The eagerly-awaited who’s who of the design industry has been revealed by Design Week, the magazine of choice for over 35,000 design professionals and marketers.

Derbyshire-based RJ Design Associates are celebrating 47 reasons to be cheerful after polling some impressive debut stats:

5th highest new entry, 8th place in the most bullish top 100 groups for predicted growth and 47th overall on the Top 100 design consultancy list.

The internet as we know it may have a myriad of uses but one fact remains certain, little over 20 years ago the World Wide Web exploded from an unknown entity to one which now pervades every aspect of our digital lives.

“What should they call this new browser. The Mine of Information? The Information Mesh? When a name was settled on in May 1990, it was to be called the WorldWideWeb…and so the worlds first web page was sprung”

Matt Underwood, Web Development Manager at RJDA and Web Designer Kat Wesley, who together boast an impressive 16 years combined web experience between them, are well placed to reflect on just how far the web has moved on from its humble inception in 1989. Fast forward over 2 decades and who could have predicted there would be…

240 million – registered domain names
2 billion – hits a day for the webs most popular site www.google.com
$16.5 million – the value of the worlds most expensive domain www.insure.com
166 – different web browsers

Accurate as of May 2010 netcraft.com

“As web designers we keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies so we can build flexible and future proof websites. We constantly strive to push the boundaries of creative design whilst complying to web standards and accessibility guidelines”

“We’ll take time to examine visitor trends and map out a typical journey through each website we create to maximise usability and enhance visitor interaction.”

RJDA are at the forefront of the very latest web trends offering fully integrated web solutions such as web video, search engine optimisation, digital marketing as well as e-commerce systems, content management solutions and secure off-site hosting.

RJDA’s multimedia team have recently completed the following web sites and are ready and awaiting their next challenge!

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Luxury salon The Hairdressers proprietor Billie Ragosta approached RJDA to look for ideas of how to launch her new Beauty Salon.

When the builders started work on the premises on Castle Boulevard two boxes of letters were found under the floor boards. The correspondence dated back to the 1870′s and many were in Russian, and seemed to indicate a love affair that crossed between Nottingham, France and Russia. The letters and envelopes had an lovely aged patina to them and the handwriting was immaculate.

RJDA used visual elements from letters and rippled this across the new corporate branding to give a sophisticated and bespoke feel to all the marketing elements.

RJDA designed and printed a beautiful brochure with some special finishing techniques employed to give it very high quality feel, along with a new website, photography, copywriting and eshot campaigns.

View The Hairdressers & Beauty Salon website

RJDA are delighted to announce their recent success in a 3 way creative pitch to Warrington based Environmental Protection Group (EPG) for a new logo, corporate ID and content managed website.

The combination of a clean design, classic typeface, revitalised colour palette and a bit of web WOW formed the basis of RJDA’s pitch winning proposition. EPG’s corporate rebrand will be finalised with the launch of their new look website www.epg-ltd.co.uk, which goes live later this month complete with a content managed news section.

The pitch marks the second success in as many months for RJDA, following the East Midlands Agencies appointment to manage the marketing and PR activity for Carbon Composites Manufacturer Atlas Composites.

RJ Design Associates offer a wide range of fully integrated web design solutions.

Whether we’re working with a brand new start-up company or a well-established multi-million pound business, we build websites with a unique look and feel that really stand out from the competition whilst being fully tailored to the client’s brand and budget.

Our recent projects have pushed the boundaries of creative design, incorporating web video, search engine optimisation, digital marketing, online brochures and e-shot campaigns.

As more and more business is conducted online, having the right search engine optimisation strategy has become increasingly important. Our search engine optimisation packages are designed to boost your website’s visibility in all major search engines.

Web video and multimedia applications are something of a speciality for us and can significantly enhance the overall impact of your website, whether you are looking for a simple yet stylish animation to give an extra depth to your web pages, or a visually impressive database-driven application to sit at the heart of your interactive content.

Digital magazines, or e-brochures, are an exciting new way to put brochures and documents online. Fully interactive, they can be used as teasers prior to running a print feature, for internal, B2B and B2C use, or to promote products and services.

Promotional e-shots are a highly cost-effective way for businesses to enhance relations with their customers and boost sales. Our e-shot campaigns include immediate trackable response reports so you can act on leads straight away.

We also offer custom-built content management systems, secure e-commerce capabilities, ultra-reliable web hosting and more.

Click here to take a look at our fantastic web portfolio and discover what RJ Design Associates can do for you.