Monthly Archives: November 2007

50,000 Facebook users protest against its ‘Beacon advertising system’

50,000 Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way their controversial ad system works. The site, which has 55 million users, according to Wikipedia, was forced to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When a Facebook user shopped online, the system [Beacon] told friends and businesses what they had looked [...]

Date Posted - 30 Nov 2007 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0

Oh so slow web, not for much longer

It wasn’t that long ago when our esteemed Mr Killick was a bit niggled by the speed of the internet. Maybe Government Minister Stephen Timms was listening? Virgin it seems, are rolling out a 50 Mbps service that will be available to more than 70% of the 12.5m homes its cable network covers by the [...]

Date Posted - 27 Nov 2007 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 0

This week at The Escape

Today it’s like the Mary Celeste at The Escape with Laura off ripping it up on her birthday (happy birthday Laura), Gary scooting round town in his new wagon and Jason sloping off early. Plenty more Friday cookies to go round though. New projects in this week include a new website for the athletic legend [...]

Date Posted - 23 Nov 2007 | Posted By - the-escape | Comments 0

Vector Heaven

Vector Heaven

Probably one of the coolest tools I have found on the Internet regarding vector art is this one from VectorMagic Its an online auto-tracer that converts bitmap, Jpegs, Tiffs etc into vectorized art. Check one of my results out…

Date Posted - 06 Nov 2007 | Posted By - admin | Comments 0

This Week At The Escape

Sorry, we have been a bit rubbish recently posting our own news. I could say it’s the old ‘treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen’ routine” but I would be lying – we have just been a little busy. So, to this week… A small feeder site for Corrosion Training went live for MPI after the [...]

Date Posted - 02 Nov 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