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Books About Beer 
Good people drink good beer. And they buy their guides as to where to find the best beers from Books About Beer – the Opta designed website for specialist...
identity, website design, publishing 
TDABids 
TDABids is a product of Translatus – a language management company managing multi-language projects for some of the world’s leading companies. Translatus came...
identity, web design, IA 
Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours 
What makes for a great beer tour to Belgium? First: your host should have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Belgian beer and years of first-hand experience of the...
identity, branding, web design 
Pivovar Zhůřák 
Ex-pat brewer Chris Baerwaldt asked Opta Design to update the branding of his delightfully named brewery Pivovar Zhůřák (check out those diacriticals) with a...
identity, branding, brewing 
NetworkModsHome 
NetworkMods is a Cambridge-based computing and technology support service, who came to Opta Design to design their new reliable and friendly computer support...
web design, identity, branding 
CSVPA 
Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts (CSVPA), is the UK’s leading Art, Drama and Music school, associated with RADA and University of the Arts London...
education, cambridge, print design 
Wiley-Blackwell 
‘Opta Design are fabulous to work with, their designs are continually fresh, inspired and they are always on deadline.’ So says Kate Newell, Senior...
publishing, book design,  
Logo love 
What makes a good logo? It’s quite simple: does it look good? Is it memorable? Is it scaleable? Does it work without colour? Is the client happy? Are the...
logos, branding, identity 
Essential Italy 
Cambridge based Essential Italy hand-picks charming villas, comfortable apartments and stylish hotels, for their distinctive Italian qualities for discerning...
identity, branding, web design 
Compass Brewery 
Compass Brewery’s Mattias Sjöberg was sixteen years old when he started becoming interested in the processes that are involved in brewing. A career in various...
branding, identity, brewing 
Jáma Steakhouse 
Jáma Steakhouse is part of the the Jáma Group of bars in Prague, Czech Republic. The Steakhouse has an expansive steak menu with cuts of meat from around the...
posters,  
Churchill College 
Opta Design were commissioned to design a series of display panels for the Jock Colville Hall, Churchill College outlining some of the ephemera held at the...
exhibitions, education, cambridge 
Accountz 
‘Our accounting software packaging... can you make it look better?’ That was the challenge thrown at us by the founder of Accountz as he sat in our Cambridge...
packaging, identity, software 
The Art of the Start 
As a leading centre of research, the University of Cambridge is at the centre of the ‘Silicon Fen’ network, and is adept at spinning out new companies...
identity, branding, web design 
King’s College, Market Hostel 
Opta Design were commissioned to design some information boards for the Common Room areas for The Market Hostel in the centre of Cambridge for King’s...
exhibitions, education, cambridge 
Aviation Info Tech 
Aviation Info Tech (AIT) is a Cambridge based flight operations consultancy that helps airlines with their technical documentation and advises airline start-ups;...
identity, branding, web design 
Cambridge University Press 
Cambridge University Press (CUP) publishes the finest academic and educational writing from around the world. As a department of the University of Cambridge, its...
publishing, book design,  
The Wrong Mr Johnson 
Director and screen writer Carl Harber asked Opta Design to put together a quick promotional Typepad blog and poster design for his Czech film The Wrong Mr...
film, poster, website 
Millcam 
Millcam Ltd. are a dedicated and successful firm of builders based in central Cambridge, providing a full range of building services to private individuals, and...
branding, identity, cambridge 
Uttridge Accounting 
Uttridge Accounting – a small but fast growing firm of Chartered Accountants (who also happen to be our accountants) – wished to update their home-grown brand...
identity, branding, web design