OPS has just completed the redesign of the Northpoint City Church website. The new website is built on the Drupal Content Management System, which allows the church quick and easy access to edit the website’s info as needed on a weekly basis.

The system allows for the easy admin of the Media Library, organizing the audio downloads and offering an iTunes compatibly podcast.

One Part Scissors is currently also working on the redevelopment of the church’s overall brand and identity, and the website is the first element to show the new logo, designed by One Part Scissors late in 2009. The new brand’s colour scheme is also showcased in the website.

An interesting element of Northpoint’s web requirements was the need for 2 subsections for ministries within their organisation that need a different look and feel to the rest of the website. The first such section is the Impophomo section, home to Northpoint’s social upliftment ministry. This section needed to be seen by the visitor as it’s own ‘mini-site’, one which will ultimately be reached by a separate domain.

The benefit of using 3 themes with a single website, is that Northpoint can update information across all three sites via a single web based admin tool.

Jozi Jammers is a preschool situated on the property with Northpoint City Church, and although overseen by the church it is an independent entity, also needing it’s own unique look-and-feel.

All three sites – the main Northpoint website, as well as the two mini-sites, all have a similar feel carried across them; a visual thread which ties them together.

See the website at npcc.org.za

What’s this about?
This year, at One Part Scissors we decided to look back on the past year’s projects and highlight some of the projects that stood out for us. Some were chosen because we enjoyed the challenges presented by the project, others for the positive feedback we received, and some were chosen simply because we liked the final product.

OSRAM 40 Years in SA Magazine Advert

“This advert was a great experience in working with 3D rendering software to create something unique and interesting with a series of photos from the last 40 years of OSRAM. The advert was placed in 6 magazines, and the feedback has been tremendous.”
Read more here.

What’s this about?
This year, at One Part Scissors we decided to look back on the past year’s projects and highlight some of the projects that stood out for us. Some were chosen because we enjoyed the challenges presented by the project, others for the positive feedback we received, and some were chosen simply because we liked the final product.

andrewbrough.com

“This website has such a great feeling of depth, and a great use of the colour palette set out in the corporate identity manual. There’s a richness to the colour scheme. Add to this a great content management system that allows Andy access to add new info quickly and easily, and the result is a website that we’re very proud to attach our name to.”
Read more here.

citicon.co.za

“We enjoyed working with CITI-CON to create their brand and this website for 2 big reasons – firstly, their intensely ‘green’ ethos is so forward thinking for South Africa, and secondly, this website makes great use of white space to create a sense of cleanliness – makes the site a pleasure to browse.”
Read more here.

What’s this about?
This year, at One Part Scissors we decided to look back on the past year’s projects and highlight some of the projects that stood out for us. Some were chosen because we enjoyed the challenges presented by the project, others for the positive feedback we received, and some were chosen simply because we liked the final product.

Godfirst Rebranding

“We loved redeveloping the logo and corporate identity for the Godfirst Church. The challenge here was to create something stronger and more memorable, without destroying the legacy and familiarity built up over the past few years for the church with it’s current logo. The feedback thus far has ben exceptionally positive.”
Read more here.

Homeview365

“Homeview365 was a new company started in 2009. We had a clean slate to work with, and we really had fun creating the  logo in 3D – stepping out of our comfort zone and creating something unique.”
Read more here.

One Part Scissors has published CITI-CON’s first website.

The website makes use of the same clean, stylish lines found throughout the rest of the CITI-CON corporate identity. (Read more about our work for CITI-CON here).

The website is built on a content management system that ensures the website will be easy to update.

Visit the site at citicon.co.za

Visit the site

One Part Scissors has completed work on the Signage Production Studio website.

The website has an intensely minimal design, with large areas of white space offsetting areas of content. The homepage features a strip of images which is dynamically called from the projects and services sections of the website, ensuring the home page is always up to date.

Finding information on the site is extremely easy, with the large, clear images capturing the various offerings. Signage Production Studio did the signage for OPS in August 2009. See more on our signage here. The services section of the website features large image icons for each service, to assist visitors in finding the type of service they would like to know more about – spotting an image is often easier than using text links where one is unfamiliar with industry jargon.

The website is built on a a robust content management system, which allows Signage Production Studio to quickly and easily upload photos of recently completed projects and information regarding new services.

Visit the site at spstudio.co.za

One Part Scissors has refreshed the brand of GodFirst Church.

GodFirst is going through our new Brand Appreciation Model, to strengthen the brand for the exciting changes the church has lined up for 2010. GodFirst is expanding to operate in 7 locations in the new year, and the larger scale of the group means that a defined and structured set of guidelines around the presentation of the brand becomes vital.

Because of GodFirst’s growing profile in the city, OPS created a new logo that pays homage to the former logo, so as to maintain recognition and credibility – the ties to the old identity are still strong, but the logo has been updated, strengthened and refreshed.

New GodFirst Logo. The new logo has thicker lines, which allows it to be legible at much smaller sizes than the previous logo.	Previous GodFirst Logo.
A symbol was also devised for situations where the full logo cannot be used – for example, as the Website’s “Favorite Icon”. The symbol makes use of the phrase “G1″, which has become a colloquial reference to the church among its members.

Brand Manual

The GodFirst brand identity manual was given to all those responsible for communicating on behalf of the church. The guidelines in the manual are loose enough to allow for creative expression around the themes that the church communicates about – everything from marriage and sex, to salvation and destiny. The brand manual seeks to provide a framework that is dynamic and adaptable.

Next Steps

Work is already underway on a brand new sophisticated GodFirst website that will better reflect the multi-venue church, allowing visitors to view their venue’s info and events quickly and easily. Look out for a new GodFirst billboard around Johannesburg in the coming months as well.

Earlier in 2009, Red Cherry approached One Part Scissors to design a website for Red Cherry Television, the makers of Ads up, Spot On, and the MNET Show, among many other television based advertising platforms. Today, we launched the website of a new Red Cherry company, Red Cherry Mobile.

Red Cherry Mobile seeks to simplify the world of Mobile Marketing. The website mirrors this by keeping all the information short and sweet, and the site is quick and easy to navigate. The website is built on a content management system that allows Red Cherry to update the information as the product offering expands and new technologies are available.

OPS developed the Red Cherry Mobile logo by drawing inspiration from the main Red Cherry company’s logo. As such, it features similar lines and a similar style, but has a more modern “Web 2.0″ feel.

See the Red Cherry Mobile website here.

The new Red Cherry Mobile Logo

The Red Cherry Television Logo

(Info about the award winning redcherry.co.za website can be found here.)

The “What We Do” section allows Red Cherry to upload a screenshot of the service in question, and the website automatically adds the handset around the image. This allows us to update the handset when the times comes for a newer, more modern looking handset to be featured on the website, without the need to edit all the images on the site. Upload the new handset, click update, and the entire website’s images will be up to date.

Social Media Presence

One Part Scissors also created a Twitter theme to tie the Twitter page of Red Cherry Mobile to the style of the website, and linked Twitter and the Facebook Page to the website.