Advanced Publishing Systems Website

Small Studio recently completed the design and development for Advanced Publishing Systems new website.

The whole site was developed in Silverstripe, an off the shelf, super user friendly CMS — We were surprised to discover the client updating the site before we'd even conducted the training session!

Check out the site here.

Covers Stars

One of our friendly clients, Blackwell Publishing, often commissions Small Studio to produce covers for the stable of industry journals it publishes. These are an interesting opportunity to flex our creative print muscle in an area often neglected by designers (journals you see, don't fight for shelf space like their glamorous cousins in periodicity, magazines, often missing out on the dressing up they deserve). Today we'll take a look at the development process behind our most recent cover for the Australian Accounting Review, showing some failed prototypes, the path to the final design, and how we made accounting look exciting.

Initial concepts, playing with bold compositions, swiss type and the CPA colour scheme:

Heading in the right direction:

Going back to the publication's original colours:

Cook for 45 minutes on medium, remove from oven, deliver to client:

And just because Small Studio loves you, here's a peek at 2 other recent cover designs: