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Sunny Worthing Food and Drink Guide

Sunny Worthing Food and Drink Guide

We are the proud designers of the first ever Sunny Worthing Food and Drink Guide.

This interesting project utilised many skills from within our branding agency. First we created a concept for the front cover design, and one inside page. We wanted to promote the ‘Sunny Worthing’ them, so we added sun rays around the Worthing Town Centre Initiative logo. We then created a ’sea’ effect using a combination of illustrations and photo effects to create a rustic effect.

Next, to continue with the ’sunny’ theme, we created a ’sun’ with food objects such as strawberries and chillies. Once this concept was signed off, we then set to work importing all the catalogue data from Excel documents supplied by Worthing Town Centre Initiative. We set all the data in the listing style that had been approved by our client. This was a lengthy task as there are over 125 restaurant listings distributed over 40 pages!

The brochure was then printed with a lovely gloss laminated cover. The whole effect is stunning and we are immensely proud of it.

Manhattan Website Goes Live

It has been a big week of websites for The Brand Surgery. We are currently working on two new websites having just switched Manhattan’s website to ‘live’. It feels so good when we flick the switch! There is lots of testing before that happens though!

The Manhattan website is not just a pretty website, it is functional and is a persuasive sales aid for the Manhattan sales team. You can view the full product range and specifications, check out Manhattan credentials, browse the photo gallery and much more …

With this website, we followed the corporate identity which has already been in place for a number of years. Click here and see what you think. If you fancy a stylish and slick website like this for your business, you know where we are. Just a quick reminder: You can call us on 01903 824229 for an informal discussion.

Hey, here’s a brand new concept …

A branding agency that rewards you for referring your friends and networking buddies.

Simply pass The Brand Surgery referral card to your friends and networking buddies who you think would benefit from receiving our award-winning branding, logo design and website services. Your friend will receive a 10% discount off their very first order placed with us.

Remember to write YOUR name and  YOUR email address on the referral card because after we receive five referral cards with your details on the back, we will email you a voucher for one of our most popular services, each worth over £500:

Which reward will you choose?

• Five hours of design time (this would get you a bespoke double sided A4/A5 flyer or leaflet)

• E-marketing campaign software set-up (with username and password plus one hour of training time)

• One month of blog writing (one blog per week – great for improving your Google ranking)

Further referral cards can be posted or emailed to you by request.

Terms and Conditions:  (1) Referrals must be genuine. (2) Rewards can not be exchanged for money. (3)  Happy networking is essential.

The Brand Surgery has this week launched their Brand New Successfuel™ – fuel designed to make your business go the extra mile. The Brand Surgery recommends this award-winning blend of branding and website expertise to get success for your business. Want to know more? Call Vicky on 01903 824229 for more information.

Successfuel™ can help you with anything from branding, website design & development, logo design, marketing and many more of our exciting range of services. Just look below to see some of our most recent work:

Costa Oil Illustration and Packaging:

Costa Oil is Proto Restaurant Group’s brand new olive oil and it means a lot to owner Andy Sparsis. The Brand Surgery designed all the packaging and the oil logo to display the pride of the oil and show customers how special it really is.

Balik Spa Branding and Logo Design:

Balik Spa is a new Fish Pedicure Spa in Worthing. They came to The Brand Surgery to create a brand identity, logo design and website design. We have given them a funky website holding page whilst we work on their main website. Check it out here.

Manhattan Website:

Manhattan Furniture hasn’t had a new website for years and they felt it was time to give themselves a bit of an update so they came to The Brand Surgery. We recommend you refresh aspects of your brand every 2-3 years so we were very happy to help. The brand new website is due for launch in the next few weeks and everyone at Manhattan and The Brand Surgery are extremely excited about it.

Stagecoach Publishing and Website:

The Brand Surgery design the Stagecoach Coastliner and Buzz magazines for Stagecoach South. These magazines go out to all bus customers on the Coastliner services and are read by thousands of people. We have also been involved in the design and development of the Coastliner 700 website which gives you all the information you need on the route as well as adverts for various attractions along the way.

While we’re on the subject of success, Vicky Vaughan received her certificate for the NVQ Level 3 in Management she passed earlier on in the year. Everyone at The Brand Surgery is extremely proud of Vicky and we thought we’d share a picture of Vicky with her certificate:

Get yourself and your business successful with The Brand Surgery’s Successfuel™ – call us on 01903 824229 or email us at info@thebrandsurgery.co.uk for more information on Successfuel™, logo design, website design and development, branding and much more.

The Brand Surgery has been working on the new Proto Restaurant Group home page since the new year and are very excited to unveil it! Our brief was to jazz the welcome page up a bit, by making it interactive and fun. You can see the new look below – click on the image to visit Proto’s website and see how it all works!

New Proto Home Page

As you can see, the look is very different; each aspect is themed for the different restaurants in the group, with plenty of hand-drawn graphics and moving parts, the new welcome page is sure to be a hit with visitors!

Fancy making your own website look cool and funky? As well as website design and development, The Brand Surgery also offers logo and brochure design as well as blog writing and marketing. Phone The Brand Surgery, Sussex’s No. 1 award-winning branding agency on 01903 824229 for further information.

Below is the old Proto website home page.

Old Proto Home Page

In case you hadn’t noticed! We are offering Facebook branding as a new service. We have created Part 2 of our short presentation on colour psychology which you can view if you become a fan of our Facebook page. It is very important to use the correct colour for your logo design as colours influence different emotions. Once you have chosen your key colours, these can be used for your brochure design, website design, promotional products, uniform, signage and exhibition displays and banners. The list goes on …

Part 2 of the presentation on colour psychology studies the colours: Purple, grey, pink, brown, silver and gold! We not only tell you what each colour is good for, we have collated some of the world’s best logos into colour categories.

If you would like us to create a short presentation for your website or Facebook page – call Vicky on 01903 824229.

We are fortunate enough to be on the email circulation list of someone who sent us these advertisements. We felt obliged to share them with our readers! They are amazing! Who ever thought of this campaign deserves an award! This campaign would include great graphic design, illustration and creative thinking!

Look very closely – all these photos are of painted hands and fingers! And there are a few legs thrown in for good measure too.

Although, our branding agency in West Sussex, can’t scoop the reward for these amazing designs – we do have some pretty good ideas going on – whether it be logo design, web design, brochure design or stunning e-advertising. You can even hire us to take part in your business brain storming sessions … Don’t be shy! Give us a call on 01903 824229, then people will be talking about your brand too.

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Dateband website has gone live!

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Pan Asia group of Thai restaurants, Worthing and Lancing

Wow! Carabao’s new website is here. You need to visit this Thai Restaurant and Steak House in Worthing, West Sussex to experience the best Thai ever!

Do you know what Carabao means?

Wait for it … Carabao is a domesticated subspecies of the water buffalo found in Thailand. You can sample some organic buffalo on Carabao‘s main menu.

The Pan Asia group is a brand new chain of Thai restaurants in Worthing and Lancing consisting of: Carabao Thai Restaurant and Steak House, Mr Toy’s Flying Wok (opening soon), and Tuk Tuk Kitchen.

So why have we used an elephant for the Pan Asia logo?

Well … This stylish restaurant has a room upstairs called The King’s Room. You get to The King’s Room via the funky spiral staircase which runs up from the middle of the ground floor restaurant. In The King’s Room, you will find an elephant statue. We created the logo from a photo of the elephant which is up in The King’s room. Clever hey!

Carabao is great for a romantic evening out, an office party, and even a spot of business networking in The Kings Room. Carabao Thai Restaurant and Steak House are taking Christmas party bookings now. The Christmas menu will soon be published on the website.

You can view the full menu online and see the different food available. From Grilled Prime Sirloin Wrapped with Betel Nut Leaf to the vegetarian menu and the lunch time express menu.

In the meantime, if you need to market your business or your business website needs a rebrand, give us a call on 01903 824229 now for a free informal discussion. The Carabao website uses our CMS (content management system) admin system so our customer can update his menus himself, Wordpress blog setup for excellent SEO and Google rankings, e-marketing setup to encourage visitors to the Carabao website, and of course all our websites are W3C tested which means our website pages are of the highest quality.

© The Brand Surgery, website design and web development based in Worthing, Sussex. Serving the south east including Arundel, Billingshurst, Bognor Regis, Brighton, Chichester, Littlehampton, Shoreham by Sea, Steyning, Storrington and Worthing.

Worthing Idol 2010 is nearly upon us. Wow! What an experience it has been organising a talent show on behalf of my charity, Talent Within You – if you need a launch party organising – now you know who to call: The Brand Surgery!

Worthing Idol takes place at Worthing Lido on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2010 between 12 noon and 3.30pm. It has already been pointed out that Lido is an anagram of Idol – so the location was obviously meant to be. We are all doing a ’sun dance’ in the office so that the weather is nice to us on Monday.

The line-up for Worthing Idol 2010 is amazing. You can click here to see it. Simon Cowell would be most envious if he saw the show – it is official – Worthing has definitely got talent!

Here is a movie clip of round 2 of the Worthing Idol auditions.

The Brand Surgery team have played a major role in the preparation of this event.

• Logo design and branding
• Website design and development
• Blogging and Facebooking campaigns
• T-shirt and banner design
• Marketing collateral
• Press releases and all PR
• Event planning

I was listening to the BBC World News this morning, and the news story about the BlackBerry ban in Saudi Arabia sparked an interest.

From the BBC website: A ban on the use of Blackberry phones to send and receive messages is being rolled out in Saudi Arabia, users say. State-owned phone operator Saudi Telecom has blocked text, e-mail, web surfing and instant messenger functions, users in the kingdom have told the BBC.”

Two things ran through my mind …

1. This news story shows how some circumstances (political and/or reglious reasons) are completely beyond our control and this can affect our brand – for better or worse! In my  book, DO A MADONNA!™, I recommend that all businesses should perform a PEST analysis on their brand as well as their business.How will this ban affect their sales? How will the ban affect the brand image in Saudi Arabia, or across the middle East. The good news is that the PR has promoted the Blackberry brand across the rest of the world. These are important subjects to consider when you go into business. I wonder what would happen if our government banned junk mail. After all, a ban would save on recycling costs, trees and print chemicals. It would be disastrous for many printers and designers who could go out of business if they didn’t have a contingency plan in place.
2. The name of brands is very interesting. Do you remember the film Crocodile Dundee? When an American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City? Do you remember how Michael J. “Crocodile” Dundee struggled in our modern jungle? Crocodile Dundee was released in 1986, the same year as the internet. However, the internet didn’t become common until at least ten years later. Can you imagine how funny Crocodile Dundee would be if they re-released it now? What would Mr Dundee (Paul Hogan) make of Blackberry, Orange, Apple, Windows, web, O2 and even Twitter? If you said to Mr Dundee: “I’m going to Twitter today using web on my Blackberry, which is hosted by Orange”. What would he be thinking?:Twitter used to be a verb: to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter, to titter; giggle. So is twitter a good name for such a powerful form of social media? Social media experts promote Twitter as a phenomenon in business communication and networking. It is amazing that such a powerful brand wasn’t called roar or something loud!With the above said, Twitter has taken off, as have Blackberry, Orange, Apple, Windows, web, O2 and even Twitter!

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