Everything You Need To Know About Event Promotion!

Two tickets against a background of fireworks. The tickets feature the words "we're talking all about event promotion!" Illustration used for Little Bird Creative's Event Promotion Guide.

Event planning can be stressful – the last thing you need to add to your worries is promotion-related panic!  Don’t fret.  In this month’s blog, we’ve put together a guide to event promotion, to ensure everything goes off with a bang!

New Year, New Start – Get Set For Success In 2025

Large, glittery numbers reading "2025." Fireworks in the background. Text beneath this says "new year, new start!" Little Bird Creative's website address and email address are underneath this. www.lb-creative.co.uk, contact@lb-creative.co.uk

New year, new start! Now’s the time to get thinking about giving your website a revamp, changing up your promotional campaigns or even starting over from scratch!

If that all sounds a bit daunting, don’t panic – we’re here to help with some “new year” tips to get you started…

Our Expert Book Design Services Bring Your Stories To Life!

Images from Little Bird Creative's graphic design work on Kernow: A Zine, created with Cornwall Museums Partnership

Today is “Read A Book Day” and we’re more than happy to curl up with a good page-turner!  But without beautiful book design, we’re not going to stay glued to our latest read.  With the rise of self-publishing, anyone can become an author, but the path to print success can be tricky to navigate.  Thankfully, if you’ve got a story to tell, we’re on hand to help bring it to life!

Why Setting The Right Tone Matters If You Want Great Copywriting

Illustration of a typewriter with a sheet of paper in it. The paper has the words "Why your tone matters..." written on it.

Ever had one of those days where all it takes is one person saying the wrong thing to totally push you over the edge?  What about the reverse, where a kind word turns your mood around completely?  The tone we take with others – and they with us – has a far greater impact than we might think.  But what about your organisation’s tone of voice?

Time For A Website Refresh! How To Make Sure You Stay Up-To-Date

An illustration of a computer on an orange background. Text reads "web design by Little Bird Creative." This illustration represents Little Bird Creative's provision of web design in Cornwall.

Since the first thing potential visitors or clients often see of your organisation may well be your online presence, it’s worth checking in on it now and again and being ready to give it a bit of a makeover when it needs it.

So, what can you do to ensure your website stays fresh?!

Do You Need A Creative Design Agency?

Little Bird Creative office in Camelford, Cornwall

“Creative design agency.”  For some people, those words might not mean very much.  What does a creative design agency even do?

For some, the phrase may conjour up an image of a swanky office, filled with people who use sentences like “push the envelope” or “blue sky thinking,” who are just waiting to charge you a zillion pounds for drawing a squiggle.

When we started Little Bird Creative, our goal was to be honest and to keep things simple.  So, let’s start right at the beginning…

Inspiring Little Minds – How To Make Exciting, Child-Friendly Museum Spaces

hand painted image of children playing, by Lesley Harris of Little Bird Creative

Do you remember your first trip to a museum?

When Little Bird Emma was little, her grandparents lived in London and she was lucky enough to have fairly frequent visits to incredible places like The Natural History Museum, The V&A and The Science Museum. To this day, she has fond memories of those trips; marvelling at the exhibits on display and taking her time to ensure she hadn’t missed seeing a single thing! Which leads us to a question…

Manic Street Preachers: Album By Album

James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers performing on stage.

It would be no exaggeration to say that the Manic Street Preachers changed my life.  From galvanising my leftie views to encouraging me to seek out art and literature, they came crashing into my world when I was a hormonal teen and they still have permanent residence in my affections now that I’m a hormonal adult.

As a result, when I heard that Marc Burrows was releasing a book, charting the band’s career – with fourteen writers producing essays on each of the Manics’ albums – I was very much in.