go through a process of questions that leads to the design concepts and ideas enabling our client to be 100% involved and put their ideas across. That way they will not end up with a generic branding that could apply to anyone. It applies to them and them alone.

If you would like to see the kind of branding work we have done please view our portfolio at www.designsketch.co.uk

Make your website iPhone friendly.

In this day and age technological trends seem to come and go. The mini disc lasted but a second before being replace by the CD which is now being slowly replaced by the digital downloads. One trend that does not seem to be disappearing is the iPod and iPhone. More and more people are buying into the Apple web.

Not only can the iPhone make calls, store your music, store applications it can also browse the web. People are logging on to the internet with their iPhones and iPods. In fact it is predicted that within five years internet usage on smartphones will rival that of desktop PCs.

With the iPhone an easy and convenient way to find the nearest restaurant, nearest bakery, nearest cinema etc whilst on the go you need to make sure your business is creating an accessible and easy to use iPhone version of your website.

If you come to us for a website we can offer you a full iPhone version of your site to reach those customers that would otherwise go down the road to your competition.