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BEST WEB DESIGN AND DIGITAL MARKETING AGENCY IN UK

At Cloudswood, we proudly extend our top-notch web design, search engine optimisation (SEO), and graphic design services to a broad range of areas. We cater to clients in Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, and the surrounding regions, ensuring that businesses of all sizes have access to high-quality digital solutions. Our expertise spans from urban centers to suburban locales, providing each client with tailored services that meet their specific needs and market demands. Whether you’re a local startup or an established enterprise, our dedicated team is committed to helping you achieve a robust online presence and drive meaningful growth.

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At Cloudswood, we proudly extend our top-notch web design, search engine optimisation (SEO), and graphic design services to a broad range of areas. We cater to clients in Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, and the surrounding regions, ensuring that businesses of all sizes have access to high-quality digital solutions. Our expertise spans from urban centers to suburban locales, providing each client with tailored services that meet their specific needs and market demands. Whether you’re a local startup or an established enterprise, our dedicated team is committed to helping you achieve a robust online presence and drive meaningful growth.

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6 Latest Trends Of Graphic Design For Webpage

Design trends are always changing with time. The brands like Apple, Google, Facebook and other technology giants embracing new website designing trends every year.

Whether you’re a web designer or working with some designing company, you need stay on the top of graphic designing trends. The advantage of visuals over text, logo and graphics has always an important fact for the growth of business.

Therefore, it is important to think out of the box to make the graphics in a wonderful way that creates a “wow” among customers or audience.

Do you want your business logo, brochure, book cover and cooperative site stand out?

If so, then here are some latest graphic design trends that you can consider.

3D Typography And Design:

3D typography is a part of Huddersfield web design trend that adds real effect in content. You can easily apply these 3D effects by using software like adobe illustrator or Photoshop. The extra large font size and huge headlines are easy to read and understand. Further, people will get impress by realistic view of web site and will show interest in reading full material on your business page.

Color Transitions And Gradients:

The huge advancement in technology in recent years brings software with more color options. The vibrant and unique colors have become part of attractive graphic designing for website. Now, you effortlessly can create a designs and backgrounds for webpage by using color transitions and gradients effectively.

This will certainly create a wow factor for your services.

Bold Duotones:

As the name suggest the duotone means image composed of two shades of same colors.  Duotone widely used everywhere for increasing the impact of business on audience. The great thing is that it can be subtle or radiant, delicate or shouting, depending on the colors used. It is the perfect way to make things stand out from the cluttered content and leave a quick impression.

Moving Visuals:

Moving visuals is the most advanced side of graphic designing. You can either use animations or cinema- graphs in your web design Huddersfield page according to the demand of content. These are the unique way of combining different images in one to create a visual effect in webpage.

The reader can get impressed by the visuals that describe your services and can show interest in your business.

Unique Layouts:

These days’ asymmetric layouts are in fashion that makes the makes the webpage unique in many aspects. Being different from normal design the asymmetric designs are doing a wonderful job in capturing the more audience toward a business site.

Genuine Images:

Use related images in webpage that explain the purpose of your services. Do not overburden the webpage with irrelevant pictures or animations. Try to use the fresh pictures taken from personal camera of a business.

Start design your website according to the latest demanding trends in graphic designing to make it at the top list among audience. Also, a beautifully designed, attractive business page will help in bring more traffic to your services.

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MA Fashion and Textile Practices Major Project Path - 20th August

My final T-shirt was initially based on the concept of silence vs expression, I liked the idea of confliction between the need to be expressive and the need to be secretive. I had done some prior research into folds and pleating, and had developed a Pinterest board on concealing words/text within folds. It was the idea that as human beings there are parts of us which we wish to keep hidden and aspects of ourselves we wish to show to the world that I liked, essentially we are contradictory. I thought that using the text I had developed previously - ‘Space is the fold’ would emphasise this notion because the text could be utilised as my expressive side - the part I want people to ‘read’, but yet it discusses the fold - the part I want to keep to myself.

I didn’t want to create a T-shirt which looked like the other ones, this was meant to be a personal piece. I began to think of how, after completing this MA where I would fit in this world, deep I know, but taking this MA has been challenging in many ways and has forced me to consider what I want to do next in life. I’ve been involved in design in one form or another since I was 16 and had some really positive experiences. I love design, although my love of it has been challenged at certain points in my career, and my confidence knocked because of negative experiences.

I worked at a company in Leeds called E.B.I from October 1993 to December 2005, almost 13 years. I began as a confident designer - having just come from a company working up from design assistant to designer within 6 years - designing mainly men’s, women’s and children’s lingerie and nightwear. I loved my job and the small design team we had. It was incredibly varied work, I was involved in designing everything from the garment itself to the packaging and labelling. I was quite high pressure, we had to ensure deadlines were met and the manufacturers critical path was adhered to, often working late to make it all happen. After a few years I was promoted to senior designer - from starting out as a design room assistant on a Y.T.S training programme back in 1987 this was a big achievement for me.

It was during this time that things started to go wrong for me creatively, and our design team as a whole. This was partly due to company expansion and the way they viewed us as a creative team, and partly because they had employed a design director who was controlling and manipulative. There is no other way of putting it - we were bullied in the workplace. There are many instances I could recount here but it would be a very long introduction to my final T-shirt piece! I think on a whole we were made to feel worthless, undervalued and that the creative aspect of our jobs was the least important. The term ‘cad monkey’ was bandied about, of which the Urban Dictionary (2009) states:

‘Somebody who has gone through years of difficult and strenuous education in engineering, architecture, or a similar field only to wind up with a mindless and repetitive job where they do one task on a computer drafting program over and over again.’ 

Miragestudio7, n.d. (2019). Dilbert Cad Monkey And The Truth Of Sitting At Your Desk For 9 Hours A Day. [Illustration]. Retrieved from https://blog.miragestudio7.com/dilbert-cad-monkey/301/.

With myself in the role of senior designer I was answerable to the design director and company directors, so I took on an incredible amount of stress which I didn’t pass on to the rest of the team because it would have been unfair. I was the one being paid the most, so I took the brunt of it. In the end I was looking for a way out. My husband and I decided we needed a fresh start - from each other, but I didn’t realise that at the time - and moved, or was that escaped? to Spain. We bought a property north of Granada in a traditional Spanish town called Iznalloz.

This is our house in Spain, with my (ex) mother-in-law at the front door. 

We were relatively happy there for around a year - our initial settling-in time and getting used to our new environment, it was hard but fun. I think nobody really knows what it’s like moving to another country unless you experience it yourself. It is wonderful, yet terrifying! My husband had planned on becoming a DJ in Spain, he had a huge vinyl collection of dance music and all the equipment required, it would have been a good source of income if he had managed to get work out there. I set up a little freelance design business making greetings cards to sell to locals and customers at home, which was doing OK and kept the creative juices flowing whilst I worked out what else I wanted to do. 

Living in a country where you don’t know anybody else apart from the person you are with for 24/7 puts an incredible strain on the relationship. My husband became frustrated with the lack of work, and resentful of me managing to generate some  - albeit small - amount of income. He was nursing his own demons, suffering from depression since he fell ill with a sudden brain tumour a few years before - it had affected us both deeply. He became increasingly verbally abusive towards me and then to my friends and family - some of whom were very worried for my well-being miles away in another country. So after a visit from my mum in February 2006 I decided to leave him and Spain and move back to the UK. Unfortunately this didn’t happen until the August that year as I had to save any money we had, as well as my mum putting together some funds for me to return home. The time in-between was incredibly stressful, we lived together but had separated, it was a surreal situation but we had to make it work. 

I had lost any impetus to be creative at that point and was just counting the days and weeks until I could come home. Looking back, I think that I associated that time in my life to creativity being a bad thing. Maybe I subconsciously blamed it partly for the breakdown of my marriage, when I knew in reality it was the abuse that was the contributing factor. When I eventually got back to the UK, I lived with my mum in Lincoln and got a part-time job in BHS as a Christmas temp. In the August of 2009 I was thrilled to land a job as a senior lingerie designer at a company in called Crew 2000 in Bradford. It meant moving back up to Yorkshire, but it was the best for me and my mum to enable us to start living our lives for ourselves once again. I moved in with my best friend Mel - who I had been friends with since our days as designers for E.B.I and began this new chapter in my life. I felt I had fallen in love with design again, it had been present in the good and bad parts of my life, it had been the constant throughout.

One of the repeat prints I designed for Miss Selfridge whilst I was at Crew 2000 in Bradford.

I was at Crew 2000 for around 11 months before I was made redundant. I hadn’t been made redundant before and it was a huge shock. The company had employed me knowing the lingerie department was in trouble. They decided to dissolve the department and move any further lingerie business to the swimwear department - as the two were seen to be similar in approach. I felt my final chance at having a successful career in lingerie design had been taken away. The industry had been increasingly utilising the talents of in-house designers at overseas factories, thus the need for a ‘middle man’ designer like myself was significantly diminished. I worked in retail for a few years afterwards, trying to find work within design but I found employers were, and still are, very blinkered in their requirements for creative employees. I found I had to fit their specifications exactly or I didn’t get to the interview stage. Using creative agencies proved to be fruitless as they themselves became the middle man between the designer and the employer. They had the power to dismiss your CV before the employer got the chance to see it, regardless of how many versions you developed!

In September 2012 I began a BA (Hons) in graphic design at the Batley School of Art. I had managed to secure a place on my previous experience alone and felt that this was another new start - maybe this was what I was meant to do! I had already had experience in branding and packaging design whilst at E.B.I and had thoroughly enjoyed it, so thought that a career in this area of design was the way forward. I had gone straight into work after leaving school at 16, so had never experienced the whole ‘student thing’. I loved my years at Batley School of Art, I was the only mature student in our group of 12 but I loved mixing with younger people. I was never made to feel old or excluded, they felt like my contemporaries. I graduated in 2015 with a first class BA (Hons) in graphic design - the only one in the group - so felt confident I would land a job in the industry within months. Sadly, this was not meant to be. I applied for numerous jobs but to no avail. What was wrong with me? The rest of my group had secured jobs within graphic design soon after graduation, so why hadn’t I? Was it my age?

My winning design chosen to represent the Batley School of Art End of Year and Degree Shows for 2015.

Fast forward a few years and here I am almost at the end of an MA in Fashion Textile Practices at the University of Huddersfield, which again has been a fantastic experience. The thing is, I still don’t really know what I want to do once I leave university, and at 48 years old you think you should. I have been knocked back many times and have picked myself up, but how much more experience and qualifications do I need to have a career in the creative industries? Sometimes I have wondered whether it is design I love or because it’s the only industry I have known since I was 16. My love for design is so strong some days and then other days I couldn’t give a monkeys, I suppose it’s like any other long-term relationship, it has its highs and lows. 

The Space is the Fold T-shirt is meant to represent the conflict of silence vs expression, but it is also indicative of the struggle I have regarding my own abilities and creativity. It’s a representation of ‘self’, so I thought keeping the text almost unreadable against the background would represent how I am currently feeling at this point in my life, I feel like I’m fading into the background, that I’m being replaced by something better, more talented and younger. But the fact that you can still read the text is a sign that I haven’t totally gone, that I’m still here trying to figure myself out. Hidden messages within the folds reflect my insecurities regarding my creativity. They say ‘No confidence in my abilities’ and ‘Am I too old for a creative job?’ because that is how I feel. I wanted the fabric to look aged, also a representation of my status - a mature creative - so I ran it through a strong mix of tea to achieve a yellowed tone.

Strong tea mix in the fashion spray bottle. Tea is a surprisingly good dye, although it can be hard to judge how the finished results may be. I felt lucky with the mix I did and then used the remainder once cold to spray over the top of the finished T-shirt.

I had quite of a lot of white and off white leather pieces to use, so used the same font a before as the main body of the text. I did want this T-shirt to look different than the others, but still have some of the same features - such as this font - to link it to the other pieces.

I had cut out the patches prior to sewing on the T-shirt then folded and pressed  them to see where the fold lines would be. After stencilling it was easy to see where to re-fold and sew on the patches.

Front and back views of the finished T-shirt. I sprayed over the top with the tea and it had mixed slightly with the black that had previously been in the bottle. It gave like a dirty tea effect which I liked, it added to the worn and faded aesthetic I was after.