Truly Ace

read moreTruly Ace has been recognised as offering an excellent standard of design by international press and publishing houses - we really can elevate your business in it's marketplace. Our work is featured in Harper Collins design books 'Logolicious' (best logo designs) and 'Market Smart' (best designs for niche marketing), stocked in Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and more. Truly Ace clients have benefited from a standard of design that has resulted in their business attracting international press also, and customers have been featured in magazines such as Cosmopolitian and Junior Magazine.

read moreWe've been having fun with video production again. Videos have become increasingly important for business marketing as the lengths you need to go to to catch and hold customer attention becomes more sophisticated by the day. With social media platforms awash with videos and vblogging, any business interested in staying ahead of the game needs to consider carefully about whether putting video marketing into the mix could be a game changer for them. Above is our recent website introduction video for Nirvana Piercing and Tattoo studio.

read moreWe're rather stoked to be working on a range of lifestyle illustrations for the NHS this year; all depicting the challenges and lifestyle of those living with spinal cord injury. We've worked on many many vector character illustrations over the last 15 years, but this is our biggest project to date with a fairly large volume of scenes required for use within a book. We're looking forward to creating illustrations in this particular fresh and modern style. Below you can view the original sketch of this particular character, which is how all of the illustrations will start life before being carefully rendered into their vector form.

read moreWe finally got around to carrying out a photo shoot for the Cadmus flyer and brochure design project.

read moreWhile your logo design is a representation of your business actitives and core values, it does not need to visually represent what you actually do. A painter and decorators logo does not have to show a man up a ladder. A company called 'Tiger Beer', does not have to have a picture of a tiger next to it. Try to avoid cliches and spend some time thinking about less literal imagery at conceptual stage. Also don't be afraid to be completely abstract - the infamous Nike swoosh for instance; an abtract shape denoting movement.

read moreIt's not uncommon for business owners to want to use an effigy of their pet for their company branding, and so recently we were presented with this dog photo to use as a guide and inspiration for the company logo design. A cute chap, and this is how we translated him into a company logo mascot. We weren't actually advised to include the tie, but clearly it was the obvious choice to include the tie into the branding. We've been creating quite a few 'animal logo designs' lately. Usually not derived from pet photos that are provided but just for companies that have used animals in their company name, or are in animal related industries.

read moreYour graphic design (logos, illustrations, print layouts and more) can be delivered to you in the following popular formats and more. In high resolution 300dpi (dots per inch) suitable for printing usage as a. JPEG (sits on a white background) file and a. PNG (sits on a transparent background). These can be inserted as an image into programmes such as MS Word, printed in high quality and be resized smaller without loss of quality. 2. As a resizable vector file print format. The type of files we may give you that are in vector format include EPS, AI (Adobe Illustrator) and PDF.

read moreGolly, we've been terribly lax at maintaining this blog it's been almost an entire year since the last time we signalled that we are actually breathing still. So I thought it would be a good idea to say something and confirm that we're alive, we exist, you can contact us, we will swiftly respond! We're finding nowadays that people have incredibly short attention spans and so when updating this blog in the future and indeed today also, we're going to keep it short and snappy and largely full of images and videos, because you like that.