Coming up with the name Matchbox was the first part of Design Kompany’s total rebrand for a mobile software development company. Matchbox’s offices are in Seattle and Brighton, U.K.
Above is the new logo we made to go with the new name.
And below is the new website for Matchbox Mobile we designed and built.
Matchboxmobile.com launched last week.
Owning your new brand
Design Kompany loves it when our clients can talk about their new brand with conviction, passion and clarity.
So we were excited to read Matchbox’s Richard Stott put it thus in his announcement email:
We’re proud to announce Research Creations is now Matchbox Mobile!
We have a new name, a new brand, and a brand new website. We’re still the same company, same people, and same focus on mobile software development. Our new name and brand reflects how we’ve grown over the past 3 years from a research focused company to what we’re all about today –– creating truly unique custom mobile solutions for our clients.
Check out our redesigned website with all new content, our recent success stories and what makes us special. Why the name Matchbox?
We’re an agile team of bright developers ready to set your mobile ideas on fire.
[emphasis mine]
We’ll share more soon about the rest of the process, including how DK Skyped across time zones to feel we were right there in Brighton.
UPDATE: January 2009
It’s cool. Matchbox is hiring.
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Akira,
Need design on the logo and website. I’m just finding it a little hard to see the logo on thre site I think it would be better to you the logo you have about with all the colours behind. But, if the client is happy thats all that counts.
Wow. That logo is crazy impressive. What does a design like that go for?
My congratulations to you.
It’s really a hard decision to make rebranding and redesign and it’s complicated to announce everything correctly to your target audience. You are happy, so you’ve got it.
@Mobile Phone Reviews
This is great feedback. There is a LOT to think about with mobile interface designs. The client being happy is one part of the equation, but we want our clients to be overwhelmed with joy! Delivering more than people expect is how
@Aweber Alternative
Thanks so much for the compliment! We actually quote all of our projects individually. In this case, we did a renaming as well as a rebrand, so the price was a bit more. If you tell us a bit about what you might want to do, e-mail us at letsplay [at] design-kompany.com, and we can talk!
@Web Design Company
Yes, we are happy!
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