SDX Creative specialise in Logo Design & Branding, Website Design, Marketing and Graphic Design projects for Manchester & Stockport based companies and individuals. Covering both digital and print design fields we work with you to find the right solution.

 

Customised Football Kit Invites made from 1 piece of A4 paper.  These invites are made from 120gm paper and folded into the shape of a kit, and make unique invites for childrens birthday parties or events. The invites come with a custom name and number on the reverse & custom text on the front in 'Sponsor' position, I recommend using this for details.

 

The invites are available currently in Manchester United Home, Manchester City Home, Everton Home and Arsenal Home kit designs, however any design you wish can be made, just drop me an email or contact me using the menu above to find out more information.

 

Each invite costs just £1.50 and will be delivered to you ready folded so you can start handing them out straight away.

 

 

 

Marketing and Advert concept created and designed by SDX Media with HMG Paints for the British Coating Federation.

At the beginning of 2010 the British Coatings Federation were redesigning their branding and identity and trying to give themselves a refresh and become much more prominent within their own industry and in the wider media.

With HMG Paints being a member of the BCF I was asked to develop and create a concept that would help the BCF with their new approach.
The concept we developed was for "A Life Without Coatings" which would feature a series of adverts that showed to the unassuming public and media how important coatings and inks are.

To project the image I created a series of design concepts, which were to be targeted at industry magazines alongside some mainstream media, that showed world famous landmarks and common objects and how they would be affected without coatings applied to them.  For this I used Jodrell Bank Telescope, The Eiffel Tower, The Angel of the North and a decayed ship.

The campaign was to ask people to think about A Life Without Coatings:

"From a modest industry of a few hundred highly innovative companiesflow the materials that protect and create much of our environment and are the means of delivery of most of our information and education.
Can you imagine a life without coatings? Visit coatings.org.uk to find out"

 

A Promotional print and digital flyer designed for HMG Paints a highly successful wet paint manufacturer however many people are unaware that they also have a wide range of powder coatings.  In order to promote this fact I was tasked with creating a promotional flyer that would be print based to be sent out with Powder Coatings orders, to be delivered by HMG's team of sales representatives and to be sent out with HMG's Monthly Statements.  A digital version of the flyer was also created that allowed the HMG Paints Powder Coatings team to email the flyer out.

The aim of the flyer was to highlight a limited time offer that HMG were doing on their range of Black and White Powders, the current UK Powder Coatings market is currently undergoing massive price increases of upto 15%, however HMG as always are putting their customers first and implementing a much smaller increase.   Even from the 1st August when prices per Kilo of black and white powder coatings rise from £2.20 to £2.40 the pricing will still be below market standard prices, meaning once again HMG Paints customers are receiving excellent value for money.

The flyer was created entirely in house using mainly Adobe Photoshop for image editing and final layout, logos were created within Adobe Illustrator and the imagery was taken with a Nikon D40 on location at a very happy HMG Customer.

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For this one I had to create a map and reverse of a ticket for a dinner who's attendees included major names in the World and European Coatings industry.

The Kaliedoscope 2010 Industry Dinner is one of the biggest events in the UK paint and coatings  industry and coincides with the Surfex exhibition. Surfex 2010 was held at the Harrogate International Conference Centre with the Kaleidoscpoe Industry Dinner being held at The Cairn Hotel close by on the evening of the event.  In my role at HMG Paints we had already agreed to print the tickets for the event, however unfortunately after a fire at the original venue the ticket needed modifying to show the new venue of the Cairn Hotel.  For this I was tasked with creating a map that would clearly show attendees where the new venue was.

The Map needed to be clear and concise which was a challenge as the venue was in a cluttered area of Harrogate, thankfully I managed to achieve this making a clear and concise map whilst managing to keep the ticket inline with the events branding.

To create the I used Adobe Illustrator for creating the lines, Adobe Photoshop for the HMG Paints sponsor areas and Adobe InDesign for the final composition.

 

HMG Paints Ltd are planning a summer push to promote their on site Trade Counter.  The Trade Counter has been mismanaged for years and has never done any real advertising or promotion.  With a change of staff within HMG Paints has come a new emphasis on promoting the HMG Paints Trade Counter and their range of sundries, including decorating equipment, spray equipment, tapes,  clothes & more along along with the household brands including 3M, Stanley, Stickit, Dupont.

The current featured presentation is on DeKups by Devilbiss, the next generation in disposable paint cup systems.  The HMG Paints Trade Counter is offering a fantastic promotion on the new system and its related sundries, in total customers of HMG Paints can save up to £20 on the whole kit.  The promotion was 3 fold, with a print campaign that was sent out to over 600 HMG Paints customers, along with an email campaign that was sent out to selected customers.  Also a poster campaign within the HMG Trade Counter to let the walk in customers know about the campaign.  The campaign will be first of many to promote the HMG Trade Counter.

You can download the promotion by click here

 

The Manchester Football League is one of the biggest leagues in the North West and supplies teams to the North West Counties, each season it has a series of finals played at various grounds around the Manchester area.

The 4 finals are the Murray Shield: Monton Amateurs v West Didsbury & Chorlton, the Bridgewater Office Supplies League Cup: Fives Athletic v West Didsbury & Chorlton, Gilgryst Ciup Final: Hollinwood v Walshaw Sports & the Open Trophy Final: Prestwich Heys v Stockport Georgians

The posters below have been designed to promote each of the finals, in the past they league has used Word Art style posters however this year required a more professional looking poster.  The posters are being printed in local publications, teams programmes and also available for digital use via download or general page content.

The posters were designed using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator.

 

The leagues website can be accessed via: http://www.manchester-league.co.uk/

 

 

 

HMG Paints Ltd, The UK's leading independent paint manufacturer, are this year returning to print advertising in various paint and coatings related publications, unfortunately HMG's image range is very poor so the logo idea was used as an alternative to using low resolution product pictures like in the past .  The 3D version of the 80th Anniversary logo will be forming the basis of many of these adverts.  The 3D logo was created in Adobe Illustrator and will then be used in a wide range of HMG Paints media throughout 2010.  Plans for the logo at the moment include, videos, presentations, merchandise and stationary.

The HMG Paints 3D poster was selected for Abduzeedo.com  Daily Inspiration 447
You can see the page via the following link  http://abduzeedo.com/daily-inspiration-447

 

 

A concept for a poster/advert/imagery for HMG Paints, highlighting the fantastic range of colours the company offers, and also features other versions.  The item was created in Adobe Photoshop, using paint splatter images by Cognisys and their amazing High Speed Shot technology.

Below is a reduced size, version and below that you will find downloadable versions for the Iphone, Sony Ericcson Satio, Nokia 5800, N97, 5530, 5230, X6 and Samsung i8910HD

 

 

Downloadable Phone Wall Papers:

Sony Ericcson Satio, Nokia 5800, N97, 5530, 5230, X6 and Samsung i8910HD

Iphone

HMG Paints Ltd are leaders in the Commercial Vehicle sector in the paint industry and as such have a wide varierty of coatings, the Commercial Transport Systems Chart was created to bring all these systems into one place.

The wall chart contains all of HMG Paints' relevant products to the Commercial Transport sector and provides all the latest information inclunding VOC's, mixing ratios, viscosity and other relevant information that users will need for the paint along with Hardener and Thinner information.  The wall chart also features the HMG Paints logo watermarked in the background, the idea of this is that when viewing the chart from far away the logo is the most visible part of the poster, however when close up the logo does not make the text unreadable.   The chart was printed on A1 170gm Silk paper and has been distributed to a wide variety of HMG customers and HMG's network of distributors.

If you would like a Commercial Transport System Chart then please use the contact details on the top menu or contact HMG Paints Ltd, via tel: 0161 205 7631 or via email on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

In November 2009 HMG Paints Ltd, the UK's biggest independent paint manufacturer brokes its all time record litreage with a whopping 416,320 litres of paint produced.

To celebrate the fact HMG Paints management treated the staff to a free bottle to help celebrate in style, for the occassion I created a special label to mark the landmark occassion.

Quite a way to head into HMG Paints' 80th year, a big well done to all the production staff who made it possible.

 

 

 

 

This poster was designed to notify customers of HMG's appearance at the Commercial Vehicle Show at the NEC in Birmingham.  The poster as printed in A4 for our distributors, A5 to be sent with HMG's monthly statements and sent digitally in emails by representatives.  The flyer features the Orc that is well know to HMG customers as it is the first thing that greets you when you visit HMG's site.

Whilst working for HMG Paints I have taken the roll of creating the newsletter that the company produces twice a year.  The newsletter is given out to staff and also sent to customers with the monthly statements, the last issue was also sent digitally to numerous customers.  The first issue was created in Corel Draw whilst the latest two have been created in Adobe InDesign.

Click the images to download an issue.

Issue 1 - Summer 07

Issue 2 - Christmas 2007

Issue 3 - Summer 2008

These two flyers were created for a HMG Paints customers and used as an information tool for current HMG promotions, the flyers were printed in A4 and given to the distributor and were also distributed digitally by sales representatives.

 

The poster was used internally to promote HMG Paints Christmas Party as TV21's in Manchester.  The poster was created in Adobe Photoshop and was printed on A3 and A4 paper.

These two adverts were done for HMG Paints Ltd to appear in Arrivas Information Directory 2008 and aslo for Arrivas Winter Directory.

The smaller image was for the Arriva Information Directory and the large one was for the Winter Directory, Both were created using Adobe Photoshop.

 

The football programme was created for HMG Paints 75th Anniversary football match held at Stalybirdge Celtics football ground.  The programme was created in house and printed on HMG's new OKI ES3640 printer, it featured team profiles and interviews with key members of staff.

 

This advert was created for HMG Paints and appeared in the Plaxtons Centenary booklet that was given out to all its customers aswell as attendees at the Plaxtons Headquarters on the day the company celebrated 100 years.   The advert features coached that HMG has supplied the paint for.

 

This invite was for a friends 18th Birthdya Party.  Instead of standard generic invites she requested a 'funky' deisgn that was unique and would impress her friends and family when they recieved the invites.  The invites were printed on 160gm gloss paper and were A6 in size and had the effect she wanted.

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