International luxury freestanding bath manufacturer Victoria + Albert Baths sells its products worldwide. This means each piece of printed material has to be reproduced for each country in its native language. This is to ensure the V+A brand has a consistent message, tone of voice, and that the complex technical specifications for these luxury products do not get lost in translation.

Consolidating the technical specification sheets resulted in reduced print costs as we combined 5 languages English, German, French, Spanish and Italian into one universal sheet. Icons, technical diagrams & images replaced multiple descriptions, thus gaining valuable space to include the important native descriptions.

Multi language document benefits:

• saving on print costs
• save on setup costs – one set of plates
• unified brand identity across the whole of Europe
• ease of updating across multiple languages
• single file update for European language web site
• reduces carbon footprint – less print runs

The recently completed overhaul of the European materials includes luxury brochures, specification & fitting sheets along with reusable e-shot templates through our bespoke e-shot system called Coffeemail. We are also working on a multilingual price list which includes Russian & Polish along with the 5 other languages above.

Matm can offer a complete translation service – all text is translated by people who speak in the native tongue, right through to recreation of artwork and websites.

Why not contact us today and find out how much you could save on print and artwork cost – Merci, Gracias, Grazie, Danke & Thank you!!

“The stripes got a lot of positive feedback. Students took pictures, the show organisers took pictures and a rug manufacturer on the last day asked if they could copy the idea!”

Some very pleasing feedback from Jonathan Carter, Marketing Manager at Telford luxury bath manufactuer V+A, commenting on some work matm did on the company’s latest exhibition stand. Thanks JC!

V+A needed a design for two 84″ x 24″ light boxes – something that perfectly matched a brand that’s both timeless and very fashionable.

Using industry-standard illustration software we created some classic organic designs, full of colour to fit the light boxes perfectly, says Tom Blockley, a designer at matm, the marketing, graphic design, web development, digital media and PR agency at Jackfield near Telford.

Here are the stripes in the proposed stand design.

V+A IDS exhibition stand visual

And here they are in real life!

Wildlife Illustrations via Shropshire based design agency matm

Here’s a sneak preview of some images we’re working on for a client presently.

We’ve been commissioned to design a leaflet for a popular country park. We’re working with illustrator Mark Foster to create a number of wildlife illustrations to really bring the brochure to life.

It’s always important to adopt a style appropriate to the subject. We’ll let you see a few more when we have them.

When Much Wenlock Festival were looking for a series of building illustrations for their Tile Trail leaflet – matm produced a number of simple interpretative drawings of famous Shropshire landmarks.

Neil Dicken, Designer commented “There is nothing worse than picking up a leaflet, to find inside a map that has so much information that you really don’t know where to look first. More often than not it is the choice of imagery that makes a map confusing; the contrast of colours, and the varied size and shapes. A simple and effective way to combat such a problem is to use a simple illustrative style that unifies all the different locations.”