December was a busy time for one of our new clients, the lovely ‘Cards for Good Causes’, who are the UK’s largest multi-charity Christmas card organisation. They sell beautiful Christmas cards for around 300 charities in their nationwide network of pop-up charity Christmas card shops and (this is where we come in) for 34 charities on their e-commerce [...]
Adding brand impact to (AV) innovation
Having worked with Advanced Inc, (Canadian based AV consultants providing design and implementation services across Canada and North America), for over 4 years, we were excited when we got the brief to refresh their brand and create a shiny new website www.advanced-inc.com for (primarily) their corporate audience. The priorities for the website were that it [...]
Overcrowded?
A subject that has been fiercely discussed within the design community in recent months is the rise of crowdsourced websites, which claim to offer great design at a fraction of the cost of commissioning a design agency to do the same job. But how do these sites work and should the design industry be quaking [...]
Date Posted - 06 Jul 2012 | Posted By - Adam Doubooni | Comments 0
There’s something fishy about photography
Shell-fishy to be exact. Courtesy of our client Macduff Shellfish. Macduff are a 127 year old, family owned and run shellfish processing company. They specialise in Langoustines, Crab, Scallops and Whelks. They have a processing plant in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire which is where we’ve been recently doing a photoshoot for them as part of the website [...]
Date Posted - 17 May 2012 | Posted By - Ian Mumford | Comments 0
New regulations on web cookies – the deadline is nigh!
On 26 May 2011, the amended Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations came into force, covering electronic marketing such as emails, faxes and text messages. They include some changes to the rules for “cookies” on websites, and introduce new powers which can result in monetary penalties if the law may have been broken. Hold on, what’s [...]
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 | Posted By - Ian Mumford | Comments 0
New stuff: Zip priority bus promotion
Every month we have our little internal get together to discuss what we’re going to shout about in our newsletter. Sometimes there are projects, that for various reasons, have been worked on and are looking great, but we can’t quite shout about them when we might like to. That’s just the way it has to [...]
Date Posted - 01 Aug 2011 | Posted By - Ian Mumford | Comments 0
Social media check list
Social media is a hot topic right now and there’s plenty of services out there… but which ones should you be using? Or more to the point, are there any you can afford not to be? To help guide you through the ‘t’internets social minefield’, we’ve put together a masterplan (aka… list) that’ll make sure [...]
“Our machine” free with every web site
If you’ve ever called your web agency regarding a problem with your web site and been told “it works on our machine” you’ll know how frustrating it can be. At the Escape we understand your pain and we never want to be *that* company so starting today we’re giving away “Our machine” FREE with every [...]
Our New Adventures in Web Design
A few of us managed to get out of the office last month and make it to the “New Adventures in Web design” conference to hear industry renowned speakers like Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks and “hardboiled” Andy Clark talk about the future of web design. We heard about “The New Language of the web” [...]

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