Schmick.tv – A Full Service

Schmick.tv – Full-Service – Portfolio Website “Photography is a love affair with life” (Burk Uzzle) Always a joy to work on the production of a website with such stunning visual content. The set task: Display an aesthetically pleasing method of displaying Schmick.tv’s portfolio of work. All other sections of the website require only minimal content,…

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Added Silver Lining for Silver Stories

Extremely please to announce that the hard work and endeavours of Elisabeth and David Carney-Hay have been recognised by those at No.10 ! Boris sent a personal letter of praise for their creation of ‘Silver Stories’ “So I am delighted to recognise you as the UK’s 1392nd and 1393rd Points of Light and I wish…

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Christian’s Creative Captures

The Blog of a Creative Fueled with a fantastic range of visual creative delights Christian Banfield’s Blog page is a delight to delve into at any time of day. In fact, his blog is one of those pages you go to to enjoy a ‘slice of life’ as experienced by a well travelled, highly professional,…

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What’s the Storey?

Debbie Does : Fashion, Beauty & Celebrities – Debbie Storey has been intending to update her website for several years now, but was always too busy! Due to the Covid-19 crisis her normal work schedule as a Make-up artists/Stylists has been put on pause. Finding the positives from this situation Debbie has finally had time…

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Really classy!

“Welcome to his world of music” – Robert A. Guerrier When composer Robert A. Guerrier contacted us from Virginia, USA we were honoured that he’d even consider us (over the pond) to design and produce a new website for his huge range of music compositions and portfolio of works. This project was a joy – …

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Bid for a FISH for the NHS

My Wish (for the NHS)’ 2020 One of our clients Giles Ward has done a lovely thing – he has painted a gorgeous “Little Fish” painting – for you to own if you are the highest bidder – ALL proceeds will go to the NHS! This little fish painting, ‘My Wish (for the NHS)’, was…

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Connecting the generations

Silver Stories – Communicating Across the Generations This wonderful idea has been created by David and his wife Elisabeth Carney-Haworth OBE. The dedicated duo created Silver Stories in 2015 when they realised how detached and lonely the elderly people felt in their community and how separated some of them felt from the younger generation. This…

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Skim – Business as usual…

Skim office isolation – Business as usual Dave and I feel very fortunate, as for us our work lives during Covid-19 lock down has made only a minor difference to our daytime routines. It’s actually been busy at Skim – sorting out lots of lovely clients website updates and discussing with them how they can…

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Fun times Ahead with the Floatle !

Five ‘Floatle’ Designs from Leisure Works The Leisure Works team in Cornwall have been working really hard to product quality, durable floats, for more fun in the swimming pools and they have succeeded creating The Floatle ! Leisure Works have released Five funky animal designs for summer 2020 – The Monkey, Hippo, Lobster, Penguin and…

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Physio Clinic – Stretching to new parts

Skim congratulates the  Saltash Physio team on their expansion to Liskeard – stretching to further parts of Cornwall now, – treating new patients with their expert care! The ‘Physio Clinic’ opens TODAY – Friday 6th March 2020 in Liskeard at the Well Being Centre every Friday from 8am-5pm. So head down there and let them…

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From Baby Driver to Blue

Award Winning Music Composer Steven Price – Website Design and Production With an impressive portfolio of work under his belt providing a suitably visually strong website for Steven Price was a necessity. Skim’s aim was to use edits from his film work as a visual background – whilst focusing on the soundtrack in the foreground.…

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Win Granola Goodies

Tasty Tuesday! Cheer up your week by answering a simple question and giving yourself the chance to win a hamper of Devon delights! The generous Midfields Granola team are keen for you to try some of their tasty handmade granola – so give it a go! (- Spread the word to tell all your friends…

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Buy an Ambulance

A Career in Transport and Mobility Haven’t you ever wanted to buy an ambulance? You are obviously not middle-aged and planning to escape your normal life in a converted van, with aspirations of exploring exciting new locations in your dream-machine! OK, so that might not be everyone’s dream, however one other use for these enduring…

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Fancy a Pint?

…Yes we certainly do at Skim – Not only was our client Arbor Ales extremely cooperative and positive to work with they kindly sent us a fine selection of their tasty ales! An unexpected generous surprise – helping us to really get to know the brand inside and out! Skim launched the new website for…

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Skim Interiors – Photoshoot

Interior Photography – Location – Sussex Place, Plymouth Looking for a stylish, ultra-comfortable central holiday apartment to stay in which has sumptuous soft-furnishings and aesthetically pleasing decor, with all mod-cons? Then look no further! What an absolute pleasure it was to photograph these four Plymouth spacious properties. Click to view a sample of our photoshoot…

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The whole shabang!

Annestown House –  Website Design, production, photography, copyrighting & Logo This project was the whole shabang! Dave and I popped over to Cork, hired a car and drove to our coastal location to take photos of Annestown house and surrounding areas, what an amazing place! It really felt like an ‘escape to the country‘ –…

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Julie Cooper Music website

Good things come to those who wait… Talented music composer Julie Cooper approached us in 2017 to produce a new website for her – we designed and built, however for various reasons we did not get to press the GO LIVE button. Fast forward 2 years and I can proudly announce the Julie Cooper Music…

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Sarah’s Sound in Colour

Sarah Warne is an exciting fresh talent on the music composing scene and has provided the soundtrack to the likes of Humans, Dark Mon£y and some gritty BBC 2 and Channel 4 documentaries so far. Working remotely with Sarah was smooth and hopefully the results are a slick representation of her work to date. Listen…

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Top scoring LA MC

Website Design and build for LA Music Composer & Producer Raney Shockne I’m going to name drop a few artists music composer Raney Shockne has written and produced songs for: Pitbull, Giorgio Moroder, Britney Spears, Foxes, Matthew Koma and has scored over 30 films and 100 television shows. Currently, Shockne is collaborating with 3-time Academy…

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Creative outlets

The Skim team currently find themselves in the fortunate position of working alongside the multi-talented Giles Ward. He already has 20 years experience as Creative director and co-founder of Chalk and Ward, with the addition of writing a few books in his spare time and enjoying dabbling in fine art. I say dabbling, Giles doesn’t…

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And now for something completely different..

Artist Ruby Kean approached Skim with a design she wanted for her website and we happily obliged! The joy of working with an artist is that they usually know how they want their work to look, our challenge to make this work on a fully functioning website! Ruby’s amazing detailed collages are unique and therefore…

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A new Resilience

Cornwall based company Resilience Communications were one of our first local clients when we moved to Cornwall, meaning we have worked alongside them for over a decade! I am happy to report that over this period their dedicated team have been on an upward curve and are now the proud recipients of 2 Queens awards…

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Stuart’s Attention to detail rewarded

Skim Congratulates POTY Winner 2019 Great news and huge congratulations to worthy winner, Stuart Petch for his amazing image of a Sparrowhawk’s fine feathers. Chris Packham announced his image as a worthy winner – alongside other stunning images of birds for the 2019 Bird Photographer of the Year  – amazing feathered creatures. Be inspired! –…

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Sexy and Sumptuous

“Pleasure is your birthright” …What a fantastic strapline to encapsulate what Becky Price – aka the creator of Conscious Bliss – and a qualified Shiatsu practitioner, Sexological bodyworker and certified Somatic Sex Educator is all about! We at Skim hope the visual aspects of this website evoke warm and positive emotions, complimenting this highly interesting…

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Not Just for the Craic

Love Ireland – not Love Island! You’ve probably been so busy (like us at Skim) that you haven’t noticed I’ve not managed to blog anything for about a month! (I am sure you have been up worrying what has happened to us :)) Mostly we have been glued to our desks, however, we did seize…

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Sound Heals

Awake • Heal • Transform A powerful positive statement from the empowered, wonderful woman at the forefront of Sound Heals. Katherine Collinge is on a mission – to heal, transform and tune you into your body’s ‘orchestra’. Skim were more than haapy to spread the word about this intriguing method of healing – Entrainment –…

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Power to the people!

Swishd – A new eco-friendly idea People power is what we are talking about. You need your package picked up and delivered – Swishd tell their collective and the nearest willing and able bodies person collects and delivers. All routes lead to less emissions, less fuel and less congestion in the cities. Get on board.

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Imagination Spa

Pave the Path of your Desires… What a journey Skim has been on – nurturing, designing and developing the Imagination Spa website closely with our client – we’ve been exploring many incarnations of this final creation over the past six months. We are really proud of the final look and feel – so Join the…

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Blacklight

WHO are Blacklight, WHERE are Blacklight, WHAT are Blacklight, Why are Blacklight..? All questions that can be answered if you visit their shiny new website. Skim New Media designed and produced the website, centred around the empowered photographic talents of Christian@ Schmick.tv – capturing the essence of the Blacklight Advisory workplace and personnel.

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Kickstarter launch

Fancy a slice of the action?  – The Art of Functional Food book The countdown has begun and we are on a mission, a food mission (the best kind, apart from gin perhaps). We are giving you this heads up about a glorious new book Skim will be photographing and designing, – The Art of…

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Sumptuous Spa Retreat

Retreat to a spa in Spain – or build a website… It’s just started raining again here in Cornwall so looking through the Imagination Spa Retreat website immediately warms your soul and transports you to the Spanish retreat location – sadly not flown out there to take the photographs… delve in and plan your reward…

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