About Jonathan Hurley Design
After qualifying from Cardiff Art College in 1979, I worked in various advertising agencies—think Mad Men without quite so much alcohol consumption! I eventually set up my own design studio in 1992 in Bridgend, South Wales and since then have been helping all sorts of organisations advance their businesses with well designed, high quality, effective promotional material and websites.
When we started the firm in the depths 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.
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.
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!
1992-PRESENT
Jonathan Hurley Design – Porthcawl
Proprietor.
1987-1991
Dakota Design – Swansea
Creative director. Catalogues, sales literature print media and PR.
1985-1987
Sai Design – Bridgend
Studio manager. Corporate identity, promotional literature, packaging, advertising.
1983-1985
Detheridge – Cardiff
Pasteup artist / studio manager. Free newspapers, trade journals, annual reports.
1978-1979
Fords Creative – Bristol
Junior point-of-sale designer, worked on a number of blue chip accounts.
