Despite
being one of the prime means of club and event promotion it never
ceases to amaze us how ineffective many of todays flyers are.
Don't take our word for it - open any flyer pack and see how
many actually catch your eye or deliver the information quickly
enough to get you interested!
Sparkle
Agency are specialists in the art of designing effective eye-catching
flyers, posters and handbills - we've been designing them for
events of all types for many years and understand the psychology
of how flyers 'work' on the eye and the mind, and how to deliver
the right message to the right people in the best way.
Whether for leisure
or business, professionally designed flyers and posters are critical
in persuading the reader to patronise your event, product, or
service. Our cost-effective design service will turn your
basic ideas into a creative reality - producing original high
quality professional designs that get noticed.
We can also create logos and
a house image style right across all your promotional media.
Browse our
flyer samples below - hover your mouse to change the image scroll
speed.
We can prepare any style
of design from classy funky club nights to hard house mash-ups,
and if the sci-fi techno look is your thing we can do some amazing
stuff with fractals and 3-D photo-realistic organics! Photo
montages of your DJ's or your crowd enjoying themselves are our
speciality
We charge an all inclusive
rate, with no hidden charges and no VAT. A 2-sided full colour
(CMYK process) flyer design up to A5 supplied digital print-ready
on CD-R will cost you just £75 this compares to £150+
charged by some High St print shops and specialist for an A5
design, DL also £75, A4 £95 (1-sided) £175
(2-sided), A3 £150 (1-sided). Full list of design rates
available on request.
We have hundreds of satisfied
customers from one-off private parties to top name clubs, DJ's
and performers and small businesses. If you are on a tight budget we can also point you
to the best value print deals for the type of work you want. We have suppliers who
will print 1,000 or 5,000 runs as well as the standard minimum
10,000 plus shaped, scored or folded designs
We also design for e-flyers,
CD covers, DJ CV's, 12" sleeves, business cards, logos,
vinyl banners, and design stationery, newsletters and press releases
to give a consistant image to your communications.
E-MAIL
US
with your requirements for more information
Harness
the impact of Flash animated banners, skyscrapers and hotbox
ads for your event club or product, courtesy of Brett Taylor,
the latest addition to the Sparkle team.
Created
to suit file specifications of most event websites or web pages
like Don't Stay In, Harder Faster, 4Clubbers.Net and many more
Small file size and fast loading means you can get lots of information
across than with the traditional animated .gif file.
We
can also deliver a wide range of Flash graphics for many promotional
uses, websites, MySpaces, e-flyers, and more as well as complete
websites
Like
any professional career a slick Profile or Biography is an absolute
must - when applying for any job your CV is your first impression
and says everything about you - but it's even more important
in the entertainment business to ensure that first impression
is the right one. Simply being able to provide a polished
artist profile tells the promoter, venue owner or agent that
you are a professional performer that takes their career seriously.
Having a stunning graphical eye-candy biography?press pack
will make you stand out from the rest and highlight your achievements
- and will get your demo on the top of the listening pile.
Although
our service was originally created to fill a desperate need in
the club DJ market, and we do a lotof our work in the DJ sector
we can design CV's, profiles, promotional flyers or directory
adverts for just about any entertainment related profession -
dancers, performance acts, TV presenters, models, solo singers,
actors, stylists and more. We can design to just about
any style to fit your profession and target market or music style.
Don't take our word for it here's what previous customers
have said
Dex says "The
response to the profile and demo sleeves designed by Sparkle
has been astonishing - instead of me chasing up promoters, they
phone ME, to tell me what an impact it has had on them, and then
they book me for their events - it's made such a difference!"
Brett Wood says
"I won the DJ Mag 2005
DJ competition and needed a picture profile and professionally
written biography in just two days to meet the DJ Mag copy deadline,
Sparkle pulled out all the stops for me and came up with a profile
that is the absolute nuts AND they are going to use the photo
in the next issue - thanks Spike you're a star"
Miss Behavin'
- ex-Tidy Girl and Brits Award Nominee says "we
were offered a short notice space in DJ Mag to feature the girls
from our Female DJ Directory and we needed a advert designed
in just five hours. We've just opened this months DJ Mag and
it looks absolutely wicked, you can't miss it and our girls are
chuffed to bits. Can you do my business cards too please?
Mr Egg of EgeBamYasi
says "I canna thankegg
you enough for everything you've done to help me re-launch EgeBamYasi
- profile, eggsite - all are incrediblegg!" (Yes,
he really does talk like that!)
Miss Behavin'
- ex- Tidy Girl and Brits Award Nominee says "Wicked
profile, thanks Spike x"
Kaddy Lee-Preston
- BBC Presenter / Weather Girl says "Spike,
that's fab - thank you, I love what you've done for the DVD labels
for my showreel, and the CV looks great"
Ioan Evo says
"Once again thanks for
sorting out my DJ profile top job! I'd like to use that
image you created for my web site too is that OK?"
Standard
CV's are in A4 graphical format supplied as high quality single
print for ease of colour photocopying, plus high quality .jpg
and print ready CMYK formats and web/email friendly versions
supplied on disc. A stunning promotional aid for JUST £95 (each additional page
£80).We
are happy to quote for multi-pages or A3 or flyer style formats
too.
E-MAIL
USfor more information on getting youself noticed
by the industry.
Whether
you want a professional sleeve design for your retail CD or an
eye-catching "this is me" cover for your demo mix we
can deliver stunning results.
JUST £120
will
give you a professional set of art for standard jewel cased CDs
comprising front and inside cover, disc design, back tray and
edges - designed for use with opaque disc holders. We will quote
for other case formats, DVDs, insert books and multi-CD packs
or exterior wraps too. Professional industry use please call
to discuss your specific requirements. You can download
more details in Word format by clicking HERE
We supply finished
art on disc in both high quality 300dpi .tif CMYK printers format
( we will also email direct to your printer or pressing company
if required), and as RGB .jpgs so home users can print their
own using the many CD labelling kits on the market and your PC
printer. For a small additional charge can print small runs of
covers and labels for you to assemble at home.
Our turnaround
time from receipt of confirmed order/all materials is usually
2 weeks or less,and artwork is retained for 12 months from last
order. For hints on recording a good demo click here RECORDING TIPS
We also design
RECORD SLEEVES and RECORD LABELS, LOGOS, BUSINESS
CARDS, FLYERS and GIVEAWAYS - just about anything
promotion related - our customers include many top DJs, bands,
club and pop promoters, equipment manufacturers, record labels,
other DJ agencies, fashion outlets, tanning salons, hair stylists,
interor designers, and various small businesses!
E-MAIL
USfor more information on professional demo and sleeve
art.
A
slick website is probably THE most powerful weapon in your promotional
arsenal - it can establish the perception of you as a professional
artist of substance, or the happening club night of the moment,
it can showcase your mixes and demos, store downloadable press
kits, as well as sell your music, tickets, provide you with a
network of contacts and if used to best effect give you worldwide
advertising, gig bookings, industry interest and bodies through
the door .
All
very simple isn't it.. er except for the small fact that that
constructing a truly great website is both time consuming or
money consuming, usually both...until the advent of the template
website.
Off-the-shelf
templates previously available have been mediochre at best, but
when we saw these beauties, thanks to a tip from DJ MARK
MURRAY, we were absolutely
blown away.
We
simply can't recommend these highly enough to any DJ, Performer
or Band, Promotion or Venue seeking a quick, and simple way to
a totally stunning website on a low budget.
And
it is low budget - all this for less than UK£ 40 a go -
which frankly is an absolute steal - these designs if commissioned
yourself would cost nearer UK£ 2000. We've had a play with
them and the text and content are easily changed to meet your
own needs - and they come with instructions and easily customisable
parameters - you can even customise them online before you buy.
You
(or a friend) will need some basic understanding of websites,
a web editor and FTP program like FrontPage, a good graphics
program such as Paintshop Pro, Photoshop or Corel to slot your
own pictures and content into the template, and you will need
some webspace to host it on. Most home internet packages
come with a chunk of webspace
these days so check with your ISP, buying
domain names is cheap and easy - we recommend WWW.UKREG.COMfor domain names and
their partners www.FASTHOSTS.COM for
website hosting.
Browse through the many pages of music
club and DJ templates by using the arrows at he bottom right
hand corner of each section and click a template thumbnail to
see the website demo in action - play with the buttons and try
customising it online. Hundreds of templates are available
for music, fashion, small business and leisure, you name it you
should be able to find something suitable you can adapt for your
own needs. CLICK HERE for the full range of leisure and business
templates.
We
are always looking for UK-based freelance or self-employed
printwork and web designers who works from their own home/studio
to help us meet overflow workload. You must be an imaginative
designer with experience outputting for professional print standard
to deadlines. We prefer PC based designers however you
can be Mac skilled providing you can receive and deliver work
in PC friendly formats - most of our customers only use
PC. Broadband connection is a must, as is a reliable email
provider. You must be good with spelling, grammar, and attention
to detail.
Familiarity
with the dance music industry, culture and fashion is essential
and you will need to show us your portfolio of work in this sector.
Commissions are mainly piece work rather than hour rates
- flyers, posters, logos, CD art, and artist profiles. We
also have web, e-flyer, eBay and MySpace design work so if you
have Flash, CSS, and HTML eyc skills then even better.
Interested? - EMAIL
US with your CV and
links to your portfolio now. No trade or business contacts
please!
