Evolve Creative Services Ltd
Evolve is all about creative visual communication, but we don’t go purely on looks…
Our aim is to help you develop your vision and then translate that into communication, using whatever medium works best – whether it’s on paper, on screen, online. But always ‘on’. We help our clients use creative communications to move their businesses forward, both within their own organisations and with their customers. More than just a supplier of marketing collateral to your brief, we work with you to understand the objectives behind each project and to actively contribute to the strategy of our tools’ implementation. And we’ll work our nuts off to get the job done!
WHO: people
John Cooper founded Evolve Creative Services Ltd in 2005. He has over fourteen years creative production and marketing experience, working in broadcast and corporate television for the BBC, NBC, TalkbackThames, Five, Discovery, Disney and Channel 4.
Evolvers – our small (but perfectly formed) creative team of producers, designers and account partners offer a wealth of experience in marketing communications, product management, promotional collateral and corporate strategy. We also work in partnership with a number of PR and Copywriting agencies, enabling us to provide our clients with a one-stop-shop for total and tailored communication solutions.
Drawing on our wide and eclectic skills set, we can provide expert solutions from a full range of creative services and applications.
Consultation
Design
Video
Production
Digital Photography
Project Management
WHAT: consultation
It sounds cheesy, but ’client partnership’ means exactly that, and it’s what we do best. We work with you to understand your organisation’s promotional challenges and provide advice and guidance on how best to meet them. Every strategy we propose is targeted and measured for real value add effectiveness.
WHAT: design
Good graphic design is much more than about making something looking nice. It has to work. Evolve has a deep appreciation of this balance and has the creative skills and marketing experience to get the communication mix right. This includes everything from the copy and the layout of marketing & promotional collateral right through to recommendations on how best to use it.
WHAT: video production
‘Corporate Video’ - two words which fill any executive with dread. Not only by the prospect of having to appear in one; but worse, because of the endurance required to actually watch them. Using broadcast quality production values across the entire project, Evolve will research script, storyboard, shoot and edit your promotional film with craftsmanship. We know what buttons to press to cut a video, but more importantly we understand how pictures and sound work to tell your story. And not a page curl effect in sight.
WHAT: digital photography
A striking image can say so much more than a whole page of text. And through ‘digital darkroom’ techniques, we can make a photo speak volumes… even if it didn’t before. We have the eye to produce some stunning photography and the pixel power to then enhance those shots to create images that didn’t exist before. Images which work.
WHAT: project management
OK, so we can make things look good and we can make them work for you. But we don’t stop there. We see every client commission as a working relationship. Not just a one night stand. Only by getting under your skin (and not on your nerves) is it possible to really understand what you and your objectives are all about. And then we can help achieve them, in a consistent, integrated and thought-out approach.
HOW
case study 1 case study 2 case study 3
We can wax lyrical about how great we think we are, but the important thing is how we help our clients… and what they think of us. Here are a few example:
case study: Technicolor
Technicolor is a global market leader in film and television content management and distribution… and a household name. They cam to us for help in branding their international Network Services division.
case study: Steljes
Steljes is a technology
market development and services organisation and has been using technology to
improve the ways in which people live, learn and work for nearly twenty
years. When it cam to promoting
these services and translating their values into visual communication they cam
to us.
case study: The Vision Charity
Vision is the official charity of the film and television industries, working to combine the fund raising efforts of associated companied for the benefit of blind, visually impaired and dyslexic children. To devise visual communication materials for an organisation targeting the visual communications market was a challenge we couldn’t resist.
case study: Technicolor
challenge:
Create a unique and distinguishable brand for the Network Services division within the existing Thomson Group and promote it internationally as an established industry leader.
solution:
Through research and development, a logo and comprehensive style tool kit was created. Once integrated, the new brand was further supplements by an intense advertising campaign and marketing collateral roll-out. - Brand Development & Style Guide - Press Advertising & Marketing Mailers - Campaign Strategy & Implementation “Evolve has helped us grow Technicolor Network Services into a leading brand in its own right. Their attention to detail, understanding of our business and creative interpretation of our needs is highly impressive.” Maurizio Cimelli, Senior Vice President Technicolor Network Services Designing the Technicolor Network Services logo was just the start. From there came the job of implementing the new style and developing the brand across every element of visual communication. This encompassed style guide creation through to fit-out of the client’s Chiswick Park reception – interpreting their new look as company décor. Our work on the following press advertisement campaigns ensured their new brand was further enhanced with innovative and evocative marketing materials.
HOW
case study: Steljes
challenge:
Our relationship with Steljes is a great example of our Client Partnership ideal. Initially commissioned to tackle print design and supply for their training materials, we now also supply promotional video tools and on-going communication collateral and consultancy.
solution:
Steljes saw the benefit of working with a single partner to produce their wide range of visual communication tools, from printed educational materials to press advertising to internal information and promotional videos. We are currently working with Steljes to translate their company values and ethos into graphic décor for their new headquarters, taking visual communication to a new and abstract level. “Evolve have gone far beyond the call of duty to meet and exceed our expectations. Often, speaking humbly, overcoming a testing briefing process from us as clients. We’re continually impressed by the solutions that Evolve present and would not hesitate, both to use them again and again and to recommend them to others.”
Claire Austen, Group Media and Communications Manager. Steljes
We like to think of ourselves as an extended member of the Steljes team. Our deep understanding of who they are and what they’re about is conveyed in all our work for them. This includes print design for training materials and marketing collateral right through to video productions for promotional strategy. Our solutions for Steljes are varied, from traditional print and video to innovative uses of new technologies and delivery platforms. Right now we’re working on some really exciting concept graphic décor for point-of-sale display.
HOW
case study: The Vision Charity
challenge: Vision were looking for a
totally new look, from logo design to how they promoted themselves. They approached Evolve initially to
concentrate on brand and style design but the brief quickly evolved to
providing strategic assistance on full visual communications and marketing.
solution: Taking the children theme as
our base we developed a new corporate identity for Vision, from logo design to
style tool kits and collateral. We’re now entering into the next phase of
implementing these new communications tools. Much of this work is still under evolution – we’d love to
show you but we’d have to… well, you know the rest. Please come back later to check out how we’ve helped Vision.
“We gave them a tough brief, effectively re-branding a long established institution within an industry that’s all about looks. Evolve captured the essence of The Vision Charity straightaway with a simple but brilliant style. A pleasure to work with, the [Evolve] guys just understand what we we’re about and what we want to achieve. I’ve no doubt our supporters, and the children we help, are going to love it. Thank you!”
Larry Davis, Chairman, The Vision Charity
With the all-encompassing brief of a visual communication make-over, it’s early days for this project. A new logo is currently in its final stages of evolution and from there we are working with The Vision Charity on every element of their marketing – from direct campaigns through to web and print promotional tools. At the heart of our relationship with Vision is a visual communications consultancy. Please return for solid examples of our work for them.
From something as simple as a business card through to a major promotional video series played out across multiple platforms, we can help you to achieve targeted and measured results. Whatever you think about visual creative communications:
design
photography
video
strategy
marketing
…think again.
It’s moved on.
Move with it.
Evolve.
Where can you find out more?
telephone: +44 (0)1992 552303
email: info@evolvecs.com
address: 10 North Road Avenue, Hertford, SG14 2BT UK