Monthly Archives: October 2007

Microsoft buy a stake in Facebook

Sadly Google lost out this time when Microsoft paid £117m for just a 1.6% stake in Facebook. Taking advantage of the social networking site’s success, Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside of the US as part of the deal. This will help Facebook in its aim to become an advertising magnet for [...]

Date Posted - 25 Oct 2007 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

This Week At The Escape – 19/10/07

This week has been a busy one for all of us. Craig went off to the Escape hideaway in Cyprus whilst back at HQ we entered the calendar season. If anyone else out there is thinking of a way to promote themselves, get in touch and we’ll be happy to help out. Calendars are a [...]

Date Posted - 20 Oct 2007 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photographs

Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photographs

Cracking little website here called Urban dirty, which allows you to download 237 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation. The maximum size for most photos is 2048 x 1536 pixels at 180 dpi. Go check em oot!!

Date Posted - 16 Oct 2007 | Posted By - admin | Comments 0

Freeware dock dividers (OSX)

Freeware dock dividers (OSX)

A useful little application for the “tidy” among us is Dock Dividers a set of apps for Mac OS X that inserts place dividers between groups of applications in your dock.Its not going to change the world, but every little helps. Image and link courtesy of Bittbox

Date Posted - 10 Oct 2007 | Posted By - admin | Comments 0

One for the ladies

I found this wonderful local business that has a great selection of jewellery, handbags and some fun and unusual gift ideas at really affordable prices. So as the season of goodwill, spending and giving is almost upon us, I thought why not invite them in and share it all with you. I’d love it if [...]

Date Posted - 10 Oct 2007 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

Advanced photoshop tutorials

Advanced photoshop tutorials

Found this link to dennisplucinik.com via one of our favourite design sites bittbox. It contains 60 advanced photoshop tutorials, some of which are very useful and insightful. Worth a read for anyone looking to develop their skills in image creation and manipulation.

Date Posted - 03 Oct 2007 | Posted By - admin | Comments 0

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