Monthly Archives: September 2007

This Week At The Escape – 28/09/07

This Week At The Escape – 28/09/07

So, back by (popular) demand – This Week At The Escape – and what a week! But first, a little catch up… Alex Rourke joined the team a couple of weeks ago. She’s doing a very tough challenge in Jersey this weekend so good luck her. Steve went and got married to Sarah last week. [...]

Initial City Link – An Absolute Disgrace

We were notified today that City Link are introducing a minimum weekly order value of £50 and that this would be starting on the 28th September 2007. Coupled with this they are decreasing their payment time to 14 days via Direct Debit only. Well City Link, this is one client you will be losing, we [...]

UK Cheque Proposition Changes

From late November 2007, new industry minimum clearing standards are being introduced by all banks. This (allegedly) will provide us all with greater certainty on whether a cheque paid into our account has actually been paid. This is being referred to as ‘Certainty of Fate’. Some more news is that in 2008, banks will offer [...]

Go Pantone Goe

Pantone Inc have unveiled the first completely new colour specification system for the graphic arts industry in 45 years. With more than 2,000 new colours it’s design is to inspire creativity. The original PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM was designed to meet the needs of an industry that was functioning without a precise and reliable way to [...]

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