Robert Burns Gifts' new logo

The new Robert Burns Gifts website is an e-commerce outlet for Robert Burns related products and memorabilia. The project involved:

• Brand and Logo Design
• E-commerce Website Design and Build
• Product Photography
• Social Media Set-up and Integration
• Printed Material Design

Visit the site at: www.robertburnsgifts.com

The Bagging Scotland Website

The new Bagging Scotland site is live in ‘beta’ stage, encouraging people to ‘bag’ Scottish Castles, Whisky Distilleries, Islands and Munros (mountains over 3,000ft) by visiting them and getting your photograph taken there to prove it.

The site is a fully-functional social network, providing all the familiar communication tools of social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, where ‘baggers’ can communicate and share their Bagging experiences. This then provides Baggers with a resource that can help them ascertain what, or where, they want to Bag next.

After they have Bagged something (or somewhere), Baggers can then provide their own Bagging feedback in the form of what Bagging Scotland like to call a ‘traveblog’ – their own customisable blog, based on the world-renowned blogging platform Wordpress.

What are you waiting for?! Sign up at www.bagging-scotland.com and go Bagging Scotland’s Castles, Whisky Distilleries, Island and Munros now!

The Ship Website

The Ship (aka ‘The Ship On The Shore’) is a seafood restaurant and bar located on the Shore in Leith, Edinburgh.

The Ship’s identity was developed based on some existing features (such as the typeface ‘Kimberley’) and the newly-created art by Davy Macdonald that will feature on the restaurant’s own-brand champagne label.

Whether it’s just a drink and a light lunch you’re after, or our luxury seafood ‘orgy’, accompanied by our own Champagne, The Ship offers informal, understated excellence. We aim to supply Scotland’s best seafood dining experience.

The website is fully content-managed allowing the client to update the menus and other content on the site. A Twitter and LinkedIn account were created and integrated into the website to allow The Ship to use Social Marketing to target potential customers online.

Below you can see The Ship on the Shore at night:

Photo of The Ship at night, taken by Ramsay

The project was carried out in association with CullenSkink.

Catherine is a professional photographer based in Central Scotland.

Ramsay was also resposible for the design, manufacture and installation of the stainless steel sign in the new Gallery.

As well as being one of the UK’s leading Livestock Photographers, Catherine specialises in a wide variety of fields, including; Weddings, Portraiture and Fashion Photography.

She prides herself in producing unique, stylish portraits that are filled with energy and fun.

Catherine also provides images vital for the marketing of your business, capturing every detail with imagination and creativity.

The branding exercise was based on a previous concept; Catherine’s silhouette is used as the secondary brand imagery. This was decided as the best solution to represent Catherine’s rather diverse range of photographic disciplines she works in.

The MacGregor Photography Website

The new logo was designed using a smooth serif typeface for the ‘MacGregor’ part, and a wide-tracked sans-serif typeface for the ‘photography’ part. The ‘O’ in MacGregor has been stylised with the iconic shapes of aperture blades in a camera.

The general brand look is black and white, with the use of images with thin white borders and drop shadows to represent printed photographs.

After some considerable rush due to the opening of the new Gallery at Knockraich Farm in Fintry, the new website is available at: www.macgregorphotography.com

The new website makes use of other web-based services such as Flickr, Twitter and OnlinePhotoProof to allow Catherine a degree of control over the content that is displayed on the site.

The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival website.

The festival consisted of a multitude of arts and film events, aimed at transforming attitudes towards mental health, taking place across Scotland from the 1 – 22 October 2009.

Ramsay worked with the SMHAFF team in 2009, developing their website and design materials (in association with O Street).

The Honkys

John Mcfarlane (no relation) approached Ramsay to create an identity for his new show The Honkys – he required a dynamic online platform to allow the public to view the show and see for themselves the quality of the production.

After completing the branding/identity and website project, Ramsay travelled with ‘Honky John’ twice in 2009, first to New York, then later to Los Angeles.

On the trip to New York, they met with various TV Networks including Comedy Central, MTV and Fox, to pitch for funding to shoot the whole series of The Honkys. They also hosted various screenings of the new Brooklyn-based pilot all across New York, with much of the USA-based cast also in attendance.

The second trip was to the Los Angeles Independent TV Festival, where they attended screenings of the The Honkys and competed for a prize at the festival. Some members of the cast also turned up to show their support.

Below is a trailer of The Honkys for all to see and you can see all the other episodes on The Honkys Website at www.thehonkys.com

KwikFit Insurance Logo

Working in association with a Glasgow-based design agency, Ramsay developed new designs for various elements of KwikFit Insurance’s marketing campaign, including:

• Corporate Social Resposibility (CSR) microsite
• Website landing page
• Gadget Insurance purchasing process for website
• 2D animation advertising their Quarterly Staff Awards in Autumn 2009.

Allanfauld Farm is a family farm run by Archie and Libby MacGregor, situated close to the town of Kilsyth, deep in the heart of the Scottish countryside.

The Allanfauld Farm Website

The MacGregors have been farming the land on and around the Kilsyth Hills since 1926 and wanted to bring their business into the 21st Century with a new brand and website to display their Livestock and Accommodation services.

Ramsay overcame the problem of accurately reflecting both the Livestock and the Accommodation aspects of Allanfauld Farm by neutralising the look of the brand. Instead of displaying the contrasting graphical representations of each of the services,  the fact that Allanfauld Farm is based in Scotland and has a rich Scottish heritage was promoted as the main selling point.

This was achieved with the use of a small amount of the MacGregor tartan and an image of the Saltire Flag, the National Flag of Scotland. The brand is also photography-rich, helping draw focus towards Allanfauld Farm’s location and heritage.

Allanfauld Farm

The newly-designed Allanfauld Farm brand was also applied to a fully Content-Managed Website to allow the client to update their livestock and photos online, with access to a latest-news facility to keep visitors to the website informed on events and news.

The new brand and website project is complete for Edinburgh-based Denise Campbell’s new company Alma Learning.

Alma Learning Website

This project covered a lot for the available budget, including; brand development, website, business cards and a customised mobile email system.

Salento B&B website

Purpose-built Salento Bed and Breakfast was built in 2006 and has now entered the digital-age with a website displaying the B&B’s credentials and providing an online-booking system via Visit Scotland’s ‘web in a box’.