We were approached by author and physiotherapist Nick Sinfield with a solid concept for a book about a new approach to solving back pain. After reviewing his text and system, we planned, photographed, designed and artworked a 100 page book ready for self publication by Nick’s company Therapy Programmes Ltd. The book has become a great success is on its second print run.

To support the sales of the book we created a simple website that allows direct purchases of the book through PayPal.

Get your copy of this great book at: www.backpaincompany.com

A long standing client of Provide Design, Dunstable College are evolving. Taking on new campuses and expanding their coverage meant that they were no longer a college for a single town, but a college for Central Bedfordshire.

Provide Design won the pitch to rebrand the college and created a new logo, identity, palette and signage for the college.

Find out more about the Rebrand here www.centralbeds.co.uk

Meet the Heroes of last years campaign www.centralbeds.ac.uk/dc-heroes

Promotional hanger for Energie Fitness Clubs. The hanger entitles the holder to a free 3 day pass at the club and is distributed by local restaurants, hotels and garages (hung on rear view after an MoT).

Provide Design are proud to announce that our hard work and creativity have bagged Dunstable College a FE First Marketing Excellence award for the ‘Heroes’ recruitment campaign.

The campaign itself was entered in the highly subscribed ‘best 14-19 year old campaign’ category, and came home with the silver.

This national award is strong recognition for the campaign that has largely contributed to a massive 30% increase in full-time age 16-19 student numbers at the College.

We have just been re-comissioned to develop the visual identity of the 2010 Heroes Evolution campaign so watch this space to see how we raise the bar for next year.

You can see some of our work from the 2009 campaign here: Dunstable Heroes Campaign

Or visit: www.dunstable.ac.uk to see our work in action

Are you looking for a hotdesk near Milton Keynes, Leighton Buzzard or Aylesbury? FunkBunk, the home of Provide Design is now offering hot desks to writers, designers, freelancers, photographers, marketeers, muskateers and anyone else who needs a desk for just a few days out of the month.

In addition to full time desks being available there are 3 desks currently available for hotdesking. Prices for hotdesk spaces start from £30 per day depending on how many days you book in advance. Hot desk rental includes wireless or wired high speed broadband access, free parking and free tea and coffee.

The atmosphere here is non-intrusive, friendly and creative. With the added bonus of having somewhere to hold meetings and your own business address, hot desking at the FunkBunk is the way to go!

For more photos and information please visit www.funkbunk.com

If you would like to book a space or come over and have a look for yourself please email iwanttobe@funkbunk.com or call us on 0845 003 9559

Here at Provide Design we don’t like to think of ourselves as Party Poopers. We like to think of ourselves as Christmas Crackers – explosively good and containing lots of nice surprises (and the odd really bad joke). Today we just wanted to write about something which becomes very apparent this time of year.

We’re not being Party Poopers and there isn’t a humbug in sight, but as Christmas gets closer it seems a lot of us use it as a reason to panic and forget about what lies ahead until it is all over and we are comfortably in the New Year.

From a business perspective we have seen many Christmases where everything is rushed into the last few days. Suppliers drop the ball, clients ring expecting the impossible and there isn’t even time to think about the Christmas shopping! This is when detail is missed and our need to get the year over and done with can cloud our foresight and we forget about planning for the coming months.

This year we did it differently. We planned all our marketing activity, we booked our jobs in advance so there would be no need for Christmas Eve deliveries and we made sure that when January comes round it will be a solid continuation on from 2008. No drastic resolutions – just keep stuck to the business plan.

We also employed the assistance of marketing experts to guide us on what our next move should be. Designers and creatives we are, but as marketeers we have a lot to learn – always bring in the professionals to move this part of your business forward.

So this year we will be relaxed and comfy over Christmas knowing what is coming next. Nice feeling – works great with mulled wine.

So Merry Christmas everyone – have a great time. Unwind and if you’ve not done it already, at least mentally prepare for an awesome 2009 – it will be one!

FunkBunk Part 2 is ready! FunkBunk’s neighbouring office space has just been finished and is ready for carpet, cables and some new tenants. The commercial office space is available to rent from FunkBunk as desk spaces just like the original FunkBunk or if the right tenant comes along then they can snap up the entire space for an incredibly good rate.

Good parking, great location and high speed broadband are just some of the plus points.

Contact FunkBunk for more information. or call us on 0845 003 9559

We were seeking new premises to expand into when the perfect oppurtunity arose. Concieved by Provide Design FunkBunk is located in 2500sq ft of converted World War 2 Women’s Airforce base just 15 minutes from Milton Keynes.

As all of this space is beyond our needs, Provide Design and FunkBunk are looking for like minded creative roommates to share FunkBunk with.

Desk spaces are available to rent in this enthusiastic, creative, environment with free broadband, free parking and a very cool location.

If this sounds interesting and you fancy becoming a FunkBunker check out www.funkbunk.com

After a problematic start to the season this was the first race with a trouble free TVR (now set up by Top Cats Racing) and Sam made us proud.

It was an exciting race with a couple of spills and the lead car losing his entire front nose on the pit straight. Sam progressively increased his speed throughout the race, overtaking more experienced drivers, showing massive speed through the corners and moving from his grid position of 5th to an impressive 2nd place on the podium.

More images and an in car video (coming soon) of the race are on www.forgeracing.co.uk

… This car belongs to Sam Head – owner of Forge Racing – a TVR Racing team on mission to make their mark on the 2008 Dunlop TVR Tuscan Challenge.

Sam was unbeaten in last year’s series, and had a 100% win record. This year he is back and Provide Design are proud to be supporting him in his efforts to take home some more trophies.

It has not been the smoothest of starts though. There has been mechanical dramas a plenty and one small incident involving a crash barrier but overall things are looking very likely that Sam will be teaching a few other TVR Racing veterans a new trick or two.

Provide Design Milton Keynes have been helping Sam out for 2 years now and 2008 sees Forge Racing furnished with a brand new website, new car graphics (waiting to be fitted) and even the beginnings of their own custom clothing line. We are very excited as if things go to plan Sam will be racing at the televised Silverstone event; PowerNights on June 19th 2008.

Sam Head is now keeping his race diary updated online and has all the details of the season so far:

http://www.forgeracing.co.uk/reports.php