Social Media & the Mental Health Epidemic

2019 has been a divisive year for social media platforms. People are waking up to not only the good, but the bad aspects of spending too much time browsing Social networks and how it makes them feel.

In my role as a Digital Marketeer I advise clients on a daily basis on how to communicate impact-fully with their audiences. This ensures that I consider not only the effectiveness of the campaigns, but also the impact the messages we put out have on their clients, staff, customers and audiences.

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Sustainable Marketing from a Designer’s Perspective

As a diverse team of creatives, it’s our duty to devise and implement effective, innovative, clean, sustainable and fabulous marketing campaigns for our clients.

We’re not going to change habits overnight, but as creators and influencers we are socially responsible, so if we can focus on the little things and devise campaigns responsibly, with an eye on the environment, we will be doing our bit to help the planet going forward.

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Developing a Fresh Identity for All Square Lighting

Started in 2002, All Square Lighting is an independent, family-run lighting specialist, with a showroom in London’s Notting Hill. Over the past 17 years, they have built up and maintained fantastic relationships with a variety of contemporary worldwide lighting manufacturers, suppliers and designers. All Square appointed UNBXD to undertake a full company rebrand including Identity, Stationary, Signage, Web Design plus more.

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Agency News: UNBXD Promotes Marc & Lisa

Huge congratulations to Lisa Drake and Marc Hoyle on their recent promotions!

Lisa initially joined us as a Graphic Design Intern 3 months ago and has worked with us over the summer break. During that time, Lisa has worked on a variety of projects and has demonstrated her abilities as a talented graphic designer with lots of potential.

Lisa is now entering her final year at university. It gives us great pleasure to be able to offer Lisa a permanent position as a Junior Graphic Designer on a part-time basis, moving across to full-time post-graduation. Congratulations Lisa on the well earned promotion and good luck with your final year!

Marc has grown from strength to strength and has constantly exceeded the expectations of his role as a Digital Marketing Assistant. The hard work and dedication he puts into everything he is involved in is second to none. In Marc’s new role as Digital Marketing Executive he’ll be leading larger client portfolios and taking on more responsibility for the delivery and drive of results.

Watching both Lisa and Marc develop both personally and professionally has been incredible and I can’t wait to see what else they bring to our team in the future.

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Cockle & Clam Launch Event

It’s always incredible to see our work come to life!

Last night our design team were invited to the opening night of Cockle and Clam, a new open kitchen seafood bar and grill offering sustainable and seasonal British fish in a tapas style. 

UNBXD were appointed by the group to design and develop their brand identity, menus, website and marketing collateral from the ground up.

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Shore Medical Group: Dorset's New Super Practice

Shore Medical is a new super partnership made up of a number of local NHS GP practises across Poole & Bournemouth that have formed to provide health care services to over 58,500 patients.

In merging the surgeries to form a new medical group, their service offering is able to be improved across the board including extended hours, specialist clinics and improved administrative support. It also allows the group to take advantage of new investment opportunities in GP services, combating the already well documented challenges that public healthcare faces within the limited resource that our NHS has available.

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What is User-Generated Content and How to Maximise it for your Brand

From posts on Instagram to customer reviews on Facebook, happy customers are your best advocates and can actually produce the content you need to increase your website traffic, boost your sales and increase repeat customers. But are you taking advantage of it? 

Check out our latest blog post to discover how user-generated content will entice your customers to choose you over your competitors.

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Success Stories: Dorset Cruises

Based on south coast of the UK, Dorset Cruises offers a one of a kind experience on board their vintage yacht, perfect for weddings, corporate events, entertaining and other special events.

In June 2019, we launched the new Dorset Cruises e-commerce website. Even within such a short space of time, we have already seen a substantial increase in traffic and sales on the site.

Let’s delve deeper into the nitty gritty of this success story to find out exactly how we streamlined their booking process.

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UNBXD appoints Youssef Ali as Creative Director

We’d like to take the opportunity to congratulate Youssef Ali on his recent promotion as Creative Director!

The hard work, determination and consistent drive to go above and beyond with both our team and clients is second to none. Promoting Youssef to this position after holding the title myself since we founded the company in 2015, did not come lightly, but knowing that it's going into his capable hands, fills me with complete confidence that he’ll take it all within his stride.

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The Whitelock Group: Dorset's historic building firm appoints UNBXD

We’re pleased to announce one of our latest client signings, a company which has been building and maintaining homes for over 100 years - The Whitelock Group!

The company was founded by Arthur S.H. Whitelock when he acquired his first parcel of land back in 1899. Whitelock & Co continued working on defence projects throughout the war.  The company were involved mainly in the development of estates in the 80’s building throughout Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. In 1999 the firm celebrated its Centenary and acknowledged the many thousands of properties, (residential, commercial and retail) that have been built since the business was first started, including the landmark Civic Centre in Poole built in 1932. 

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Q&A by the Coffee Machine: Marc and Marcin

At UNBXD we like to talk about our achievements. We like to showcase projects that we are proud of in our case studies. But the thing we are most proud of: our team!

We are a group of young, enthusiastic and creative individuals that like to have fun but get the job done. To give you insight into what it’s like working for UNBXD, I interviewed Marcin and Marc, two members of our team who have recently completed their third month here. 

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Client Win: All Square Lighting

Setup in 2002, All Square Lighting is an independent, family-run lighting specialist, with a showroom in London’s Notting Hill. Over the past 14 years, they have built up and maintained fantastic relationships with a variety of contemporary worldwide lighting manufacturers, suppliers and designers. Whether you’re after modern, designer lighting for domestic or commercial environments, their super-friendly, knowledgable and experienced staff are always on hand to help.

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UNBXD Host: 6 Website Security Steps to Protect your SME from Hackers

Your business is innovative. You manage risk well. You are successful. But is that enough? Unfortunately, in many cases it is not. Almost all businesses are vulnerable to cyber attacks unless they actively protect themselves.

For your business to succeed, you must protect your most valuable assets (your data) and your customers need to trust that you’ll protect them from viruses, hackers and identity theft. Here are our 6 top tips on how to keep your website secure.

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Case Study: Cockle & Clam

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of one of our latest case studies for Cockle & Clam!

Cockle & Clam is an open kitchen seafood bar and grill offering sustainable and seasonal British fish in a tapas style. They’ll also be providing a selection of carefully sourced vegetarian, vegan and meat dishes. UNBXD has been appointed by the group to develop their new branding, menus, website and marketing collateral.

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Utilising Design to Boost Online Conversion

Do you have a professionally designed website but low online sales figures? Are there plenty of visitors but none converting into customers? Following on from our recent article on search engine optimisation, the next step towards increasing your online sales is boosting online conversion. In short, your website could have thousands of visitors but there are elements that could be preventing users from converting. 

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5 Things Anyone New to SEO Should Know

There is so much information on the internet. As a digital marketer, I write content daily for websites, blogs and social media campaigns and apply special techniques to my content to enhance its reach and ranking on Google. But how do you get your content noticed? How can improving your content improve rankings and help your business?

The answers all lie within the term ‘search engine optimisation’ (SEO). I have researched your most asked questions about SEO and have answered them with my best advice.

So, let’s get to it!

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