Over the years Manifesto Design has built up a considerable portfolio working for prominent clients both local to its base in Marbella and also overseas. We have contributed copy to publications in many different countries and have produced luxury lifestyle magazines for publishers across diverse parts of Europe. Magazine production Magazine production is one of the specialist...

I remember the launch of Essential Marbella Magazine; it was a grand affair at the original Bora Bora beach resort in San Pedro Alcántara – a fittingly fantastic introduction party for what has become one of this town’s enduring icons. By Michel Cruz Magazines have come and gone in Marbella like the waves that wash on its shores, but somehow, at that opening event in 1999, you...

Nowadays, digital marketing is becoming evermore important, and a lot of companies and start-ups believe that there is no longer a need to invest in printed marketing, therefore putting all their marketing effort and budgets into the digital world. But, we’ll let you into a secret…printed marketing material is still one of the most effective tools around, especially for targeted...

Everyone wants to have better search engine rankings. This is because organic traffic to your website contributes greatly to the growth of a business. The only problem is that SEO (search engine optimisation) is constantly evolving and Google frequently changes the rules, so nobody wants to receive a penalty for doing something wrong. Google has been deploying various updates...

Although many people see plastic bags as something convenient, they are just the opposite, causing more harm to the world than the benefit they give us. Of all products made of plastic, disposable bags are one of the biggest causes of pollution worldwide. This year, it is expected that more than five thousand tonnes of plastic bags will be consumed around the world—a lot for...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for many of us is something complicated, difficult to understand and only experts know how it works, while some of us have never even heard of it before. But is SEO that complicated? Firstly let’s find out what short term SEO means. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is the process of driving more traffic to your website, making it...

Having won the contract to produce the signature publication of DOM3 – the prestigious Marbella-based collective of top architects, interior designers, landscapers, lighting engineers, constructors and other specialist professionals working within the luxury property market of the area – we set about creating a concept for the organisation’s very first magazine. Though our service...

The man who gave Spain – and the world – the Guggenheim Museum is a master moulder of shapes, using new materials and technologies to usher in a fluid 21st century definition of architecture. Think Gehry and you picture the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but of course this celebrated ‘starchitect’ who helped to define the shape of the modern era has many more famous edifices...

On Wednesday 12th December I had the good fortune of being invited to a very select gathering at the exclusive D.O.Mar restaurant on Marbella’s Golden Mile. Entitled ‘5 Estrellas, 4 Manos’, it proved to be a heavenly blend of gourmet cooking by Oscar Velasco and Paolo Casagrande – who between them have five Michelin stars – and the exquisite Champagne of our client, VIP Wine...

With all that has been happening with Google Plus and the recent scandals of two major data leeks, Google has issued an official statement that confirms it is closing the Google Plus social platform four months earlier than predicted—so by the end of April 2019 we all have to say goodbye to Google Plus. We have written in the past about the benefits for your business of having...