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Many people who call themselves website designers these days are really computer geeks who are self taught or who have taken a course or two in website design. Unfortunately, they lack any graphic design talent and experience. At Above Creative we are trained, professional graphic designers and web developers so the layouts we produce for websites are aesthetically-pleasing, original designs that will enhance your corporate image and you’ll be proud to refer people to your website.

Why you should choose us…

• At Above Creative we strive to be brilliant yet affordable, friendly and honest.
• All website designs are bespoke to your company (we don’t use templates) and are developed using CSS (cascading style sheets).
• All websites include an easy to use content management system (CMS) as standard so you can add to and edit your site once live.
• We’ll create a site that you are 100% happy with. We don’t charge by the hour like many other web designers.
• You’ll be kept informed throughout the whole design and development process and you’ll be able to see a live update of your site on our development domain.
• We never outsource the design and development of your site to india or any other country, believe it or not quite a few of the top design companies do this.
• All sites include the first years hosting and .co.uk domain registration free.

Why not give us a try and get a FREE no obligation quote here.

Take a look at the above two logos, the one on the left is the original, well known logo for our NHS service, the one on the right was commissioned by the Department of Health to raise awareness and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS. Right, how much do you think us as taxpayers paid for the simple addition of the number 60?
£100?, £200? nope, would you believe me if I said the bill for adding two digits to the original NHS logo cost £12,000. Yes, you read that right £12,000. It apparently took two designers ten days to complete and although I don’t know the full story i’m sure that the design company involved must have been laughing all the way to the bank when the bill was actually paid.

I know the government are also to blame here as they shouldn’t be wasting taxpayers money like this but I also believe as designers we should be charging honest prices and not ripping off clients whoever they are. One thing that really annoys me about this is that the design companies that are winning these government design tenders are not only ripping them off but also the taxpayer as we are the ones who are picking up the bill at the end of the day.

Some more examples of excessive charging for government logo design:

£21,090 to update the HomeBuy identity, the logo was changed from a yellow-and-blue to a pink-and-purple.
£24,315 for a brand refresh of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport logo. The updated logo appears almost identical to the old but with the department’s name underneath.
£153,522 for the FERA (The Food and Environment Research Agency) logo.

We do this through a company called COCO2 who take an annual payment and use the money to help projects such as planting trees, creating wind farms or investing in renewable energy projects throughout the world.

Why choose above…

With literally thousands of so called design companies around it’s hard to choose who to go with. They range form the incredibly cheap design cowboys (avoid at all costs!!) to the stupidly expensive professional agencies. We offer the quality and experience of a professional agency but at a much more affordable solution.

At Above you can be reassured that you will get an outstanding design service that is cost effective, is done the right way form the start and will also look amazing. Please browse this site, and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us or use our quote form to receive a free no obligation quote.