The French Riviera’s best kept secret has just been revealed – Welcome the Ellisium Partners.

For all of you who haven’t yet heard the whispers and gossip in the luxury market circles here on the south coast, the Ellisium Partners are taking the Côte d’Azur by storm. The idea behind the company started bearing fruit towards the end of 2009 within the luxury market circles – having already signed up some of the areas finest (in the luxury property sales, rentals, technology, finance and architecture markets) the list of companies wanting to join the partnership is growing…

The Ellisium Partners have a bold mission statement:
“We understand that our clients have exacting standards, at Ellisium Partners, so do we.”

Pure Design are delighted to reveal their partnership with the Ellisium Partners as their preferred and recommended supplier of website design and graphic design materials. We will also be on hand to supply luxury printed materials and offer excellent rates to the partners. Working together with MMMarketing, the Ellisium Partnership’s future looks bright…

Welcome to February 2010… 6 days into the month, 37 days into the year… better late than never!

The year has started off at a similar pace we finished 2009 with…. we’ve already signed a new website deal with a luxury yachting company, launched the best kept secret on the French Riviera – Ellisium Partners will be the next big thing on the Cote d’Azur.  We’ve even rebranded Maria McLean Marketing, Cote d’Azur Villas, Ellisium, Town & Country Property France, BELLISSIMA, ISI, French Dressing and the Yacht Café.

Our web projects have been as impressive too – in the next few weeks we will be launching the new website for MZArchitecture, on the back of their new marketing campaign.  The Ellisium Partners website is up and running and already bringing in some impressive traffic analytics.  Elite Estates and Luxury French Property are two websites we are happy to showcase this month as well as the brochure website Photolumiere for photographer Pat Denton.  The BELLISSIMA Babe website is a developing monster – launched on the 1st January 2010 we are constantly updating pages with new content.

Our largest project in January was the franchise launch of Envirocare Maintenance Solutions.  An established Grounds Maintenance company based in the UK, from the 1st Feb 2010 they opened their doors to the Franchising world.  We worked with Envirocare hand in hand on their online marketing, printed material, nationwide press advertising and rebrand.  All the best to David and his team with this new venture.

We even opened a new office in Provence to cater for the growing website design and advertising needs over in the area – our clients now range from Monaco to Nice, Antibes to Cannes, Mougins to Grasse and now St. Tropez to Cotignac.

On a more personal note, 2010 has started well.  We have our second baby due in 3 weeks although complications mean we might be seeing Collison N˚2 sooner than expected.  Moving house has allowed us to spend more time together as a family and experience a new area of the south of France.

Apologies for the radio silence over the last 5 weeks… its great to be back!

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Following our recent post featuring some brilliant business card designs, our team have researched the lengths you can go to regarding brand identity and business card presentation.

The following photos show edible  business cards, useful business cards and amazing concept planning….

As the conference season starts in Cannes on the French Riviera, many companies are preparing their pitch to the millions of visitors to the Palais.

The stand designs should have been organised and booked in advance, the client list invitations should have been sent, the flights should have been reserved and paid for….. everything should be ready in place. [Read more →]

Well as we pack our final box of cables and mouse mats I thought I’d leave you with a couple of brilliant business card designs.  I’d love to say they were designed by our creative department, but they were sent to me by a partner agency, and I thought I’d share them with you.

The packing has carried on through the night with boxes mounting around us, the Apple Macs being the last boxes to fill….

During the packing some of the smaller members of our team were packed away making a calmer move possible : )

Our new phone number will be:
+33 (0)970 446 297

Pure Design visited Nicky Hooper (managing director of The Cutting Shop in Antibes) this afternoon to draw the winner of the September FREE Business Card competition.

This month we decided to draw 2 winners, and the lucky names were:

Victoria Tristram from VCT Design

Kerry Bracken from Katapult

Thanks to Nicky and her team for taking the time out to help with our latest competition.  The Cutting Shop is located at 7 rue Thuret – 06600 Vieil Antibes and has been open for over 15 years.  With almost 20 staff in the Salon, The Cutting Shop provides a boutique service from hair and beauty to nails and online shopping.

We are also offering a special offer to all our competition entries – 50% off their next business card print order (offer ends 1 Jan 2010).

Over the last few weeks we have been building up our online social network in an attempt to reach clients at every level, and by every means.

Our Twitter page  will keep you up to date with our daily schedule as well as recommending articles from colleagues and design partners.

Our Facebook page will keep clients up to date with evolving projects as well as an online portfolio of past and present work.

Our Linkedin page allows clients and visitors to connect with the Pure Design Creative Director Ben Collison.  Linkedin is a tool that helps you discover inside connections and build a trusted network of contacts.

Our RSS feed allows visitors to subscribe to our news blog.  Written by Creative Director Ben Collison, the news blog brings you up to date with the latest Pure Design offers, competitions and design news on the French Riviera.

We are proud to announce the launch of the Pure Design website in French.  After a few weeks of hard graft translating the wording, meta information and links we are pleased to be able to reach out to our French audience requiring website design, advertising or print here on the French Riviera.

The online blog will remain in English but any important announcements or competitions will now be made available to any French visitors to the site.

Thanks to our translation partners whose website will soon be online – check back here for launch dates and details.

Amusez-vous bien!

Its that time again and Pure Design International are offering another chance to win 500 Full Colour Business Cards.

The cards will be professionally designed by one of our team (or we can use your standing artwork if necessary) and then printed free of charge – we even throw free delivery in too.

The Full Colour Business cards will be 2 sided, Matt Laminated and printed on a weighty 350g board.

There is no catch, no hidden costs, just the guys at Pure Design feeling like being kind…. With our latest campaign ‘Grow your Own Business’, feel free to get your fingers green and request ‘Green Friendly’ printed business cards – printed on recycled paper – and save a few trees!

Just enter your name and brief message below – maybe even throw in a ‘joke of the day’ to brighten everyone’s day up – rude jokes will be deleted as we are a family friendly agency : )

The winner will be draw out of a hat by last times winner – the Cutting Shop – on the 9th October.