This week the Drive By team decided we would drum up a little business by placing an advert in a local newspaper. Naturally our talented designers have got it covered. With a super-slim deadline (little did we know, the ad space was purchased only a few hours before the paper was going to print), the […]
Category: Graphic Design
Less Is More
We take pride in being on-trend here at Drive By Design and right now clean, effortless and elegant works would be walking the graphic design runway, if we had one. However, those aren’t words that spring to mind when you think of a garage-cum-pet shop, Haltham Garage and Haltham Pet Foods (two companies under the […]
The Dog Blog
As animal lovers here at Drive by Design, we’re always thrilled when a project comes up which largely entails sorting through snaps of our fluffy friends, and this one didn’t let us down. The local dog trainers over at Lincs Training have been clients of hours for a good while and they felt like shaking […]
New Year, New Design
It’s a brand new year and over at Drive by Design there’s been a lot of new-ness going around; new staff, new clients, sort-of-new ownership. We can barely keep up. As such, one of our regular clients Ashwood Homes wanted in on some of that action. Out With The Old Until now, they have […]
From Technical to Technicolor
Local property development company Ashwood Homes have, not surprisingly, been doing a bit of property developing as of late. Their current development, Mill View in Cowbit is just coming to fruition, however not all of the properties are quite ready for viewing. They needed a site map made so prospective buyers will be able see […]
Photoshop Work Experience – Day Four
Photoshop Work Experience – Day 4 My tasks today were to start to create my very own logo and my website – www.yingli.drivebywebsites.co.uk. I repeated the same steps as yesterday: snapshotting templates from WordPress, and editing them in Photoshop. This worked fine, as I had already done it, and I had all of my content […]
Graphic Design Work Experience – Yingli’s Day Three
Today, I finished editing the Haltham Pet Food’s Leaflet by moving the features around, so that there was a border around all of the leaflet designs. These were my two favourite designs from the five. Then, (as one of my tasks for today) I had to come up with some design ideas for a website. […]
Spalding High School – Yingli’s Second Work Experience Day
Day 2: Hello, me again! I came into Drive By Websites’ office refreshed and ready to start whatever project they had to throw at me! (Not literally!!) I had been given the task of creating a brochure template for an existing client – Award Consultancy. At first, I was scared, since this would be […]
Spalding High School Graphic Design Work Experience – Day One
Before: Hello! I’m a Spalding High School student interested in art and design, and I was told by the school that I would have to do a work placement to get used to the idea of adult life and the ‘world of work’. This scared me as I had no idea what I wanted to […]
GPSS Ltd New Branding
GPSS Ltd are an ongoing client of ours who wanted an online presence with a website back in 2012. They have recently approached us to help them with a new brand for their company starting with a new logo. With many ideas ranging from world safety globes to puzzle piece effects it was settled that […]