Jonathan Hurley Design Solutions
Welcome to Jonathan Hurley Design Solutions – a multi-disciplinary graphic & website design studio
Based in Porthcawl, Bridgend we have over 25 years experience in providing creative solutions including logos, website design and printing to the South Wales area and beyond.
As well as logos, brochures, newsletters and signage we design WordPress websites in Bridgend for small and medium-sized businesses.
Have a look through our portfolio to see the sort of work we are capable of.
We have been in the graphic design business since 1992 in the Bridgend, South Wales area offering design based marketing solutions including brochures, corporate identity, exhibition stands, packaging, sales literature, annual reports, prospectuses, direct mail, newsletter or magazine, web site and advertising campaigns.
About Us
About Us
About Jonathan Hurley Design
After qualifying from Cardiff Art College in 1979, I worked in various advertising agencies – think Mad Men with less emphasis on the drinking and the womanising! I eventually set up my own design studio in 1992 in Bridgend, South Wales and since then have had the pleasure of helping all sorts of organisations advance their businesses by supplying them with well designed, high quality, effective promotional material and websites.
When we started the firm in the depth of the financial recession of 1992 we were still using Letraset dry transfer lettering, bromides and hot wax. Visuals were produced with magic markers and repro-houses were needed to make final films and chromalins before the printing process could even begin.
Today all those expensive processes have been replaced with digital technology (originally in 1992 with a second hand Macintosh IIci and now today running a suite of several powerful computers including a Mac Pro, and a new 27 inch iMac with 32 GB of memory. These are all linked to the Adobe Creative Cloud giving us access to the latest Adobe applications and the entire Typekit font library.
This means that for the end user the cost of full colour printing has plummeted. The glossy colour brochures that were once only affordable by large corporations are now well within the reach of the smallest start-up firm. And digital printing presses now mean even short runs of 20 to 50 impressions are easily affordable.
But the biggest change we have seen is, of course, the internet. When we started very few, if any, local companies had a website. Now a company without a web presence is almost unheard of. We were one of the first companies to embrace the internet and we continue to help our clients promote themselves online with websites, social media and email marketing.
Graphic Design Services for South Wales
With the internet we have the ability to work anywhere in the world: from South Wales to New South Wales, from the Rhondda to the Rio Grande. Wherever you are located, we can deliver a full multidisciplinary design service including logo design, print media, advertising, exhibition and websites.
So enough about me – what about you?
Do you need a logo and a website to launch your new venture? Do you need an email marketing campaign to increase your sales? Do you need someone to design and print a large publication like an annual report or catalogue or to devise a cunningly clever advertising campaign? Do you want to stand out from the crowd at an exhibition or trade show?
We can help you with all these things and more. But don’t take our word for it – read some of the testimonials we have received from our clients over the years or take a look through our portfolio.
We look forward to working with you.
Services
Branding
Name Development
Style Guides
Brand Guidelines
Logos
Trade Marks
Icons
Trade Mark Registration
Websites
Registration and hosting
Site optimisation (getting found on Google)
Writing the text for your website
Supplying the photography
Animations
Email newsletters
Social media (Twitter, Facebook etc.)
Illustration
3D Architectural Walkthroughs
3D Animations
3D Technical Illustration
3D Modelling (Product)
Traditional Watercolour
Artists’ Impressions (Architectural)
Maps
Cartoons
Mascots
Printing
Business Cards
Business Stationery
Brochures
Annual Reports
Catalogues
Newsletters and Magazines
Leaflets and mailshots
Posters
Large Format
Exterior signage
Exhibition and display printing
Roller banners
Pop up displays
Vehicle graphics
Countryside interpretation panels
Advertising
Copywriting
Press Adverts
Campaigns
Online advertising
Billboard Advertising
Outdoor Campaigns
Credentials
Jonathan Hurley Design is, as the name suggests, run by me – Jonathan Hurley. As you can see from my CV below, I’m no spring chicken. I was born in 1958 when a graphic designer was called a commercial artist and a font was what you got christened in!
1978-1979
Fords Creative – Bristol
Junior point-of-sale designer, worked on a number of blue chip accounts.
1983-1985
Detheridge – Cardiff
Pasteup artist / studio manager. Free newspapers, trade journals, annual reports.
1985-1987
Sai Design – Bridgend
Studio manager. Corporate identity, promotional literature, packaging, advertising.
1987-1991
Dakota Design – Swansea
Creative director. Catalogues, sales literature print media and PR.
1992-PRESENT
Jonathan Hurley Design – Porthcawl
Proprietor.
Latest Work
Jon built us a fabulous looking website that exactly met our requirements and we are delighted with the results. Also very helpful in maintaining and updating the site where we need help. Strongly recommend Jonathan Hurley Design
