The Brand Surgery - Branding Agency, Graphic Design and Website Design in Worthing, West Sussex

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 designing away at the packaging for Proto Restaurant Groups new oil, ‘Costa Oil’ and it’s now nearly ready for it’s launch.

Proto Restaurant Group owner Andy Sparsis and his family have always been involved in producing high quality food and cuisine and over the last few years have been working hard to achieve European statorship for their land in Cyprus in order to produce ‘Costa Oil’ and as such the oil will be marketed here in the UK.

So here’s a little preview of some of the artwork we have been designing for the oil:

Costa's Liquid Gold Olive Oil

Proto Restaurant Group came to The Brand Surgery for this project as it is something very close to the heart of Andy Sparsis – the groups owner – and they needed a company they could trust to encapsulate the concept of the oil.

The Sparsis family believe the secret of the successful olive oil comes not only from the land, but from the centuries of people whom have devoted their lives to the nurturing and devotion to what they believe, and still believe in today and they wish you to enjoy this oil with your family and friends.

The Brand Surgery have worked closely with Proto on several other projects such as designing and developing their new website as well as continuous blogging as part of our successful SEO scheme so it seemed right for us to continue our fantastic working relationship through the birth of ‘Costa Oil’.

If you need some artwork, illustrations or package designs get in touch with Vicky Vaughan on 01903 824229 or email us at info@thebrandsurgery.co.uk

The Brand Surgery has been extremely busy over the last few weeks with logo designs, press releases, magazines, charity work and blogging and we thought it was about time we let you in on what your favourite award-winning branding agency has been up to!

Anyone celebrating the Royal Wedding this year? Why not come to the Royal Wedding Picnic on Broadwater Green?  We have been organising the event as well as promoting it with our fantastic PR, not to mention coming up with a fantastic logo for the day! The event promises to be a special occasion with entertainment from Splash FM’s Simon Osborne and Dave Hunt, Children’s Entertainer Dave Benson Phillips and live music from last year’s Worthing Idol winner, Rebecca Buxton. The picnic and entertainment will be running from 4pm-9pm allowing you to watch the wedding at home and then enjoy the bank holiday in the sunshine with The Brand Surgery, Splash FM and Worthing Borough Council.

Speaking of Worthing Idol, with this year’s competition, The Brand Surgery is in the community again! We were so happy with the way last year’s competition went, we felt we had to get involved again this year! The date has yet to be announced but Worthing Idol is already looking for contestants so visit Talent Within You website (designed by The Brand Surgery) for more information. Make sure you keep checking our website as well, as we have some exciting news to announce in the coming weeks, watch this space!

Do you use the Stagecoach Coastliner buses? Yes? Well you’ve probably seen our work then! Our illustrations are all over the back of the buses and as part of our ongoing relationship with Stagecoach, we produce their magazines, aimed at providing bus users with offers, competitions and information about attractions along the coast. We have been copy-writing, designing, publishing and printing the Coastliner, Buzz East Sussex and Buzz East Kent magazines, covering a massive area from Margate to Portsmouth including places such as Canterbury, Rye, Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton, Worthing (of course), Chichester and many more places between. You can find our latest magazines from April-September on all the Coastliner buses and in various tourist information centres and bus stops. We have also been putting our web design and development skills to use by launching the  Coastliner 700 website.

Buzz East Sussex

In addition to all of this fantastic and exciting stuff, The Brand Surgery has been continuing with it’s normal high quality blogging services, keeping AVS Fencing and Proto Restaurant Group at the top of Google search results for their chosen search terms.

Does your company need a re-brand? How about a new logo? Maybe a new website? If you answered yes to any of those questions or are interested in PR work, copy-writing, magazine and advert design, SEO or any of our other fantastic services, please phone Vicky Vaughan on 01903 824229 or email us at info@thebrandsurgery.co.uk; as part of our commitment to great customer service, we aim to respond to all enquiries within one working day.

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

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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This package is ideal for smaller businesses who may simply want to ‘freshen’ up their logo. What is included: Our award-winning designers will refresh your existing logo and bring it up-to-date through a secret blend of font and shape evolvement. No research is included. Only £585 incl. VAT. Upgrade to Lite Design & Print Package: lite logo design, roll-up banner, stationery, flyer design and print, all for only £2350 incl. VAT

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Our award-winning designers will give your business a complete re-brand which will include five logo designs and web-based research on your competitors and target market. This package includes two set of client amendments. We currently have very good discounts on brochures and leaflets to complement your logo. Phone 01903 824229 for further details. This package starts from £1200 incl. VAT.

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Ideal for established businesses who have brochures so old that the moths fly out! Our award-winning team will look at your entire business image. This package includes branding consultation including focus group advice, research, logo design. Corporate branding toolbox add-ons available. Call 01903 824229 for further information. Prices start from £2500 incl. VAT.

Vicky is studying an NVQ Level 3 in Management courtesy of Train as you Gain at Northbrook College. This has been excellent for The Brand Surgery as we have been revising our business plans which includes our mission statement.

We all know that in marketing we should use the KISS method – Keep It Simple Stupid! or Keep it Simple & Straightforward is the more polite version. We have applied this theory to our new Mission Statement which is:

The Brand Surgery brings branding excellence at affordable prices to all businesses in Great Britain.

You can’t get much clearer than that! We bring the same jargon free business ethics to all of our services. If this is the first time you have discovered our blog, here is a little more about The Brand Surgery.

The Brand Surgery is a branding agency and offers services such as: Branding consultancy, logo design, design for print, website design & development, PR services, e-marketing services, blog writing services, copywriting services, photography, Illustration and SMS marketing
The Brand Surgery believes in the principle of Givers Gain. We give branding advice and give help to businesses by offering high-end branding services at realistic prices. Our tried-and-tested formula to marketing is HONESTY and HELPING OTHERS. We help businesses and we put ourselves in their shoes. We believe that using honesty when helping our clients with their marketing and promotions is the way forward.

Clients we have helped are so pleased with our expertise that they have passed our name to other businesses that also want to grow. We have advised all of our clients that good branding, marketing and promotions is the key to standing out, especially when the economy is tough. Customers are going to buy from businesses that look professional and established. The customers that have taken our branding advice have thrived throughout the recession.

Everything we advise our clients to do, we test on our business first – from customer care to the envelopes we post our marketing packs in. Give as you would like to receive is our motto for helping businesses to grow.

If you like our business philosophy, then we would love to work with you. Visit our website on www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk or call 01903 824229. We hope you enjoy looking at the rest of our website.

Rebranded Coastliner buses are launched

As you may know, we publish the Coastliners Magazine on behalf of Stagecoach, with our sister company Pulse.

We always work hard to ensure the cover of the magazine will not date – especially as the Coastliners magazine has a shelf-life of six months. Although this magazine ran over Christmas, we didn’t want to make the cover too Christmassy as it had to last through to March 2010.

Hidden illustration talent

The boss – and original Brand Doctor, Vicky Vaughan, decided it was time to unveil her hidden illustration talents and created the above masterpiece! Wow! She illustrated the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth and The Brighton Dome, which represented the Coastliner route from end-to-end.  The added benefit of this illustrated cover design, was that the colours Vicky chose, followed the Stagecoach South corporate identity and  branding. The cover was presented to our client, approved, then printed and is actually still in circulation now.

Not long after the magazines were printed, we received a call from Stagecoach South, who were so impressed with Vicky’s illustrations, they commissioned her to illustrate six further landmarks across the south coast in the same style as she created for the cover.

Official launch of illustrations

Illustrations of landmarks along the Coastliners route

We’ve been keeping this work top secret at the request of our client, until now! At last, we have been given permission to tell the world about where the landmarks would appear. As you can see in the photo above, Vicky’s illustrations were part of a design for Coastliner buses.

There are 40 buses in total which will be wrapped in this unique design, and there are four different designs:

• Worthing
• Brighton
• Chichester
• Portsmouth

Vicky says: “I was so proud to see the illustrations in their finished format. The illustrations took a long time, especially the HMS Victory with all it’s ropes, and the Chichester Market Cross with all the fine detail. It was so worth it, so see my illustrations printed so large. I believe these buses will be cruising across from Brighton to Portsmouth for the next few years, and I certainly won’t mind being stuck behind one of the Coastliner buses in future!”

Illustrations can be used for a number of marketing solutions

Now we have unleashed this creative talent from Queen Vic, why not consider commissioning Vicky to do one for you. Illustrations are excellent for:

• Websites
• Brochures and leaflets
• Posters
• Newsletters and magazines
• Books
• Exhibition graphics
• Livery signage
• Packaging

Illustrations of landmarks along the Coastliners route