Envy Web+Design Blog

Client: Novia Brides, Hawea, Central Otago Brief: To create a website for a new bridal studio located near Wanaka, in the tranquil rural settlement of Hawea. Sandy at Novia Brides was a recent bride herself, and during her wedding dress research she came across the stunning YolanCris wedding dresses made in Barcelona. Haute couture, unique and exceptionally well-made, Sandy saw a gap in the New Zealand wedding market and set about establishing a bridal studio to showcase the wedding gowns. She also expanded her range to include dresses from Auc..

Client: Redwood Joinery, Rotorua Brief: To create a logo to represent Redwood Joinery, a new joinery company based in Rotorua, New Zealand. Redwood Joinery specializes in residential and commercial quality kitchens, offices, fit outs and custom joinery in the Rotorua and greater Bay of Plenty region. The company offers a start to finish service from design, manufacture and install using top quality products to fulfill their customers commercial and residential joinery needs. Karlene and Shane wanted a logo that would stand out and represent the..

Client: Award-winning New Zealand and Australian folk singer and songwriter Anna van Riel. Brief: To create a beautiful, modern website to showcase her music, promote news and tours and to direct people to purchase her albums. Anna is a talented musician based in the peaceful lakeside settlement of Hawea, near Wanaka. From her rural home base, she writes and performs original music that delights people of all ages. With her new interactive children’s album Cooking Up A Song, children and adults alike are being delighted by this ukulele pl..

Client: GEORGE & EDI, Wanaka Brief: To create a hand lettered tagline - Live a Fragrant Life - that could be used on packaging and branding collateral. Wanaka luxury candle makers GEORGE & EDI  approached me to hand letter their trademarked tag line “Live a Fragrant Life.” The text needed to be in line with their brand – simple, timeless and classic. The brief from Rose and Sarah was to make the lettering look natural and not overworked. This lettering has now featured on shop windows, on packaging, and many diffe..

Client: Jodie Rainsford, Jodie Rainsford Photography Brief: To create a new logo to represent her photography business, with a fun, hand lettered design. Wanaka-based photographer Jodie Rainsford approached us to create a new hand lettered logo for her business. We discussed some logos she likes, and decided to go with an ink lettering logo. I created five different styles of logos for her to choose from, and then we refined the one she preferred in ink. The final stage was vectorizing the logo so that she has a fully resizeable logo for all us..

Client: Mountain Weave Brief: To create everything this new furniture importing business needed - starting with a logo, then followed by business cards, product tags, advertising, banners and a website.  Dan and Dani from Mountain Weave import beautiful Scandinavian designed outdoor wicker furniture. Their range has been carefully constructed using a variety of particular materials designed for New Zealand outdoors and will guarantee its longevity. At the beginning of their venture, Dan and Dani approached us to create their..

Client: Swift Car Parts Brief: To create a custom hand-lettered logo design for a new business. Swift Car Parts are based in Auckland and specialise in Suzuki Swift car parts. The brief was to create a logo that was clean, simple with a bit of elegance. It needed to appeal to a wide demographic of young and old, male and female. Michelle took this project on under  Brave + Brogue  and came up with a bold, masculine handlettered script logo that conveyed a modern, fresh design - and a completely unique feel for the company.

Client: Hikobike, Auckland, New Zealand Brief: To redesign the existing Hikobike logo to be more sleek and modern. Brands evolve and change over time, and one of our clients - Auckland-based electric bike company Hikobike - decided to give their brand a new, more modern and streamlined look. In 2015 we created their logo  for them. The brief at that time was to create a script logo, so we modified a beautiful casual script font, also creating visual links to the Moari origins of it's name using the koru motif. Fast forward to 2016, an..

Client: The Climbing Shop, Wanaka Brief: To create an online shop for Basecamp Wanaka. A place to retail all of the climbing products they sell instore to a wider audience online, with the ability to expand over time. Loz from Basecamp Climbing Centre  in Wanaka has been a long-time client of Envy Web + Design. Right now, we are currently putting the finishing touches on three websites for him - a revamped Basecamp Climbing Centre  website, the new  Rock Adventures  website for their Wanaka outdoor climbing ar..

Put simply, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about getting found on Google.  It is the steps you can take to make your website easier to find in search engines. The term SEO can sound intimidating. But with a little bit of knowledge, there are ways you can improve your website easily.  Let me explain why you need to be thinking about SEO  for your website and how it all works. Imagine your new website as a new town - full of brand new buildings and talented people with something to offer the world. But this town has been ..