Christmas is fast approaching...

The Waterfront Pub is all geared up for the Xmas Party Season with some star-studded marketing collateral to boot! A1 posters and a very festive 10 page roll-fold DL Flyer.

Professional and responsive

Desktop version

Professional and responsive, this sums up exactly what Prolinx is all about. It also describes their new website functionality which has been designed and built to respond to all browser types - be that desktop, tablet or mobile.

In addition, the site has been developed to allow page editing via mobile devices as well as desktop PC's.

At Parkhouse Evans we like to ensure that customers have the opportunity to work with best of breed service companies. Our partnership with CPB means that we can offer a full lead generation service alongside our own comprehensive range of creative services. CPB offer accurate lead generation services, such as telemarketing, nurturing and surveys.

Prolinx are one of the first companies to benefit from this symbiosis - with CPB having helped in all aspects of this exciting project.

Visit the live site here or if you have a project that requires lead generation please give us a call on 01332 291141 and we will be happy to advise.

Kirk to Centerprise, beam me up!

Centerprise Cover

This rather funky eye-catching e-book was created to help introduce Alcatel Lucent Enterprise services to Centerprise's clients. Sounds like a mouthful, I know, but in principle its a great way of introducing a volume of complex information, in an easy to read way, to a large number of partners without the cost of print. Not only that but it avoids clogging up in-boxes with large PDF files too!

This on-line book was developed around the theme of "time" thus giving the services an engaging look and feel. The book has automatically flipping pages and can be viewed on virtually any web based device.

Time - on your side

To view the actual e-book please click here or if you you would like to add another dimension to your marketing tool box, please give us a call on 01332 291141 and we can show you how.

Asking for a kick in the nuts..

As creatives we are always critical of our own work.

We do a beautifully crafted piece of design and we can get easily hurt by anything other than positive reactions. (Typical of us sensitive designer types...)

However, we have to be realistic and our clients will nearly always know more about their markets than we ever will. So there is an easy way to get to the point... If you want to hear the truth never ask "do you like this?"

Most people will not wish to offend and will give an answer like "its OK" or "not bad".

If you want to know the REAL truth ask them another question, one which will illicit the truth albeit in a constructive and often more helpful way. It also avoids any brutal feedback that may offend.

Simply ask them: "What's wrong with this?"

You'll get a much more revealing answer - you may not like what you hear but it will pay off in the long run. If you'd like us to help you get to the truth, then give us a call on 01332 291141 and we will be honest with you about how we can help (or not).

Christmas is coming...

Why are we always surprised that Christmas always seems just around the corner? Maybe its because marketers always need to plan well in advance.

We have already completed several Xmas projects ranging from diaries, desk planners, cards, and gifts. This brochure is to help the Waterfront pub in Barton Under Needwood to promote its seasonal offerings. There will be dedicated web pages and several large format posters promoting them too.

Its not too late you get your Christmas orders in yet!

Visit the Waterfront Christmas web page here

Call us now on 01332 291141 to discuss this and your next project - we will be happy to help.

Java Joe Rescues Old Trusty

Trusty in bits

You know that sinking feeling you get when something critical fails to work...the car won't start, the key won't turn in the lock, the phone has no signal, the wifi goes down. You know what I mean right?

Well, this week our trusty LaCie 500Gb drive failed to boot up. It's been a powerful and reliable workhorse for around 5 years now. Always there and ready to serve up one of over a 100 million pixels - 'old trusty' was her nickname. Sadly on Tuesday "Trusty" coughed her last byte sized rattle, an ex drive if you will.

Now I know what you are thinking, just restore all the data from our backups - easy yes? It is certainly possible but would entail hours of time to locate and collate the files. Luckily we had a backup from earlier in the year so no work lost - we restored the critical info within a day. However, there was around 350 image files which we had not backed up. These are easy to restore but would take hours - each being a download from various websites - slow and not much fun.

Magic Joe

What to do?

I called my pal Joe who has some nifty kit that could possibly bring Trusty back to life - it was a last resort and one that we didn't hold out much hope for. However, last night I got a text from him saying that the drive had mounted and what did I need to restore? Joy, happiness, elation, relief. All rolled into one!

So today, I spent a relaxing morning restoring files and drinking Joe's fine Italian coffee - back to the studio by 11:30 and files all restored by 2:30 - nice one!

So thanks to Joe and his magic box of tricks - if you want any IT work or programming then Joe is your man - just mail me if you want him to help and I'll pass on his details.

Big Canvasses Big Ideas

Viv displays her big canvas

Our friends at Open Reality asked us to come up with some large format graphics for their offices. We think these stretch canvas panels work really well - they are simple, clean and very eyecatching. Each panel contains a message about the value that Open Reality brings to its customers. In total there are 21 panels.

We are looking forward to seeing them in situ!

If your office could do with a makeover then why not give us a call on 01332 29114 and we can have a chat about 'watching dry paint' or watching nice images!