Monthly Archives: May 2012

Buccleuch Estates – Paul McLean Graphic Design

The Duke of Buccleuch’s Estates needed materials to attract visitors to the four Estates – Boughton, Bowhill, Drumlanrig and Dalkeith – for their new visitor season. Paul McLean Graphic Design of Melrose worked closely with Buccleuch Estates to produce a set of four matching branded leaflets to showcase each location. Mainly imagery-led, they prominently feature…

Coldstream Historical Society – Lucent Web Design

Web design studio Lucent Web Design is helping to bring the research of Borders historians to the web. Stow-based Lucent has designed and developed a new website for the Coldstream and District Local History Society that allows the group’s members to post their latest news and events, showcase their collection of vintage photographs of Coldstream…

Fluid Cohesion Ltd – alunncreative & Texthouse

Selkirk water treatment specialists Fluid Cohesion Ltd needed printed promotional material quickly to take to a trade show at the NEC in Birmingham. Managing director Stuart Ramsay worked with Galashiels designer Alix Lunn at alunn creative and copywriter Jules Horne of Jedburgh’s Texthouse to create four leaflets on the company’s products, including their new Legionella…

Membership renewal and joining Borders Creative

The new Borders Creative year began in April, so if you haven’t paid your £50 sub yet, please do. We regret that any members who haven’t contributed will mysteriously disappear from the listings directory (and reinstated when payment received). And this year, Borders Creative is even better value: • The website (borderscreative.com) is up and…

Opportunity – Textiles Designer Makers Residency

Deadline for Applications – Thursday 17th May reSIde is offering two designer makers from Scotland and two from Gujarat, India, working in the area of textiles, an opportunity to participate in a programme of  residency and exchange. This is a chance to extend personal creative  boundaries through travel, engagement with another culture rich in textile traditions,…

Southern Reporter Sponsorship – An Update!

Borders Creative’s six-month sponsorship of the monthly Business Today section in the Southern Reporter is now underway. Last month featured an article on the importance of branding. This month (to coincide with the Website Visibility Workshop on the 22nd May), Sarah Mathieson of Vantage is writing an article on website visibility. Thank you to the…