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If it touches a nerve, makes us smile, or triggers an idea, we're putting it in here. Our portfolio might have given you a taste of what our work looks like, but our blog's where you'll find out what makes us tick.
I think that it is well understood that colour is important in design, but do we understand why? I have to work with colours on a daily basis and a lot more thought goes into choosing your brands colours than you might think…
Do you have a favourite colour?
Many individual have strong preferences for specific colours, [...]
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I was delighted this week to be invited to judge a creative writing contest at Oakfield Primary School in Rugby.
Mrs Walsh’s class of 9 year olds had to design a poster advertising fictitious chocolate – ‘Cocoas’.
Not only had everyone created great looking posters, I was amazed to discover that even at this early age, kids [...]
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Our WYSIWYG email template editor, for the Cloud 9 email marketing system has had an update – we’ve added new menu items and formatting tools so you can take greater control when editing email templates. Once you upload an email template to your account, you can use the editor to add text and images just [...]
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Our customers often ask us what ‘open rate’ means, and whether the open rate they are getting is any good or not. We’ve put together the following guide to open rates, which you will now also find in the help section of your account.
What is an open rate?
Open rate is a measure of how many [...]
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Well here it is – Christmas day 2009!
At first glance it looks as though Mike has nothing better to do on Christmas day than blog , but I’m cheating (actually like most people on Christmas day, I’m probably well oiled and feeling stuffed from eating too much).For the geeks amongst you, I setup our CMS [...]
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On Wednesday 25th November I went to the Albert Hall to watch a mammoth 3 hour set by Snow Patrol. Firstly: what a venue – such an awesome place and made even better by our seats 3 rows from the front! It was a simple set, but it worked. Gary was incredibly charismatic and he completely [...]
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My father-in-law Tom is taking part in the ARC Atlantic Rally, see intro to race details below:
This annual transatlantic rally starting each November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has now become the most popular way to cross the Atlantic. The largest transocean sailing event in the world, every year the ARC brings together over 200 [...]
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After watching Top Gear last night I now have a new dream car!!
The Lamborghini Balboni…………. a girl can dream
Check out the Top Gear writeup here
or see the gallery here
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We will have the lights going off here at Cloud 9 from 8:30 – 15:30 today.
We will however have backup power running, but if for any reason you are unable to contact us via telephone, please try emailing us instead.
info[at]c9dd.com
Thanks
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Ok, so here at Cloud 9 we do have more than one type of ‘Geek’.
Ash is obviously brimming full of web type geekery but it does spread over to me on the Design & Print side of things here at Cloud 9 too.
I’m Simon and this is the first part of my ‘Print Geek Talk’ [...]
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