Duffy has just completed a lovely new logo design for the not-for-profit organisation ‘New Zealand Cord Blood Foundation’.
The design combining the shape of DNA and a baby’s umbilical cord formed into a shape of a butterfly, to reflect the amazing gift of life and sense of freedom and survival cord blood gives to those who’s lifes it saves.
Duffy has just completed the website design for one of Auckland’s leading businesses in the Transport Warehousing and 3rd Party Logistics industry Carroll’s.
The design objective:
- To communicate the history of Carroll’s, a family business with an outstanding reputation
- To let the staff ‘speak’ about their ‘love for their jobs’, hence why they have been with the Carroll’s for decades.
- Use pictures to visually communicate ‘what they do’ in an interesting way (‘Pictures say 1000 words‘)
- Highlight the ease of working with Carroll’s, that working with Carroll’s is ‘easy’, ‘they go the extra mile’, because working with Carroll’s you are working with and are part of a ‘family’.
“Duffy Design was referred to me by two other companies we have dealings with. Belinda has just completed our new website and I cannot speak highly enough of her. The end result is exactly what we were looking for. We are a Transport Warehousing Company and when we started on this project we knew the direction and feel we wanted. Belinda clearly listened, she went about understanding what we do, how we do it and why we are different. I feel this was the key and coupled with her great design ability, we received a website that doesn’t look like it has come off a factory production line. Belinda thankyou for all your patience with me.”
Chris Carroll
Duffy has just completed the website for Self Drive Holidays New Zealand.
“Belinda Duffy has been fantastic to deal with right from the start. She has designed & project managed our website www.selfdriveholidaysnz.com along with the branding for our stationery. She has thought outside the square to come up with a professional, fresh & easy way for people to have their holidays arranged for them. Her knowledge on all things design and web related is incredible.
Belinda has a fantastic eye for detail and has been great to deal with by email, phone and in person. She really wants to see her clients succeed which is fantastic. Thanks Belinda!”
Cam Potts, Founder, Self Drive Holidays New Zealand
A year-long project complete!
This project utilised the whole toolkit of services we offer at Duffy.
Keyword Research for online companies:
It was really important for this business to have a great domain name ‘packed’ with keyword clients search for to find ‘Self-Drive Holidays’. In-depth keyword research was done to see what US, UK and Australians search for to find ‘Self Drive Holidays’.
From this research the domain name www.selfdriveholidaysnz.com was chosen as it cleverly contains several search terms. We also recommended an abbreviated name also www.sdhnz.com for ease of people typing in the domain name.
Branding:
Duffy created the branding for SDHNZ based a stylised steering wheel, that reads cleverly also as a mountain range and koru design. The brand was simply executed in Black and White (a key NZ palette) to ‘stand off’ the stunning images sitting behind it on the website and print collateral.
Website Strategy + Design:
This website was no ‘walk in the park’ project! The site is all custom designed page by page and custom-coded.
Duffy doesn’t use ‘out-of-the-box’ CMS (content management systems), sites like this and the majority of large sites we work on – they just don’t fit the mould. So we make the mould to fit the site.
This site cleverly holds all the ‘Things to Do’ and ‘Places to See’ in a database, allowing the client to create custom holidays that detect when he chooses a region a selection of things and places to see so creating holidays for him is easy.
We also used Google maps and coordinateas to automatically build this holiday maps.
The result a very clever website that works for the client, that he has total control of moving forward.
The new website design for Access Pacific New Zealand’s leading sustainable wood products company is now live!
Duffy designed the entire site opening with an interactive house allowing customers to see the range of applications Access Pacific products can be used for in building.
Duffy based in Auckland, New Zealand specialist custom web site designer for high profile New Zealand businesses.
Duffy has just completed the website for Fiona Tomlinson Pet Photographer in Auckland.
Duffy also designed her much loved cute little logo using the cat and dog combined with the ‘ftp’ initials.
With 15 years for experience of shooting every celebrity under the sun and kids kids kids, weddings, weddings, weddings! Fiona is now moving her passion for ‘capturing that real essence’ of personality, to our fluffy, hairy and feathery pet family members.
Very exciting!
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:
Duffy has just completed the new web site design for leading award-winning Auckland interior design company Paul Izzard Design.
Duffy has just completed the photography web site design of Carolyn Haslett, one of New Zealands leading fashion photographers.
… And has also won best cafe in Onehunga hands down!
Well done, Debbie. Your cafe and function venue is outstanding.
Great organic food, indoor and outdoor play areas for kids, great service, great interior/exterior, (renovation design by Paul Izzard Design).
Duffy designed The Library cafe logo just over a year ago (the text generated with my left hand!), menus, icons, vehicle signage and their website.
The Library cafe is situated at Princes St, Onehunga.
Kate Sylvester has won Metros Best Eco-Fashionista award for finding environmentally sustainable ways of running her business in 2008, using organic cottons and continuing to manufacture in New Zealand… In doing so she also won an award from the Sustainable Business Network.
Very proud to announce that this Duffy designed site is live. The TL+C bags are so cute, I love my Red Rust Urban Garden bag!
Tender Love and Carry (a range for girls), Tough Love and Carry ( a range for boys). Designed in New Zealand by Julie Donaldson. (more…)
This is the second site by Duffy for Kate Sylvester, the original site was designed in 2000. It’s clean design style lasted well for 8 years. (more…)
