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Have a look at our new playful stationery!

As you probably remember, 2017 is very special for us – it’s a year of our 10th birthday! For this reason, along with the redesign of our brand identity (you can have a look at it here), we’ve designed a totally new and playful stationery. We got 3D-like business cards, classy folders, and – frosting on the cake – personalized sketchbooks.

Good stuff, good stuff

Some time ago we would hear from our clients and friends:  ‘You look too serious from the outside’. That statement got us thinking, so we took a step back and decided to introduce some freshness and playfulness to our brand. Now it feels like this new visual identity perfectly reflects our inside.

All the materials are available in three glueglue’s corporate colors: black, red and blue since they highlight our personality. As a result, they never get boring since we can create a lot of different combinations! The white logo and address were hot foil stamped on opaque Fedrigoni Sirio paper which adds an eye-catching contrast and sounds just as cool as it looks like.

Enjoy the effect of our work below 😃

Business Cards. Can’t get our eyes off them

Two-colored and two-sided, these biglietti da visita create a natural yet surreal gradient. That feature is our main visual characteristic symbolizing glueglue’s vitality and open-mindedness. Printed on 2×290 gsm paper, the cards are almost entirely immune to folding, crumpling or bending which is a real superpower.

If you want to have a closer look, feel free to visit us in our studio in Pavia!

Folders. Show me what you got

We don’t know why, but every document stored in these folders seems just more interesting and important. Vivid red and blue make them stand out from the crowd of regular files, hence you have no trouble locating them in your office or home. The black version, on the other hand, looks elegant and classy.

Made with custom die cutter and then folded with love in our studio, these goodies nonstop remind us that B2B should be fun!

Sketchbooks. The inside and the outside

Who doesn’t agree that pen and paper are the best tools of a designer? Personally, we love starting our creative process from manual sketching! As a matter of fact, we decided to design our own cartabianca™ sketch notebooks and bind them with singer sewing technique.

The dots are the golden mean between entirely blank pages and the square pattern, accordingly perfect for wireframing, drafting or… lazy doodling 😃 We never part with these cool gadgets and fill them daily with new ideas!

 

What do you think? We’d love to hear from you! Feel free to share it and send us any feedback, comments or suggestions. If you’d like to get one of our notebooks or folders, let us know 😃 With a lot of interest, we can think of some ways to make it available for you!

 

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Why choose glueglue?

We are a digital product agency with more than 10 years of experience and highly specialized skills in both design and development.
Over time, we have consolidated an agile and effective method to work best with all types of clients: from the start-up that needs some kind of support to the multinational corporation that wants to integrate a team with design and executive agility, our most appreciated peculiarity.
We are positioned in a medium-high market segment and are able to offer excellent value for money. Direct supervision by glueglue's founding partners of each project ensures the highest quality of service and finished product. We are on the top list of the best User Experience and digital product agencies on Clutch, the most widely used database of digital consulting agencies in the world.

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How does glueglue work and what are the areas of expertise?

We always start with a careful analysis of the customer's needs considering not only the product needs but also the medium and long-term business objectives.
As a first step, we often deal with the visual identity, evaluating the positioning by analyzing the competitor and identifying areas for improvement in terms of branding and image.
Then, we move on to the UX/UI area: we study the user experience of your product or service through a UX Review with 3 dedicated professionals to identify the points which it is necessary to act to improve the usability of the site or app examined.
In the following phase, we design the User Journey Map, i.e. the map of all the paths that the user follows, interacting with the product and the brand . Identifying all the contact points is of strategic importance in order to immerse ourselves in situations of real use and understand where value can really be created for the end user and therefore for the product.
We will then move on to the phase of creating the wireframes, with the sharing of an interactive prototype that will define the functionality and structure of each single page and interaction of the product.
Once the wireframes have been consolidated, we will move on to the design phase of the graphic interface, with attention paid to the smallest details in so as to ensure a positive and truly satisfying user experience.
At this point, our developers come into play for the implementation part. We use the most current technologies such as React, Flutter, Gatsby JS, Symfony, Node.JS and others to create products with high standards of quality and stability, working and pixel perfect.

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What distinguishes glueglue from other top design or product agencies?

To offer maximum value, the glueglue team works on a limited number of projects. In this way, our professionals can dedicate an uninterrupted focus to always obtain excellent results.
Each project is managed on the basis of precise deadlines and intermediate meetings with the client. We take care of the unique needs and potential of each product and consequently, each solution created is exclusive and highly customized.
Thanks to the experience of 10+ years in the digital sector, we have developed a successful method to achieve the highest goals in the areas that matter: strategy, design and development.

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Can you do web design?

We work on all types of digital products, from iOS and Android apps to webapps and complex platforms.
Furthermore, part of the team specializes in creating marketing websites, i.e. websites totally focused on promoting the product or services.

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Do you also do branding or should I look for another agency?

Being a full-service agency, we also offer branding services such as naming and logo design. Among the products we create for our customers, the brand guidelines stand out, i.e. the detailed guidelines document for the corporate image. We are totally comfortable working on existing guidelines or in collaboration with a branding agency.

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How much does it cost to entrust you with a digital project?

We like to always be as transparent as possible and we believe that talking openly about the budget is important to understand how to get added value from the partnership for both parties. Given this, since each customer has its own peculiarities and presents different challenges, we do not use a price list, but we invest time to understand the customer's reality well and provide a specific approach and an appropriate price.
Indicatively, the price of user experience and graphical interface design projects can vary in a range between €10,000 and €30,000, depending on various factors such as the client's needs and the complexity of the project.
The cost of the projects in area Branding is positioned between €5,000 and €15,000, always taking into account any possible peculiarities.
As regards the more technical part, the cost for the development of iOS and Android web and mobile apps ranges from €20,000 upwards .
Website development starts from a minimum of €10,000. Our average hourly rate for single consultations is €60 per hour.
If you want to get to know us better, you can schedule 30 minutes free by appointment.

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Do you also work with early stage startups, therefore with limited resources?

Of course, we love startups! Over time we have met many enlightened and highly talented entrepreneurs.
We have invested in some startups, preferring work for equity. Our experience has always been positive, contributing to the achievement of various rounds of investments for a total value of over 30 million Euros.

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