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Graphic design

We Design everything from contemporary brands to advertising campaigns, digital assets & packaging.

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Creative artwork

We take existing assets along with brand guidelines, and develop materials through to production.

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Studio management

We've got decades of experience running creative studios, and do so on a temporary or contract basis.

graphic designer & Branding

We provide creative and marketing services via contract bookings.
For creative or digital agencies we work within studios alongside full-time staff, anything from a day up to six months, or on a per project basis.
In commercial organisations we regularly work on-site within internal marketing departments, or ad-hoc on individual projects.

Studio/Traffic Management

We can parachute into an existing team and hit the ground running - organising workflow, staff management, SLA's, invoicing and liaising with key stakeholders.

Print Design

Over 30 years of designing for print has given us in-depth expertise in large scale production and project management - from 13 colour Flexo to Gold Foil with Interscrews.

Digital Design

Since 1996 We've worked on front-end creative website development, managing and maintaining e-commerce sites. We also work on social, email and html5 integrated campaigns.

Photo retouching

We began as pre-photoshop print retoucher working on transparencies and negatives and moved to digital over 25 years ago, we retouch and manipulate images for a range of Retail and B2B clients.

Specialisms

Ian is accredited by the CIM in Marketing and regularly project manage large digital and print production projects. He uses a wide range of workflow and Digital Asset Management systems (Agility, Matrix and STEP for catalogue production).

Business Sectors

We've worked in every business sector and extensively in Retail, Pharma, Media, Construction, Manufacturing & Technology, Experiential, Education and Third Sector.

Portfolio

Here are some samples of recent work from 2015-2020. Obviously, all work completed through an agency remains copyright of the hiring organisation.

About Us

Ian is a rapidly greying designer with over 30 years experience in the creative industry. He started as a pre-photoshop print retoucher and illustrator, moving onto a Mac in 1990, and progressed to running creative studios a few years later. For the last 15 years he has freelanced throughout the UK for hundreds of happy clients.

Core skills

Ian uses the Adobe Creative Suite to produce digital content, print and packaging.

His main skills are in -

  • Front end digital, DOOH and social content
  • Brand creation and development
  • Print design - brochures, packaging, POS - using litho, flexo, silkscreen and digital
  • Complete artwork and print production
  • Using Digital Asset Management (DAM) and traffic systems for large scale production projects

Latest work

Here are a few of the other projects been worked on recently.

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    FSDU's for a national product launch

    Using brand elements and working within guidelines I produced Free Standing Display Units, generally seen at the end of the aisle in your local supermarket.

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    800pp Pan European Catalogue

    During 2015 I helped manage the production of a printed trade catalogue in 13 european languages, taking data from a DAM system and artworking each version.

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    High Street in-store retouching

    I regularly retouch images for retail clients for use in-store and promotions. This is for a property client promoting a prestigious retail development.

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Contact us

We've probably worked in your business sector, so if you are looking for some specific examples contact me and we'll send you something that's relevant. Alternatively, just give Ian a call if you wish to discuss an individual project.

 

Based in Cheshire in the UK.
07766 495562
www.flibackward.co.uk