JWB

JWB

Composer James William Blades required a portfolio website A.S.A.P – something that he could easily add his new soundscapes, installations and other commercial audio project to. Happy to oblige James – onward and upwards in 2019. Check out the Portfolio page and run your mouse over each project – hmm.. nice.

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I need a trailer…

If you need a semi-low loader trailer look no further as STG can supply one! For this job we created a custom plug-in for the website which allows the customer live trailer availability – wow, I hear you say, well yes pretty useful if you want a flat bed trailer to transport your specialist item…

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Food Plymouth

Food Plymouth are an all action – always on the go – extremely busy organisation – with lots of important things to say and do about FOOD! – one of my favourite topics! It is an honour to be involved with this focused group of people on a mission to promote increase local Sustainable Food…

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Lolly Love

What a wonderful way to work – with lots of happy pregnant mothers-to-be! A clean, pure and simple website with lots of white calm space – no stress, as you would hope with a lovely yoga client! What ever you do keep breathing and STAY CALM!

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Avon Calling

Five fabulous properties in a fantastic location! After looking at these lovely properties whilst building this website I want to stay there more and more! Avon Farm Estates holiday cottages look amazing, have loads of rural space to enjoy, free eggs, happy farm animals around, close to both Bath and Bristol – plus all have…

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On the right path

Working with Christa Mackinnon on the design, build and functionality requirements for her website was certainly a positive experience – an added bonus to meet our client in person! We work in this online world, which does mean we don’t always (often) have a chance to meet the people we work for.. so this was…

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Picture this…

Skim film of a portrait Our mission: Make an introductory film for the immensely talented portrait artist Rupert Alexander. The piece in question, an impressively large family portrait, on loan from the owner, for a short period of time, so the pressure (and heat) were on! Working with Rupert we hoped to produce a short…

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Here we are now, entertain us

Taking photographs and making films is a creative outlet we love to explore at Skim New Media. Time consuming, all consuming, but always enjoyable. If you have a band and want us to film it our new Nikon has amazing capabilities – even at really low level lighting.   Watch The Morzim in action >>>

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A is for Architecture

A is for Architecture Skim loved photographing our client architect Chris Munson’s most recent properties he has been involved with, certainly an interesting range! This job involved carefully planning to keep in within the timings as they were dotted in various South East Cornwall locations – sweaty work, but definitely enjoyed two days out of…

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Is Wind the way forward?

Always interesting to work on a project which is about sustainability and reducing carbon emissions – so being asked to work with the well established, wonderfully talented Chalk Ward team was exciting. Company CleanEarth are striving to develop and invest in sustainable technology – we all need to engage and understand this more so find…

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East coast Composer

Aaron Jaffe is super talented, award winning music composer who resides in NYC. It would have been great to pop over to the big apple to meet him in person, but sadly skype and email are sufficient apparently… Take some time out to have look and listen and spread the word about our USA buddy.

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We’re with the band…

So Skim & family had lots of fun at the weekend – filming local band ‘The Morzim’ – just working on the mix down of the sound and the final edit, then if you are interested we will show you next week.. Here are some stills from the gig, we are certainly up for more…

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Listen to women

This is not a demand – just a request! One of our amazing music composers Alex Harwood has recently released the soundtrack to new movie – ‘The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society’ (phew that rolls of the tongue!) If you need a moment of calm and loveliness in your day take a listen. (Plus…

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Magical Marazion

Marazion is a marvellous location with views of St Michael’s Mount and sandy surrounding beaches. Have I sold it in yet? Skim have just updated the website design and functionality for this historic hotel and look forward to heading down to photograph the newly refurbished interior very soon.. !

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The Old Bakery Awaits…

Independently owned business The Old Bakery offers the warmest welcome to photographers & web designers as well as its usual clientele staying in their friendly, wonderfully located hotel, in the historic town of Kenilworth. Skim merrily met with the Old Bakery team and greatly enjoyed photographing the rooms, bar, food and customers. Great to have…

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Feeling Buoyant?

The most challenging aspect of this website job – continually try to spell the word buoyant correctly! Our brief, to produce a sleek, self-explanatory website that explains what Buoyant Works do and provide. Hopefully job done.

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Fish Friday

Not only has this prolific painter found his way into the high street at Whistlefish Galleries, but talented Devon based artist Giles Ward has now dressed the walls of the South Sands Hotel and Restaurant, with latest fish inspired collection in sunny Salcombe. Skim thought it would be shellfish not to tell you all about…

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Opt in or out

Just to let you know not only have we had to deal with the excessive amounts of companies asking us to opt in or out of their mailing list, but we’ve also had to write, design and send numerous ones out for clients – double fun. However the positive side is that GDPR should mean…

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Art week

So lovely to Skim out the office last week and photograph the latest paintings of an amazing Cornwall based artist – can’t wait to get her work online for you to enjoy…!

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Rewarded with Awards

Always pleasing to see a local company that we’ve worked with for many years receiving recognition for their hard work. Cornish electronics company Resilience Communications have won two Queens Awards for Enterprise – sterling effort! We hope Skim’s photography and website design helped to clearly convey and promote their product.

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New motivation with cute camo

As I am ‘on the list’ with these fine people I was fortunate enough to receive a heads up on their latest limited edition Camo Collection – I like to share.. https://chronicallymotivated.com/product/limited-edition-camo-collection/

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Positive Plastic Purpose

The Plastic Oceanic team are taking action to create a positive impact on ocean plastics by 1) cleaning up and clearing non-recylable plastic from the ocean around Cornwall; 2) creating handmade, gorgeous products; 3) donating a share of profits to help fund bigger clear up projects, for example SAS. It was great to visualise and…

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Make way for Midfields

Just before Easter we launched the newly designed Midfields Granola website – so have a look at it’s shiny, lovely freshness! Independent granola ‘home-bakers’ and creators Sharon and Brian are dedicated and hardworking, so Skim pulled out all the stops to produce a series of images of their ever-growing range of gourmet granola. Photoshoot day…

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Granola question

Hi there, I am always blithering on about what we’ve been up to at Skim New Media, but for this blog post I need a response… All I need to know is if you if you like granola? and if so which brand and why? Do you think it is healthy and what would you…

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Flamingos

So hot right now… Flamingos are not only ‘on trend’ at the moment (along with watermelons, pandas and pineapples apparently) – this trio of film talents seem to have come up with my ideal job! Creating wonderfully sumptuous films of luxury hotels and exotic travel locations. I would say a pleasure to design Flamingo Pictures…

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Gaining composers…

Christopher Slaski is a composer of great versatility and ever growing credits. Dividing his time and composition talents between film scores, short films and adverts, he is globally renowned – just having been voted ‘Best Young European Film Composer’ by the Australian Film Academy. Skim merrily worked up a new logo for Christopher – designed…

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It will all become clear…

Crystal Clear that is…! Always a pleasure to assist this hard-working Cornwall based couple, who Skim have worked with over the past few years. Their dedication, effort and ambition have grown this Cornwall Window Cleaning Company from a small business to a successful force and fleet to be reckoned with! Skim photographed the team in…

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String quartet spring clean

String Quartet Spring Clean This group of talented ladies have been rocking some serious venues with their wide repertoire and can boast working on Downton Abbey, Harry Potter and the X Factor… Skim has less ‘name-dropperable’ clients to date – but all our clients are worthy of 100% design love. The Marten String Quartet already…

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Mother the Air is Blue

Tim Shaw spotted a business card we had designed for another company and tracked us down, simple to design a card for his new show What Remains. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising – it’s how our multi-media business continues and results with us working on such a wide variety of jobs.…

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Time to Improvise

Great to get our hands on both branding ID and new website design work for this interesting and forward thinking business. Developing a new logo for Improv Initiative was a fun task to undertake and develop alongside the new website design. I believe every business and its employees would benefit from this positive injection, check…

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Butt website build

‘To work one’s butt off‘ – slang expression – to work very hard or to excess. Skim did put in some serious hours of design time, content adding and love of course to Ed’s website design and build, but I think it is Ed himself who seems to work his ‘Butt’ off. A prolific and…

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Are you consciously living?

Wow – A fairly deep question for this time of day I know. But after working with the charismatic Clara Apollo, you kind of want to find out more and be involved with her Conscious Living Events. Skim are working with Clara on re-branding, website design update and future involvement with her various other projects!

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Splashing through January

Thankfully we have all splashed through January! At Skim it whizzed past in a wet blur – meeting new clients, potential collaborations, plus existing clients coming out from hibernation! We did manage to make 4 websites live though, so not too shabby… Now January is done we can all move on to happy, healthy and…

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