Young designers get creative at CODE

The best day yet! - that was the verdict of the youngsters from Kingsbridge College who spent a busy day getting creative with CODE's design team. The students came up with an idea and designed visuals before 'pitching' their idea to each other - and CODE's tough panel of judges.

CODE's design team of Jerry Found, Steve Hill and Amy Stock helped the teams to formulate their designs and write their pitches.

CODE managing director Andy Staples praised the quality of the students' design work and presented the teams with prizes. He said he looked forward to staging similar workshops in the future and thanked Dawn Melville and the Real Ideas Organisation RIO for helping to stage the event.

Steve 'Harry' Hill's Scottish Joke of the Week

A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian, 'Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?' To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her glasses and says, 'Ney chance, ye'll no bring it back!'

Exeter trip may bear fruit

PR manager Anthony Abbott hit the open road yesterday as PRCODE's reputation for quality public relations and publicity spread further afield. Exeter was the destination for the PR guru who is in talks with a leading public sector organisation about a new creative partnership. Watch the blog for more news of this exciting opportunity in the coming weeks.....

Rands across the sea

Would you believe it. A Company of Designers aka CODE......................in Cape Town. Yes, during a brief spell of web research, our glorious leader Andy Staples found a Company of Designers in South Africa. Now staff are queuing up for the first twinning trip.
I think it should be the blog editor (blog editor)

Paul 'sleighs' the opposition in CODE's crazy Christmas caper

Congratulations to Paul Courtney at Dame Hannah Rogers School in Ivybridge for taking top spot in our Crazy Sleigh Ride Xmas computer game. Paul’s prize is three bottles of the finest champagne.

Browse the CODE brochure

Some of CODE’s finest web and design work is featured in a brand new brochure, which is available to view on our website. Click the link below to find out why clients are choosing the region’s leading multi-channel marketing and communications company.

http://www.companyofdesigners.com/design/brochure.cfm

Sweet taste of success for design ace Hill

Regular readers of the CODE blogspot will know Steve 'Harry' Hill for his side splitting gags, but the jokemeister had the last laugh today when he discovered he had been nominated in this year's Media Innovation Awards in the Print Category for his work on marketing materials for a University of Plymouth conference. Well done Steve. Apparently he's working on his acceptance speech already.........no Winslet Style Wailing please Steve.................and keep it clean!

Securi-Guard stay with PRCODE

Securi-Guard, the South West's largest independent supplier of security services has retained PRCODE for all its publicity and PR work. We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue working with one of Plymouth's most respected businesses.

Amy 'Laughing' Stock's Gag for the Weekend

I have just heard that the company that makes Pedigree Chum has gone into liquidation

They have called in the Retrievers.

boom boom

Nice one Amy- beat that one Steve 'Harry' Hill, if you can!

Snow Joke for WebCODE

For the second time in a week the entire WebCODE team have been snowed in despite being located in Sunny Cornwall, which should be warmer than Plymouth as it is closer to the equator, but the snow is still coming down.

eBusiness manager Jeremy Yelland is getting concerned that his ability to read from right to left my be effected by snow blindness so is wearing sunglasses at all times.

Photo graphic evidence of the 5 inches was delivered to the CODE team to prove the viscous rumours stared by PR Guru Anthony Abbott were way off the mark.

Thanks to CODE's investment in technology the web team can work from home, the only problem is the amount of telephone calls from salesmen pushing silk stockings.

Ends.

Ministry of Marketing: The Telephone

Some interesting archive marketing information film that applies to current credit crunch.

PR man denies telling porkies over bacon bap attack

Business development manager, Justin Smith was forced to take a early lunch today after his planned breakfast feed was cut short at the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce 'crunchy breakfast' event due to a phantom bacon roll grabber!

Smith, currently on eight meals a day as part of his marathon training (for the Taunton marathon on the 5th April) was in such a state of shock from missing out on his planned morning feast after only managing to get to a single bacon roll instead of his scheduled four baps that he had to break away early from his mornings activities.

A disgruntled Smith's mood was made worse with rumour spreading in the studio that PR supremo Anthony Abbott, had managed to squeeze in four baps in the solid two hour networking session to deprive Smith of his daily needs.

In his typical robust approach, the ex Herald editor denied all charges.

It's snow joke for the iceman Yelland

Web designer Jeremy Yelland spun his CODE compatriots a proper yarn this morning, claiming he had been cut off by the inclement weather.

The Yell-meister alleged he must have had a good three inches overnight. Yes Jezza, but has any snow fallen?

Yelland is pictured right, just seconds after making the outrageous claim!

Snow go zone- are you having a laugh?

As the South East was buried under four tonnes of snow, Plymouth basked in glorious sunshine as if spring was just around the corner. Ok, it was a bit brass monkeys but the sunshine was suffcient to give our design team the kind of screen glare only a long hot summer can deliver. Is this the calm before the storm though? If now is not the winter of our discontent- could it be tomorrow? Only time will tell. (Any chance of Steve Hill's gag of the week- ed)