Ghost Design Consultants Ltd.

A few moths back we were asked by TV’s Mike Brewer to create a unique T-shirt design for him. He wanted to depict a few of the cars he and Ed had resurrected on the show, and we duly obliged. Last week we spotted him wearing it, on the latest season of Wheeler Dealers, whilst at the Classic Car Show, buying parts for a Ford Escort they were bringing back to its former glory. I wasn’t convinced by the choice of colour they sprayed the Escort but the T-shirt looked cool. You can watch the new season on Tuesdays 9pm on Discovery and Discovery HD.

If you have never seen the show you can take a look by going to:

http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/wheeler-dealers/videos/?video=Wheeler-Dealers-Series-10-Sneak-Peak-Episode-1

Update (4th Febuary)

Congratulations to Ian Maull, a designer from Warwick, who started today. Watch this space for a blog post by him telling us all about who he is.

About the job

Salary: Negotiable

Working hours: 37.5 hrs p/w

We are  looking to take on an additional graphic designer to initially fill a gap created by maternity leave, with a view to a full time position thereafter. Ideally we need someone with a couple of years experience with a sound working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, (Illustrator, Photoshop and In-Design). (more…)

Today we’re please to announce the addition of a new hosting package – our dedicated option.

Before today, all sites we hosted on behalf of our clients were located on a shared host. This means the site exists on a server which contained hundreds, if not thousands, of other sites. While this is a perfectly acceptable solution for some smaller sites, when you have a behemoth site like the British Limousin Cattle Society, it can suffer from a lack of resources.

This is why we’re now offering a dedicated hosting package to our larger customers. So if we feel your site could benefit from an upgrade, we’ll be in touch soon.

We don’t often spend over £2,000 on new software for our office, but when we do, we appreciate a freebie or two.

Step in Jigsaw24, our software supplier, who obviously knew our love of freebies, who, as a thank you for our custom, sent us a free Refreshers.

While we would like to thank them for their generosity, it has caused some issues in the office, with Daniel and Lauren not talking to me after I didn’t share it with them…

…well, I am the boss.

If you happen to be strolling past a newsagent at any time in the next month or so, why not take a moment out of your busy day to find a copy of the April edition of .net magazine. If you do happen to find yourself looking at said copy of .net, take a look at page 104, and have a read.

Challenges

If all of that sounds like too much effort, let me save you a trip – you’d find yourself staring at a large photo of me, and the article that I wrote on the challenges of being a lone developer. (more…)

After yet another manic week Christmas has finally arrived at Ghost. Despite the decorations in Leamington having been erected over a month ago we have managed to ignore the festive fever. This week however we were asked by Bid Leamington (located in the courtyard, at the bottom of our steps) to create a Christmas eshot and micro site, to advertise the Golden Ticket event taking place in Leamington shops over the Christmas period. You can take a look at what we did and check out some of the fantastic prizes up for grabs (certainly worth a look) www.leamingtongoldenticket.co.uk

This in turn spurred us on to start designing our own Christmas card, which we have decided to print rather than send via email (you can’t stand an email on your desk now can you!) Lauren and I have spent the rest of this week producing what has turned out to be the biggest Limousin magazine ever! I have been producing this particular publication three times a year for 12 years now and it just gets better and bigger every time, this edition is a whopping 80 pages!!! No time to rest though as we are also producing the 350 page yearly review for the British Limousin Cattle Society entitled the ‘Stud Book’, so if anyone asks if Im having Turkey for Christmas my response will be no, BEEF!!