A while back at The Media Collective we started to develop an online application that could handle all of our sales and invoicing. At the time we were using Excel to create everything and it was fast becoming a laborious way of working. We needed something that would cut down our admin and let us get more time working on design projects.
What we developed was a simple yet powerful project-based sales and invoicing app that immediately proved invaluable. (more…)
Since we started The Media Collective, over five years ago, we have tried to approach our work in the same way, no matter how large or small the job. Each project we take on is important to our customer and we recognise that. When there was just one or two people doing all the work this ideal was easy to maintain; party because we love all aspects of graphic design and the creative process but also because we were our own bosses, with no clumsy hierarchy or layers of policy to tire us out or get in the way. (more…)
There are only really a couple of things at the core of what we do; we have ideas and we think about ways to communicate them. Pretty simple stuff really. And that’s why we don’t think design companies like ours need to be complicated, or pretentious. Our aim is to give you great design without making you feel like we have some special powers that you don’t have. (more…)
Our customers often find that writing the copy for their brochure, website or other such marketing materials is often harder that it first seems. We thought it might be helpful to share some of our thoughts on how to approach writing your own content.
Know who you are writing to. This may seem obvious but if you can’t identify a group or groups of people who you want to be reading your words then there is a good chance that you will not write in a way that they understand. (more…)
We have recently expanded. Andy has moved and is now working from the coastal town of Portstewart in N. Ireland. It is rather cold and wet but it does have a very nice beach and some excellent ice cream.
He will be carrying on working just the same (with his three screens) whilst picking up a few extra clients in N. Ireland as well. His long term goal is to establish a self-sufficient Media Collective office. If he can stay away from the beach.
