Monthly Archives: July 2006

Microsoft Live Demonstration

Microsoft Live Demonstration

If you are going to have a demo go wrong for a feature of your much anticipated new Vista Software, might as well do it in front of the whole world. Luckily, as pointed out by petercooper.co.uk, their great business rival, Google, has the video.

The World’s Top Brands

The World’s Top Brands

From Interbrand and Businessweek. The times they are a’ changing! BTW, I think The Escape were just outside at 101

Online Retailing Continues To Soar

Figures from IMRG show that British shoppers spent £13.5 billion online during the first half of 2006 – 40% more than they did during the same period last year. Reference: Retail Bulletin If you are looking for Online Shop Fitters, you may be interested in this case study for an e-commerce project we have just [...]

Looking for Logo Inspiration?

Looking for Logo Inspiration?

Try the Logo Pond – View and Review Designers Logos from all over the world. If on the other hand you are just looking for someone to do it for you – try this designers page.

Who’s Got The Power?

Sometimes Customers can be a real pain – or is it our lack of flexibility in treating each customer as an individual. From The Church of The Customer: A customer of a plumbing company in Florida is angry about the company’s tactics. He complains, but says the company threatened to file a lien on his [...]

How Much of Your E-Mail is Junk Mail?

According to this report from the BBC this morning it could be as much as 95%. Yes, you did read that right – 95%: More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms. Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than [...]

I Thought You Bought The Domain Name?

I Thought You Bought The Domain Name?

Can you imagine sitting in the meeting for Microsoft’s new Browser Internet Explorer 7, commonly known as IE. So Bud, did you get a domain name sorted to cover our asses? No Bret, I thought you sorted it. Surely one of us in this room bought the domain ie7.com? Well, someone did!

Creativity is Evolving

Creativity is Evolving

The times they are a changing and The Evolution of Creativity is Underway. Which Side Are You On? Elequent post from Logic+Emotion about the merging of skills. Of course, it has to have a fancy name, such is the way, but some real food for thought here. The time is here now on this one [...]

E-Mail Marketing To Grow by 20%

E-Mail Marketing To Grow by 20%

The size of the UK market for Email Marketing Platforms and Services will grow to £178 million by the end of 2006, a 20% rise from £148 million in 2005, according to research published in E-consultancy’s 2006 Email Marketing Platforms Buyer’s Guide. From Retail Bulletin E-consultancy analyst Linus Gregoriadis said: Email service providers are reaping [...]

An Introduction to Web 2.0

An Introduction to Web 2.0

There is much talk of this thing called web 2.0. As with many new ‘web terms’ (or jargon) that get introduced, this one is also causing a bit of confusion. We have a web 2.0 whitepaper that may shed some light.

Recent Posts

  • It's kicking off in the studio this Christmas

    Peace and good will to all… well, that’s the general theory this time of year isn’t it? Unfortunately, no one passed this message to the ‘troops’ in the studio at Escape Towers this year. Downtown Basra eat your heart out. There we’re no car bombs (we just couldn’t do it to our lego creations) but [...]

    Date Posted: 23 Dec 2011 Read More

  • Supporting INSPIRE-ing Businesses (sorry, couldn't resist)

    For a number of years we’ve been supporting a local business awards scheme, the INSPIRE Business Awards, which are organised by one of our lovely clients, Destination Basingstoke.  This year was no exception, and a few weeks ago saw the culmination of a year of hard work from all at ‘DB’, as the awards evening [...]

    Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011 Read More

  • New stuff: Honeywell F124 banner

    Its very early days, but we’ve started working with Honeywell. They’re based here in Basingstoke so our local-ness (pretty sure that’s not even a word!) is helpful when there’s a tight deadline to hit. This was the case with our first project for them, a pretty straightforward roller banner design for a show they were [...]

    Date Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Doing our bit for 'ch-ch-charidee mate': The Breast Cancer Care Fashion Show 2011

    Back in July I posted about our involvement with Breast Cancer Care and our charitable creative donation to help them out with the look and feel for their annual fundraiser… The Fashion Show. Time fly’s when you’re having fun and although (at the time) October seemed a million miles away, it soon came around, culminating [...]

    Date Posted: 07 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Beringer Tame website shortlisted for 'best recruitment website' award at the MARA's

    We just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone that took the time and effort to vote for the Beringer Tame website in the ‘best recruitment website’ category of the MARA awards. The fantastic news is that all those votes have ensured the site has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category! [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Read More