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Does traditional offline advertising really work?

21st February 2014

In a digital world that revolves around our smartphones, tablets and laptops, it is difficult to think in an offline capacity. Both traditional and offline advertising have clear advantages, but your business’s method of choice should always depend on your brand’s identity and what type of industry you are in. For some industries, relying completely […]

Most annoying adverts of 2013

3rd January 2014

Apart from the odd few adverts that are a bit weepy, or manage to coax a giggle out of us there are few that don’t make us want to immediately change the channel out of sheer annoyance and petty rage. Each year there are a select few that whip the nation up into a flurry […]

5 years to be proud of

2nd January 2014

The end of 2013 marks the end of five incredible years of Cuckoo Design, and we’ve only just started. In 2005 our managing director Justine Wright, bought the marketing company from founder Steve Walsh, though it wasn’t until 2008 that Cuckoo Design was officially born. Cuckoo Design from the beginning Justine had been at Walsh […]

The growing brand of The Snowman

20th December 2013

Since its first broadcast in 1982 on Channel 4, Raymond Briggs’ Snowman has ballooned into a colossus of an enterprise engulfing various industries as well as literature and television. On the 30th anniversary of its original broadcast, Lupus Film produced a celebratory 25 minute sequel, The Snowman and The Snowdog. The film was broadcast on […]

Tyres On The Drive selects Cuckoo to drive its marketing campaigns

16th December 2013

Cuckoo Design has been selected by Tyres on the Drive (TOTD), www.tyresonthedrive.com after a four-way agency pitch process. Cuckoo’s appointment covers brand, digital and offline communications campaigns to support TOTD as it seeks to grow the business. As a pioneering and innovative business, TOTD offers a professional, mobile, tyre-fitting service just about every vehicle from […]

Cuckoo sponsors local football team Flixton Juniors Sharks

26th November 2013

We’re all big fans of the beautiful game here at Cuckoo HQ, so when Flixton Juniors Sharks U7’s needed a new kit we couldn’t resist sponsoring them. The team has just started their first season of football, recently entering the City Of Salford Soccer League. We’ll be watching the Sharks progress closely this year… you […]

Problem Solved

31st October 2013

We are proud to show off our fabulous new ‘Problem Solved’ brochure. The brochure explores how we turn client briefs into imaginative and effective brand solutions. We’ve created a unique new fold that reveals the problems and solutions once fully opened. When folded, it fits nicely into a pink Cuckoo sleeve! Hope you like it!

New clients for Cuckoo Design

31st October 2013

Award-winning, Salford-based agency, Cuckoo Design is celebrating a number of new instructions on behalf of new clients including Bupa and Lynton Lasers. Bupa’s design challenge is to refresh its website in line with current brand guidelines which is being addressed by providing a series of templates and styles for roll-out across the UK website. www.bupa.co.uk. The […]

My weeks work experience at Cuckoo Design by Andrew Lebbos

4th October 2013

Hi, my name is Andy and I have just completed a weeks work experience at Cuckoo Design. I am currently studying Graphic Design at Bristol University and hope to work as a designer within an agency when I graduate in 2014. Upon starting my work experience at Cuckoo I was welcomed by everyone within the […]

Holiday Inn Stratford-upon-Avon photo-shoot

3rd October 2013

I’ve been at Cuckoo for a month and last week was the most exciting yet as I spent the week in Stratford-upon–Avon helping out with a photo-shoot. Ben, the art director of the photo-shoot, and I travelled down on the Monday and met up with the photographer and his assistant and began work straight away. […]