It’s been two years since our Smart Ambulance joined the company. We decided it was high time she enjoyed a spot of pampering. So we ditched the graphics and resprayed her in true Brand Surgery PINK!

A big THANK YOU to the lovely boys at Washington Bodyworks. You will see graphics appearing in due course, but you can enjoy her nudity for the time being!

By the way, the gorgeous background photo is from www.TriggerSnappy.co.uk. DID YOU KNOW THAT there are now over 2000 stunning photos of UK towns and villages - which are great for websites, exhibition graphics and brochures and much more.

The above photo is courtesy of www.mediaattention.co.uk

As you have probably heard by now, day two of Birdman was cancelled due to gale force winds and extremely high tides. There was a sense of disappointment as everybody had gone to lots of effort - including us. What did we dress as? As our business is called The Brand Surgery, and you know us as ‘doctors’, we went as The Flying Doctors – well-known household ‘doctors and nurses’ brands. Annelies went as Night Nurse, Ben as Dr Evil, and me (the boss!) as Dr Pepper.

Anyway - we weren’t gonna let the dreaded British weather get us down – so we decided to paint the town red and shock the brave people of Worthing who were brave enough to face the weather.

We feel it is important to give our public backing to Sharon Clarke, Worthing Town Centre manager, who DID make the right decision. We would have made the same decision if we were in Sharon’s shoes. Don’t let them get you down Sharon – we love you!

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL OUR KIND SPONSORS: We haven’t forgotten that you have sponsored us. We are currently brainstorming alternative ways for you to get your moneys’ worth. Top of the list so far is us lot going to Clown School and entertaining the kids of Chestnut Tree House. If you think this is a good idea - please let us know.

Finally, a BIG thank you to Andy Sparsis and his excellent team at Food who were extremely generous plying us with lots of wine to warm our cockles. We are still full up from your generous helpings.

PS Who is The Incredible Hunk? Rewards are up for grabs in exchange for the hunk’s phone number!

We are celebrating here as yesterday we found out that we have won a new Stagecoach magazine. News of our outstanding consumer magazine publishing has spread to South Yorkshire – to be precise – Barnsley and Dearne Valley

As well as starting a brand new magazine, we are also putting the Winter 08/09 editions of all four of our magazines to fruition: Coastliners, In the Loop and My Triangle. We are obviously looking forward to researching the bars, restaurants and attractions in these areas which include Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs, Portsmouth, Chichester, Amberley and many more.

So as soon as these magazines are printed, we will give you a sneaky preview of some of the pages. We absolutely love working on these titles – so any other transport (not buses sorry), who would like something similar for their passengers - you know where to come. Stagecoach PLC understand the value of customer focus and communication. If you value your customers and want to keep them up-to-date – look no further than The Brand Surgery for expertise design, editorial and publishing. Give us a call on 01903 824229.

We were licking our screens as we designed and developed this website for Azure Cocktails. Azure Cocktails were happy with their logo, so we didn’t evolve it but we gave their website a complete overhaul. The main focus of this website are the cocktails so we hired the excellent photographer, Chris Harmer who I believe is just about sobering up!

Based in the South East of England, the mobile Azure Cocktails bar adds a colourful touch of class to all types of events, with tasty, imaginative cocktails made up from only the freshest ingredients and top-notch spirits. Whatever your theme or type of celebration, Azure will also design a themed cocktail to match your event, albeit Halloween, Valentine, 70s, 80s, 20s. Anything goes.

So wheather you’re having a: House party • Birthday celebration • Anniversary • Hen night in • Wedding • Bar service • Themed event • Office party • Corporate event • Exhibition service outdoor bash (limited numbers) • Student ball / prom • Charity event • Christmas party • Casino night • Black tie event

Visit www.azurecocktails.co.uk

We are proud to announce that we are helping to put Worthing on the map. We will be working closely with Sharon Clarke, Worthing Town Centre Manager and Chris Spratt, Chairman of Worthing Town Centre Initiative, to create refreshing ideas to promote Worthing. So far we have come up with five outstanding ideas which will help save our independent shops as we need more! We want to hear from anyone else who has brilliant ideas and we will see what we can do to put them into action. What do you like about Worthing?

If you have seen the news recently, you would have seen news about the new shop wardens, street cleeaning and much more. All these new additions have been funded by Worthing traders as part of the BID (Business Improvement District). We have written the press releases to help make these positive things become news! So if you need help with promoting an idea - you know where to come. Click here to see more of our PR work.

The Brand Surgery have designed and developed www.swimbabies.com which is a database website. This website minimises the administration work for our client by allowing parents to book courses online – and it automatically prints certificates when the babies have passed their courses.

Putting newborn babies into the water has been happening for centuries, especially in tropical areas where the water is warm. This is possible because babies have natural reflexes that enable them to hold their breath under water.

Slowly the word has spread and in recent years baby swimming has become very popular and trendy. Now special classes are available in which the submersion techniques used mean that babies can continue to enjoy the natural affinity they have with water. After all, they have been floating in amniotic fluid in the womb for 9 months!

Swimbabies courses range from:

• Swimtots
• Pre-School Programme
• Nervous Non-Swimmers
• Disability/Special Needs
• Private and Schools
• Adults

Visit www.swimbabies.com for contact details and further information. Don’t forget to visit the gallery – it’s so cute!

If you’d like a sneaky preview of the type of marvellous dancing we have lined up for our Birdman routine, or if you just want a few minutes to skive off work and have a laugh, click here and you’ll get the picture. Ben in particular is looking forward to his first ballet lesson from Annelies who is our ballet expert. Annelies pranced about in tutus for about 8 years when she was younger and actually holds a ballet diploma.

And one and two and pliee and four and pas de chat and six and .. ouch!

Also, we were going to have Ben dress up in a hot pink Borat suit, but officials warned us that this could have disastrous consequences for certain vital body parts when jumping from that high, so we had to red-card ourselves – much to Ben’s relief. It was probably a bit nuts anyway.

When the doctors are not flying – we are busy designing logos, brochures, websites, exhibition graphics and so much more. The Brand Surgery, West Sussex aka The Flying Doctors.

Having established our Flying Doctor theme for the Worthing Birdman Competition, The Brand Surgery doctors are now fully ready to ‘fly’ off Worthing Pier on the 6th of July to raise money for charity. Expect some inspired dancing too. While we are risking our brittle lives, all you have to do is punch a few keys and enter a few digits and you’ve done your bit as well! Sponsoring us couldn’t be easier via our pages on justgiving.com.

There were so many charities we wanted to donate to, but we managed to narrow it down to two. The Worthing Churches Homeless Project offer care, support and accommodation to the most vulnerable and excluded members of the Worthing community. They help those who need it most to move forward and build on a better future. Click here for our Worthing Churches Homeless Project sponsorship webpage.

Chestnut Tree House is the only children’s hospice in Sussex and cares for children and young adults from 0-19 years of age with progressive life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses from all over the county. Click here for our Chestnut Tree House sponsorship webpage.

A massive thanks for sponsoring us!

Hopefully our little dance and fly routine will go well and we’ll live to tell the tale. Otherwise what will the whole of Worthing, London and the South East do if they need some wicked website design, lovely logo design, grand graphic design, marvelous marketing or all round brilliant branding?

They’d probably jump off the pier in despair

Wow! Wow! Wow!*

Worthing Hospital has beat Brighton and Chichester and will become the county’s Major General Hospital, because as Mr Wilderspin, chairman of West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) says, “Worthing provides the best access for the greatest number of people, including those areas with the poorest health outcomes and the highest levels of deprivation”.

So this proves that campaigning does work. Did you know that we contributed our time to produce the naughty nurses calendar to raise funds for KWASH? We also designed the KWASH table mat which featured across a range of Worthing restaurants.

So sorry Brighton. Not wanting to rub salt into your wounds, but … Worthing has beat you twice in a month – Worthing Hospital is better than your hospital and our pier is also better than yours – because we have Worthing Birdman! So any of you Londoners who fancy a trip to the coast – maybe you should give Worthing a try. We have over 100 restaurants, two theatres and cinemas, a great pier and a major general hospital. So there!

So if like us – you have a point you want to get a cross – you need an eye-catching and effective campaign! So look no further. Click here to see our winning PR campaign for KWASH (Keep Worthing and Southlands Hospitals.

Just in case you forgot, The Brand Surgery also creates brilliant logos and branding, websites, winning exhibition graphics, and stunning company literature to grow your business.

* OK - we realise that this blue print needs to be rubber-stamped next week but we reckon it’s in the bag.

Top notch creative agency, The Brand Surgery, stole the show at the this year’s Worthing Microbiz event and took home the prize for the best stand. Their colourful and professionally designed display gave out a clear message: Want to stand out? We can make it happen!

From logos to brochures to websites, The Brand Surgery masterfully creates corporate identities that get businesses in the public eye. If you live in or near Worthing, there’s a good chance you’ve already come into contact with their work. Casa Ciro, Worthing Town Centre Initiative and The West Sussex Credit Union have all undergone complete Brand Surgery re-brands and most recently the agency designed and developed the Food and Fish Factory websites. It’s no surprise that The Brand Surgery also won ‘Highly Commended’ in the Best of Worthing’s Most Creative Business award category this year.

Having recently won the PR contract to put Worthing on the map, The Brand Surgery will be making sure that Worthing is Worthy! Did you know that Chanel won’t invest in a merchandise stand to sell their products in Worthing because they don’t think the demographic is suitable? The Brand Surgery want to prove Chanel wrong! They want to hear from all those residents who live in Worthing who would buy Chanel perfumes and cosmetics. Email: Vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk to join our petition.

One last thing… If you want to see The Brand Surgery team flying off the pier wearing doctors and nurses uniforms – head down to watch Birdman on Sunday 6th July. All in the name of charity!

If you want your business to stand out and start winning, then call Vicky at The Brand Surgery on 01903 824229.