Freelance
Since its inception Mountaintop Media have been providing freelance services to various advertising agencies and graphic design studios in Adelaide and companies around Australia.
Annual Reports
Over 25 years experience of producing Annual Reports for companies across Australia. Delivering quality reports with visual appeal, detailed accuracy and delivering on time.
Large Documents
Since 2009 Mountaintop Media have produced large documents including BHP’s Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Aurizon’s West Pilbara Infrastructure Project Feasibility Study Report and more recently the Smith Bay Wharf Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers. This has demonstrated the ability to handle large volumes of files and information.
Websites
For new and refreshing existing websites there are many options and functionality at your disposal, while ensuring a site is responsive and keeps up with current device technology. You have the choice of managing your own future updates or Mountaintop Media can assist.
Masterplans
Masterplans are built for new house and land developments all over Australia. These are used in House and Land Sales Centres on touchscreens, printed on brochures, posters, newspaper adverts and sometimes on a billboard. There are various designs that can be achieved either by vector illustration or pixel based realistic imagery.
Brochures
Quality brochures (of various shapes and sizes) can be produced along with various finishes like leather covers, spines, stitched bound, end covers, varnishes, foils, embosses, presentation boxes, document holders, flaps and cover wraps.
Exhibition Graphics
Mountaintop Media had the privilege of producing amazing Exhibition Graphics over the years. This included the Bradman Exhibition at Adelaide Oval, Various Cricket and Australian Rules Football displays around Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Zoo Envirodome, Monarto Zoo, Santos Trade Exhibitions, SA Tourism Trade Exhibitions, Defence SA and Techport, various Sales and Information Centres around Australia including St. Clair, Playford Alive, Blakes Crossing, The Hyde Apartments Sydney, Convesso Concavo Apartments in Melbourne, Norman Reach Brisbane and Ellenbrook in Perth.
Wayfinding Signage
Technical skills and attention to detail is required when building artwork for Wayfinding Signage. The responsibility of ensuring people know exactly where to go in an unfamiliar environment. This can be finding a seat or room at Adelaide Oval, a pavilion or exhibit at the Adelaide Showground, a lecture theatre at Flinders University, a specific animal at Monarto Zoo or knowing they are on the right path through a park.
Signage
Along with Wayfinding signage Mountaintop Media also provides services for other forms of signage including Billboard, Bus, Tram, Adshel, Hoarding, A-frame, exterior building, interior building/offices walls and windows .
Catalogues
Product Packaging
Mountaintop Media have produced artwork for various product packaging including wine boxes, food packaging, retail packaging, cement bags and paint tins.
Interactive PDFs
PDF’s with bookmarks, interactive table of contents and hyperlinks help all viewing a pdf to navigate and engage, especially large documents that have many sections.
Vector Graphics
Quality images created by a camera or in photoshop are called ‘Pixel’ images. For logos and graphics (like the map image below) that need to be produced in a very large size it is best to create them as a vector graphic. A vector graphic is a type of image. It is a graphical representation of mathematical objects such as lines, curves, shapes, polygons and its like. These graphics are generated by computer and they follow x and y axis as their reference definition.
Product Photography
Quality product photography services are available.
Projects so far have included food, automotive parts and painting products/equipment.
Retouching Images
Images often need retouching and colour correcting, especially historical images that have aged or been damaged as per example below. Anything that needs
to be removed or cleaned up on the image can be achieved as long as there is enough resolution in the image. The higher quality of image the better quality retouching can be achieved. Images that require the background removed especially behind and around people can also be done. This is called a contour (or also known as a deep etch).
Finished Art
There are many facets to Finished Art. Predominantly it is the production end of graphic design and the advertising industry. Traditionally this was only for Print and Signage, but in today’s world it now includes digital and web. It is the Finished Artist’s role to create the ‘final artwork’ from a designer’s concept and ensure it is set up correctly, so when it is produced on the designated media, it will appear as it was originally intended.
Many different forms of design and advertising media can be created by the finished artist. The following three examples give a small snapshot into the role:
1. The designer has set up an A4 poster concept which has been signed off by the client, then handed to the finished artist to produce A3 and A2 posters and custom sized adshells.
2. A designer has come up with a style of the first 2 to 3 pages of an Annual Report that the client has approved. It is then handed to the finished artist to layout the rest of the report using the style set including fonts, colours, margins, images, graphics etc. While keeping the integrity of the design style consistent throughout, the finished artist also adheres to the production specifications of the report being produced.
3. A designer skilled in interior design and 3D graphics has produced a visual document scaled at 1:20 on A3 page document. It has been signed off by client, so is briefed into the finished artist to produce all the elements (eg. vinyl lettering, vinyl graphics, 3D graphics, printed wall panels, printed slip-ins, printed masterplan/maps, wayfinding signs) in the visual document at 1:1 in a vector format where applicable.
Printing
With over 30 years of experience in the printing industry Mountaintop Media can also organise the printing of your desired media, including the best way of achieving the desired result at a competitive price.