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Milk and two sugars please! iDC creates another microsite for Viking

iDCJune 1st, 2011BlogNo Comments

May was a busy month for us at iDC and one of the stand out projects we recently completed was for Viking, the UKs favourite stationery company. iDC worked collaboratively with the award winning, Birmingham based PR agency Smarts England to develop and build a campaign microsite called “The Great Office Cuppa”. The site featured an online survey system to find out if making a “cuppa” in the office helps you get up the career ladder.

The microsite also played it’s part as an awareness campaign, introducing Viking’s new brand which rolled out at the same time. In order to drive traffic to the site, we also created HTML emails which we’re sent out by Viking’s comms team.

All-in-all, the microsite was a great success and we are very pleased with the results. Take a look here.

Designs of the year 2011 – Design Museum

iDCMay 26th, 2011BlogNo Comments

Designer coffins, edible books, balancing houses and angry birds were amongst the shortlist for designs of the year 2011. A very diverse range was on view at this year’s annual event hosted at the Design Museum on the south bank of the river Thames. Sustainability and efficiency continued to be high on the agenda whilst iPad apps continued their meteoric rise into the modern world of technology.

The overall winner being the Plumen 001 energy saving light bulb (seen below). Low-energy light bulbs have never been regarded as a stylish product, the Plumen addresses this by creating an aesthetic bulb designed to be seen, it also uses 80% less energy and lasts eight times longer than an incandescent bulb. Click here to see more images and video.

Winner – Plumen 001 energy saving light bulb

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iDC launch SEO services

iDCApril 21st, 2011BlogNo Comments

iDC one of Birmingham’s leading design agencies is now offering SEO services….

What is SEO?

SEO is an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. It is the method of analysing and constructing web pages and entire websites, so that they can be easily discovered, analysed, and then listed (indexed) correctly by various search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

The key to good SEO can make the difference to ranking highly on search engines or being lost in the vast virtual world of the web. With millions of people searching the internet daily, it is easy to understand the importance in having the necessary search engine exposure to capture your targeted audience. SEO is a powerful tool for Internet marketing, and when harnessed correctly can provide an excellent return on investment. Read more>>>

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iDC launches Waldrons Solicitors new website

iDCApril 6th, 2011BlogNo Comments

iDC are pleased to have launched Waldrons Solicitors brand new website.

Founded in 1867, Waldrons Solicitors are a respected law firm that offers specialist legal services to individual and business clients across the West Midlands and Worcestershire.

iDC was invited to take part in a competitive pitch in November 2010 after the partners felt that their old site was no longer working for them. Shortly after the pitch process, we received the fantastic news that iDC were appointed to take the web project to fruition.

One of the main requirements of the new site was that it utilised a Content Management System (CMS), which would give Waldrons the freedom and flexibility to easily update online content in-house. With this in mind we built the website on the incredibly powerful and secure, ASP.Net CMS platform called Sitefinity. A globally proven platform that is used by a number of Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz and other renowned government, healthcare and non-profit organisations.

Other key requirements for the site was to make it visually engaging, incredibly easy to navigate, (allowing users to find relevant information in two clicks or less), and make it SEO friendly in every way possible.

The site is performing incredibly well and both Waldrons Solicitors and iDC are very pleased with the results.

Click here to view the site: www.waldrons.co.uk

Waldrons Solicitors | Website | Home page

Waldrons Solicitors, website, web design,

Waldrons Solicitors | Website | Waldrons for Compensation main page

Waldrons | Website | Wills, Trusts Probate and Power of Attorney page

BMW try their hand at humour for April Fool’s day

iDCApril 1st, 2011BlogNo Comments

Well, even BMW has got in on the old April Fools day lark, by releasing a Royal Wedding special edition of their infamous M3 road car. You gotta hand it to them, as a brand that doesn’t really utilise humour to connect with audiences, this jocular flirtation breaks the mould for them and in a real sense reveals that BMW does have a funny side.

However, it does beg the question, did anyone actually fall for it? Well if you read the small print I think the contact email would have given it away. Made us smile at the iDC office though.

BMW Royal Wedding Special Edition M3 press advertisement. Note the contact email.

Note the contact email - pauline.yorlegg@bmw.co.uk

Fantastic March Offer

iDCMarch 8th, 2011BlogNo Comments

To celebrate 17 years as an award winning, quality, creative Design and Digital agency, we are offering a fantastic 17% off our design services for all orders placed by the 17th of March 2011.

For full terms and conditions, please click here.

Call us now to discuss your design requirements and take advantage of this great offer.

iDC’s New Digital Home

iDCFebruary 17th, 2011BlogNo Comments

It’s been a long time coming but at last we have found the time to finish off the new iDC website, well done Richie and Ant for your all your efforts.

Why not take a look around….. www.idc-design.co.uk we hope you like our new digital home.

iDC – Name that Carol

iDCDecember 2nd, 2010BlogNo Comments

In Christmas 2010, for your entertainment, we thought a festive competition would be fun. Name our graphical interpretations of popular Christmas carols.

The competition is now closed. We had a great response with a lot of correct entries but the winner of a £50 Amazon voucher and 2 hours design time was Elizabeth at Encore. Well done Liz.

Muse – Spotify Competition Launch

iDCNovember 12th, 2010BlogNo Comments

iDC were recently asked by Warner Bros. Records to develop and launch an online competition for one lucky winner to win a pair of tickets to see Muse live at Wembley. We produced a stand alone microsite for people to enter and a range of online advertising which featured on the innovative music store Spotify (Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs). It was a great project to work on but unfortunately we weren’t allowed to enter the competition ourselves!

iDC achieves ‘Recommended Agency’ status again

iDCJune 8th, 2010BlogNo Comments

iDC are proud to announce that we have once again achieved “Recommended Agency” status by the Recommended Agency Register (RAR). RAR are a renowned organisation who enable clients the chance to rate a creative agency on it’s service, value for money and technical ability. The iDC team are proud that we have been awarded this status especially because we have received high ratings by our clients, and that’s the best form of advertising we can hope for.

We can now use the RAR logo which is recognised worldwide as an independant mark of a trusted supplier on our website and stationary.

We’d like to say a big thank you to all our clients who took the time to rate us.

Thank you, The iDC team.

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