HAPPY CODEMAS

We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


Thank you for your business, we warmly hope to work with you again in the New Year.

Keep your spirits high with CODE

The countdown to Christmas is here and among those celebrating in good spirits are Fine Tubes. They have been keeping up the Christmas spirit this year by sending out advent calendars to their many clients across the world.

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Personalised customer care

For the fourth year running, Drakes Fine Jewellers, one of Plymouth’s leading independent jewellers have commissioned CODE to produce a series of greeting cards for their customers.

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Account Director joins CODE team

CODE is pleased to announce and welcome Louise Kenna who has joined the company as an Account Director.

Louise has a sales and marketing background and will be responsible for building mutually beneficial, long term relationships with new clients, driving revenue and sales as well as other management responsibilities.

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Going the extra mile

Reflecting on a successful and enjoyable summer, the Blue Mile event was one of the many exciting ventures for the CODE team.

The Blue Mile, tag-lined ‘Race for the Environment’ is the UK’s newest mass-participation event designed to engage people actively with our blue environment.

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Talented Students get creative in a bid to raise awareness of SWGaTE

SWGaTE (South West Gifted and Talented Education) is the South West’s Regional Partnership for supporting and developing the education of able, gifted and talented pupils.

The CODE team was commissioned by SWGaTE to work with a small group of students from five local authorities across the South West to design innovative postcards to be used by schools across the area. The student group undertakes different projects on behalf of SWGaTE and meet once a term to advise them and share their experiences as able students.

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Giant cartoons, massive labels and X Factor star, help promote city’s largest one day exhibition – delivered by CODE

Devonport Regeneration Community (DRC) Partnership commissioned CODE to deliver a multi-venue exhibition showcasing over 220 DRC funded projects to celebrate the work and achievements of the Devonport Community.

A ’future video’, massive fact labels, banners and flags all created impact for the 4000 visitors that toured Devonport between 11am and 6pm. To accompany the event a twenty minute DVD produced by CODE was shown on the big screen in the city’s piazza.

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High quality motorhomes – now motoring online!



The CODE team have recently designed and launched an exciting new website for Murvi Motorcaravans Ltd.

Murvi have 30 years of award-winning leisure vehicle production to their credit – not to mention enough awards to fill one of their motorhomes.

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How do you expose 18 brilliant Research Centres and 3 Research Institutes effectively?

Research Expo

With a distinguished record of world class research at Plymouth; the research showcase provided an opportunity for government agencies, business and community organisations to access the university’s research centres and institutes in a specially created venue on Plymouth Hoe.

The CODE design team led by Jerry Found, developed and produced the visual aspects of the event including research datasheets, a recyclable research folio and supersized roller banners.


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We are really pleased The University of Plymouth have extended our design contract!

Exciting new website for one of our award winning clients!

Here at Company of Designers we are embarking on an exciting new project for one of our award winning clients.


Watch this space!

Build a professional small business website that you can update yourself! Only £16.25*

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We won! 'Most Innovative DVD'

Excitement and sheer delight has swept through the offices here at Company of Designers after winning the award for the 'Most Innovative DVD/CD' category at the Media Innovation Awards.

The judges said the 'Someone Who Listens' DVD won "for skillfully combining a variety of media, resulting in a well produced inclusive engaging DVD and using a variety of presentation styles effectively."

Andy Staples attended the Media Innovation Awards on behalf of Company of Designers with clients, Annagret Ward & Kathryn Taylor. Andy stated that 'Someone Who Listens' was a "Collaborative adventure and the real stars were the young people and animators that were involved" A special mention went to Routeways, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth City Council's Workforce Development Team and Jerry Found, Design Director at Company of Designers.

See a selection from our DVD on our homepage by clicking here

Or you can view the video of the award online, please click here and select the video entitled 'DVD CD'

MD saves hawk in Thailand jungle

Andy Staples, our returned traveler has been sharing his stories from a far after his jungle trek in Thailand. After some heroic tales of living in a jungle environment for two weeks, with few luxuries, we have all come to the conclusion that Andy would be a great contestant for the next “I’m a celebrity… get me out of here”. Not quite a celebrity I hear you say, but a jungle hero in the making with his thrilling bush tucker experiences.

One tale which has gripped the nation or the office in our case - was the amazing story of the hawk, the snake and the MD of Company of Designers.

Whilst Andy and a bunch of other travelers were trekking across the Thailand jungle near Burma, they stumbled across a hawk lying across their foot path. It wasn’t until they tried moving the bird to rescue it, that they realised there was a snake wrapped around its wing. The trekking guide’s first thoughts were to cut the snake off with a knife, but when that didn’t seem feasible the hawks chances of survival fell into the hands of Andy who came to the rescue with his trekking stick made out of bamboo. The bamboo stick was then used to hit the snake on the head until it loosened itself from its prey allowing the hawk to fly away to safety.

For the hawk, the moral of the story would be to never under estimate the powers of a snake. As for our jungle trekker Andy, he will always remember his heroic efforts in the jungle, and will never know when they may be needed again.

Now, normally a person undertaking a bush tucker trial would win a delicious meal for the group, in this case they were less fortunate and had to suffice with the delicacy of eating river frogs….

“I’m not eating that… get me out of hereeee………!”

Nomination Success!

Excitement has filled the atmosphere here at Company of Designers after receiving a nomination from the Media Innovation Awards.

We have received a nomination in the “DVD/CD ROM” category for our “Someone Who Listens” DVD.

The “Someone Who Listens” DVD was produced for the Workforce Development Team within Plymouth City Council’s services for children and young people. The DVD was made as part of a training induction scheme for new recruits such as children’s social workers, child care workers and teachers.

Influenced by the children, “Someone Who Listens” is an exciting DVD which allows the audience to capture an insight to what the children look for in an adult, through their eyes.

The material is being used to train new recruits throughout the city, re-enforcing the focus on the children’s needs throughout the training.

The winners of the 2010 Media Innovation Awards will be announced at a special gala dinner to be held on Thursday 18th March 2010.

So wish us luck!

 

Codemas Winners Collect Champagne

To wish all of our clients a Happy Codemas from the team down at Company of Designers, an online game was produced by one of our web developers Anita Mercy. The game was called “House of flying Parcels”. To introduce a competitive element to the game, we promised to award the top three highest scores with bottles of champagne.

The winners of our competition were announced at the end of January and we were delighted to have presented the following awards;

First place with a prize of three bottles of champagne:

Charles Jackson with a top score of 41120 points

Second place with a prize of two bottles of champagne:

Andy Blount with a score of 29420 points

Third place with a prize of one bottle of champagne:

Josh Fairweather with a score of 28800

Our prize winners joined us last week at our offices to collect their bottles of bubbly and to get their pictures taken together. It turned out the three highest scorers were all staff members at The University of Plymouth, so this Christmas we encourage all of our other clients to try harder if you would like to win some prizes!!

Congratulations to our 2009 winners, from the team at Company of Designers

CODE team dine in style for only £15 to say goodbye to Maria!!

Some of the CODE team went out for dinner last night to Langdon Court. We enjoyed a 3 course dinner for only £15! If you couldn't manage 3 courses, Langdon offers a 2 course dinner for only £10! Elegant food for a great price. Langdon Court, one of our many clients, is a beautiful Country House Hotel based just outside of Plymouth. There are lots of fantastic offers and events provided by Langdon Court, these are also featured in a monthly Email newsletter which you can sign up for on their website.

Check their website out

http://www.langdoncourt.com/

The Langdon Court dinner was in aid of Maria, our Spanish work placement student who is leaving us today after 3 months. Maria is a computer science graduate who has been working on a tourism project using databases. She has thoroughly enjoyed her time here at Company of Designers and her English has come a long way. The team has also had fun learning some Spanish words and phrases. But of course, Maria will not be missing the British weather and is delighted to be heading back to a warmer climate. Lucky for some!

Adios Maria!

Hoare Lea Website Change

A big happy New Year from all of the team at Company of Designers Plymouth & Bristol!

Already the year has kicked off with some exciting website design changes for a few of our clients, in particular Hoare Lea.
Hoare Lea, the UK's largest independent consulting engineers have launched the New Year with Company of Designers reconfiguring their corporate website to a new sophisticated grey colour palette. The strategic change will also be adopted for their printed marketing materials.
Check out their site by visiting www.hoarelea.com