hdesign.co.uk : design for business : web + print

hdesign specialises in robust, strategic creative solutions optimised to achieve maximum impact among the target audience.

Web Design

Before the internet became what it is today, hdesign was breaking new ground in designing and building multimedia presentations and interactive movies for conferences and presentations. Some years after this, in 1996, hdesign produced its first web design project - an initiative for a major telecommunications company to replace a printed brochure with an online edition. As the web keeps changing and evolving, the creative industry needs to keep pace in order to offer the best solution to meet a client's commercial objectives.

We are pleased to offer a full web design and programming service using the world's most popular and secure web development standards: Darwin, Apache, MySQL and PHP (DAMP). From "blank sheet of paper" and client brief, we design, implement and support custom-built web-based applications, content management systems and e-commerce.

Hdesign is equipped to offer web design and programming for every size and type of business, from the simplest company website to a heavyweight financial engine running on a secure server. By involving hdesign at conceptual stage of a new web development project, businesses can take advantage of our years of practical industry experience in both strategic consultancy and hands-on implementation. All web design and programming work is done in-house, thereby ensuring absolute control and the maintenance of a very high level of security and confidentiality.

Design for Print

With over 15 years' experience of design for print, hdesign can provide a wealth of information and insight into the most effective ways to devise, plan and implement creative projects from brief through concept to delivery.

The experience and expertise to offer "big agency service" at a small agency price is coupled with the hands-on approach and attention to detail and absolute confidentiality that only a small company can provide. Our key strengths are:

Rapid, reliable, insightful design for business
Big agency standard of work at a small agency price
Solutions tailored to the target audience
Attention to detail, quick response and commitment to "right first time"
A high level of data security and confidentiality
Years of experience dealing direct with all types and sizes of client from major multinational companies to start-up businesses
Experience across virtually every sector of industry from fashion to finance, travel, banking, the professions, healthcare, public sector, utilities and telecommunications
Friendly and personal service
Thorough knowledge of reprographics and conventional and digital litho to optimise print spend and economies of scale


	Bitmaps and Vectors: An Easy Guide to Graphics Formats for Design and Print

	This has been on the cards for ages: a simple guide to graphics formats to explain in layman's terms the differences between bitmap and vector formats and why some formats are unsuitable for some tasks. I promise that this is not full of technical jargon and all you need is 10 minutes to read it and everything should be clear. Click here to read.


	Got kids? Download a fun, free storybook

	Despite rave reviews from kids and parents, this little storybook entitled Fluffy and Hotbot Go To Brussels (originally published in a limited quantity of hardbacks in 2000) has still not found an agent to take it on and sell it into the mainstream, so with this website update it is being offered into the public domain as a free e-book. You can download it as a PDF and read it to your little one(s) from your laptop (or they can read it to you if you've had a tiring day). Click here to download!


	Nürburgring Video

	Unofficially the longest one-way road in Europe, Germany's historic Nordschleife motor racing circuit is open to the paying public when not being used for competitions or historic events. Before photography on the circuit was banned I made a video to help learn and revise the 13.5-mile circuit. Speeding up the film by a factor of three - a bit like some "speed learning" techniques - proved to be as effective or more so than normal speed. Since putting this film online some years ago, it has been very popular and is downloaded regularly by motor sport enthusiasts from all over the world. Click here to view or download (free).