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Intern to Full-Timer
Emma Wade moves from Intern to Full-Time. What’s your experience of Twentytwo and the design industry been like so far? Speedy! Everything moves super-fast, it feels like yesterday I wrote the blog post for my internship here! Though I’ve just graduated university in visual communication, I really feel…
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24hr Micro Site Service
Midlands Based Branding Web Design & App Development agency Our focus has always been and still remains to support our client base and local community, so they can come out stronger on the other side of lockdown (Covid-19). In response to the current situation, we’ve recently launched 24…
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Remote Working Essentials
Whilst we're all working remotely, as I'm sure most people are, we thought we'd share our tools of the trade for keeping business moving as usual, even though we're not in the studio. Project, Team & Time Projects: Monday.com Monday.com is a great project management tool for small…
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How to: Make an animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is a great tool in creating GIFs. You have the choice of using multiple images or using a video file (although I’d keep the video file small as possible). You can download some sample assets to use for this tutorial here. Converting photos into a GIF Open…
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“It’s a fresh and energetic studio which keeps my brain stimulated.”
What’s your experience of Twentytwo and the design industry been like so far? I get to flex my brain muscles everyday! Have you ever watched Groundhog Day? Love the film (and Bill Murray), but imagine having a job where everyday is the same? My job as a graphic designer, not…
Web design
Native Lazy Loading Images
What is 'lazy loading'? When building websites, we're always conscious of page weight, in terms of how much data the browser needs to load in order to display a page to the user. The heaviest elements on a page are usually images, for example if you had 10…
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2019 in Review
Happy 2020! Here's a work and studio month-by-month review of what we got up to in 2019. January We started the year by jumping straight into number of web design and development projects such as westonfarm.co.uk, wdetrust.co.uk, and packgenie.co.uk, as well some brochure and stationery design, packaging and…
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Your brand is far more than just your logo
Why is branding important? Your company's branding is its identity. It's what distinguishes you from your competitors and positions you within your marketplace. If you branding is outdated, what message does that give your customers? Your brand should be modern, relevant and portray the tone and personality of…
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Are you paying too much for website hosting?
Whilst we take care of hosting for the websites we've designed and built, we also now offer hosting as a standalone service. However, we're not a hosting reseller, we're a design company, so we do things a little differently. Here's how... Full Control of Resources Are you using…
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‘It feels like less of a job and more of a hobby’
Oliver has hit the ground running since starting with us in June. Tell us a bit about why you wanted to become a developer… I’ve always been into computers so it felt like a natural fit. I started learning to code using online tutorials and realised that this…