Gwalia United choose høppstudio to power new website and brand launch

Gwalia United

Brand Development, Website Design & Build

From initial away shirt sponsor to digital support partner; delivering the new Gwalia United website is continuation of a valued partnership.

At the start of the 2023-24 season, we agreed a deal with Cardiff City Ladies FC to be the main front of away shirt sponsor.

CCLFC is the oldest women’s team in Wales. And the only one that competes in the English league. Like høppstudio, they take some of the best of Wales and compete on international stages.

What we didn’t know then was the club was in advanced talks for a takeover which would bring even higher ambitions, a rebrand, and a need for a first-class digital platform. With goals to reach the highest tier of Women’s football, the club have set about creating the right roadmap on and off pitch to build the brand, attract new fans, talent partners.

Club owner, Julian Jenkins, invited høppstudio to create a phased website build; a project our digital publishing hub and its flexibility is perfectly suited for.

For the re-brand launch on 1 March 2024 we implemented a paired down hub, with simple news management and OTT streaming capability.

Thank you so much for all your help and support, this is what a true sports partnership looks like. We couldn’t have done it without you
Julian Jenkins, Gwalia United Co-owner

Our OTT video solution can stream from curated video libraries, and live-streaming; ideal for extending the impact of outreach and game day activity.

For the 2024-25 season, the first as Gwalia United, the website will be augmented with our full match centre and partner advertising tools.

The match centre will give the club the capability to publish game build-up media, live scores and commentary, in line video and social updates.

The partner advertising tool is a fully-integrated ad server, with detailed cross-site targeting parameters, and analytics to build the commercial impact and sales evidence.

Alongside our digital partnership we have also agreed to continue our sponsorship activity with Gwalia United, with the shirt sleeve activation on home and away shirts, whilst Go.Compare steps up to the front of shirt activation.

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Monroe Homes

Luxury Getaways

Monroe Homes

Brand Development, Website Design & Build

Monroe Homes is a bold start-up, creating a personal and prestigious service for those looking for something a little bit special from their holiday. We did our research, created a bespoke, unique brand, then delivered a luxury booking site that has helped sell out the current properties this year, and driven significant sales for next year too.  

The brand identity has a unique reference back to the owner’s own luxury holiday home which sets the bespoke tone of the holiday experience Monroe Homes offer their clients.

Tamarisk House sits on the Cotswold Water Park and is architecturally unique amongst the other homes situated around it. A key insight from the workshops was the link between the bespoke service from Monroe Homes and the unique nature of the house. We focused our brand identity design on integrating this relationship.

Over six weeks and a multitude of design iterations the client settled on (well, fell in love with) the final identity featuring shapes from the connecting, external spiral staircase. This rigorous design work created a homely yet professional feel. 

The new website has helped them to expand their portfolio of personally managed properties, building a unique Monroe Homes experience for property owners and guests. The application delivers a tailor-made digital solution, with a bespoke property search and booking application, which talks in real-time to external partner engines such as AirBnB.

Website design prototyping ensured the UX and UI would be fully scalable and perform perfectly at the start with just Tamarisk House listed, or with many more.  

An effortless experience for the user was key, and a core functional element of this is the property search process. With the site built on WordPress’ Gutenberg technology, the property search function is a custom-built component that can be adapted to the variety of booking patterns a multi-property site will need. 

Now, time for a break.

A fantastic team, høppstudio have done a great job giving us a beautiful site that is helping us grow the portfolio of properties we will now bring online. What a fantastic team to work with.
Director, Monroe Homes

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The Care Range

Refreshing the Range

Respond Healthcare

3D CGI Design, Brand Development, Website Design & Build

Respond Healthcare provides a prescription and dispensing home delivery service to stoma and continence care patients, along with a range of essential ‘accessories’ products that help patients to manage their health needs. Many of these accessories were acquired brands and retailed under their original (and tired) brand names.

From doing the original Respond brand research and strategy work to creating a whole new brand for the range of products, we future-proofed Respond and The Care Range. For The Care Range we created the product brand, renamed individual products, designed the packaging, designed and built the website, and created all the launch materials.

Aligning the old brands under The Care Range name brought the products into today, creating a look and feel more in keeping with being a part of an individual’s life, and not ‘medical’. The brief was to create a premium brand that encapsulated the trusted and supportive values of the primary brand, Respond. When we established the Respond brand strategy, itself a merger of acquired brands, the way they looked after their patient customers became a primary focus; they really did make life better for them. 

A major challenge of the launch was the tight timeline between product availability and the production deadlines; there was no time for photography.

We overcame this by creating a full set of photo realistic 3D CGI images for the full product set. Producing these in-house gave the client a cost effective, scalable and flexible set of assets which could be manipulated and output for all marketing needs, for launch and beyond. 

Having the ability to be able to offer 3D CGI and animation helps solve creative challenges, and push the boundaries of the client’s imagination, as well as ours. 

Our latest work included the product naming and packaging design of Refresh, the latest product added to The Care Range.

These look amazing.
UK Marketing Manager, Respond Healthcare

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Intelligent Ultrasound Website

Brand Vision

Intelligent Ultrasound

Animation, Brand Development, Graphic Design, Website & eLearning Platform

Intelligent Ultrasound creates ultrasound products that train clinicians in the classroom, and then supports and guides them in the clinic, with real-time artificial intelligence image analysis software.

høppstudio created a new visual identity drawing on insight sessions with the client and stakeholders. We fleshed out a new typeface, colour palette, and design language to support the existing logo. 

The new e-learning site gives us scale and flexibility to easily build on the number of courses offered. It’s a great tool too to support the product sales process.

The visual design exercise was closely aligned to first iterations of the website UX and design stages, where we prototyped the typography and colour proposal across many layouts and pages, carefully reviewing the relationship between information, function and brand form. 

A new website and e-learning platform were the first expressions of the new Intelligent Ultrasound brand. 

We had two main goals for the new website; make it much easier for users to find relevant information whether about products and services, or about the company’s financial information and reporting, and to enable the site design to reflect the ambitious aim to unlock the power of ultrasound, for everyone. 

The website was an exciting opportunity to use the latest tech to create an impactful and future-proof site that fed into a broader body of work to elevate the Intelligent Ultrasound brand. 

We have used the new WordPress Gutenberg editor since it was in beta in 2018 so we were able to quickly establish what core functionality of Gutenberg we could use, and where there were gaps, which would mean building additional custom functionality.

We ended up building over a dozen custom Gutenberg blocks and used the default Gutenberg blocks in unique and innovative ways. 

The custom theme was adopted for the e-learning platform where we used a core lesson build system alongside custom-built academic module and learner management functionality to deliver a scalable, interactive IU Academy site. The system has the capability to manage media rich courses with hundreds of lessons. 

The application deploys a flexible and extendable component library for the client to manage content. 

E-commerce features on both the main brand website and the e-learning platform.

The website looks fab!
Head of Marketing, Intelligent Ultrasound

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Teenage Leaders Award

Leaders of the Future

FAW Trust

Brand Development, Graphic Design, Illustration

The FAW Trust introduced a new award to sit as part of their Coach Education Pathway. The award was to be aimed at 13-16 year olds and would predominantly be delivered within a school setting.

The brief was to develop a logo, brand identity and suite of materials including session plans and a log book that would engage and encourage these students to learn and develop, igniting a desire to stay involved in sport now and for their future.

Two creative routes were proposed to the client who presented them to a group of teachers tasked with delivering the course to the students. The logo and branding of the materials landed really well with the feeling they would appeal and interest the students, one route was chosen and with their feedback was refined to produce the final set of materials.

From approval of this concept we produced 16 student session cards, 3 tutor session cards, and a bi-lingual log book in English and Welsh for students to complete during their practical and theory sessions.

I think the session cards and booklets look great!
Coach Education Manager, FAW Trust

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Clwb Cymru

Grassroots Growth

FAW Trust

Brand Development, Graphic Design, Website Design & Build

Clwb Cymru is a Football Association of Wales Trust programme created to educate and develop key club volunteers and facilitate them to grow their grassroots club within their local Welsh community.

We created the Clwb Cymru brand and a broad suite of information resources and built a new digital platform to support the clubs.

Our vision for Clwb Cymru was to create a solution that was scalable, easy to use and extensible, ensuring that ease of use was at the heart of everything we designed and developed. 

The website will grow massively over time, so creating a design that works with minimal and maximal content was very important. We planned this through thorough testing of the UX and UI, internally and externally with stakeholders to identify the strongest route to future-proofing this build.

The site contains an easy-to-search multilingual resource library with over 130 resources, and growing, for clubs to download in both English and Welsh. A unique ‘pack’ functionality that combines multiple resources into a single zip file with the zip created programmatically on the fly, saves hours of administration time.

At høppstudio they truly care! The team have taken the time to understand me, my project and the needs of our volunteers who sit at the heart of Clwb Cymru.
Football Development Manager, FAW Trust

Having never worked on this type of project before they have provided some incredible insight and suggestions that I would have never even considered.
Football Development Manager, FAW Trust

The logo was designed to represent the many hands of volunteers within the community, linking together to support one another in making their club the best that it can be within ‘The Welsh Way’ FAW Trust brand vision. The circular graphic of the logo and the volunteer ecosystem formed the basis of the design and navigation for the site. 

From approval of the UX, prototyping commenced, with a serious focus on implementing technologies that provided the user with an easy and informative way to navigate through the site, such as the circular navigation device and carousel, which makes it easy to find information and reinforces the function and form of the logo. 

The whole site is what’s known as a “Single Page App”, meaning when a user navigates to a new page, instead of loading all of the site assets again (css and js), only the content is updated, offering near instant loading, and making the site feel snappier, and easier to navigate and use. Single Page Apps can be difficult to pull off because the sites’ javascript has to be loaded a different way, which is why lots of sites don’t do it. But we felt that the benefits to the user outweighed the technical overhead in doing it. For example, getting the resource library working with the Single Page App effect took a really sharp focus from a solution finding perspective and some creative ways of loading the code when we needed it.

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Female Demographic Character Development

FAW Trust

Brand Development, Graphic Design, Website Design & Build

The Football of Wales Trust looks after numerous areas of the grassroots game, including encouraging more young girls and women to get involved, as players, volunteers, coaches and supporting the running of local clubs.

At the core of the campaign to engage directly with people not usually involved with the game was the idea to show ‘this game is for people like me’.

Research-led character profiles inform six individual personalities that included names, ages, the football programme that they would be suitable for, along with outlining their physical appearance and personality traits and clothing.

We brought Amira, Ffion, Izzy, Polly, Seren and Mia to life through illustration, and the characters used to promote the growth of female participation at grassroots clubs as players and volunteers, or to attend their workshops and programmes.

The illustrations were presented on by a very happy client; forming part of a major presentation showcasing Wales’ work to promote the female game.

Thanks so much for the final versions and for your collaboration on them. I presented to UEFA yesterday and they went down very well for the interactive task we used them for.
Football Development Manager, FAW Trust

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Footie Families

Physical Literacy Through Football

FAW Trust

Brand Development, Graphic Design, Illustration, Research

The Footie Families programme needed to appeal to all ages. Young boys, girls, their mums and dads and the coaches who would be delivering the programme.

It also needed to sit right with the FAW Trust’s brand. But first off, we needed to plan how the academic teachings and market development goals could turn into a fun programme that got toddlers moving.

After setting out the plan we looked at using the brand font and colour ways but took it off path, giving it an energy to suit the young game. The three different sized footballs add a graphical dimension to the identity and represent the different size footballs children use as they grow. 

From approval of the brand identity, we set about the development of characters to bring the programme to life across all comms and promotional items. We knew that these characters needed to be fully inclusive, and the ‘family’ includes characters of mixed gender, race and ability to appeal to all.

The success of the Footie Families campaign and the way that the FAW Trust have fallen in love with its characters has meant that the programme continues to run successfully, and the characters have been used to promote further programmes and deliver messages to clubs at a grassroots level.

I really love the characters and the more I see them the more I just love them!
Head of Football Development, FAW Trust

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