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January 29th, 2009

Go big or go home. Mednet is launched

One school of thought when starting on your first project as a fledgling web agency might be: Start small – work your way up. Another might be – take the largest project you can manage; and ace it. We chose the latter.

Mednet Consult website screenshotMednet Consult are a Healthcare communications agency based in Leeds. Working closely with pharmaceutical giant Janssen Cilag, Mednet organises and project manages meetings, events and integrated training packages for NHS Mental Health Professionals. They asked us to help take them online.

In January 2009, we designed and built a website that would provide a platform from which Mednet could publish and promote details of its product offerings and communicate its core values to the marketplace. Our bespoke content management system delivers Event Management; Assessed and Certified Case Study E-learning tests and Online Questionnaires; all wrapped up in a contemporary ‘light on dark’ design that was surprisingly well received by what might potentially be perceived as a stuffy industry.

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January 5th, 2009

Welcome to the big wide world (again)

This post – has been a long time coming.

You, the reader (ha!) may be forgiven for being less than enthusiastic about this little corner of t’world wide t’interweb. Especially were you to be expecting relevant, cutting commentary, satire and repartee regarding the state of play for graphic designers in todays digital marketplace. In fact I’m ashamed to admit that the obligatory madewithpixels weblog is now more than twelve months old and contains no more than a few rambling posts from my tired old mind about subjects as closely related to graphic design as I am to Genghis Khan.

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