This is where you’ll find what’s hot and happening at voyage. But not just at voyage, this is a sounding board, you’ll find everything we think is newsworthy, some interesting things we’ve found, and maybe… who knows…

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Voyage helps SumoSalad with first UK outlet

03rd July 2007

Congratulations to Hugh and Tom who have successfully launched SumoSalad in the UK. The Peacock Centre, Woking got its first taste of the Australian healthy eating concept on 25th June. Voyage has helped with in-store branding, including lightbox graphics, POS, product branding as well as promotional flyers and press releases. We look forward to working with SumoSalad on their future stores throughout the UK.

Congrats…

18th May 2007

We would like to congratulate Bewley Homes on picking up three prestigious Evening Standard Property Awards for their Avalon development. We would also like to thank Bewley for entrusting us with the development of the brand, brochure & marketing suite for such an important site. Well done.

Read all about it here

[Fanfare] Our new website…

16th May 2007

It’s taken a little while, as in-house projects notoriously do, but here it is. As well as being incredibly proud of the end result, I’d like to extend a personal massive thanks to Chris for his incredible drive in galvanising & focusing our attention to such a fabulous creative conclusion; and to Nathan at Ninefour for making the very difficult - easy. The raw passion, derring-do, team collaboration, boundary-pushing, late nights, (& coffee bills) leave me in no doubt that we - voyage - are a bunch of creatives, operating at the fullness of our potential. Our work evidences that spark of difference, that added value and uniqueness that gives our clients sustainable business advantage over their competitors. After all why else whould you do it? And, of course, a big thanks to our clients for believing in us - we quite simply wouldn’t have the portfolio we do, without you!

God is in the details

26th April 2007

Hi there, you probably don’t know me, my name is Nathan and I run a small web development studio called Nine Four.

Over the past few months I’ve been working with the team at Voyage to develop and deliver their shiny new website. On the high of having the website complete they foolishly invited me to christen it with it’s inaugural headline and tell you a little bit about the journey we’ve taken from concept to reality.

Unlike a large number of agencies out there Voyage know what they do best. They have a team with supreme creativity and they leverage those skills to provide clients with creative solutions that deliver results across a wide variety of mediums. This is what makes working with Voyage as a partner so exciting. You know that the creative solution they propose is more than likely going to challenge the norm and push you to deliver something that breaks the mould.

Working to develop a web driven solution that the Voyage team have proposed is always an enjoyable task, the more enjoyable the task is, the more involved you become in it and for that you get a much better end result. In short, everyone wins.

Right from the start Voyage were very clear about the creative approach they wanted to take with their own website; incorporating a large horizontal canvas rather than the typical ‘vertical scroll’ that we’re all used to. It was also very clear that simplicity was going to be a key factor with ’God‘ very much being ’in the details‘ (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe).

We faced a number of technical challenges in marrying a horizontal layout with the dynamic ‘content managed’ nature of the website. Voyage are able to add, edit and remove pretty much any piece of content on the website through a web based administration system and it was this ‘dynamism’ which created problems for us.

Never knowing how many columns a headline might require, or how many work examples might appear on the home page at any given time certainly gave us some headaches but we knew that we couldn’t compromise on the creative approach and so we didn’t, instead we persisted and found solutions to the problems.

I’d like to think that the end result does a great deal to communicate what Voyage is about and that it will provide the company with the platform they hoped for to showcase their creative work. It has been a pleasure to work with the Voyage team on this project, they have high standards and know ‘exactly’ what they’re after. Good to know if you’re a prospective or current client. :)

Thanks.