2009 - The Story So Far
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We've spent the year focusing on what we
do best, streamlining our operation and moving into new areas such as PR,
Marketing and Web Development, all of which, hopefully, will set us up for the
year to come. Here are just a few of our major success stories from 2009.
New PR
Manager Appointed
We've augmented our team with a senior PR
Manager who is also helping us with new business development. An experienced
practitioner with a wide range of projects under her belt, Viv is a strong
addition to the team.
Beeston BID
We tendered successfully for the branding
and development of the new logo and promotional materials for this new
initiative designed to bring major improvements to the town of Beeston, where
PNDesign is based. We are now busy promoting the BID in its pre-start phase and
hope to continue working with them for the duration of the 5-year contract.
Enterprise Inns - Plan-it
We started work on this monthly trade
magazine way back in 2002 when Paul worked from home. We kept the
contract until 2007 when we lost it to another agency but we're extremely happy
to have won it back!
NEBA
Website
We partnered with local web developers,
Webfuel, to tender for this major project for Nottingham Education and Business
Partnership. PNDesign produced the design and developed the inner
pages, whilst the talented team at Webfuel turned it into a complex yet easy to
use CMS website, to be launched in the New Year.
Stockholm Congress
Our main client INSOL Europe held their
annual congress in Stockholm this year, and as in previous years we
designed and produced all the branding, promotional and delegate materials for the event.
For more info about all these projects visit our website, www.pndesign.co.uk
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About Us - Did you know?
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We are only a
small team at PNDesign, but the amount of work we get through is truly
phenomenal. We each play our parts and teamwork is our biggest strength, but
here are a couple of insider facts about the voices on the end of the phone...  Paul Newson, Founder & MD, grew up
in Cumbria, moved to Newcastle to study Graphic Design and now lives in
Nottingham with his family. He would really like a small-holding in the country
but still manages to keep four chickens in his back garden.
Louise Connors, Designer, lives in
a trendy town-centre apartment where the Sainsbury's deli counter is only a
hop and a skip away. Being a twin means she is ultra-competitive and hates
having to share presents with her sister. 
Laura Chadwick, Designer, lives
at home in Derby, likes fast cars and slow Mediterranean cruises. At work she
specialises in illustrations and food packaging, though her biggest challenge is
resisting eating the products themselves. 
Vivienne Tregidga, Marketing & PR Manager likes nothing better than arranging charity do's with free food, free wine and plenty of flash motors to try out. Currently driving an MX5, she is hoping to upgrade to a Ferrari when she grows up.
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But what about Christmas?
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 Enough about us, here are some very interesting factoids about Christmas you might like to pass onto your colleagues...
Boxing Day
The day after Christmas Day got its name from the tradition of giving gifts
of cash, food, clothing and other goods to the less fortunate, which were
placed into boxes for easier transportation (the presents that is, not the less fortunate!).
Christmas Cards
In
1843 the first Christmas card was created on the instructions of an Englishman,
Sir Henry Cole. Postmen
in Victorian England were popularly called "robins" because of their red
uniforms, hence Victorian Christmas cards often showed a robin delivering cards
on Christmas morning.
Christmas Crackers
During
a visit to Paris in 1846 Thomas Smith came across the bob-bon, a sugar almond
wrapped in tissue paper with a twist at either side of a centrally placed
sweet. Thomas started selling similarly wrapped sweets in the lead up to
Christmas. Later he came up with the idea of including a motto or
love poem.
In
about 1860 Thomas added the banger and the sweets soon became known as Crackers. Thomas's sons added the paper hat in
the 1900's and by the end of the 1930's the love poems had been replaced by
jokes or limericks.
White Christmas
At
no period in the last 250 years has the Christmas holiday been a particularly
snowy one, and those familiar Christmas card snow scenes are very much the
exception rather than the rule. England has only known seven white Christmases
in the entire twentieth century. According to the Met
Office in London, snow fell on Christmas Day only in 1938 and 1976.
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