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small-media-large
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graphic design ...web design ...we design |
small-media-large is an online and graphic design agency based in Glasgow.
If you have something to communicate and an audience you want to reach, speak to us. We work without preconceptions — drawing on a wide experience of the spectrum of media and formats to ensure that good design and structure maximise the impact of that message. Our prime consideration is to engage and stimulate your audience with surprising, clear and effective communications. |
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project-managed client account |
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Our project-management system is made available to clients. This allows log-in to a secure web-based area where you can closely follow the progress of your project, approve proofs, suggest alterations, upload copy and images and keep track of developments.
If you've already been issued with an invitation to join, log in at the bottom right of this page... |
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 Flash technology brings interactivity, animation, video and audio together in a way that enables a new level in your relationship with your audience. small-media-large has an impressive range of capabilities in this field, from scripting complex CD-ROM-based educational software to delivering funky banner ads. |
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Sometimes, the static image isn't the best way of communicating ideas in a persuasive and clarifying way. We like to consider what the moving image might add to the effectiveness of putting your organisation's point across. |
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 small-media-large has a proven record of making social media work.
We enable clients to broadcast their message actively and responsively, by automatically re-distributing your content via Twitter, Facebook, RSS, email lists, or whatever channels are appropriate. Creating and nurturing relationships with your customers, potential clients and peers whilst keeping bang up-to-date with the developments that relate to those groups is fast becoming an essential component of anyone's communications strategy. |
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 Most of the websites we create are directly edited by their owner via an online interface.
Structuring your online presence around a Content Management System puts you in as much control of your website as you need and enables you to keep your information relevant, fresh and responsive. Using CMS is intuitive and easy for anyone with word-processing skills, but we're happy to train and support your staff if required. |
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 Our first love - making real objects for the real world.
We never lose sight of the fact that print design is a form of product design, and consider carefully the suprising possibilities of materials and forms, inks, stocks and finishing that can deliver a striking end result. |
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 Whether sourced from Flash or live-action footage, small-media-large is always delighted with an end result that can sit on a DVD or be uploaded to YouTube. We've produced some surprising material: from information graphics to performance video for music festivals. |
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Building of the Fortnight
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 JT Rochead 1871
A renaissance palace worthy of its architect's reputation in Glasgow's West End (Rochead having been responsible for some of the most imposing terraces that line the grand boulevard of Great Western Road), Northpark House represents a grand yet well-known sight to anyone familiar with Queen Margaret Drive and has survived a Doctor Who-like quantity of impressive incarnations.
From its original role as private house (to the lavishness of which its galleried-double height entrance hall still testifies) the house progressed to become the home of Queen Margaret College, a groundbreaking venture with the then-novel aim of providing education for women. A Medical Building (by John Keppie) was subsequently added to the building's rear, and the involvement of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the design of that structure has - predictably - become the primary focus of popular attention on the entire site in latter years.
In the 1920s the house narrowly escaped being demolished to make way for Queen Margaret Drive to access the new Queen Margaret Bridge; a toss-up between this loss or the removal of the Kibble Palace was avoided by plotting the road along a kink between both structures.
The most renowned phase of the building's life was as BBC Scotland's Broadcasting House. A series of developments in the 1930s and 1970s involved the building-over of the remaining gardens, the enclosure of the Medical Building and (in 1970) the closure of access to the nearby - and generally forgotten - bridge spanning the Kelvin. The long occupancy of the BBC, which saw the coming and going of strings of celebs and the notorious seizure of videotape by Strathclyde Police, finally ended in 2007 with a move to the award-winning Pacific Quay building.
Northpark House now stands unused and isolated with the Queen Margaret College Medical Building in the vast, cleared former BBC site. An attempt to present the building's potential as a 'boutique hotel' was set in train just on the cusp of the financial crisis, and the company intending to develop the remaining part of the site is now in administration. The view from Hamilton Drive is dismal, and no positive future for this building or the vast, fenced-off, yet previously quasi-publicly-owned prime West End site that surrounds it seems likely. |
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