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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
In this issue we look at the CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION and EDUCATION & TRAINING sectors in the Northamptonshire area
VIDEO WORK IN HIGH DEMAND A new arm of a highly successful Jimmy Bricknell and Stef commercial photography business Louca of Small Giants on has already created exciting set filming for a new communications for some of the sparkling wine brand UK’s biggest brands. The team behind Frasershot, based in East Haddon, started Small Giants Media in October in response to high levels demand from its clients for video work. The new venture has already worked on a number of projects for major clients, including television advertisements, commercials, talking heads, videos for social media and ‘WE’VE BEEN other forms of INCREDIBLY BUSY communication. Its impressive, EVER SINCE WE ever-growing list of LAUNCHED’ clients includes the likes of Quorn, Starbucks, Compass Group, Wickes, Travis Craig said: Perkins, Tottenham Hotspur, “Previously, we had been Nespresso, Premier Inn, McCain and outsourcing the requests we fellow Northamptonshire Chamber received for video work but we had member Crockett & Jones. so many calls for our services that Owner of Frasershot and Small it made sense for us to invite the Giants Media business director team we’d been working with to Craig Fraser runs the new venture join us and bring everything inwith co-director Jimmy Bricknell. house.
“We’ve been incredibly busy ever since we launched and have helped lots of prominent organisations to get their messages across to clients during the pandemic. “We’ve launched a new website to show prospective clients the types of projects we’ve been working on but we haven’t actively
started marketing the business yet so for it to have grown so quickly already is really exciting.” Small Giants Media is based at the Frasershot Studios headquarters at Grovelands Business Park in Northampton. Visit: www.frasershot.com
NEW WEBSITE BUILT FOR MANUFACTURER A talented team of designers has helped one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of building products to redesign its website. Wellingborough-based design studio agencypds, which is part of Print Data Solutions, was commissioned by Forterra plc, to conduct an in-depth overhaul of its website. The website has now been redeveloped following a thorough review of the firm’s brand guidelines and the creation of a contemporary new version of its flagship Brick Guide, one of the company’s most downloaded pieces of collateral. David Nelson, lead creative at agencypds said: “As a house of brands, Forterra is home to some of the most iconic and recognisable names in construction, including 20 inbusiness JUNE/JULY 2021
engaging video and animation based on simple line drawings that are used throughout its brand materials.” Forterra head of marketing and communications Helen Newberry added: “We’re delighted with the new website which has provided us with a clean, contemporary and dynamic showcase for our diverse product range. We have delivered a much more intuitive experience for our customers, ensuring that they can easily access the information they are looking for while also discovering more about how our expertise in the sector can assist with their construction projects.” London Brick which has been in continuous production since 1877 and has been used to build around a quarter of all British housing stock.
“Forterra has a complex audience base and so we designed the website to streamline the user experience, leading customers on a logical journey with the addition of
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