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Fuse Design have recently created the new identity and business cards for Nottingham based networking group – ING.

The Independent Networking Group is unlike other networking groups. They have a collection of individuals from various different industries dedicated to networking without the strings and financial investments. The group generates a healthy source of leads in an atmosphere of mutual support without the need for substitutes, joining fees, pressure to bring any type of referral or attend every week.

The group meets at 07:15, Thursday mornings at Edwalton Golf Club. They run a ‘Pay as you go’ system. There is no joining fee, no membership fee and your first visit to our breakfast meetings will be free. If your interested in becoming a member or finding out more please email info@independentnetworking.co.uk.

Just had delivery of our samples of the Scott Prenn Business Cards, that we created for the new members of the Scott Prenn team.

The cards where printed using 2 spot colours onto a 400gsm board and where square rather than the conventional business card size of 88mm x 55mm, making them a little different!

Fuse have again been asked by Scott Prenn to create their latest clients, 24 page Funding Review Document.

The client is Vision for a Nation, who run an innovative program to provide universal access to eyeglasses, starting in Rwanda. For more details check out their site – www.visionforanation.org.

We’ll add a few images to our blog once the artwork has been approved and printed!

The PK Group have recently received delivery of their new corporate folder designed by Fuse.

The 2,000, 7 mm capacity folders where printed in 2 spot colours and had a matt lamination throughout and a gloss spot UV of their corporate pattern onto the outer cover.  The folders which used a bespoke cutting form, were very well received by all at the PK Group.

Up next, their new website!

Last Sunday over 4,000 people completed the City of Lincoln 10K run. 3 of those ‘athletes’ where Stuart McMorran from Fuse, Simon Munro, and Daren Revell from Revco Landscapes.

All put in respectable times, Stuart and Daren, completing it in 58.54, with Simon finishing in just over an hour, whose training consisted of staying out drinking until the early hours on the night before the race!

Well done to everyone who took part and bring on next year!

Earlier this month, the AquaVerde site was launched.

AquaVerde help UK based companies reduce their water footprint with their AquaVerde Table Water Bottling System, which is a unique solution that connects to an existing water supply in an office, offering an alternative to pre-bottled mineral waters.

Check out their website to find out more!

We have recently received our copy of the book The Image of the Business Card Today, which features ‘the most creative business cards from all around the world’. We are very pleased to have our very own Fuse Cards feature along with our Fabric Architect designs.

The book, that is available in six languages and is published by Artpower International, has lots of inspirational designs and is a great reference tool for all designers. Click here to check out some of their other titles.

Our business cards are also going to be featured in Graphic Design Translated.  The book is published by Rockport and due for release in April of this year, available in all good bookshops!

Fuse joined GF Smith for their private view of their unique exhibition at Nottingham Trent University. The Exhibition shows the history of GF Smith’s paper promotions dating back to 1890’s, and was a great insight into different printing and marketing techniques over the last ‘100 plus’ years.

Previously at the Edinburgh College of Art, the exhibition will be touring around the UK over the next few weeks and is well worth a visit.

As the new fuse branding starts to gain momentum, we decided to hire out the Double Red Studio in Lincoln and professionally shoot a range of printed marketing material we have produced for our clients in the past year.

We got photographer Phil Crow in to take the shots for us that will be featured in our portfolio section on our new website. It was a nice break from being in front of our monitors with Adam setting up most of the shots and Stuart making the tea!

We have just received our images back from Phil and we now can’t wait to launch our new site to show off our clients work!

Fuse have starting working along side PK Group’s Marketing Consultant, on a number of exciting briefs.

We are currently working on the branding for the latest templates for their monthly statements, and have just completed a back up web page just in case their current hosting platform has any downtime.

In the pipeline is a new folder design for the client, which will be sent out to their corporate and private investors.