Starbots Creative

We’re lost for words (and that doesn’t happen very often) 😅

Thanks to Kez at Tailored Kitchens Crewe for such a glowing review 🌟

A big Happy Birthday to our chief office comedian, Celtina Taylor! 🥳🧁 We hope you have a wonderful day 🎉

Great to see these results come in… a 45% increase in applications and a 40% increase in event sign-ups for our client, St John Fisher Catholic College

Well done project team and thank you Cathy for the kind words.

Discover what we did → https://bit.ly/Starbots-SJF-Portfolio

This week, Sylvie and Emma ventured North to visit our client Ness Botanic Gardens to scope out the site and understand the true experience for an important upcoming project 🤩

A huge thanks to the team for having us and giving us a guided tour around the stunning gardens 🌿

The Starbots Creative team will be digging out their walking boots for an 18-mile stint along the Caldon Canal from Froghall Wharf to Etruria on Saturday 9th November 2024.

Our goal is to raise £1,000 for Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes – an urgent volunteer service providing transportation of blood products, free of charge, to all NHS hospitals across Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire.

Liz Salmon, mum of our Directors Kate and Emma, managed our company accounts until very recently and also volunteers for Blood Bikes in her own time. So, we thought it was fitting to support a cause so close to her heart, as the charity celebrates its 10th year.

We’d greatly appreciate any donation, no matter how small, to help Shropshire Staffordshire Cheshire Blood Bikes continue their amazing work! You can donate via our JustGiving page here → https://bit.ly/Starbots-Charity-Walk

Step Up for Blood Bikes: Starbots Charity Walk Help Starbots Creative raise money to support Shropshire Staffordshire Cheshire Blood Bikes

Great team workshop on Friday The Wheatsheaf Inn, Onneley with our chief motivator Hazel Cooke 🌟

This time, we focused on a review of 2023-2024 and goal-setting for the year ahead, our strengths and how we can best work together as a team, with everyone taking part in timed challenge activities that involved Lego and blindfolds… obviously 👀

Big birthday shoutout to our amazing Client Services Director, Emma! 🥳
No ordinary cake for her – she’s all about that fruity goodness 🍉
We hope you have a brilliant day 🎉

🎊 Promotion news 🎊

Congratulations to Charlotte Brookes on her well-deserved promotion to Content Manager!

Charl joined our team in January 2022 and has consistently demonstrated her knowledge and skills in producing great content and compelling copywriting.

With organisation like no other, Charl has delivered transformative content strategies, lead-focused web copy projects, captivating brand messaging and what-must-be hundreds of thousands of words in blogs, case studies and news articles, delivering excellent results for our clients.

Well done and congratulations Charl! 👏

Learn about Charl’s key takeaways from the Birmingham Design Festival 2024 → https://bit.ly/SB-Birmingham-Design-Festival 💡

Exploring ‘Process' at Birmingham Design Festival 2024 As designers, we’re always looking for our next source of inspiration – so we ventured out of the studio for the day to Birmingham Design Festival.

Who else remembers those first days of the Facebook wall? 🤔

Follow Adam Bastow’s journey towards a specialism in React front-end web tech, from the introduction of user-generated content to the staggeringly complex interfaces we see today.

Building Modern Web Experience: Why I Choose to React Why choose React? A refined developer experience, an energetic community and the ability to elevate user experiences.

Last week, Rob Fenton led a creative screen-printing workshop with our design team 🎨

It’s important for our designers to take time away from the screen and get creative in other ways. It was such an inspiring workshop and we’ve come away with some fantastic collage-based prints for our studio 🤩

Wishing a big Happy Birthday to Charlotte Gartland! 🥳🎂 We hope you have a fantastic day and we can’t wait to hear all about the puffins tomorrow 👀

Learn about the dynamic, responsive, and future-proof world of headless website design in our latest journal piece. 👇

Authored by our resident Web Developer, Adam Bastow 🧑🏻‍💻

How to unleash the full power of WordPress Making it more possible than ever to create fast and responsive websites utilising the most up-to-date and cutting-edge technologies.

Last week, we headed to the Birmingham Design Festival for a day full of inspiration💡👩🏼‍💻🤩

Our favourite talk was led by Elizabeth Goodspeed who showed how design from previous decades can inform and elevate our designs in the modern world 💭

It was also great to hear the shared challenges designers are encountering when futureproofing brands.

We love the insights coming from the design community. It was such a collaborative event with so many resources being shared between creatives 🤝

Until next time…😎👋🏼

MISSION COMPLETE 🚀

Working with Appetite and partners, we crafted a unique, recognisable brand for the new REMIX event, including logo and poster design to capture the attention of 13-25 year olds 🎮

As a co-created programme of creative, digital and playable experimentation in the city centre, we positioned the logo as a ‘take-over’ – imagining REMIX as a digital broadcast sent out to young people, calling them to join this mission.

A glitch effect was incorporated into the logo, along with a bright colour palette and modern typeface. To complement the brand mark, we selected an 8-bit typeface for the body copy, reinforcing the digital & retro tone of voice which underpins REMIX.

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The event is running this Thursday 30th May – Saturday 1st June in & around The Potteries Centre in Hanley 👋🏼

What a team 😉

Yesterday we led a creative session with aspiring young creatives from the local area, in collaboration with Claybody Theatre & Framescape 🤝

Contributing to Claybody’s Live broadcast to bring in the 2025 New Year – The Hootenana Programme – we supported the group of creatives in crafting moodboards and stylescapes to inform assets that will dovetail with the broadcast 🌟

Well done to Sylvina Johnson & Lewis Goldstraw for delivering the session and thank you to Daniel Waterman, Gary Carse & Conrad Nelson for involving us in such a great initiative & making us feel so welcome. We can’t wait to see the finished product 👏🏼