The Vivid offices are now closed. Wishing all of our customers a very merry Christmas and happy New Year.

The RAR Top100 is now available to purchase. http://bit.ly/rWa5Ri  Vivid are ranked 66 out of all UK agencies (outside of the M25). Our average client feedback score was 91.9%. A big thanks to our clients for recognising our hard work over the last year.

Vivid's client Boutinot (based in Manchester) are a renowned wine maker and distributor. Having designed and built their new website - we felt it was only fitting to open a trade account and sample some of the many beautiful wines on offer (over 900 in fact!). In a recent case we were all mesmorised by the design of a particular wine label - made by Some Young Punks in Australia. Imagine our surprise when the design and marketing team from Boutinot sent us limited edition prints of the artwork...

Fantastic illustration work guys - we love it! (the wine tastes great too:)

Vivid's MD, Gerry Arcari has just completed an endurance cycling challange to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

Setting out from Blackheath in London at 12pm on Friday 15th July, Gerry Arcari and three other business owners from Sheffield, set off to cycle the 240 miles to Brussels - in less than 24 hours!

The challenge was in aid of the British Heart Foundation and the team reaised well over £5,000 in sponsorship. The first leg across Kent was 90 miles and involved approx 5,000ft of ascent. Once safely on the continent (by ferry) the remaining 150 miles involved two night stages and three final daylight stages to arrive in the Grand Place of Brussels by 1pm local time. The team were delayed by an hour on the ferry but still managed to arrive with 30 minutes to spare.

From Left to Right: Paul Forster (High Access Solutions), Gerry Arcari (Vivid Creative), Nick Cotton (Digital Exchange) and David Baldwin (Structural Interiors)

The team were sponsored by Nonna's italian restaurant and bar which is home of La Squadra cycling club.

Mad as a hatter some would say, however the challenge of riding the 240 miles from London to Brussels in just 24 hours is one that I just couldn't resist!

My target is to raise £2,000 for the British Heart Foundation. A worthy cause I'm sure you will agree. Please help me reach my target by donating on line at Just Giving...

Thanks Gerry

A fetching picture of Dan our Creative Director as he braves the snow filled parking lot beside Vivid this snowy Thursday morning!  Don't worry Vivid clients, we're here for you!  That's one Big Mac :)  

Following the official launch of the Boutinot website on Monday 25th October, comments have been flooding in from customers around the world:

Just wanted to say many thanks for registering me on the website. It is really brilliant, so informative and so easy to use. Very well done to all who slogged away to produce this triumph for Boutinot!

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I'm just about to send off our request to register as an on-line user of your new superdooper website.

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Wow, great website and very user friendly. Well done all involved.

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(a customer) has just called me with no other purpose in mind than to say the new website is brilliant!

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Just a quickie to say that I have just been on the new Boutinot site and am VERY impressed: It must have taken months of effort and looks terrific. From a customer perspective it offers just what we need i.e. pics, and notes at 3am! as well as easy ordering. Congrats to marketing.

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ooh this is very exciting! I'm liking the new website very much so far.

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Kudos to the team effort between Boutinot and Vivid. Vivid offer graphic design and website design and build in Sheffield.

Vivid Creative have made it into the prestigious RAR Top 100 – the most coveted prize for any UK marketing agency.

This success tastes even sweeter knowing that we’re there thanks to our clients, who logged onto the RAR website in their droves and highly rated our work – so a huge thank-you to you!

Though it’s always exciting receiving awards from industry peers and professional bodies, we’re especially proud of this accolade, because it’s real proof that the work we do achieves results and is well-respected by the people who ultimately matter – our clients.

(Although, we do love getting awards too – note to future judges!)

It’s further proof that we’re the leading creative agency in Sheffield, and that we’re now also recognised as one of the best creative agencies in the country. Wow!

Vivid's long standing client, Sheffield based expedition and trekking company Jagged Globe, have once again asked us to design their marketing material for the 2010/11 season. Following on from 2009’s repositioning exercise which saw Jagged Globe use sub branding to promote Climb, Trek and Ski we have now developed three individual brochures for a more targeted 2010/11 campaign. The pdf of the Climb and Trek brochures can be downloaded from the Jagged Globe website.

Watch out for the Ski brochure – due for completion in October 2010.

Vivid Creative have been commissioned by LSM (The London and Scandinavian Metallurgical Company) to deliver a suite of global, multilingual websites. The UK website is the first to be published and is now live at http://www.lsm.co.uk