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Notions has clients in manufacturing, retail, national
environmental bodies and charities.

Notions has wide experience of producing everything from a simple leaflet to a full-color magazine, one-off illustration and cartoons to full corporate identity.

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Graphic design and general graphics

Graphic design is about visual communication. It can be seen everywhere. We respond to it constantly, often without even realising it. Symbols used all over the world show that instructions and directions can be very clear without the need to understand the language. However, from a business point of view, graphic design is about using a combination of special skills; to understand and interpret wants, needs and budgets; to do research, create words, visual effects and merge them into an aesthetically logical form that pleases the eye, creates impact and sends a memorable message. It is a tall order but paper and print are still an exciting product that gets you and your business noticed.

Photo montage for an international Danish company. We have produced artwork for this company for 40 years.
Simple lettering manipulated in a photo-editing programme.
Combining hand-drawn lettering (brush stroke) with enhancements of a photo-editing programme.
Simple vector logo to promote cycle security - but hopefully, this is obvious!
Design for a business magazine that was dropped. Not because of the masthead I must add.
Another logo developed from a simple font. You could write a book on how difficult it was to create artwork such as this before the 1990s!

At Notions by Design advice on print and promotional matters comes free, it is part of our service, and that includes being able to take advantage of our knowledge of specialist suppliers materials. We have wide experience of producing everything from a simple leaflet to a full-colour magazine, one-off illustration and cartoons to full corporate identity.

Notions by Design is the studio of David Charlesworth GRA, one of Derbyshire’s best known professional artists, who believes commissioned design and artwork really works best when it is a shared experience between artist and client.

And we still love this form of creativity – impact and the illusion of life and movement on a flat surface. The only visual work we don’t do is video – because we still prefer ‘still’ pictures for impact and pleasure!

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