Verbal Media

We are a social economy enterprise specialising in providing affordable design services to the Arts and Community sectors. We build engaging and accessible websites that people find easy to use, and design and print everything from brochures to books in our print studio right in the heart of the Walled City.

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ON SCREEN AND ON BUDGET

We build easy to use, engaging and fully accessible websites. Work alongside our team to create your site form scratch, or base your site on one of our in-house designed templates, choosing an option which suits your project and your budget. We have created a suite of templates aimed at allowing organisations to establish a world class online presence with the minimum of effort and expense.

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Recent web design work

Donegal Peace Centre

Working alongside the team from Donegal Peace Centre at Teach Ban we've researched, designed and developed a content managed website to show the range of activites and projects run at the centre. Visit Donegal Peace Centre.

Verbal FM

Verbal FM is an online talk radio station that promotes the culture and oral heritage of the North West of Ireland. Verbal FM trains local people to make radio shows, create their own archive of intangible heritage and develop media skills. Verbal FM tells local stories to a global audience.

Void

Our website for the Void gallery recently went live, showcasing the work of this innovative and challenging contemporary art space. Exhibitions range from cutting edge international work to new and emerging artists including Turner prize winner Simon Starling, Dan Shipsides and Common Culture.

Music 55-7

Music 55-7 website is an innovative classical music agency that promotes concerts, develops education programmes and explores the connections between classical music, other art forms and digital technologies. The site redesign presented Verbal Media with the opportunity to develop a bespoke content management system for the client.

Diamond War Memorial

The Verbal Media website for the Diamond War Memorial Project brings the significant research carried out by historian Trevor Temple to a public stage. The site includes close to 1400 biographies of the soldiers who fought in the Great War.

Arts and Regeneration

A ground breaking and award winning multi-community “co-design” project by Derry City Council that focuses on the development, distribution and critical exchange of ideas, opinions and concepts between local communities and urban regeneration planners.

Heritage Lottery Fund

As part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s 2008 UK Conference, Verbal Media created an agenda setting video presentation reflecting on the future direction of Heritage within the context of diversity in the 21st Century.

IN HOUSE PRINTING IN THE CITY CENTRE

We can design and print all under one roof, right in the heart of the city. Our printing facility is uniquely and conveniently located near the city walls, offering high class design, competitive pricing, quick turnaround and easy access in one package.

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Recent design and print work

Abridged

We designed and printed the "Abridged Time" edition of the arts and poetry quarterly, distributed across Ireland and the UK. We're currently working the next Abridged projects, including "Abandoned Donegal" - a photographic catalogue to supplement an April exhibition in the Regional Cultural Arts Centre, Letterkenny.

Verbal Magazine

Verbal is the single largest bi-monthly publication in Northern Ireland. It is devoted to books, authors, reading and writing and is produced by a team of journalists and professional writers at the Verbal Arts Centre.

2D

2D, the Northern Ireland Comics Festival, was conceived as an exciting way of extending and promoting comic book related work throughout Ireland and the UK. The festival is the largest of its kind in Ireland and is unique to the United Kingdom in that it is the only festival that aims to celebrate the comic book artform and comic book creators.

Teenage Kickz

We designed and printed promotional material and built a website for the innovative Teenage Kickz project, run by former Derry City FC captain Peter Hutton. "The Teenage Kickz vision is to target some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country in order to create safer. stronger, more respectful communities through the development of young peoples' potential".

Magnetic North

Design and layout of 360 page anthology Magnetic North, a landmark collection featuring emerging poets and poetry from the north of Ireland. Verbal Media managed all aspects of the project from page layout and 'space' for each individual poem to cover design, commissioned photography, production and print.