MDE Emergency Xmas Card

We help people get their message to their audience all year round, and the festive season is no exception! We've all been there - forgotten someone's Christmas card and no time to buy them one. We designed a solution just for this festive problem - The MDE Emergency Xmas Card.

With customisable card stickers for a wide ranging audience we hope we might help get a few people out of a sticky situation this year. From your bank manager to mother in law - there's a design suitable for everyone!

Simply peel off the sticker's backing and apply to the card, then using the supplied envelope present to your 'lovingly forgotten one' and crisis averted.

We sent a tonne of these out last week, but we've still got a few left and if you'd like one please do drop us an email or tweet and we'll happily mail one out to you.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The ultimate selection box?...

What would be in your ultimate selection box come Christmas Day?...

There's always one or two bars in that selection box that by the time Boxing Day rolls around you're trying to trade off for half of your Dad's chocolate orange.

So we thought, being the selfless human beings we are - we'd work out what we'd all really like to see in our selection boxes. Enter the column of chocolate...

Top of the column = high trade value :)

The lower you go, well - maybe the dog will have it.

Here is Dave pondering over the current leader board. We'll keep you updated week by week, and if you're outraged by our current scoring then by all means bring your argument to the table ;)

"Little Printer"

Lovely idea from Berg a cute little printer that delivers your chosen daily info from the web. Plenty of arguments for / against how useful this is in a world where we digest a lot of info in any one day - but I think it's simply a great bit of design. Does the job in a fun and engaging way, and frankly - I want one!

Check it out in action in this video:

Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

MDE Xmas Treat!

We're about to send our little Christmas mailer off to print and we couldn't resist giving you a sneaky peek of the mock up :)

As soon as these are back from press and in the post we'll put up some more revealing pictures. We've got a few interesting client's xmas jobs at the printers this week too, and with talk of Christmas drinks and decorating the studio flying around we're starting to feel quite festive in here.

Karl.

Vision Conference 2011

Fantastic first day downstairs in the Arnolfini at the Vision Conference 2011. Some really inspiring talks on creativity, innovation and running a creative business. Looking forward to more talks this evening, a spot of dinner and some creative banter in the bar later on. Best get back downstairs then...

Karl.

Our new business cards

Our new business cards, with a little personal 'insight' into the individual. Giving a little hint to one of the parts of our new website these fresh new business cards all have a little illustration showing an insight into the individual's hobbies beyond design.

Karl.

HSP Re-brand & Exhibition Design

A few pics from the re-brand and exhibition design we did this year for HSP - one of the world's leading distributors of valve solutions for the energy business. Beyond all the obvious brand, print, web and exhibition design we delivered - we also produced quite a unique handout in the form of the HSP Survival Pack.

What more could you need on a long day at an exhibition that spans over 5 halls? Food? Water? And a map?! Well, with HSP being a service driven company, and positioned right at the entrance area we thought giving food, water and a map rather fitted the bill. Over 2000 of the packs went out across the 3 day show and raised many a smile, kept the troops going and helped raise HSP's profile at one of the industries biggest shows in Europe.

And to keep track of the investment, we also issued exclusive HSP USB pen drives with technology behind them to enable us to not only drive traffic to their new website, but track the traffic driven by the USB pens (and of course - the show) independently of the other website traffic. A small but important step to helping HSP measure a return from the brand and exhibition investment.

Karl.

Marketing / Admin Assistant Wanted (Part time)

We're in need of a talented and lovely admin type person to help us with all sorts of challenging, exciting and (some) boring things for 2 days every other week here in the MDE studio. The successful candidate will be required to carry out general administrative duties and to get stuck in when it comes to helping us grow the business.

A passion for business, a high level of organisational skills, a strong work ethic and a serious amount of self motivation are a must. And of course an interest or experience within the design market would be nice - but by no means necessary. This is an admin and marketing role and shouldn't be confused with being a route to any design roles (sorry designers!).

The full job description can be downloaded here.

I look forward to looking through the applications and please do pass this onto anyone you may know who might be suitable.

Karl.

Crazy Pumpkins

I know halloween is a distant memory now, but check out these amazing pumpkin carvings I found online today!

Luke.

First bit of print for new brand

Always nice to see our work in print, and whilst at a client's today I finally saw some bits and bobs of print with their lovely new branding on. Really loved this branding job, and the whole package looks incredible - very simple and clean. We'll show the whole case study on the new website soon, but in the mean time heres a couple of snaps of their stationery.

WEDF Typography Talk

A full house last night downstairs at the Arnolfini for WEDF's latest evening of design related talks. Last night was a typography special (strictly for the nerdiest of us designers!), only for people who find themselves frequently saying things like "ohh, look at that kerning" or "mmm, nice use of Gill that" - so we fitted right in!

Inspiring and in depth talks by David Quay and Jeremy Tankard, discussing the City of Bath's signage and a 5 year type design project. They've got a few pics up on Facebook so take a gander!

We love the WEDF's events, and overall they're doing a fantastic thing for the design scene down here in Bristol. Make sure you get signed up to their newsletter for the latest events - and make sure you don't miss next months - a Christmas special with the founder of 'Home' agency speaking, and then a bit of an after party in the Arnolfini bar. Entitled 'Designer Djs', I will, along with a few others, be making some loud noises on the decks to get the festive party going - one not to be missed! KL

Introducing the Douglas Halocator!

Our lovely new clients Douglas Equipment are one of the world's largest manufacturers of aircraft ground equipment. Which, in short, means that all those massive tractors you see pulling airplanes around and ferrying your luggage across the runway - are in the most part, made by these clever chaps up in Cheltenham!

The first of many jobs for Douglas, a mailer to be given out at an exhibition in Munich next week promoting their new safety system. After a couple of hours in the boardroom throwing ideas around the brand name "Halocator" and a mailer concept was brought to life. And we turned the whole job around for them in record time - 3 weeks from initial meeting to having the final print in a crate on route to Munich! Not bad eh! I'd like to say a big thank you to all involved, Luke in the studio and the guys at Hartley Wilprint for turning a die cut job around so fast.

I'm off to Munich next week for meetings at the show so I'm looking forward to seeing the finished job being handed out. (And maybe getting a ride in one of the trucks!)

Karl.