Christmas is just around the corner so now is the perfect time to sort out your Christmas cards, Christmas emailers and Christmas graphics for your website. We call it ‘Christmasification’…

Right now, if you place an order before the 29th October 2010 you’ll get 10% off. Coupled with an already low cost and award winning design we think it’s an offer you won’t want to miss out on!

Find out more here.

Twitter finally gets a creative and usability upgrade that might just make it a little more useful and ‘sticky’… The designers have a done a great job of keeping the design very much like the old Twitter, the tweet stream works in the same way we’re all accustomed to, but now you can quickly view embedded media like pictures and videos. As well as see more relevant information in mini profiles. It defintely has the feel of Facebook and its wall – but whilst the constant design refreshes of Facebook actually complicate simple processes the Twitter refresh has taken a very simple solution and added usability in an incredibly elegant way.

Find out more at the Twitter Blog.

Data visualisation seems to be de rigueur these days – everyone is at it!

Laia Clos’ studio mot have beautifully crafted a set of info graphics visualising the lead violin of Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’. You can see more of the work here: http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/motstudio

On the BBCs Newsnight programme on Monday there was a segment about data visualisation and how to reinterpret statistics and information more interesting and beautiful to look at. It’s incredibly interesting – the mapping of Chennai’s bus routes (created by individuals who spent 3 days pulling together information) and subsequently the areas of the city not serviced shows just how graphical representation, rather than numbers in a chart, can be incredibly revealing.

You can see the entire show on iPlayer (segments starts at 26.00).

Via: Swissmiss

Out with the old, and in with the new. 2010 is already proving to be a pretty exciting year. In an email last year I described how 2009 had it’s fair share of ups and downs for all of us. There was also a lot of moving on from old pastures, leaving the weight of some bad situations behind and looking forward to being able to provide an honest, creative, professional and successful service to clients who truly deserve the best.

With the launch of the new site you’ll get a better idea of the type of work my team and I are capable of. Hopefully the portfolio will show you the breadth of work thats achievable. If I’ve already worked with you in the past – you might find your work featured in the portfolio and I’m looking forward to the future where I can add more of your work to the website!

So what can you find on the site?…

The website has a more detailed services section. Although to be honest it’s quite impossible to cover all the different types of work we might be able to do together. Instead you’ll find the most popular services most clients ask for.

Some of the services might surprise you – hopefully in a good way! It’s going to be a productive year bringing together all of the services to bring you a more robust creative / marketing solution.

The blog will also feature the best of design and creativity on the web as well as regular articles about work, about the industry, about search engine optimisation (hot topic!) etc. Articles being written right now include:

• How The Parb Johal Holding Page Was Created (because you all loved it so much!)
• The Truth About SEO

So be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed or sign up to the periodical e-newsletter ‘The Wrap‘ to stay up to date with the blog.

With that said, I can’t wait to start talking about the work we’ll be doing together this year and into the future.

Thanks, Parb Johal