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Layout and design
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As a Gas Creative client, design is your competitive advantage. Layout has a key role in how your message is communicated, fine layout is a mix of hierarchy, emotion and logic. At Gas Creative we work hard to paint your product or service as the
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standout hero, to deliver your message simply with every detail necessary and eliminate the clutter. Working together we know our combined knowledge will provide your audience with an amazing communication experience. Put simply our focus is fixed on what works.
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Digital media
We look at the challenges our clients are facing and deliver a strategy that can include media lead brand communication. The Digital media channel is a great way for our clients to communicate and connect, including social and mobile. The medium gives
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THE LIM LIMIT
CRUISING SMUG TOWN, WHERE THE CAR IS WORTH MORE THAN MOST APARTMENTS
AN OPEN-TOPPED LIMITED EDITION from Porsche is a signal for those with unlimited funds to open their chequebooks. Ben Oliver’s remains shut as he goes looking for where the $520K went
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HAVE a new definition of frustration. You are on the Cote d’Azur. You have the keys to a new Porsche 911 Speedster, a car conceived specifically to be driven with the roof down. Some of the world’s best driving roads are minutes away. But it’s raining so hard it’s as if the Mediterranean Sea has just stood up and walked ashore. Cast-iron manhole covers have been flipped like coins by the pressure in the overwhelmed drains, and fridgesized boulders have been washed down the hillsides and now just sit in the road, waiting for you around a blind bend. I’ll be quite honest with you: I haven’t tested the Speedster with the roof down. It wasn’t a lack of professionalism; I just didn’t want to utterly ruin its extraordinary cabin. But I’m pleased to report that its bespoke soft-top has passed the toughest test it’s likely to face. And given that only 356 Speedsters will be made, you’re probably less concerned about its wind-in-the-hair qualities than how Porsche justifies charging over $519,800 for it, when a Turbo S cabriolet costing around
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an accessible, on demand connection to the product and service helping to keep the lead hot and transition a digital consumer into a real life relationship that can be built upon. Digital is a fun and exciting way to develop new customers and connect with current and past ones.
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15 percent less has 90kW/280Nm more, all-wheel drive and an automated roof. The production run of 356 is a nod to the original Speedster (see sidebar p51). The colour – Pure Blue – will only be offered on this model, although you can have it in white too. There’s new, black exterior trim and the black 19in Fuchs alloys and rear apron from last year’s limited edition 2.7 RS-inspired Sport Classic. Naturally, it gets the doublebubble rear canopy and a 60mm-lower windscreen. Bridging them requires a manual roof, which Porsche says can be erected solo in two minutes. As we found out, it’s the real deal; don’t confuse it with the glorified tent supplied with the Boxster Spyder. Inside, you get pretty much every option from both the standard and Porsche Exclusive bespoke division brochures. Porsche knows buyers of its limited-edition cars tick every box anyway, so it has saved them the trouble. So in addition to navigation and phone and Bose and voice and the Sport Chrono pack and almost everything else as standard,
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Advertising & promotion Great and small
Our approach to advertising graphic design is to find ways to communicate your message clearly, imaginatively and effectively, using all the magic and intelligence at our command. All our skill, knowledge, vision, and ability, in the creation of a single clear direct expression.
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We are enthusiastic about adding real value to your communication strategy.
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We specialise in high end retouching, image manipulation and creation. Our work can be seen on the covers of ‘Wheels’ magazine. Past work includes enhancing the GT 86 cover image (Jan 2012), creating a completely new BMW M3 image set (Dec 2012) a combination
of the base car with M Division style language and BMW cues and developing the next Holden Commodore (May 2011) from a tight brief. Gas Creative image manipulation carries an insight into the car industry mixed with accountability, giving you the advantage in the marketplace.
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There’s nothing better than working with good people. If you have a specific project you’d like to talk about simply contact us and we can organise a meeting. Gas Creative is a creative design agency. Here we are client results focused, meaning we put your brand first and have a habit of building great client relationships while producing the work you need at a high standard. We can help. Print layout Magazines Annual reports Brochures Image manipulation
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