Antique Dealer

Overview

Walpoles are one of our older customers. In Spring 2015, we launched the third incarnation of the site. The previous site was very successful and much complimented, so the new site had a lot of expectation resting on it. The new site uses some cutting-edge filtering techniques that create an engaging interactive experience, but there is an increased focus on web-marketing with excellent SEO opportunites created within the new site map and of course a responsive design with a little bespoke mobile theming. 

We also provide Walpoles with a full range of design services which include branding, emailer campaigns, promotional material, postcards and shop signage. Being able to maintain brand presentation and consistency through all communication channels is a key factor in an audience's perception of a business, where any rogue branding or communication will immediately jar and send out a confusing message. 

African Grey launched in early 2016 as a market research company that specialize in collecting qualitative date for businesses in sub-Sahara African territories.

We created a brochure site that features an interactive map to explore the territories they focus on.

London Property Licensing are a new company that provide an information resource for Landlords in the London Boroughs. As a start up project, we were asked to design a logo and brand identity, creating all print material aswell such as business cards, post cards and roller banners.

Our aim was to develop a site that was simple and easy to navigate for a subject that before was hard to understand and find clear, expert, advice.

Financial

Overview

Hassium are a company who specialise in bespoke Private Wealth Management for UHNW clients. Since launching in 2006, Hassium have grown into one of the more prominent companies in the sector and often appear on television as financial experts.

To reflect their growth and high profile success, Bumblebee were asked to re-design their original site and work with existing branding. Our mission was to create a contemporary corporate feel that was understated but stylish, including identifying strong visual language through imagery.

Traditional Awning Supplier

Overview

The Victorian Awning Company provide Victorian style awnings to shops, restaurants and bars. We have worked with them from launch and seen the site grow in terms of content and page rank. This site reflects our approach to SEO, where the strategy, design and content are integral elements from the planning stage.

The SEO campaign is backed by a comprehensive PPC campaign. This approach of running two strategies is common and has advantages in terms of reducing the spend AdWords plus people search in different ways.

Event Caterers

Overview

Relish is another one of our long standing clients who are now on their third main site. We have worked extensively with Relish on their SEO which encompasses a full suite of techniques including specialist sites like BBQs with Relish and Equipment Hire with Relish.

We are involved at all areas with regard to the brand, which includes menus, venue brochures and wine lists. Event catering is a competitive area in SEO terms, so each year we carefully map out a strategy which is analysed weekly and reviewed quareterly, which makes us responsive to any changes in the Google algorithm.

Asprey Healthcare are a company who are creating new generation care home envisioned to become a strong regional care home provider in the South of England. Currently there is one Residential Care Home, in the centre of Horley, but they are looking to expand. Smallbrook, the first Care Home of theirs to open, is a high quality Residential Care Home which specialises in Dementia care.

This was a Greenwich Group project and we collaborated in the site design and then developed the site itself. The site features an event diary that can be administrated by different interest groups.

Award-winning Aromatherpy Products

Overview

Bumblebee has played a central role in the launch of this high end range of aromatherapy products. Through photography and illustration, we've created a fun but sophisticated visual language that has connected commercially. Therapie has gained cult status among beauty bloggers and has featured heavily in beauty publications and national press and has quickly grown an impressive fan base.

The site is a good illustration of Bumblebee's approach to e-commerce. The shopping experience is engaging, easy to use and has great functionality.This approach is ideal for small to medium sized brands who want to look and think different and give their users a unique online shopping experience.

Parish Church

Overview

Bumblebee have a strong client-base within the third sector which covers charities, churches and non-profit community organisations. Although Bumblebee have been involved in the sector for almost ten years, this was our first church site and we wanted to create something slightly different to the unsatisfactory template solutions that dominate.

Again, photography played an important role, but we added a degree of flexibility, that allowed different page designs for areas that were short of images. Working with the church was a hugely rewarding experience. Their open-mindedness and willingness to try new approaches and ideas were refreshing, so much so, that we have also helped to create a new and contemporary branding aimed at blowing away the usual pre-conceptions. 

Contemporary Kitchen Designers

Overview

Robert Timmons Furniture are another start up success story. We have now been involved with RTF for over ten years and seen them grow into one of London's most sought after kitchen designers. We have helped develop the brand across all channels and seen them expand their operation into authorised suppliers for Gaggenau, Wolf, Foster and Sub Zero.

The site concentrates on letting the kitchens do the talking with detailed case studies utilising our full screen galleries. Over the last couple of years we have developed a strong SEO campaign that has been further expanded to incorporate appliances, that will utilise appliance specific remarketing ads.

Apartment Villars is an apartment available for holiday rental based in Villars, Switzerland.

We were approached to redesign a new brochure site that would create a more suitable platform for expanding the story or showcasing the apartment.

Children's Clothing Range

Overview

Amberley came to us as a start up business involved in designer children's clothing. The process involved name selection and the creation of a logo that could also be used as an ident for labelling. Once the name and ident were established, we created a site that was targetted at the US department store buyers like Barneys and was divided into a look book and also a line list.

We created a simple toggling mechanism to flick between the two ways. The site was also multi-currency, using a currency converter. New seasons can be specified and the collections added to that season. Old seasons are archived and access is password protected and through invitation only.

Construction

Overview

Sherman & Co specialise in high quality construction, refit and refurbishment, and is the contractor of choice within the M25. Sherman has been a privately run business since 1953 but since being acquired by new management in 2007, the company has grown in success and so to mark the success have updated the site.

We have created a re-design from their original flash site that is fully content managed with a responsive design that can showcase their higher profile projects.

Greenwich Chiropractic is a local practice run by chiropractor Dr Chris Julian and his skilled team. They provide experienced, safe and effective care within the Greenwich community, regularly providing services for individuals, local sports events, community groups and workplace health initiatives.

We developed the site with a mind to match the replenishing and longevity-inducing ethos of the practice, implementing some sleek functionality for a calm user experience. Part of the project involved sourcing images and briefing the internal shots of the practice. The site helps reinforce Greenwich Chiropractic's brand identity and the design differentiates them from their rivals. 

Design Agency

Overview

Greenwich Design are a brand and marketing agency who have Shell, PwC, Milton and HSBC among their clients. We have collaborated with Greenwich Design on a number of projects like Milton, AvantiGas and Ming Foods, where we have provided the online expertise. GD are familiar with our approach and their design team create web visuals working to specific technical guidelines.

GD are one of several design agencies we have provided an online service for. The reason agencies come to us is because of our blank canvas approach to web design. We also provide GD with seamless project management, analysis and planning for all their web projects.

Children's Catalogue

Overview

Higgos was a start up catalogue aimed at children and mothers. It covers all aspects of life from storage and furniture, to gifts and party ideas. The site uses zen cart as a shopping platform, Bumblebee are able to work with several shopping platforms like magento, commerce and ubercart.

There is both an online and printed catalogue which is supported by regular email offers and a PPC campaign. The sector is aggressive and in terms of strategy, we have to be careful to monitor all campaigns to ensure they are getting the most for the budget.

Landscape Architects

Overview

Bumblebee have been involved in several projects with architects or landscape architects. The clean nature of our designs and the way in which we treat strong imagery make us a good option. This is predominantly a project-driven site where the images do the talking, however, there does need to be a balance with full-screen sites, so we always try to create other pages which are more typographically lead.

Sometimes you need to do the thinking for a client. The Ireland-Albrecht site had been in the pipeline for a few years and although the client had ideas and a rough site map, it was far from a tight brief. Bumblebee know the web inside out and are prepared to embrace the learning curve of getting to know a client's business. The essence of any website is clarity and putting information in the correct logical place.

London Event Caterers

Overview

We have been involved with Moving Venue for over 15 years. Originally, we were their design agency and developed a new logo, brochures, stationery and promotional material. We built the first Moving Venue website in 1998 and since then we have created five versions in total. 

In recent years, we have been involved in microsites for niche markets and services. We have built two e-commerce sites, one for ordering canapés to be delivered direct and the other is the 'wine cellar' which allows clients' guests to order their drinks in advance of an event and is only accessed via a password. We are also heavily involved with Moving Venue's emailer campaigns and newsletters.

21st Century Social Reform

Overview

The Shaftesbury Partnership that develop bold and inventive ideas to improve communities. They do this by trialling their ideas and then radily scaling them. Our work in the social finance sector was the main reason behind coming to us.

Even an orgaisation as intellegent as The Shaftesbury Partnership require a different set of eyes to look at what they are trying to achieve and make them understandable to a wider audience. There is also a lot of emphasis placed on communication and we have created different tiers of site contributers, some working independently and others maintaining the site.

Busy builders are a London based building company servicing London and the surrounding areas. Having set up in 2007 and not having a website until now, we were asked to design and develop a site. Our design services for logo, business cards and other stationary is also part of our work for Busy Builders.

Interdealer Brokers

Overview

Tullett Prebon are one of the largest interdealer brokers in the world. They used Bumblebee as web consultants. Our task was to completely restructure the existing website, which had become impossible to navigate logically.

Another part of our commission was to provide a new front-end look, build html templates for all the content types and then supply them to the back-end developers in Singapore. Bumblebee have also provided a series of animated web graphics, produce visuals for a couple of product specific sites, as well as being commissioned to design a site in recognition of World War 2 hero Sir Keith Park.   

International Men's Clothing & Accessories

Overview

Dalvey are based in the Highlands of Scotland. In 2010, Dalvey decided to use Bumblebee because of our our work with River Island and also because of our Drupal expertise. The brief was simple, build a beautifully sophisticated web experience that was both user-friendly, but packed with seamless functionality. One of the main advantages of a bespoke e-commerce solution is the freedom it brings in the design area.

With virtually a blank canvas, we were able to create visually engaging shopping interfaces while incorporating some subtle new techniques such as scalable images, not to mention the tie and shirt selectors which brings an entirely different way to search items.

Academy of Light

Bilingual Potential 

Charity Bank

David Phillips 

Eat Sleep Love, launched in autumn 2015, are nursary consultants with a showroom in Blackheath. Their service is for expecting parents looking for expert help and advice in their search for a pushchair, a new car seat or provide some inspiration for your baby or toddler's bedroom.

Working closely with the clients on their initial ideas for a business, a logo was designed that could evolve into a brand. Since launching, print material such as post cards and exhibition materials have been designed for promotional use. Quite often in the build process, a clients offering will evolve and we work hard to always adapt to these changes by having a flexible approach. Eat Sleep Love's initial design was for a brochure site but as the brand developed the site evolved to a brochure site with a customer area to where a wishlist can be added.

Festival Formula is a consultancy company specialising in filmmakers covering film festival strategy, crowdfunding and social media presence.

Festival Formula came to us with a detailed brief of what they wanted which we worked around to create a responsive content-managed site.

GS Plus

London Property Licensing

MvBii z-Track is a wearable fitness tracker, designed specifically for people who want to get a better balance of activity and rest in their day to day lives.

The original Mvbii site was designed solely as a marketing tool for the pre-launch period. Following the launch in christmas 2015, the site is growing and is a fully functioning E-commerce site.

River Island