Don’t be fooled, things are very busy at our end! But because we’re mainly delivering businesses and services on behalf of other companies and organisations right now, we’re not publicising our own offerings at this point – however we can still…
From Sante Theatre to STAMP Productions… a DNS Transfer via Friendly Creatives!
We have recently overseen the domain name server (DNS) transfer of Sante Theatre productions to as they’re now known, STAMP Productions, and provided optimisation diagnostics and recommendations. If you’d like us to give your website this kind of analysis (recommended…
Website and Social Media Set-Up for Writer Liz John.
We recently built a website, and social media account, from scratch to our client’s specifications. We recently spent a day with writer, Liz John, helping her setup up and establish a shiny new website and Twitter profile. We trained Liz…
New West Midlands Screenwriters Forum Flyer Graphic
We’ve helped provide West Midlands Screenwriters Forum with a brand new flyer graphic for their website and marketing.
Creative Alliance Wins Apprenticeships 4 England Award
For the fourth year running, Creative Alliance have won an Apprentice 4 England Training Provider of the Year Award in our category. Congratulations to the Creative Alliance team, including our own Ian Kennedy!
Parry People Movers – AN ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT STRATEGY FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS
Check out this short presentation which we helped put together (containing some of our own original graphics) intended for the five candidates for the position of West Midlands Metro Mayor, to be decided at the Mayoral Election on 4th May…
Screenwriters Forum rebranding, marketing, video and administration
In early 2015, Ian was made Chair of West Midlands Screenwriters Forum. Since then, we’ve rebranded and relaunched the organisation, provided marketing and administration, a successful public launch event, a monthly Script Development Group and a promotional video…
Mentee wins High Sheriff Award
One of the apprentices mentored by our Director Ian Kennedy over the last year has won a prestigious award from the High Sheriff for his exceptional work for his employer. And we’re very proud of him too!
Friendly Creatives featured in Top 50 UK Design Blogs!
To our pleasant surprise, we’ve been asked if we’re happy to be featured as one of the UK’s Top 50 Design Blogs in an online feature. And of course we are!
Santé Theatre website
This clean and clear new website for an innovative theatre company was compiled by us in double-quick time, with content and resources taken from the client’s previous site, and new higher-quality images provided by our client Isis Media…
BBC Make It Digital Traineeships – we’re an official Work Placement Provider
In 2015 we have provided many weeks of formal work experience for a diverse group of unemployed young people working on the pilot programmes of the national BBC Make It Digital Scheme, getting the learners to produce lots of varied…
ActiveParks Birmingham website
Friendly Creatives were commissioned to design and build an interactive map website to enable visitors to immediately discover the nearest park to them where they could participate in sports and exercise events.
Web Videos for Creative Black Country launch
To commemorate the launch of Creative Black Country, we were commissioned to create 5 short web videos which we filmed around their launch day with footage and interviews with dozens of local people and arts practitioners, at a variety of venues across the Black…
Press Release for ARTifice event at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
We were commissioned to write a Press Release for a debate organised by an Arts Council-funded project at Oxford University Museum of Natural History in October 2014…
Friendly Creatives welcome our new assistant!
We are pleased to announce that we have a new assistant who has joined the Friendly Creatives team! Javairya will be supporting all sides of our Friendly Creatives services. Her role includes troubleshooting, monitoring and maintaining the IT systems for…
Ian’s Continous Professional Development Log for 2013
2013 was something of a watershed year for Friendly Creatives’ Ian Kennedy… and since a client needed him to compile a CPD anyway, we thought we’d share it here in case you find any new skills or services here that…
Friendly Creatives showreel video now online…
Friendly Creatives’ Ian Kennedy has compiled his work in film and video as well as other creative services into an online showreel that promotes his work and what we can do for you. Click here to view it…
Make your WordPress website mobile-responsive for £75…
A very high proportion of web browsing now happens on mobile phones and tablets, and we can enable any website built on WordPress to generate a responsive, customised mobile-optimised version whenever someone visits it from a mobile phone or tablet,…
Friendly Creatives YouTube channel passes 30,000 views in a year…
Videos we’ve produced for clients during 2012-14 have been published to launch our new YouTube channel, including Capital Theatre Festival, Blue Orange Arts, and the Fancy Silk Store – visit http://www.youtube.com/friendlycreatives/ to see, as over 30,000 people already have done!
Ian speaks at WordPress Birmingham about building websites in a day
It was an honour to be asked to do a ten-minute presentation to WordPress professionals about how FriendlyWebStarter manage to build entire advanced websites, train clients and hand over to them in a day, and led to our biggest ever…