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

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

TalentWithinYou is now officially LIVE!

Visit our brand new website to find out more about Talent Within You, and how we helped Jack Ford. If you’ve got a talent why not register on our new website and chat to other talented kids, add applications and widgets to your profile page, upload pictures, videos and much more!

To contact us about your talent you can use our online form.

To register for Talent Within You click here.

Talent Within You finds, helps and cares for children who have a special talent. We believe that every child has a talent no matter what. It is our job to unleash that talent and help to develop it.

Talent Within You has achieved Gift Aid status

The Brand Surgery have been working hard to get Talent Within You off the ground so we can start receiving donations. The website will be live very soon and businesses will be able to choose the child they sponsor, and then also check a Gift Aid box which means we can claim tax and more money will go towards Jack Ford and talented children like Jack Ford, Worthing’s potential British ice-skating champion.

The Talent Within You website also comprises:

• A community-style website so talented kids can talk to one another
• Animated banner graphics
• Search-engine optimised copywriting
• Stunning photography taken by our very own in-house photographer
• Excellent graphic design and Talent Within You logo and branding
• Paypal gateway for donations and sponsorship
• Blog writing for SEO

The Talent Within You website is a community-style website with the functionality of Facebook, such as user feeds and group and page creation. You will also be able to create your personal easy-customisable profiles (drag and drop design facility) as well as take advantage of the photo album facility and also add a video onto your profile page.

So, you will soon see what The Brand Surgery (website design company in Worthing, West Sussex) have done for the launch of Talent Within You. Let us help launch your business too.

Call Vicky at The Brand Surgery on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.

We have an extra special Valentine gift for all our new and existing customers – because we love you! How does 20% off all our design fees for any project designed in February sound?

We may be mad, but the 20% discount is available on our our graphic design work. This includes:

• Logo design
• Website design
• Brochure design
• Leaflet design
• Exhibition graphics design

So now, you’ve got no excuse not to love your business! Don’t delay any longer, let our  branding and website agency, based in Worthing, West Sussex give your marketing collateral the kiss of life, while you enjoy a spot of loving.

If you want something designed which is not mentioned in the list above, give us a call on 01903 824229 or email: vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk. and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.

Here is a testimonial letter from our client, Robb Harris, Astute Investment Planning!

Dear Vicky

The invitations for Benn’s party were just perfect. On a business note, I would like to say that I have received a number of compliments regarding my stationery. I have been told that the branding looks extremely professional, fresh, modern and striking. I would have no question in recommending your services to anyone who is seeking either a rebrand or a start up.
Kind regards
Robb Harris

Need we say more?

Astute Investment logo design and corporate identity

The silly season has arrived! We have decided not to send paper Christmas cards this year! Instead, we are saving the planet with these silly video greetings from Jib Jab.

Don’t forget our wonderful pre-Christmas offers. You will have bundles of fun! Click here to see these amazing marketing offers – only valid until this Friday. They include design and print – including posters, roll-up banners, flyers, leaflets, stationery and logo design. You can also add our business website design and development packages to these bundles.

You can always reserve these packages by paying a small deposit now and starting them in the new year when you’ve had a good rest. So if your business could do with a freshen up, give us a call on 01903 824229.

Click on the arrow to see our special Christmas greeting. Enjoy the festivities!

We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Best Business Marketing and Promotion Award in the 2009 Worthing Business Awards. We have so many people to thank: Firstly, we thank everyone that nominated us in this category, we are really chuffed. Secondly, Arundel Trophy and Engraving Centre who kindly sponsored this award. We thank all the organisers of this year’s business awards – they were spectacular and Fred Dinenage was very funny when presenting our award. Finally, thank you to all my friends and family for supporting me during these testing times.

Our Marketing Philosophy

This has been a tough year for many businesses and this prestigious award has really strengthened our belief in the old but excellent philosophy of Givers Gain. 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 automatically raises our profile. This is perfect marketing! Clients we have helped have passed our name to businesses that want to grow and need marketing help.

We have advised all of our clients that good marketing and promotions is key to standing out, especially when the economy is tough. Customers are going to buy from businesses that look professional, well-known and trusted. All of our customers that have taken our marketing advice are thriving through the recession. We advise them to invest what they can afford, and ask the question: Can they afford not to invest? We are honest and independent, and if we think a client should invest either in radio advertising or telephone canvassing or a
PR stunt, then that is what we recommend.

Charity Events and Organic PR

The Brand Surgery have always re-invested their profits back into self-marketing and promotions – albeit in the form of corporate sponsorship (we design graphics pro bono for the End of the Pier Film Festival), or by the boss throwing herself off Worthing Pier in Worthing International Birdman (for charity and in turn good PR).

We have also created stunning exhibition graphic design which has won us ‘Best Stand’ at business exhibitions, this in turn has secured us some large business deals. Perfect marketing!

We believe that we need to lead by example. Everything we advise our clients to do, we do for ourselves. In fact we test all of our advice out on The Brand Surgery before we let loose on our clients – from customer care to the envelopes we post our marketing packs in – marketing and promoting oneself – give as you would like to receive is our motto for marketing success.

If you would like to discuss how our award-winning marketing and promotions services could benefit your business, please call us on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.

The Brand Surgery and Fred Dinenage

Branding magic

We started working with magicman® last year. The brief was to take this amazing company to the next level whilst sticking to a realistic budget. We have now finished the logo, stationery and are currently working on the brochures and website which are due to be launched shortly. You may well of driven past the striking magicman® livery which we also designed.

magicman® are a repair and resurfacing specialist company and are the UK’s only ISO-9001:2000 registered construction repair company. So if you have any chips or dents in your doors, flooring, kitchen units & worktops, baths showers basins, uPVC, ceramic tiles, facades, cladding, powder coating, bath, magicman® are your solution.

magicman® work with both the domestic and commercial sectors, so the brief requested that we create a logo which would appeal to everyone. magicman® work with many industries including construction, insurance, government and residential markets across the UK. magicman’s® purpose is to repair damaged items in situ by our nationwide team of technicians – so you can save money by avoiding replacing items of furniture.

If you would like The Brand Surgery® to take your business to the next level, let us evolve and refresh your logo, marketing collateral and website. Call us now for a free confidential chat on 01903 824229.

WORTHING LEISURE CENTRE BROCHURE DESIGN

Welcome to our latest rebrand – Worthing Leisure Centres and Fit 4. Fit 4 is an all inclusive membership which can be used at any of Worthing Leisure’s four sites: Worthing Leisure Centre, Aquarena, Davison Leisure Centre and Field Place Arts and Sports Complex.

Our design explained: We created a bright citrussy colour for each of the four centres which would be used throughout the brochures. We have also used one of our favourite fonts throughout the brochure, which gives the whole project a clean, sleek feel. We have created ‘branded’ cartons and water bottles to give Worthing Leisure an upmarket club feel. With increased stiff competition from private health clubs, we feel we have certainly put Worthing Leisure back on the map again! Our branding has also been used on the Worthing Leisure website.

If you would like The Brand Surgery to design your brochures, leaflets, and sales literature to give them a a breath of fresh air, then call Vicky on 01903 824229 for a confidential chat.