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Two bits of fun in one day… Advertising Goodness with some arty use of desktop space:

Via Noisy Decent Graphics, the Church Sign Generator… minutes of fun to be had.

I will be looking for bolts of lightening all day now.

One of our favourite design blogs is currently celebrating its first birthday by giving away a free iPhone. All you have to do is leave a comment on their post. Comments will be open for one week, and the winners will be chosen at random. You must only comment once, and you have to fill out an email address in order to win.

So get yourself over to Bittbox, wish them happy birthday and you could be the proud owner of a shiny new iPhone.

One of our charity clients, Make-A-Wish® Foundation UK, recently worked with digital agency Koko to create Lamb Chop Drop - a viral game that is causing a stir online already.

It’s only a couple of weeks old but has resulted in a 480% increase in traffic to their website.

If you are in any way design orientated, this online video will make you laugh - Make My Logo Bigger Cream - Out Now!

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 you could attend so put November 2nd in your diary from 12.00 Noon till 3pm in Unit C here at The Escape.

Let me know if you can make it.

All the girls here at The Escape are going to be there and are looking forward to seeing you all.

Remember…November 2nd from Noon - 3pm.

After howls of laughter and lots of loud YES’s coming from the studio yesterday I asked what all the fuss was.

Having worked in a design studio much of my career I too could soon be heard saying loudly, YEP, YEP, YEP, YEP, YEP, YEP, YEP, YEP to Groy’s 8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad.

Clients… you know who you are….

Having worked in the office environment most of my adult life, and having visited many client sites of all shapes and sizes one thing I notice are that people like to personalise their workspace. And, one area where people do like to be ‘different’ is by having their own desktop background on their computer, whether it be a photo of a ‘hot’ woman, a car, the family, the latest pop sensation, etc.

Another thing I see a lot of is that these lovely photos are covered with icons due to the way the person works. I am a structured kind of guy and need a folder hierarchy for my digital filing but some people just love to throw every document the create on their desktop.

Steve, a colleague, who works this way (when his work is not on the server of course) has created his own desktop background system to help him organise his documents and still keep them on his desktop. So simple, yet so obvious… feel free to download the link.

If you like the nerdiness of computers and the arguments that go on, you will love this short video - Jobs vs. Gates

From Gigglesugar comes this amazing piece of Photoshop work - almost.

Can you spot the error (the big white arrow gives it away).