39steps design agency Edinburgh

Neville Funeral Service

Laurence — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:17:28 +0000

Neville Funeral Service approached 39steps in 2011 looking for a complete rebrand of the company. Over the years since their founding in 1875, the company has acquired several other businesses in the funeral care market, and the time came to redesign the branding for all the branches into one cohesive family of corporate IDs. The [...]

Dremel Drama

Emma — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:54:35 +0000

Cut, drill and grind your way into February (no Valentines jokes, folks! – Ed.) with your very own do-it-all tool! The possibilities are endless for jewellery making and other craft projects, along with those pesky, seemingly-impossible DIY tasks that in the past have seemed too fiddly to even bother with …and it all comes in a [...]

MightySteps helps the Vets

Steven — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:39:14 +0000

39steps are delighted to have been appointed by Vetsolutions to assist them with their marketing campaigns this year. We pitched along with our chums at mightysmall and were selected for our thorough and fresh approach. Vetsolutions are the largest provider of vet practice management software to the UK. Their RoboVet software is the leading bespoke CRM [...]

Litho vs digital printing

Steven — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:56:13 +0000

Print may be dying as the digital revolution takes hold, but it will never go entirely. At the moment it just seems to be moving to shorter runs and more use of digital than litho. But why is this and, more to the point, what are litho and digital printing? Overview Lithographic printing is the [...]

Dumpling Delights

Julie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:28:05 +0000

Pierogi (dumplings) – the ultimate comfort food whether savoury or sweet. These Polish staples come with hundreds of different fillings – spinach and ricotta, pork, pickled cabbage, potato and onion.. the list is endless. They’re great as a snack or a proper meal, although you’d probably want some greens on the side to avoid the [...]

Synthetic CDO-tastic tale!

Steven — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:31 +0000

Like many, I’ve been a bit fascinated by the rights and wrongs of our financial system and (not so free-market) capitalist economy, since Lehmans went down in 2008. I’ve been through all of the conspiracy theories, the moaning about Fred’s pension, worrying about the wrongs of fractional reserve banking and generally working myself up into [...]

30 years of The Thing

Laurence — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:55:19 +0000

Last year saw the release of the prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic The Thing, a bleak psychological horror about the nature of paranoia, mistrust and the medicinal effects of J&B scotch. The film needs little introduction, but for those who’ve not had the pleasure of seeing it I’ll summarise it very briefly. The film [...]

For a’ that n a’ that

Julie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:06:49 +0000

39steps were proud to support JCI Edinburgh‘s Burns Supper on Saturday at Dynamic Earth. The programmes and promo materials had an Andy Warhol feel – fitting with the modern venue and injecting a wee bit colour. Great speeches from our members practicing their public speaking with the The supper raised funds for the fantastic Rock [...]