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How important is your business card?
When was the last time someone gave you a business card? Â I am sat here trying to think when 'my last time' was, and I realise it was Tuesday night - a friend of mine (who funnily enough has just started up his own design company) gave me his new card and explained...
Welcome to 2009…
So here we are 7 days into 2009. Â We closed our doors over Xmas and New Year and enjoyed a nice relaxing time back in Preston in the UK with the family. Â I managed to get through all my "to do's" from my list this time: - drinking locally brewed beer, playing the...
Search Engine Optimisation French Riviera
In November of this year Google released its first official guide to Search Engine Optimisation in the form of a 22 page PDF  - Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. The guide is well written and offers excellent basic advice on such topics as Page Titles,...
The Big Blue Bijou Movement
BBB - Big Blue Bijou is one of the most exciting brands to arrive on the French Riviera. Founded by Jessica Dash, the Bijou brand is the next Big thing in events and luxury breaks in the south of France. We were commissioned with the project of rebranding across the...
Five Years On
On the 9th November 2003 we packed our little Corsa up and set off down the M6 heading for the south of France. Today, we have celebrated 5 years in France with a warm baguette, slab of cheese and some cheap, but rather lovely red wine. Our 5 year anniversary in...
The Future of Advertising in France
On a recent visit to the UK I was browsing the latest Easyjet Inflight Magazine when I stumbled upon a very interesting article - All Ads Up. The article begins: "No more big board room pitches, no insider dealing, no limit the pool of possible solutions to the brief,...
Do Not Disturb!!!
Between email, MSN, Skype, SMS, and the office phone, I am pretty well "connected". In fact, just flying over to the UK recently was strange as I was “offline†for four hours at a time! Wooooohhhhhh, shock, horror!!!! Many people nowadays expect an immediate...
The changing world of print
"I need 1000 business cards, full colour both sides, printing for this afternoon"....10 years ago you would have been laughed at and told to wait the usual 2 weeks like everyone else. But nowadays with changing technology, the impossible is becoming possible, and...
Pure Design International ‘New’ Website Launch
As the whole of France gets back to work this September, we at Pure Design International have been busy developing our new company website during the summer. Packed full of new features and built with pure CSS and XHTML, the new website presents recent work...