Fresh Wins Top Prize
At The Solutions Awards










It was a triumphant day at The Solutions Awards in London when Fresh Design & Print picked up the overall winners award.


Fresh Design & Print based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire were voted overall winner at a packed Café De Paris Ceremony in London on November 18th.

They were nominated in 2 categories for Best Solution for Books and Best Solution for Design and came runners up in both categories.

After drawing in the Best Solution for Design with exactly the same percentage, the vote was taken back into room and voted on via electronic keypads and Fresh missed winning a 2nd award of the day by just 1%.

But little did they know that there was one more award that was not voted on by the public but by The Print Solutions magazine itself and triumphed by winning it.

The Solutions Awards is an annual event that acknowledges and congratulates people in the graphic arts industry for creativity, innovation, ideas and inspiration and is organised by Print Solutions magazine, published by Earth Island Publishing.

There were hundreds of entries, from which just five were shortlisted in each category and these were then voted for online by readers of Print Solutions Magazine with three final nominees being chosen.














There were in excess of 5000 votes electronically and 250 people attended the event at the Café de Paris, and they also had a chance to vote for their favourites via interactive keypads.

These votes were added to those received online to decide on the winners.


The Solutions Awards was backed by one of the biggest multi-media campaigns in the industry and the twitter exposure during the awards reached more than 33,000 timelines, with nearly 58,000 impressions.

For Fresh it is their 2nd award after picking up a Scoot Headline Award in April for coming up with a new market in the recession for print to the education sector.

After they had picked up their award Kevin and Andy from Fresh described what winning the award meant to them.

' This is the biggest award Fresh has won and it comes after 6 years of hard work and shows that if you have a dream of being highly creative in design and print and can provide real solutions to problems, you can get recognised and rewarded. We are very proud to win this and let all our clients know that it was them who put us here and those who don't know us come and have a chat and we will show you why we are good at what we do.'

Pictured with Kevin and Andy is David Gamage from Earth Island Publishing.

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then email them at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit them at www.freshdps.co.uk

Fresh The Fine Art Catalogue Specialists



There are not many printers that can handle a job like the one we do for Tring Market Auctions, which is why they have entrusted us to produce their Fine Art Catalogue for the last 6 years.


The job itself isn't that complicated but due to the nature of the auctions we do not get the final lots until 2 days before they have to be sold and it usually consists of over 500 lots. We then get the text and pictures and design it into a catalogue and get it proofed within a day and then we have 1 day to print and finish and deliver it back.

We can do this because all of the processes are produced all in house, from the design of it all, then the digital print and finally the finishing of it to fold, collate and staple it into a catalogue all to a strict tight deadline.

Andy from Fresh said, ' We are used to working under enormous pressure and tight deadlines, this one is probably one of the most extreme ones but because we have been doing it for so long we know what to expect and cope with it very well.'

If you would like to find out how Fresh can help your business then give us a call on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Fresh wins a Scoot Award

Earlier on in the year we announced that we had won a national award from Scoot. Well we promised to show you a picture of us receiving our award and here it is.

The trophy was presented at a glittering ceremony in The River Room at The Millbank Tower, London. More than a million companies were invited to tell their success stories of commercial achievement and ours was how we aimed to beat the recession through finding a niche market within the education industry.

After collecting the award, Director Andy Gerlack said ' Its a proud day for all of us at Fresh, as its been a lot of hard work to get us to this point and its these sort of awards that make it all worthwhile.'

If you would like to find out how we can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Fresh Kick Off A New Season

Yes its the start of a new football season and here at Fresh we have kept up our close ties with Aylesbury Utd by being a sponsor again for the programmes for another season.

Lets hope for a successful campaign and for some fun and excitement along the way.

We wish all the lads Good Luck for a cracking season.

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk


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Fresh hobble to it


We love showcasing our work and promoting local events and this one was for Aylesbury Town Councils Hobble on The Cobbles, held on the 24th August in the town centre.

What we produced for it were the programmes, id badges, posters and flyers and we were delighted with the result. We even like the colour as it matches our brand!!

Headlining the free music event was Toploader whose hits include Dancing In The Moonlight. The whole day  gives the chance each year to showcase young musical talent from around the area that otherwise might go undiscovered.

Lets hope that next year will be as good as this year as its grows year on year and is a fantastic event held in Aylesbury.

Andy Gerlack from Fresh said ' What a great time everyone had, we love to be involved and working with The Town Council, it was an easy process thanks to Ruth. '

If you would like to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the numbers above or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Fresh a Cut-out above the rest

What a fun Monday morning it was producing the Florence Nightingale Superhero Run cut outs ready for registration of the event.

They are being used to promote the event in various places and you can have your photo taken with them as well before it kicks off in October.

Last years event was very well attended and the sight of over a 100 superheroes dressed up and running around is a spectacle not to be missed.

For us it was a chance to show off our creativity and how we can produce printed posters cut to any shape you want and for them to stand up by themselves as well.

The result was very pleasing as you can see by the photos below as modelled by our director Kevin Brook.

Kevin stated ' What a fun event this is every year and we love being involved in it as well, it gives us the chance to show off our creativity and quality of print and all for a great cause as well.'

If you  want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the numbers above or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Kev gets Fresh in Ice Bucket Challenge


Fridays will never be the same at Fresh again as Director of Fresh Kevin Brook took up the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS.

We have given a generous donation to ALS and to Florence Nightingale as well as they are our charity of the year.

Below is the video of his cold, wet, freezing challenge. Brrrrrrrrr........


If you want to find out more about ALS then visit http://www.alsa.org/

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Destiny Hair
Bridal Brochure




We recently undertook the design and print of a bridal brochure that was organised for a wedding fair which was held at The Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.

The brochure was organised by Destiny Hair on Fairford Leys and brought together local businesses to promote their services.


The main photoshoot was held nearby at Scotsgrove House with Sues Flowers providing the flowers and Destiny providing the hair and Escape the make up and Charter photography the shoot.The Bridal House provided the dresses and were modelled by Vicky Stone.

The brochure was then lovingly put together by us here at Fresh and showed each of the professional services off to their full extent.

Andy from Fresh said ' Tracey from Destiny Hair had done a magnificent job in organising everybody and showed how a brochure should be made up, our part once we had been briefed from Tracey was very easy, it was a pleasure to work with her on this project. '


If you want to find out more about Destiny Hair then visit them on www.destinyhairdesign.co.uk/

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Our New Van

Yep we thought we would buy a new van and give it some new clothes as well, here it is in all its glory. Gok Wan would be pleased with the new makeover!!

 

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

 


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Fresh Scooting along to help
                                       





An event that Florence Nightingale Hospice are holding in May is The Scootathlon to be held at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.

Our involvement has been to tweak the design and to produce the marketing material which included Posters, leaflets and vinyl banners.

 

 

Andy Gerlack said ' Its a great event that kids can be involved with their parents. Its just nice that we can help in our own small way and we can support a very good cause.'

 

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business the call us on any of the above numbers or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

 

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Rockabye baby

Design Rocks         

We always like to showcase some different pieces of work we have been involved with and this was another good one.

We had to produce an old record album cover for a business that produces baby clothing and they pack them into  the cover.

Although it is not a difficult to reproduce it is just unusual to see a great innovative way to package clothing and send out.

So we thought we would share it with you and lets hope the vinyl market makes a comeback so we can see some great, creative album covers again.

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at: hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Fresh becomes a Corporate Companion



With our focus firmly on helping local charities what better way than to become one of Florence Nightingale Hospices Corporate Companions.

Aylesburys local charity has been a firm favourite of ours for many years with the many events that they hold in the area and we felt this was the least we could do to help support such a great charity.

With the Charity having its 25th birthday this year, it is truly going to be a special year and we wanted to be involved as much as possible.

Kevin Brook said ' Florence is such a great charity to be involved with, we at Fresh have always supported local charities and businesses and this is a charity that is very close to our hearts.'

If you would like to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the above numbers or email us at: hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk


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Wear A Woolly Hat Day


What a great day it was on January 31st as we raised some money for the St Mungo's charity for homeless people.

Everybody that participated had fun wearing silly woolly hats and the photos show how much fun was had.

Thank you to everyone that wore one and made themselves look silly, it was for charity after all.

If you would like to donate then go to http://www.mungos.org/woollyhatday

If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then call us on any of the numbers above or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

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Wear a Woolly Hat Day - January 31st

Don't forget its Wear A Woolly Hat Day on Friday 31st January


We will be participating in our office as its for a charity called St Mungo's that help people sleeping rough off the streets.

Please have a look at the link below for them and donate as much as you can for a great and worthy cause.

Get involved and lets see your Woolly Hats!!

http://www.mungos.org/

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Happy Fresh New Year


Yes its the start of a new year, may we wish you all a very prosperous year and that we all get what we hope for, and that is for a very successful one.

Here at Fresh we have started the year by winning a National Business Award , we will have more about this to follow and why we won it.

We will also tell you some exciting new clients that we have been working with, some news on our latest investment and a new service to be launched in April.

So keep clicking back to see what's going on.


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Aylesbury Park Golf Club  - signage         




We are fast becoming known to produce high quality fast and versatile signage around the area, one of which we have just finished is Aylesbury Park Golf Club

We had to design and produce 2 exterior aluminium signs to go in the car parks and also a members information cabinet as well as internal price boards





All of which were completely bespoke and fully installed by our qualified team. When we first take your enquiry we come out to discuss what you would like, measure up, come back to you with some different options and tell you honestly of any pitfalls or any problems that could incur. We will then design and proof it to your requirements and once approved, print and install at your earliest convenience.

Our signage is of the highest quality and workmanship and is fully guaranteed which is why we have designed, printed and installed so many over the years.


Andy Gerlack said ' Signage is a big part of our business and what we offer our clients is the whole package of how their business should look, I have been producing great pieces around the area for over 10 years now and I still get a kick out of seeing something we have produced years later still looking as good as new.


If you want to find out Fresh can help your business then email us at hello|@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk


Or call us on any of the above numbers or pop in, we'd love to see you.

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The Lost Art of Finishing


We always like to showcase the work we have done for a client and we wanted to show you this one because of the finishing on it, the design and print of the prospectus was of such quality that it had to be showcased.

The art of finishing is becoming a rarity nowadays but there are some specialist techniques that can change a printed piece of material to a new level.

What seemed to be a straightforward secondary school prospectus folder became a marketing piece of artwork. Too often a piece of communication gets lost within others so even more so nowadays it has to stand out from the crowd.

With this prospectus the target was to make it eye catching and for it to attract new students so we created  new layout for the inside spreads and for the cover we went for a metallic silver with the cover matt laminated with a spot UV varnish over the top for the logo and text which gave it a feel of an excellent piece of literature.

Spot UV varnish is a much sought after finish to a printed matter but usually the cost puts people off but it can transform an ordinary brochure into a brilliant piece.

So next time your having something printed, ask about the finishing options available, as for that little bit extra the results show for themselves


If you want to find out how Fresh can help your business then email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk

Or call us on any of the above numbers or pop into one of our offices, we'd love to see you.

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Design & Print The Way It Should Be









I get asked a lot about our strapline and what it means so I thought I would put into words what it stands for.

When we started Fresh over 5 years ago we took all the good bits from the companies that we had worked for and learnt from the bad bits as well to make Fresh into a company that:

Would firstly be excellent on quality, very creative design wise, have outstanding customer service, be very competitive, be a green as can be and give you a stress free, with no technical jargon enjoyable experience and deliver on time as well.

This has been our ethos and forms the structure to our approach with our clients since day 1 and has held us in good stead, which is why our clients come back to us time and again and the majority of our new business comes from recommendations.

So if you want to have your own Fresh experience then give us a call on any of the numbers above or email us at hello@freshdps.co.uk or visit us at www.freshdps.co.uk


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#freefridayfresh         





We all like something for free and this is ours, hopefully bye now you'll have seen hashtags around and seen what they are used for.

If not, hashtags are way of seeing a bigger picture of the conversation of an event or a person that the world is talking about.

It is mostly used on twitter and all you have to do to  start a trend and get people talking about you is #yourself and you can find a collective way of what people are saying.


We are always trying to support local businesses so if you want to get people talking about you, let us know and every Friday we will shout out your name or company to help.

here are our free ones this week that we will publish on twitter, inbox us @ hello@freshdps.co.uk to join in.

#freefridayfresh

#neildouglasproperty

#triplered

#Aylesbury

#hartwellnurseries

#scootheadlineawards

#nspt



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