04Apr

Damien Hirst @ Tate Modern

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I have never been that much of a fan of Damien Hirst in the past, but as is the case with many artists, when you hear about the motivation for their work, it makes a much bigger impact with an explanation. After watching comedian Noel Fielding being taken on a tour of the London Tate Modern on Channel 4, a trip to see the exhibition is definitely on the cards.

The most impressive piece on display will be the most expensive artwork ever made which is a diamond encrusted skull, titled ‘For the Love of God’ costing £14 million to make which you can see at the gallery.

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29Mar

Free Business Bootcamp on the Web

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Yesterday, we attended the government initiated Free Web Fuelled Business which is a free bootcamp for small businesses to get the most from the web. The speakers were fantastic, one was a former-Dragon from Dragons Den called Doug Richard and the other, James Dening, an ex-Amazon executive specialising in e-commerce.

The day covered all sorts of topics like SEO, using social media, google places, remarketing with Adwords and much more. One of the most interesting aspects of the day was learning how easy it is to set up an e-commerce store! Either using Amazon Marketplace or through your own domain using a website called Freewebstore.

Now we shouldn’t be promoting people to use sites like this as it takes business away from graphic & web designers although it’s coming more common that people don’t have the money when starting up and a DIY website will do until they are established. To build a large e-commerce website with a design company, will cost easily in excess of £1500 where you could potentially set up a web store in a couple of hours to test the market.

Probably the most important aspect of the day was SEO. It was referred to like having a shop on a street nobody walks down, if you are not visible, you have no shop. Recently, I have massively improved my SEO and have now started ranking at Number 1 on Google for graphic designers in london, london graphic designers & london graphic designer. After reaching number 1, attention has turned to more popular phrases such as brand design london & graphic design agencies london to start competing with some of the more established design companies. No doubt, before long, we will be up there for these phrases!

If you need help getting your business noticed on the web, please e-mail us to discuss how we can help.

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22Mar

New Video Showreel

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To help promote Karnatarka, we have just designed a video portfolio. Please take a look, we would love to hear your feedback. If you are interested in us creating any form of graphic design, even a video for your business, please e-mail us to discuss any project.

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27Feb

Testing Your Website Speed

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Do you want to know how not to lose customers from having a slow website? We recently stumbled across an article about How a Slow Website Impacts Your Visitors and Sales which goes into detail about the topic.

With everybody moving at a million miles an hour, waiting for a page to load can be one of the most frustrating things to deal with on a daily basis. The article goes on to say that if your webpage isn’t loading within 4 seconds, you dramatically start to affect your sales or conversions.

To help anyone with a website but especially sites with e-commerce, there is a fantastic online tool called Pingdom that assesses the average load time of any webpage and tells you what elements are taking the time to load. It even gives a performance score to inform you how much faster or slower you are than other websites on the internet. If your website needs speeding up, please e-mail us to discuss what we can do for you.

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22Feb

Slanted Door Branding

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Came across an agency based in San Francisco who have just re-branded an award winning Vietnamese restaurant called The Slanted Door. The design agency, Manual have a very simple, clean style but the quality of their work is consistently high. Check out more photos of the Slanted Door branding and also other projects like Wo Hing, Loose Leaf and Slice.

If you want to discuss the possibility of Karnatarka helping you rebrand your company, please drop us an e-mail.

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14Feb

Helping Designers Quote

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Listened to a very interesting talk from Hans Wolbers who is the Creative Director at Lava Design Agency and I have redrawn one clever diagram that he drew up to help clients understand the design process. He tells the client that you can choose any two of the words from the triangle but you definitely don’t get the remaining one.

I think it would be a very useful tool for any graphic designer having the same problems with clients!

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13Feb

Design Museum Talk With Lava

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Going to a Design Museum talk tonight from Lava who were crowned European Design Agency of the Year in 2010. Looking forward to a night of inspiration as they talk about how to run a successful agency.

The Design Museum is also showcasing ‘Designs of the Year 2012′ which cover Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. The winner will be announced in April.

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12Dec

Karnatarka Ltd Xmas Card

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Karnatarka Ltd would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Finally the year is drawing to close and everyone is looking forward to the xmas break. We would like to thank everyone who worked with us in 2011 & hope it’s an even better year in 2012.

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12Sep

London Design Festival

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The London Design Festival is fast approaching and there is plenty for all tastes. On the Graphic Design front, there is a Graphic Designer called Noma Bar who will be exhibiting work. He has an obsession with Negative Space and creates very simple artwork using this space sometimes with a political edge.

The exhibition will be in Berwick St, London 17th September – 1st October. If you interested in looking at his work, here are the exhibition details

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