Winner of ‘Best in Design’ at RAR awards!

Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized

We are delighted to announce that NU Creative is now an award-winning agency! On Wednesday 21st April we were announced as the ‘Best in Design’ award winner at the RAR agency awards 2010, held in London.

The RAR awards are all about recognising service excellence from design and marketing agencies across the UK as identified by you, our clients.

Winner 'Best in Design'

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Harrods foods safety project

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by admin in Projects

We have just completed an tremendously successful project with Harrods to help them emphasize the essentials of Food Safety. This was done through the Design and production of two training brochures. These brochures will be used as training tools to guide all food handlers within the business.

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Freelance designers / developers wanted!

Posted on January 5th, 2010 by admin in Latest News

We are a fast paced and busy agency with a constant need for good freelancers who can think on their feet and produce excellent work within the tightest of deadlines.

Graphic Designers: Supporting the core design team in the production of marketing literature, tender documents, graphics, corporate identity and branding for a variety of clients mainly in the corporate sector. You will have prior print production knowledge and be proficient in the use of Indesign, Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word and Powerpoint.

Web Developers: Supporting the design team to help with dynamic content on web and multimedia projects. You will have expert knowledge of PHP, MySQL, XHTML/CSS and W3C web standards. Flash (AS) would be an advantage but is not essential.

Person Specification:
Professional qualification (degree level)
Minimum of 3 years professional experience
Excellent attention to detail
Strong organisational skills and ability to work under pressure
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to multi-task and prioritise to ensure deadlines are met
Adaptable and flexible to fast-changing business needs
Highly motivated with a creative mind

We would require freelancers to work in our offices in South East London and possibly at our clients offices from time to time.

Please apply to jobs@nucreative.co.uk ONLY, providing us with your CV, portfolio PDF (up to 2mb) and your hourly/daily rate.

Application closes: 15th January 2010. Applications after this date WILL NOT be considered.

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NU Creative campaign management

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by admin in Latest News

We are delighted to announce that we now offer an email marketing solution through a tailored campaign management tool. We can create, deliver and monitor your email campaigns and provide you with a detailed report containing statistics about the delivery success, click rate or even how many people have unsubscribed or forwarded your email. When designed professionally an HTML email can be a beautifully designed marketing tool, which allows you to measure the success of your campaign. To find out how this new intelligent facility can help your business thrive, please contact tim@nucreative.co.uk or visit our website.

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NU Creative achieves RAR recommended agency status!

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by admin in Latest News

We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded the RAR recommended agency status. RAR gathers information from companies across the spectrum of marketing services, with details of key clients, resources and key staff, sector experience, case histories and company finances all captured. Uniquely, they also measure a company’s level of customer satisfaction, asking clients to rate their suppliers across six key criteria:

1. Client service
2. Creativity/innovation
3. Effectiveness
4. Professionalism
5. Strategic thinking
6. Value for money

The ratings for these criteria are combined to provide an overall score. The individual ratings act as an independent measure of agency performance. Only companies who score above the RAR threshold become recommended and are included in the register. The results provide a unique and invaluable insight into the experiences of other clients with particular suppliers. As the research was conducted confidentially with our clients we would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all those who took part to help us achieve this mark of excellence.

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Protect Your Brand

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin in Articles

We recently announced that we have protected our business and brand by trademarking our name. In increasingly competitive times, we thought we could help give some useful advice about the importance of protecting your brand. As a creative communications agency we are used to creating and launching new brands. Branding is much more than just a logo, identity or name. It reflects the total personality of your business and can refer to anything from a unique mark, word, colour or font. Your company branding is usually the first thing people associate with your business, and as we all know, first impressions count! The idea of protecting your brand is becoming more popular as the small business marketing place becomes more saturated and the best business names become less available. More and more people are starting their own business and protecting your business from possible infringement is becoming more common-place.

A good place to start when exploring the rather scary world of Intellectual property is the Intellectual Property Office. This site offers a wealth of information on how to take the necessary steps to protect your mark, logo or brand. On the flip-side, anyone wishing to start a business can do worse than to check out this site, to make sure that they are not about to infringe another companies trademark. Many new start-ups do not realise that Companies House will let you register a business name very similar to an existing business. Whilst this is fine from an incorporation perspective, you could be, without knowing it, infringing an existing trademark. Why Companies House and the IPO do not collaborate to help businesses avoid such a scenario is rather short-sighted.

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Trademark Tastic!

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by admin in Latest News

We are very proud to announce that after several months of waiting, NU Creative Ltd has successfully registered its Trademark. NU Creative is now a registered trademark of NU Creative Ltd and protects our name in the areas of Graphic and Web Design, Marketing, Advertising, Branding, Brand Consultancy Services and PR. These elements are classified in classes 35 and 42 or the Trademark Act. Will we add the infamous ‘TM’ to our logo?…probably not, but there will be a link added to our site to display our certificate in all its glory.

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Streamline with Streamtime….

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by admin in Articles

As a small Creative design agency we are constantly looking at ways to streamline our processes, to help us track projects, quotes, invoice and manage our time. Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at a number of systems to help manage our design studio more effectively. For us there was the decision whether to go with an application or online based system. Products like Basecamp represent the online route and offer a strong project management led system based around a collaborative tool. On the application side, there are products like Streamtime which offer a secure server side application and studio management software. After several weeks of trials and testing of these systems it was clear that both of these had their individual strengths. I was impressed by the collaborative nature of Basecamp, though I always had reservations about how an online tool of this nature could impact communication by discouraging people to communicate by phone or face to face. Perhaps for truly global businesses where meeting in this was is less important Basecamp could offer a unique take on online communication. For our design agency however, communication is key. Our process is very user centric and therefore discussions by phone and face to face are of primary importance. What we wanted was a tool to support our internal processes, a tool to help us streamline our business. Streamtime certainly seems to offer this and much more. It allows, job tracking, job quoting invoicing and live reporting. We look forward to integrating Streamtime into our busy design studio and we hope it will live up to our high expectations.

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Website Re-design

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by admin in Projects

We are currently looking into a re-design of our website. Our hope is to make it more of a forum for news and information about design, as well as news about our latest projects and the goings on in our agency. As ever, feedback is of huge importance from our clients and users, so please have a look at our initial ideas, and feel free to let us know what you think!
You can view a prototype page of the new design here.

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We have moved!

Posted on September 24th, 2009 by admin in Latest News

Just a quick update as we are now settling in to our new office. It’s our third day now and we are settling in nicely. If you haven’t already done so, please do pop in and see us for a chat about a project or even just a cup of tea! There are boxes all over the place and the flooring is still going down in the basement, but finally we have the room we need to grow and improve the services we offer our wonderful clients.

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