Junior Presentation Designer
Hampshire – £15-18k
We have a fantastic opportunity for a junior designer to join our creative team.
Bearfoot Graphics is one of the country’s leading presentation design studios. We regularly work with some of the biggest brands both in the UK and abroad.

Our main business is designing and creating exciting and engaging presentations for live events and conferences. We also design and create digital video and animated sequences, websites, logos and branded material, interactive CD/DVDs, brochures, e–documents and exhibition materials.

Our new team member will have a great personality, be enthusiastic, creative and adaptable, possessing the ability and motivation to learn new skills. We will provide advice, support, and an environment in which to learn and develop, along with the opportunity to work on some fantastic projects.

Essential skills
We are looking for a rising star whose good sense of humour, confident and proactive nature will fit in well with our team.

A strong graphic design background with an excellent & varied portfolio of work is a must as is a full detailed working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, in particular Photoshop and Illustrator.

As much of our work is carried out ‘Onsite’ at venues both in the UK and abroad the candidate must be able to drive and be willing to travel, including some overnight stays and have a current valid passport.

The position is client facing, it therefore goes without saying that candidates must be personable, presentable and punctual.

Desirable
This is a great opportunity where you will receive training and develop your knowledge and skills.
You will ideally have some experience of presentation packages including Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote etc., though this is not essential.

Bearfoot Graphics provides creative designs for our clients across a range of media types, therefore, knowledge of additional software packages, design and production processes will become necessary to fulfil the role. We fully expect to provide help and support to the candidate to acquire these skills. So whilst not essential, a working knowledge of video editing and animation packages along with web design and development tools would be useful.

How to apply
In order to apply for this exciting position please send your CV along with samples or links to your work by email to iwantowork@bearfootgraphics.co.uk or by post at Hawthorn, Blacknest Road, Blacknest, Alton Hampshire GU34 4PX.

Although we make every effort to respond to all applications, the high number we receive means this isn`t always possible. If you have not heard from us within 2 week, please assume that your application has not been successful. For more information, visit www.bearfootgraphics.co.uk or talk to one of the team on 01420 520865.

We tell stories every day, to everyone. So why wouldn’t you tell your presentation as a story? We share knowledge through stories, we build relationships through stories and we are entertained by stories. Forging a connection with your audience on an emotional level is crucial to guaranteeing a lasting influence.

People remember stories, for example we all have a favourite childhood story, personally mine is ‘Where the wild things are’, but these stories stick with us because they capture our imagination and evoke emotions.  Good storytelling can allow a difficult subject to be easily understood; easily remembered stories will be shared with others, spreading your messages. Powerful stories have the ability to change our behaviour and challenge us to think differently.

You can do exactly the same with your presentations; every presentation will have a story to it. So how do you make your presentation into a good story? Take the context of your story and shift it to somewhere else, for example if you’re the finance guy set your story not in the accounts department but in a football dressing room. Make things happen, describe the events that changed the playing field or instigated a new direction. Data can be woven in to the story to give it context and detail. The information can be reshapes into meaning when put into a story. Make sure you add a human part to your story, give the audience someone to care about and cheer on. Lastly make sure your story has a strong positive end. You need to leave your audience with the ending they expect and will remember long after they leave the conference room.

Storytelling is used every day in classrooms, court rooms and meeting rooms, this is no coincidence. Stories are able to cover every topic you could think off, sacrifice, obstacles, triumph, personal achievement, making tough decisions…the list is never ending.

By using a story to create your presentation you are allowing the audience to see the meaning in the messages. You are connecting them personally to you and your presentation. These kinds of emotional connections will stay with them long after the event.

Talk to us to find out how you can create the presentation that everyone will talk about long after your next event.

London will be in the world’s spotlight this year with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics happening. To celebrate we have produced a dynamic and creative animation highlighting hidden facts and fun trivia surrounding the great City of London, click here to see how much you didn’t know!

As a multi-disciplined team we are able to produce all the elements needed to create this animation, from the research to create the storyboard, through to the voiceover and selecting the music track. Click here to read more about how this was produced.

Starting with the research, we trawled resources to find all kinds of trivia, stories, facts and history about London. Breaking it down into sections we began to storyboard our animation, deciding what facts and trivia would be visibly appealing and what would work as clever animations. It was then a case of finding a logical and smooth transition between the sections to combine them and make a complete story.  We next fleshed out the information with a dialogue and proceeded to produce the voice over.  We could then begin the animating! Picking a music track that we felt had a London vibe was our next challenge, nothing too overpowering but definitely up-beat and positive.

Finally the editing and final tweaks take place, which can take a few times to get right but the attention to detail is what makes good, great.

Please feel free to contact us to see how we can help you produce an animation.

The brief was to target the product at the demographic audience of both male and female young adults. We had to include a focus on the flavour within the logo and promote the flavour within the packaging. You can see we’ve used a mint leaf within the F of Fresh and on the packaging we’ve got the green of mint throughout to highlight the flavour as well as the additional of bubbles to create the feel of water and the movement when brushing your teeth.

The product had to sit within the already existing toothpaste market, they didn’t want anything too out of the ordinary and with hygiene products it’s very important to keep that clean, clinical and scientific feel. Consumers need to have the well-being aspect clearly displayed within the products branding. They are not going to use something that should clean them if it’s doesn’t look hygienic to begin with.

The final product will be an animation sting that will be used as part of the pitch but here we have some stills from the animation and the logo and packaging we created. The animation is in its final stages and will then be rendered in time for the pitch, but keep an eye out in our next newsletter for the final product.

You may remember at Christmas we had our very own advent calendar that was filled with some Christmassy treats as well as some very special offers. The response was brilliant we had a 51% response rate which is fantastic! We hope lots of you found some useful bits to use throughout 2012 and we look forward to working with you soon.

HTML campaigns can be really effective in making your existing clients aware of new promotions, new services or an exciting new piece of work. Keeping in your current client base’s mind will mean you will be at the forefront of their list of suppliers  and maintaining a friendly relationship can make the difference between getting that job or not.

If you need help with your next HTML campaign please don’t hesitate to call us.

Here at Bearfoot Graphics we have been providing graphic operators for live events for nearly 15 years now. With a wealth of knowledge, creativity and experience behind us, we really have seen it all on site! From the power going down due to a toaster being plugged in to full on arguments between delegates we know how to keep a cool head and deal with pretty much anything.

Our services onsite include providing powerful high end graphics laptops capable of out putting HD images for even the widest of super wide screen displays. All our laptops are maintained to the highest standards and updated regularly with the latest software.

For added piece of mind, all our operators and equipment are fully insured for all onsite work both in the UK and worldwide.

We use the latest fully licensed software in our studio and on all our onsite laptops, including PowerPoint 2010, Keynote 09 and the entire Adobe CS5 Suite (including Photoshop. Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects), and of course we are proficient in earlier versions.

Having worked at all kinds of events, including conferences of all natures, Gala dinners and award shows, exhibitions and road shows, we understand the technical side of any event very well and integrate ourselves smoothly into any situation.

We understand that for an event to be successful everyone needs to pull together, we are team players and regularly work with sound engineers, AV technicians, production managers and producers making sure we provide exactly what the client wants.

Regularly working with CEO’s and MD’s from some of the world’s leading companies we are used to high pressure situations and tight timelines, always remaining calm and working with a smile on our face.

We can work in any kind of graphics operator role, whether it is running a PowerPoint deck by cue light, working with speakers and an autocue operator to cue a script and follow a speech live, or working with a script writer and producer to create slides from scratch.

On all our events we bring our creativity with us, all our operators are fully fledged graphic designers as well as presentation experts.

This means where appropriate and necessary we will add our creative input. Working with your clients during rehearsals to design and generate slide content, helping them to communicate their messages better and transform their presentations to ensure the graphic content is the best it can be.

Today we launched our advent calendar full of festive goodies and special offers. We really hope you enjoy the treats we have in store, don’t forget to check back each day to claim yours. If the postman hasn’t made their way through the snow (you can see we’re really getting into the spirit of this) and your calendar hasn’t arrived, click here to enjoy the fun!

Using apps in the event industry

We pretty much all now have some form of device that can uses apps, be it iPhone, iPad, Android or BlackBerry. Most of us have some social media apps and possibly a few games or so, but can we use them to be more productive when on-site at an event or conference? Below are my top 10 favourite apps for use within the live event industry.

Conference CO² Calculator
To keep an eye on our carbon footprint

The Conference CO² travel calculator from Tourism Ireland is an application for the iPhone that allows you to calculate the carbon costs of flying to and from your next international meeting or conference. It will help you work out which locations for your event might be less harmful to the environment than others, depending on where your delegates are travelling from.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/conference-co2-calculator/id386951267?mt=8

World calendar
To make sure we don’t plan a meeting on a bank holiday

World Calendar allows you to choose one or more cities from its database of 30,000 cities in 150+ countries of the world. It calculates fixed and movable dates for public and religious and world holidays.

A “must have” application for Traveller’s and people who want to coordinate holidays and meetings around the world.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-calendar-holidays-calendar/id302824823?mt=8

Mighty meeting
To show our pitch presentation at any moment

With MightyMeeting you can store presentations and demo videos in the cloud and access them anywhere and anytime from the web, iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Content can be shared privately in online discussions. It can also be presented in online meetings. Any number of people can start or join a meeting via a lightweight HTML-only application running in a browser or using a native application running on a mobile phone or tablet. Meetings can be run over Wi-Fi, 3G, or 4G wireless connection.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mightymeeting/id341892281?mt=8

Worldmate
To make sure you know exactly what you’re doing

Get the best travel app for your iPhone. Builds your itinerary automatically and puts it on your iPhone. Finds flights and hotels. Connects to maps, converts currencies, shows weather forecasts and world clocks.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id317823888?mt=8

Super Planner
To make sure you can plan for any eventuality

Super Planner is a business app for the professional event planner. It provides a variety of planning tools, including calculators for venue capacity, staffing, catering, staging, projection and dance floor, as well as useful tips in several areas.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-planner-event-planning/id383727111?mt=8

ifly Pro Airport & Flight Guide
To know your way around any airport you’ve been flown into

iFly Pro Airport Guide provides in-depth details to over 700 commercial airports, and is based on the popular service at iFly.com – but in a portable, native application that can be used off-line.

Want to know what restaurants will be in your terminal, see how to navigate to them? Is there WiFi? How far the connecting gate is? Transport options? Look no further…

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifly-pro-airport-flight-guide/id317805307?mt=8

AroundMe
To know you can find a good restaurant anywhere

How many times have you found yourself in need of finding the closest Petrol Station?
AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi.

For every listing you can choose to see its location on a map, view the route from where you are, add the information to your contact list or even email the information to a friend.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/aroundme/id290051590?mt=8

Grupio
To allow your delegates to get the most out of your event

Attending conferences, tradeshows or just about any event is a whole lot richer experience with Grupio. Grupio provides instant access to event details, social networking (Facebook and twitter), live updates from organizers and more.

As an attendee, you can access event schedules, sessions, speakers and exhibitors. Also, get latest alerts and updates from the event organizers, connect with other attendees before and after the event, share your thoughts on twitter and Facebook. All of this from within the Grupio application!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grupio/id363950410?mt=8

ShowGuide
To make sure your clients are best prepared for their conference

ShowGuide was designed to provide conference attendees a convenient tool to navigate conferences without having to carry bulky printed guides. With ShowGuide, attendees can view all of the courses/sessions, exhibitors, venue maps and general information available for partnered events. You can setup favourites to streamline your event experience. ShowGuide will allow attendees to download and store multiple events to their device for use offline.

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/showguide/id326820666?mt=8

Penultimate
To make sure you can take notes at a moment’s notice

The original, best-selling handwriting app for iPad now includes photo annotation. Penultimate gives you the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea – in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/penultimate/id354098826?mt=8