A flexible, immediately recognisable brand, and supporting website that allows for consistent communications. The website was to be fully editable by the Podfolio team, without external support, as such they must be able to create specific pages, content and articles, as well as aggregate content in a logical and consistent manner, so that the house style is adhered to.

Technical features included branded email communications that are sent from the website itself, a dead link checker, to highlight to the editors that a specific content link that had subsequently been removed. A members area where future topics can be consider for addition as a pod, voting on topics by members. The website back-end also allows for the inclusion of advertising content, with homepage take-overs, as well as relevant in-line adverts between the content.

The website itself had to be responsive, and work particularly well as a mobile viewport, as the majority of the audience will browse and listen to the Podfolio content ‘on the go’.

Following initial meetings, we created initial logo and branding concepts, that were evolved in conjunction with the business founders. When these were close to complete, we developed frameworks for the website key pages, methods on displaying collated Podfolio content, as well as the in-depth content pages. These were refined as fully fledged designs for approval. Thereafter the design was brought to life via web development. An extensive period of testing took place after a soft launch, so that the visitor experience was fluid, whether looking for a specific topic or becoming a Podfolio member.  Careful attention was paid to the structure and organisation of podcast content itself and how the visitor will interact with that content. Each needs an introduction, summary and the ability to link out and play the audio itself.

To develop a recognisable mark around the concept of a sweet pea, as a metaphor for the idea of peas in a pod. The play on ‘pea pod’ is an instinctive connection that intuitively aids recognition. The similarly grouped topics (the pods themselves, are represented by the three ‘O’s in the design, and these are connected by a sound wave, that represents the audio aspect of a podcast. The logo itself had to be adaptable as a home-screen icon, within branded email communications, within social media and on the website itself.

The website and it’s branding can be found here: www.podfolio.co.uk

It is free to join and the curators have some superb pods up now that the site has evolved. Signing up is recommended!

Logo design. Brand Identity. Icon designs. Social Media templates.

Website project consultation. Website Design. UX refinement. Website development and on-going support, Website hosting.

Collating a variety of mixed media within an aggregated page, presents unique challenges – unlike a page of video, or page of podcasts – A Podfolio may comprise of content collated from a variety of sources to form a curated page. These Podcasts, short videos, written articles and links to external web pages form part of the collection.