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