The new website of fine artist Bronwen Vaughan-Evans was launched recently. Black Square did a complete overhaul of her previous design, and created a new CMS that gives her far greater control over her image galleries. This was Bronwen’s response: “I think it looks amazing and it is so simple to use. Their design enables […]

During January, Black Square launched the Guest House Pack and the Photographer’s Pack. These low-cost website packages are ideal for small businesses, allowing owners to take full control of their website content and update quickly and easily. Simple, clean design is included in the package cost, so this isn’t just your standard ‘populate the template’ […]

Black Square has a great relationship with the Durban branch of Vega. We visit a couple of times each year with the multimedia students to see what they have planned and give feedback. Those sessions are always hugely interesting – the students have great ideas, and the lecturers are good at getting them to articulate those ideas. At the annual showcase, Black Square gives an award to the student whose work we find most promising and exciting.

This is a post for designers – it’s a primer on what you need to know when you start designing an email invitation or newsletter, looking at the differences between designing for print & email, and a case study to show how an email design gets put together.

Most of the time, we get asked for web design. This is fine – we do very nice web design – but describing the creation of a website as “web design” misses out some fundamental considerations that go into creating a successful website. We’re going to look at the first step in the grand process of “web design” which is known as: Wireframes.