passionate about wordpress website design, graphic design and photography
experienced in working with businesses, charities and community groups
proud of our ethical principles, sustainability and good business practice
a small company with a very personal and friendly approach
based in chagford (in dartmoor national park, devon)
visit the lumpyblog to find out what we've been up to recently
lumpy lemon was commissioned by oxford university’s department of politics to develop publicservices.ac.uk to present the findings of the 5-year ‘public services programme’. as well as the research papers and findings, there is a powerful search feature, sections for upcoming events and news stories, and an extensive library of publications. the website is powered by our content management system based on the open source wordpress platform, so the programme staff can easily maintain it.
our brief for this job was to make a plumber’s website that looked nothing like all the other plumbers’ websites! so we came up with a clean, fresh, spacious design which you can see at aqueco.co.uk. every page has a ‘snippet’ of info to show visitors the importance of saving water and co2, and how this can save them money. lumpy lemon also designed the logo to be used on all the business materials.
transitionculture.org is the personal blog of rob hopkins, one of the founders of the rapidly-spreading transition towns movement. his wordpress-powered blog was looking a bit dated so he asked us to completely redesign the entire site from the ground up. we developed several wordpress plugins to display the wide range of information on the site, and used open source software to improve the performance. around 1500 people visit the site daily, many of them getting involved & leaving comments.
for oak tree press we provided photography and design for the “first chapter series” – beautiful limited collectors’ editions of signed hardback books. we designed and laid out the j.m. koetzee series, as well as designing a number of magazine advertisements.
beautiful, fairly-traded jewellery photographed for oxfam’s catalogues and advertisements. our studio shots were then also used in pre-christmas publicity, in-store displays and other promotional materials.
fashion photography for sestra moja, the design label of antonia widdowson from oxford. a magical play between textures and shapes brought to life by the beauty of our model mariana magnavita.
lumpy lemon has worked with crisis action since it was founded in 2005. we developed an initial website for them (crisisaction.org), then as their organisation grew, we developed this into a multi-lingual site. we also designed their annual reports. recently, we designed (at very short notice!) protectdrc.org which together with a national media campaign put pressure on the government to act in eastern congo.
in 2008, claire and andy james swapped the rat race in london to restore a beautiful ‘trulli’ farmhouse in puglia in southern italy to be their home and an accommodation business. rusticpuglia.com allows them to easily manage all their prices, enquiries and bookings online, as well as being able to update any page of the website and write a regular blog to keep everyone up-to-date with their progress.
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Lumpy Lemon
25a Lower Street
Chagford
Devon
TQ13 8AZ
lumpy lemon was established by ishka michocka and simon blackbourn in 2003
we’re a limited company registered in england (number 6198933)
our registered office is at 47 meadow close, farmoor, oxford ox2 9pa
(please note this is not a visiting or general correspondence address)
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