Category Archives: Design

Here you’ll find comments on good design, design techniques, designers, indeed anything to do with design. As the name might suggest.

If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It

Here at Slightly Different, we support our local University as best we can through such things like placements, workshops, lectures, and live projects, usually for the Graphic Design students, but on occasion for other disciplines that intersect with what we do, such as Creative Writing or Photography. Often, it’s just a case of giving students [...]

Staff Focus – Meet Rob, our resident design ninja!

Who Is The Man Behind The Mask? Rob Suckley is our lead creative at Slightly Different, he’s a master of design and when he isn’t working on killer design projects including websites for teddy bears, iPhone app interfaces and fashion portals, he’s busy practicing martial arts and enoying life as a husband and father.. what [...]

Case Study – Export Cornwall

Ever Wondered If Your Business Could Be Exporting? The UK Trade and Investment, Export Cornwall Project is a Convergence funded programme designed to improve the international performance of small and medium sized businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The project has been designed to  ‘supercharge’ the impact of the services to businesses available through UK Trade [...]

Marion Case study

DESIGNER “I really had a lot of fun creating these newsletters & I think it really shows! It was great working with a client who had come to us specifically after seeing what was possible with our own mailer. Henrietta wanted an email newsletter that was ‘slightly different’ & that’s exactly what I tried to [...]

SD Labs & Rise of the QR Code!

You’ll probably have seen an increasing number of these strange looking bar codes potting up all over the place these days. If your unaware of their purpose, they provide a rather useful way of encoding a hyperlink into the physical world. Most if not all smart phones are capable of reading these codes and there [...]