Virgin Trains
The company needed comprehensive, pocket-sized menus for all their serving staff to enable their customers with particular allergies to have accurate information at their fingertips. The solution was also to give food preparation staff, photographs showing best-example meals. With menus modified, or completely revamped due to train timetable changes and seasonal or celebratory variations, staff had to be kept up-to-date at all times with the prevailing options from their kitchens.
Thames Valley Police
Valley Police, formerly known as Thames Valley Constabulary, is one of the largest police forces in England covering 2,200 sq. miles and a population of over 2.1 million people. The police force consists of 7,800 staff working in many roles. To help them prevent property-related crime in their area, we were asked to design a comprehensive guide they could hand out explaining all aspects of security. From alarms, through CCTV, to fraud and computer crime, the guide was supported by a directory of local and national security supply companies.
DHL
As the world’s leading logistics supplier, DHL has a requirement for a comprehensive range of brochures, flyers, fact sheets, infographics, magazines and posters to inform staff and customers alike. Having worked for them for over a decade and through two corporate identity changes, we have been fortunately placed to have designed a wide range of material for a number of their departments. The company has the benefit of their own global image bank as well as using stock photographs from some of the world’s leading photo libraries which keeps their imagery both exciting and exactly on-message.
Samsung
Samsung, the world’s largest information technology company, teamed up with DHL to find an innovative way to improve their supply chain, enabling them to adapt to the different demands of their many and individual retailers. The answer is Vendor Flex – a fast, flexible storage and supply solution. To enable them to showcase this new service to the retailers, we were asked to design an explanitory brochure using clear, precise graphics to reflect the new service they were offering.
Quorum Technologies
As a designer and manufacturer of high-powered, sensitively-calibrated, specialist scientific equipment, Quorum are amongst the leaders in their field and were presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2014. Over the nine years we’ve been working for them, db Designs has been responsible for all of Quorum’s brochures, flyers, exhibitions, pop-up banners and in-house, wall-mounted photographic display work.
Trevor Mumby MSc. BASW
For 55 years, Trevor was engaged in the study and alleviation of all forms of mental and emotional disorders including dementia. He was employed as a consultant to a number of multi-national companies and conducted seminars and workshops in the USA, Australia and India. He is now the author of a number of books aimed at informing and helping people who need assistance in their own lives or in the lives of their family members. In designing his books, we try to make his text come alive and relevant to people who are experiencing or witnessing confusion and distress.
Labtech International
Labtech is a leading supplier of highly innovative scientific equipment, accessories and consumables to scientists and technologists from many disciplines; cell biology, molecular biology, detection, cold storage, imaging and electron microscopy. Having introduced a new cellular format to the way they highlight their products in print, we are implementing a roll-out programme across their new sales material, revitilising their image.
ESE
Our client, ESE, were at the forefront of promoting solar and other environmentally friendly products, business-to-business as well as direct to the end consumer. Introducing new technologies has never been an easy task, especially when there are invested interests trying to prevent it. Fortunately for ESE, new planning laws and government-backed initiatives are helping people to see the value in the long-term savings and the environmentally beneficial prospects. By making their literature and permanent exhibition at the National Self Build and Renovation Centre lively and plain speaking, we assisted ESE to spread the word.
