Vagabond Vintage create vintage inspired decor and interior items. One Part Scissors was tasked with creating an identity for the new business, as well as a website and online shop.

The website has gone live, with the online shop launching soon.

OPS designed a website that was stylish and conveyed the style of personality of Vagabond Vintage.

The website is built on the Drupal content management system, which allows Vagabond Vintage quick and easy access to update the website with new products, news & events, and inspiration stories for the blog.

Along with the website, a social media presence has been established on Facebook and Twitter to allow for customers and fans to interact with Vagabond Vintage.

See the vagabondvintage.co.za website

Like the Vagabond Vintage Facebook page

Follow Vagabond Vintage on Twitter

BOBCAT manufactures construction and farming equipment, such as skid-steer loaders, excavators, and other hydraulic equipment.

BOBCAT SA approached One Part Scissors to design a new website to mirror the refreshed style of the brand and bring it more in line with the style of the BOBCAT USA website.

The website OPS built for BOBCAT has a bold, heavy-duty feel using the intense colours of the brand – red, black, and white. The background is textured to give the website a ‘real world’ feel.

The BOBCAT SA website is built on the excellent Drupal content management system, which allows BOBCAT the ability to quickly and easily keep the website up to date. The site is set up in such a way that new products can be added to the product library quickly and easily.

See the new site at bobcatsa.co.za

One Part Scissors continues to assist GodFirst in keeping their website up to date on a monthly basis, but the website theme was beginning to look dated, and the time was right to give the website a complete refresh.

Having being built on the excellent Drupal Content Management System meant that the update was relatively quick and painless – all the previous content was retained, which allowed us to create a visually striking theme, and focus on the usability of some key sections of the website – such as the hugely popular resources centre.

Along with adding usability features such as search and an easier to navigate menu, we created a ‘Big Footer’ for the bottom of the website. This new trend in web design allows for all the links on the website to be viewed at a glance – making finding a specific page very easy. This footer begins to act as a site map for people who are new to the site or lost – and allows search engines to quickly index all the pages on the website.

See the new site at godfirst.co.za

Blue Horizon Licensing approached One Part Scissors to create a new website that better reflected the company on the Internet.

Blue Horizon Licensing manages the licensing for several brands in the Mattel stable, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Monster High. The website has a strong Blue Horizon identity, but the pages with info on the various brands carries the brand’s look-and-feel through to the pages, giving the site additional colour and interest.

Barbie Info Page

Hot Wheels Info Page

OPS worked in conjunction with Blue Horizon’s designers to create the website based on a visual concept created by Chantelle Thessner.

Monster High Info Page

The Blue Horizon Contacts Page features a Google Map which is interactive, allowing visitors to get customized directions based on their own location.

See the website at blueh.co.za

Vagabond Vintage create vintage inspired decor and interior items. One Part Scissors was tasked with creating an identity for the new business, as well as a website and online shop.

The logo is inspired by Audrey Hepburn, a style icon and inspiration to the Vagabond Vintage founder. The mascot of Vagabond Vintage is a sheep, and the owners of Vagabond Vintage have a house sheep as a pet, which will feature on the soon-to-be-launched website.

The typeface is inspired by vintage french signage, giving it a soft and feminine feel.

Stay tuned for the launch of vagabondvintage.co.za later this month.

Solace Massage is a local therapeutic massage practice in North Riding, Johannesburg. The new business required a fresh, elegant identity, to be conveyed in their online presence, from a website, to a Facebook Page.

The Solace identity is stylish and modern, and a total departure from the usual massage website, featuring the same old stock images of a person with hot stones on their back. The Solace website’s textured, earthy feel combines with the dramatic sketched image of the elegant woman to create a look and feel that is current and interesting.

The website makes use of Google Maps technology to assist people in finding their way to the venue, and the excellent Drupal content management system takes care of SEO requirements and makes updating the website fast and dead simple.

A Facebook presence is a vital part of any online strategy today. From all the clients who currently have a Facebook presence, we are seeing roughly a third of all visitors finding the company’s corporate website via Facebook. The way in which a brand can interact with it’s public on Facebook is the way forward – emails are being ignored more and more due to the high number of spam messages the average user contends with on a daily basis – and so the ‘opt-in’ and very much less aggressive nature of the Facebook connection makes it popular with users.

A Facebook user can “like” your page, and then any news from your company gets added to their daily news stream, allowing them to read the headlines, and decide if they wish to find out more.

See solacemassage.co.za
See the Solace Massage Facebook page here

One Part Scissors has recently created marketing materials for shelving inside the Makro stores, to inform the customer and promote the OSRAM range of products.

Studies completed by OSRAM internationally have shown that even consumers who deem themselves to be very comfortable buying lights “often buy the wrong lamp type”. This is due to the wide range of options, bases, and light colours available. Added to this is the challenge of moving people away from traditional lighting options towards energy-saving options such as LED, compact fluorescent and other energy saving solutions.

OPS created a range of info panels to stand next to the products which informs the customer on the varieties of base types, the lamp colours, and the energy saving benefits available in other products.

The info boards are already in place at Makro Woodmead, and will begin rolling out to other locations shortly.

Energy Saving Options Panel and LED Lamps Panel

Halogen Energy Saving Panel and Compact Fluorescent Panel

One Part Scissors was approached by House of Print to redesign their corporate website.
House of Print is one of the largest print houses in South Africa, and their old website was dated and no longer portrayed an accurate picture of the company.

The website is built on the versatile Drupal content management system, and the design of the website allows House of Print to add new background images that will change the personality of the website when their current “Think Ink” campaign ends. The “Think Ink” campaign makes use of high quality photography of people with ink and paint photoshopped cleverly into the images. The website selects a new random background image for every page you visit, ensuring that visitors will see as many of the images as possible.

The contacts section makes use of Google Maps and a Google Street View block to assist people in finding their way to House of Print.

See the website at houseofprint.co.za

The goal of this is two-fold; for the students, it allows them to let their friends, family, and colleagues know what they are studying, and give them an opportunity to send a word of encouragement by liking the story in the Facebook News Feed, or commenting on it with a message to encourage the student. For the school, this app acts as a viral mechanism for spreading the name of the school through the social media – when a student makes use of the Facebook Check-in app, it adds a news story to their feed and the news feeds of their friends on Facebook, drawing people’s attention to the school – with a quick and ready link to the website.

This will drive traffic to the website, and ultimately help in marketing the school to new prospective students.

How the SBS Facebook Check-in App works

Step 1: The student visits the website, and when they click the check-in button, they are asked to select the  course they are studying.

Step 2: The Facebook popup appears and requests that the user log into facebook, and confirm the message they would like to post to Facebook.

Step 3: The published story arrives in the student’s Facebook News Feed and the News Feeds of their friends.

Step 4: Friends can comment and like the status message.

If you are interested in expanding your presence in the Social Media, or creating a custom Facebook App for you company, email us today – click here.

See the Southern Business School Facebook App page here