For more recent reviews go to Google Maps and enter wordsndesign in the search bar. This page is a small sampling of reviews of work by WordsnDesign before google business review pages existed.
Photo Restoration: Was fantastic! The first clear image of my father who died before I was born. Your work with a grainy, old, faded photo was incredible. Many tears when your image arrived. Thank you so very much. Your work meant the world to me.
Roche de Lacy, Rangiora
Vinyl to CD (with art): It is clear that Briar is not only good at what she does, but that she takes pride in meeting the wishes of the client with good quality results. She took very good care of an old and rare LP that I provided her, and in a short time created digital copies of very high quality that had no discernible ‘hiss’ at all. She even gave me suggestions on which audio settings would be best to bring out the best quality during playback.
Leon Mitchell
Photo Restoration and Video editing: The quality of the end product I received was exceptional. Briar
provides a professional and reliable service and at reasonable prices. I am sure I will be seeking her help on future projects and I have no hesitation in recommending WordsnDesign. Briar digitally modifed and enlarged a photograph of my mother and turned my segmented wedding video into a seamless movie that she saved out to DVD and USB stick.
Simon Miller
Photo Restoration Briar of WordsnDesign lovingly restored 3 baby photos of my children. Her expertise and precision were clearly evident in the results. The originals were badly discoloured and the results were fantastic. I couldn't have been more delighted with the finished products. I would highly recommend Briar.
Shelley Cunningham
Home videos to digital formats: We had 25 mini digital videos containing 10 years of our most precious memories converted to digital video formats and found Briar extremely friendly and professional and would recommend her to everyone.
Rex and Christine Moller
Photo restoration: Briar did a fantastic job on my grandparents' photos. She worked her magic and brought them back to life. We were pushing for time and needed the photos done in a tight timeframe, but Briar was very accommodating, she went out of her way to make sure they were done on time. I highly recommend her services, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
Uaita Nanai-Leota
Book design: Briar has the gift of grasping and harmonising with an author or editors' intentions. Her design for the taste of nashi picked up well the elegantly understated essence of the haiku genre.
Karen Peterson Butterworth, Writer, editor, haiku poet.
Photo restoration: Briar did a magnificent job of restoring a photograph of my much loved late father. It was a difficult task because the original photo had poor colour and the contrast was harsh. The Outcome? A studio-quality portrait that now takes pride of place in our family home. Briar's a joy to work with and her commitment to obtaining quality results impressed me greatly.
Stirling Hughes
Logo: Briar is professional and friendly. Great to work with. She helped me with designing and creating a logo for my company. Fast and efficient service. I recommend her highly for her excellent work.
Manoj Kumar Managing Director, MK Joinery, Lower Hutt
Graphics, website and video editing: I have used WordsnDesign for my graphics, video, and website work over the last 10 years or so with very pleasing results. Great little innovations from time to time, but, more to the point, total satisfaction with the work done, her rapid delivery and efficiency. Service with a smile and a capital S, coupled with sensible pricing.
Chris Cambourn, M.D. New Generation Liquorice
Book: I can recommend Briar's services. I loved the way she designed the cover and wrote a great introduction for it. She also edited my book, and found the best printing business. I found Briar easy to talk with, if needed she is a great source of advice. She also went the extra mile. I would give her 91/2
out of a possible 10. I couldn't give her the other 1/2 because she forgot to put my name on the cover. I am sure this will never happen again.
Margaret Bradfield, Central Otago
Website: For many years Briar has guided us and designed our website. In all that time we have been thrilled with every aspect of her prompt, quality work
Les Gale
Photo restoration: Recently I asked Briar to work on my wedding photos. I was absolutely impressed by her consultation & attention to detail. I have received so many compliments on them. The work was quite complex on one photo especially and it turned out better than I imagined. We love the result! She is very talented and very, very reasonable.
Angela Clark
Website: Great helpful service, and it made a huge difference when she made our old site mobile-friendly. Would recommend to other businesses looking to upgrade their website or create a new one
Jonathan Irving Irving Tooling solutions Ltd, Christchurch
Photo restoration Briar beautifully restored 45-year-old portrait photos of each of my siblings. I learned that there is a real art to bringing vibrant and genuine colour and skin tone back to the old photos. Briar sent proofs and cared 100% about the final product. I highly recommend Briar’s service.
Isobel Egerton
Photo restoration: A precious family photograph had been badly water-damaged and mildewed and I was certain it was beyond salvation. In desperation I took it to Briar. She worked her magic and restored it to its former clarity and colour. I will be forever grateful.
Alan Seay, Wellington.
Website:The setup and layout which she did for us, and the subsequent management of all aspects of our website, have been excellent under Briar's care.
She is business-like, effective, artistic, fast and knowledgeable on electronic matters. She is an accomplished editor. We have adopted pretty much all of the suggestions that she has made over the last three years.
Our website is a little unusual in that it is non-commercial with a high proportion of text and a quantity of historic photographs. She appreciated our non-standard requirements and adroitly adapted to them.
Since then she has kept up with, and advised us of, the necessary international payments necessitated by the providers. We are entirely happy with her service and recommend her highly to others.
Valda and Ewen McCann
Website: Briar did my website for me and it made a huge difference to my business. I have had comments on how professionally it was done and I would recommend her services. Nice and bright and refreshing!!
Maree Murphy
Children's books and Website: In the last year, Briar has put together for me two children's books and an associated website. She has a professional eye for detail and presentation, and works to a high standard. This and her creative ideas have brought my books to life. As a client and also a friend, I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone who is thinking of putting together a book or a website.
Lynette Love, Hastings
Website: I wanted a website created for a project called God in DNA. It presented awkward problems because there was substantial use of Hebrew characters mixed with English. The Hebrew characters are written right to left unlike English, and having them in close proximity was about ten times as difficult as normal. In addition individual Hebrew letters had to be coded for different colours inside long streams of Hebrew characters. Very messy. Briar achieved this and improved greatly the clarity and setting out of the website in other ways as well. Exceptional value for money.
Satisfied Client
Book: I was most appreciative of the skills Briar bought to the table, when assisting me with my book. Her expertise in several areas was priceless for me. I found her advice sensible and constructive in all areas she helped me with (cover, layout, printing etc) and for those reasons, plus being very pleasant to deal with, I have no problem recommending her to any person wanting efficient, professional service.
Mike Trainer, Auckland
Booklet|sticker|logo: Briar did a number of jobs for me: creating a logo, designing and editing a little book on prayer, creating a sticker… Always with great attention to detail, excellent colours, and good ideas. I found her helpful and very professional and would recommend her to anyone.
Kath Wells