Week 2

Image: the two agencies and a studio are located north-west to central Milton Keynes.

It seems I have been drawn to these three business’ as they are semi-rural, and not in the city centre, and maybe this is fitting for the city itself. These are growing companies that represent the city as MK is expanding.

In summary:

WHP specialise in digital branding.
Print is #1.
10 employees.
2008.
Varied clients.

VI specialise in rebranding.
Web Design #1.
10 employees.
1989.
Global, not local clients.

Freestone specialise in print.
Brochures #1.
20 employees.
1984.
Less digital based company.

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Just from exploring these three companies, it’s evident to me that design business’ are shrinking their number of employees. This is probably down to employees now being multi-skilled in various specialisms as opposed to the 1980’s (Maziar speaks about this in his lecture).

3 places for design production:

I have researched several design production places but I wanted to pick three that were different from each other.

I have submitted the following on the geo-tagging link:

Charles Rayner – screenprint and decals (vehicle wraps)
Minuteman Press – printing for design (posters, brochures, pens)
Carlton Packaging – packaging for products (boxes)

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Even though these do specialise in one thing, I have noticed all of them overlap a little bit with what services they provide. This is interesting as there are obviously customer demands which they are trying to meet, as design specialisms expand.

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