Cloud 9 move in to our new home… Party time, excellent!

[column width="49%" padding="2%"]So you should know by now that Cloud 9 has moved home, to a great new building in Lapworth, just outside Solihull. We still do all the great design work we always have, but now we do it in an even better premisses... Read more

Create the Perfect Email Newsletter- Part 3 – Subject Lines

What's the best eShot subject line? There isn't one! Sorry it's true. Think about it. There must be a infinite number of combination of content out there in the emails you get. Can you sum all of them up with the same subject line? No. The same runs... Read more

20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution

Have you ever wonder how the first Apple logo looks in 30 years back? Did you know Volkswagen was Hitler’s idea? Or how the IBM logo changes over the time? Or where the Mercedes-Benz Brand And The Three-Pointed Star logo came from? As we already k... Read more

Cool business cards

OK. To go against my stereotype of a paper hating Web Designer. I have decided to put up some designs I have come across for business cards. I know what you're probibly thinking "You had to choose the most boring thing going in print", well that's wh... Read more

Create the Perfect Email Newsletter – Part 2 – Content is King!

Structure your content Understanding your audience means your copy should be relevant to them. Do some research, then put yourself in your audience’s shoes and write for them. Each story should be a hook so remember to keep content short and snapp... Read more

Create the perfect email newsletter – Part 1 – Setting objectives

Unloved, badly presented and wallowing in the nearest spam folder, the email newsletter is too often the poor relation of online marketing. But it really doesn’t have to be that way. With a glut of email newsletters piled up in our inboxes, it bec... Read more

50 of the best redesigns

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign. Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-v... Read more

Rookie Lifeguards

Cloud 9 beat off six other agencies in a creative pitch to redesign the brand identity for the Rookie lifeguard programme. The Brief The junior award scheme of the Royal Lifesaving Society UK (RLSS UK). The brand had to be professional yet compete w... Read more