Lahti takes the cream

We're loving this... Roman Klementsov, of Finland’s Lahti Institute of Design, has won the Supreme Gold and Gold Star awards at the Student Starpack 2009 awards with his milk pack design.

Klementsov, a second-year product design student, picked up the awards at a ceremony at the IOM3 offices in central London last week for his pack design – a bottle which features a stand-up base in the shape of cow’s udders.

Lahti Institute of Design won the IOP: The Packaging Society’s Eric Dickens Memorial Award for the most successful college for the third year running.

Winners from UK institutions included Narut Ruthiraphong, of Central St Martins College of Art & Design, who won the Logoplaste Milk Pack Sponsor Award with a portable and easy-to-use milk bottle, while Sam Gretton, of Swindon College, won the Hasbro Sponsor Award for a new board game with his Brain Box concept. Read on

Gym2u shapes up with Love New Media

“Following a series of project wins from QMS Healthcare (Quality Medical Services), Love New Media are delighted to have been selected to develop the latest initiative from the QMS team namely 'Gym 2 u'.

QMS who are specialists in 'buying and selling private medical practices' are now looking to increase their portfolio with the exciting 'Gym 2 U' service.

The concept behind 'Gym 2 U' leverages on the healthcare expertise of the team at QMS as it aims to become a serious player in the growing market for personal fitness and wellbeing.

'Gym 2 U' looks to buck the trend of the traditional Gym membership mind-set and offers clients the opportunity to enjoy one to one or group training in the comfort of their own homes, offices plus much more.

Their impressive network of professionally qualified trainers will provide a range of fitness programmes for all age groups of clients, who either struggle to make time to get to the gym or perhaps loose motivation.

Gym 2 u clients will benefit from qualified trainers who will not only motivate (as they turn up at your door - no excuses!) they provide fun, personal and flexible training programmes in keeping with client lifestyles.

In addition a group of up to five people can work out together in any session! Even greater motivation!!

Tony Hill, managing director of Love New Media, says, ‘We love nothing better than a challenging communication brief and are excited by the forward thinking from the impressive QMS team.

The brief is to create a new identity and to increase active participation of the ‘Gym 2 U service’, through audience focused design and supporting Marketing services.

The first phase of the branding will be launched with a promotional web site this spring, and will be applied across all printed and online communications.

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Google launches SearchWiki

If you have a google account you will now be able to customise your search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results.

You can move your preferred results to the top or add a new site. You will also be able to remove results you don't like and write notes about a particular site. Changes you make will be saved for next time.

This new feature is designed to make the search much more useful for people by making it more dynamic. The changes will only affect your own searches. However others will be able to see any notes you made via the comment button.

All comments can then be seen by clicking on the ‘See all notes for this SearchWiki’.

Learn how SearchWiki works on youtube

UEFA CUP - Rebrands to Europa Cup - dear lord

UEFA Cup Becomes Europa League. Design Industry Quietly Weeps
Having seen this from our honourable friends at Creative Review we can only delight in the fact the there is hope for us all...

Behold, the new face of European football that has been expertly designed using a crayon and an expertly gripped six toed foot...
UEFA announced today that, as from next season its UEFA Cup competition is to be re-named the Europa League in a desperate attempt to persuade fans to take it more seriously. And, of course, it has a spanky new logo to show for it.
According to the UEFA PR puff “The new name and logo will help underline the tournament’s special character and unique sporting appeal. The fresh format will encourage teams from emerging countries or lesser-known sides to challenge the old order, and the new identity will seek to reflect that.” What we have here is a standard-issue 3D shiny sphere marque with some bizarre graphic symbols applied.

The effect is somewhat reminiscent of a snooker ball that has been attacked by a particularly vicious moggy. How this embodies “unique sporting appeal”?
is a design mystery…

CityFlitz Brings Billboards to Life with New $1 per Day Auto-Sharing Service

Here at Love New Media we are always inspired by great ideas... we saw this fantastic initiative from 'CityFlitz' over in Canada...

CityFlitz, a Toronto-based marketing company that provides advertisers with a fleet of MINI Coopers, MINI Cooper Clubmans and Smart cars that are wrapped with attention-grabbing graphics and logos that act as mobile billboards, launched their auto-sharing service in the GTA today.
For just $1 a day, members of CityFlitz will have access to its fleet of cars, wrapped in an advertisement from one of its clients, Yahoo! Canada.
“Using the CityFlitz fleet of wrapped MINI Coopers for our latest campaign was a viable and effective channel to reach our target audience in a way that is measurable,” said David Soyka, Yahoo! Marketing Manager. “Having the cars on the road 24/7 gives us the opportunity to offer a unique consumer experience and reach a broader audience in a more cost effective and creative way.” Learn more...

Love New Media - launch new 'email bunny' emarketing service

So popular have our email marketing services been we have decided to create a new product brand to celebrate... Email bunny.com

We can help you create and send your own branded emails - add your own content, add and select your recipients and schedule delivery in your own time...

Email marketing has proved to be a must have marketing tool for any serious and forward thinking business looking for a smart return on investment... have a look for yourself... for brilliant email marketing... click here...

Love New Media - Royal Ascot - Business Live 08 success

Love New Media made a welcome visit to the Thames Valley Chamber’s Business Live 08 event at Ascot Racecource in partnership with Ten Alps Publishing on the 15th July. The event featured seminars, exhibitions and speakers with the opportunity for all important networking. Keynote speaker at lunch was Tessa Jowell, MP (Minister for Olympics) who discussed the importance of the 2012 Olympics and highlghted the 75,000 business opportunities available to businesses throughout the country, including the Thames Valley. Love New Media enjoyed meeting some of our existing clients in a less familiar setting as well as developing some new and exciting contacts.

'We love the fresh new approach to events and overall format of the Chamber this year and look forward to further increasing our market share. Our creative web site design and build services which we have proved popular with our fellow Chamber members and are supported by significant savings for Chamber Members' commented Tony Hill - Director of Love New Media. 'This well organised event clearly demonstates a significant proactive leap by the Chamber to support its growing membership. We particularly welcomed the corporate hospitality combined with a colourful array light hearted conversation combined with some good old fashioned business networking that has opened so many new doors for Love New Media to date'. continued Hill