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Castabroad’s WordPress website has just gone live!

When Craig from Castabroad came to Duffy he had a great lovely brand identity, outstanding imagery but needed the Duffy design website design glue  to make his fly fishing tours business really communicate and stand proud.

The first step in the evolution of the new Castabroad site required some wireframe planning distilling his itineraries and previous site content until there was an ‘aha’ moment where I really felt I understood what his offer was and we had some order.

From there the site grew through the design execution and development process and of course adding a few bells and whistles along the path.

“Duffy made its introduction and first grabbed our attention through a website they had previously designed www.theboatshed.co.nz. The site was clean, easy to navigate and had set a level of credibility to match the service it was advertising, which became the mantra of the project in creating Castabroad’s now live and functional tool – www.castabroad.com

From first contact, ideas & expectations were quickly extracted from us by Belinda and a brief was drawn up. From there the project grew as we were introduced to options that could be integrated into the website, and before we knew it Belinda had designed what we believe to be the best NZ resource for what we do.

A customised and very sophisticated (behind the scenes) calculator proves for simple online enquiries to be quoted in real time exchange rates to the visitor.

Imagery, being the most important facet of online advertising was maximised with wall to wall panoramas of our incredible NZ scenes shown in a slideshow, different on every page. No need for a gallery page here – the whole site is a hi-res gallery!

The CMS used is WordPress, simple to use and available on any platform – whether we want to update something from our offices in Wanaka or even an iPhone on the riverbank, we can.
Timing is everything, and Duffy Design was flexible to our availability during busy spells in our offices and we simply picked up and carried on when we could.

Open and transparent quotations, the best of design talent, fair and honest opinions and fulfilling expectations is a given with Duffy Design – Highly recommended, in fact we have already recommended Duffy Design.”

Craig Somerville, Managing Director of Castabroad

www.castabroad.com

Duffy has just completed the portfolio website design for one of New Zealand’s leading Makeup Artists, Amber Carroll.

The design of the site is based on a ‘double-page spread’ layout, as the majority of Amber’s work is published in leading fashion magazines.

“I wasn’t 100% sure on what I wanted for my site in the beginning – I knew more of what I didn’t want. It was a process that evolved over time & Belinda was instrumental in bringing that to life.
I felt like she listened & interpreted my ideas fantastically. Belinda was excellent to deal with & I am really happy with the site & how it all looks.” Amber Carroll

www.ambercarroll.com

Hot off the Duffy press the cafe logo design for the Nuffield Street Cafe in Newmarket, formally the Olive Cafe.

Designed by Duffy Design – Plastic Business Cards for Julian Lofts, Auckland Plastic Surgeon has won 2 Pride in Print awards!! Best in Business Print and Best in Screen Print.

“A job that looks simplistic yet it is highly complex, and taken a great deal of skill to bring all the elements together and have a job that matches up perfectly.”

“Very fine detail well executed in screen and on thick substrate, great planning and perfect job.”

www.prideandprintawards.co.nz

Only 12 weeks till Christmas – time to get those creative juices flowing on Christmas Card ideas.

Duffy created for Peddlethorp Architects, based in Auckland, New Zealand a custom Merry Christmas card using a video that linked from an email they sent to all of their clients.

An innovative idea – as everyone loves watching videos.

No more getting staff to sign loads of Xmas cards, paying 50cents postage, printing, paying a staff member to address them and so it goes on…

The web site design new for Kidzspace, award-winning kids furniture store in Auckland is now live, designed by Duffy.

To design a web site for Kidzspace that aligns so nicely with their quality kids furniture and incredible selection of designer kids products was a very rewarding job. So nice to have the website, print and advertising design we do for Kidzspace also, all in synergy now.

Check out the new Duffy designer web site design for Kidzspace at:

www.kidzspace.co.nz

Proudly sponsored by Duffy new women’s networking group for professional business women and business owners in Auckland – Ladies Who Lunch Seriously.

www.ladieswholunchseriously.co.nz

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For Sale – Auction 19 November

Last days for a Sunday drive to experience being inside a Nautica home.

Designed by Duffy – The Fern Mural that sits behind the bar in the La Premiere Lounge at Hoyts Sylvia Park.

The mural, a continuously repeating pattern made from ferns, fronds and native New Zealand forest forms is cut from from stainless steel and uplit. A real iconic kiwi piece for the complex.

Interior design by New Improved.