News archive

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new website for the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO). We redesigned the site, refined the structure and used Movabletype to manage the content.

13 November 2007

Today we launched a new website for Charles & Hudson. More on this soon.

27 September 2007

We were asked by Betfair to design and build a blog for the GB team at the World University Summer Games. The site can be found at http://www.teamgbrblog.com/ and has provided a mechanism for the student athletes to post their experiences.

18 August 2007

The University of Reading has just awarded us the task of producing brand guidelines for all their merchandise! A project we are very excited about working on.

16 August 2007

Well it's a mere 133 days later than planned, but it's here at last – yes, our new website has been launched! Have a look around and let us know what you think...

03 August 2007

We worked with Stephen Coates on his new website, providing web templates and the Movabletype publishing system.

24 April 2007

We have just launched the website for a research project into the Independent Group. More soon.

23 March 2007

The project report is available for Routes to Reading.

07 March 2007

A book and accompanying website for The Immigrants Project. More information and a project report will be available soon.

21 December 2006

A new website launched for quarterly publication The Drawbridge. Designed and built in conjunction with Stephen Coates, the site uses Movabletype to manage all the content.

01 November 2006

Lift are proud to announce we have been accepted onto the University of Reading design roster!

01 October 2006

We are pleased to welcome Stephanie Lee, the latest addition to the Lift team. Stephanie joined us on 8 August from Oxford University Press.

15 August 2006

No news from Lift recently? We have been working on the design and build of a new website for the London International Festival of Theatre (Lift), collaborating with John Morgan studio. More on this project soon.

22 May 2006

We have recently completed a website for Alison Black. The describes the type of work Alison does, and how she does it. We have made use of some interesting JavaScript effects to show the small case studies.

11 April 2006

A lack of updates due to many new projects going through the studio! These include the event programme for the Samuel Beckett gala evening at Reading Town Hall, new website for DIFFRACTION, work on a new website for LIFT, and much more.

01 April 2006

We are currently putting the finishing touches to a website for artist Christopher Le Brun. The website is built in Movabletype and showcases the variety of his work over the last 30 years.

24 January 2006

Check out our Christmas html email (we are spending our Christmas card/gift budget on items to help third world countries through Oxfam). If you would like to be on our mailing list please complete the email newsletter form to the right. Have a fantastic Christmas and New year.

22 December 2005

A quick review of the past few months; we have redesigned the University of Reading magazine, designed new websites for BD1 and Typevents, worked on the website for fashion label SINHA--STANIC, continued working with InterCall Europe, and a few other projects we will announce in the next few weeks.

01 December 2005

Current projects include; complete redesign of the University of Reading magazine, consultancy for Gladstone.MRM, ongoing multiple projects for InterCall Europe, new website for ESTA UK, communications for MultiSense and much more!

01 September 2005

The new website for Berkshire Scout Enterprises Ltd (BSEL) has just been launched. We worked within their new identity to create interface designs and supplied XHTML/CSS templates for BSEL to maintain the website themselves.

22 August 2005

We have sent out the first issue of our new email newsletter. Intended to keep you informed about what we are doing, it will be sent to friends, colleagues, clients (both past and present), plus anyone that uses the sign-up form to the right of the screen. In the next issue will be reports on projects for InterCall Europe and Gladstone MRM, plus details of our new client download area.

20 August 2005

Lift has a new team member! We would like to introduce Jo Lankester, who is a graduate of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication.

19 August 2005

Recently we have produced a series of web sign-up and online credit card payment forms for Typevents. We will shortly be delivering similar forms for ATypI.

01 August 2005

The new website for the Printing Historical Society is now live. The site was designed and built by Lift to help the society promote and provide information online. Built in Movabletype, the society can manage the content themselves.

21 July 2005

We are pleased to announce the launch of the John Morgan studio website, built by Lift using HTML/CSS/Movabletype. More soon.

07 July 2005

We have been working recently with Typevents, and are pleased to announce their website. Designed and built by Lift, it will shortly feature an on-line credit card payment system. A project report will be available soon.

09 June 2005

We are pleased to announce the new Lift client area to all our existing and new clients. The client area allows you to access our online project management system, and review the current progress of your project. For more information, visit the client area log-in page.

24 May 2005

The long gap in news items has been due to us finishing up a number of projects for both existing and new clients. These projects include; a web interface to a software product, a magazine, a corporate brochure and display banners, HTML emails and a series of accessible HTML templates.

26 April 2005

We have just completed a branding project for the new Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, along with a fundraising brochure. A full project report will follow shortly.

21 February 2005

We have just completed a branding project for the new Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, along with a fundraising brochure. A full project report will follow shortly.

21 February 2005

The new LegalConnect website, designed and built by Lift has just been launched. You can read more in the work section.

14 January 2005

We have recently been working with Head Light Communications to develop their brand across a range of different materials. You can read more in the work section, or visit their website.

14 January 2005

We have been working with Diem creative photographic solutions to design and build their website, and we are pleased to announce it has now launched. Built using XHTML/CSS and Flash, the website uses a Zope server to allow for easy updating and maintenance.

20 December 2004

The new EventConnect website has recently been launched. Lift designed and built the site following the new EventConnect identity.

01 December 2004

Matt has just finished teaching a web design project with 2nd year students at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication.

22 November 2004

We were asked by Paul Stiff and Petra Cerne Oven from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, to help with their research website. Their project is called The optimism of modernity: recovering modern reasoning in typography. Phase one of the site has just been launched.

28 September 2004

A new desktop wallpaper is available to download from the playground page.

23 August 2004

In the work section we have added two new project reports; Berkshire Mathematics teaching packs and Professional project website.

19 August 2004

We have written another good practice guide called Web accessibility - what it really means and what you need to do , which helps explain the issues involved in accessible websites.

28 July 2004

The new Berkshire Scouts website has just been launched, with design and HTML/CSS templates provided by us.

26 July 2004

We have just published the first in a series of good practice guides, called Forms - the importance of getting it right. The guide helps explain why well designed forms are important and how they can benefit your business.

21 July 2004

On Tuesday 6 July, Matt ran a day workshop at Reading School as part of the Design Council 'Designers into Schools Week 'initiative. Read about what he did...

06 July 2004

As you may have noticed, we have updated our website to provide more information about who we are, what we do and our interests. We are in the process of building an expanded 'work' area, showing the projects we have worked on. Plus we have started a resources section and a blog.

01 July 2004

The website of Professional project has just been launched. Designed and built by Lift, you can read more in the work section.

28 June 2004

We have recently developed a low-cost web gallery, ideally suited to photographers, where images can be managed and updated without the need for any specific web skills. Visit our information page to find out more and see our online demonstration.

21 June 2004

Lift are doing some consultancy for William Welstead on their upcoming website. More soon!

28 May 2004

We have just completed a website for Swansail, a new company offering sailing holidays on modern classic racing yachts. More information is available on our web project page.

14 May 2004

A new desktop wallpaper is available to download from the playground page. The design reflects the updated Lift stationery which we have just launched!

04 May 2004

Mike Taylor Photography has launched its new website. Lift provided the initial design and html templates for Mike to work into and update as required.

26 April 2004

The latest issue of Reading : reading has been delivered to the alumni of the University of Reading. Lift is design consultant on the magazine, and our tasks include image selection, design of layouts for features and the cover.

22 April 2004

We have a number of projects we are working on at the moment. These include new designs for the Berkshire Scouts website, a new marketing brand for InterCall, and some consultancy for Text Matters. Plus a couple of projects which we cannot dicuss quite yet!

31 March 2004

Lift has just finished work on a corporate intranet for InterCall Europe. The intranet was built using Zope, and provides all the companies internal documentation and resources in one central place.

01 February 2004

Lift is pleased to announce that Matt Carey is now a design consultant to Text Matters, a leading information design studio based in Reading, UK.

01 January 2004

We are currently working on CD cover designs for the latest release from Velocity Records, called Abuse your friends volume 4.

01 January 2004

The start of December saw the launch of two long-term website localisation projects for InterCall. InterCall France, and InterCall Germany. Lift provided the link between the external translators and the client.

31 December 2003

Recently completed a range of marketing materials (including French and German localisation) for InterCall Europe.

30 November 2003

Lift has been commissioned by CASH to design materials to help with its fundraising. More news on this project soon.

30 November 2003

Just got back from visiting the Ladislav Sutnar exhibition in Prague (website), which had some wonderful design work on show.

31 October 2003

Near to completion on a French localised version of the InterCall Europe website, along with accompanying marketing materials.

31 October 2003

We are just finishing work on a corporate intranet for InterCall, built in Zope. It offers the site manager the ability to edit all the page content within a browser window.

31 October 2003

Lift was asked to provide conference materials for the NNG conference User Experience 2003. This involved designing the conference programme and branded badges for delegates.

31 October 2003

Lift has been commissioned to design and produce the website for photographer Mike Taylor.

31 October 2003

Lift launches the first in a series of promotional postcards. More information soon.

30 September 2003

Through August, Lift have designed two student tests for Berkshire Mathematics. These tests help teachers measure abilities in their students.

01 September 2003

We have completed work on a visual identity for Cara Newport, a mobile hair stylist.

14 August 2003

We have recently finished work on a website localisation project for InterCall. The project involved taking their UK corporate site (including all PDF marketing materials), and translating it into German. More details can be found in the projects section.

31 July 2003

Lift has just delivered designs and a coded HTML email template for InterCall. The template allows the internal marketing team to send out branded emails. More details can be found in the projects section.

29 July 2003

A couple of completed projects to announce today. We have just finished redesigning stationery for Berkshire Mathematics.

We have also just provided the image used to represent St Mary's Church, on the new Reading Monopoly board.

16 July 2003

We have just finished work on a series of banners to promote InterCall.

10 July 2003

Lift has been commissioned to design and build the website for local design studio the bridge.

16 June 2003

We have been working on fundraising materials for St Mary's Minster in Reading for the past few months, and the project has just been completed. Read about it here.

23 May 2003

A new multilingual HTML email for Oxford University Press Journals Department. This is part of a large campaign and was translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. For a summary, see the projects section.

20 May 2003

Another two HTML emails for the Oxford University Press Journals Department, as part of a marketing campaign. As before, a summary can be seen in the projects section.

20 March 2003

Web design news site K10K have posted our desktop pattern on their site. You can see it here.

20 March 2003

We have just completed another HTML for the Oxford University Press Journals Department. A summary can be seen in the projects section.

27 February 2003

The playground section now has details of thewrongplanet.net, an internet radio station designed and built in collaboration with Dave Andrews

13 February 2003

We have just completed the first in a series of HTML email campaigns for Oxford University Press.

10 February 2003

If you are a Zope user, and want to edit your pages in Dreamweaver then we recommend you use our DTML widgets. For more information see the playground section.

24 January 2003

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