Straight from the horses mouth!

September Special offer!!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:13:00 +0100

Its september, the kids are back at school and its exhibition season, so to help you along we have a great offer for you this month.

2 Roller Banners for £95!

Thats buy one get one free :)
And you can even have different artwork on each one.

2000x850mm Roller Banners w

Offer runs while stocks last. Normal price is £95 each. Price is print only, carriage £18. Artwork charges may apply. Padded carry bag supplied.

To take me up on this offer just click here!

All orders must be placed by 31st september 2011. Payment is due on order by bacs, credit or debit card or paypal. Price excludes VAT. Based on artwork supplied.

Welcome to the bighorse blog!

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:12:00 +0100

Hello and welcome to the Bighorse Design Blog!
You can view our latest news and completed projects here, plus special offers and featured projects with some blog only offers too.

Happy reading!

What else can we help you with?

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:14:00 +0100

We want to help our clients however we can, whether its recommending an accountant or helping them reduce their utility bills! We have good contact with all kinds of companies in all kinds or areas. Our client base runs from painters and decorators to fine artists, bookeepers to ifas, dentists to hypnotherapists and plenty more in between.

We like to encourage business between our clients so if there's anything you are looking for, accountants, gas safe plumbers or air conditioning then drop us a line and see if we can help you!

To ask us who we know just click here!

300 clients!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:06:00 +0100

We reached a milestone last week with Louise signing up our 300th client!
We now have 300 clients on our books for with many of them working with us for over 10 years.
So heres to the next 300!!

Charity Digger Day

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:04:00 +0100

Thanks to everyone that sponsored me for the Pink Link Digger Day.
I mananged to rasie £246!
We had a brilliant day and all had great fun driving the diggers. Between the 20 of us we raised over £2500 for Rosey Apple Nurseries appeal.
Pictures to come soon!!!

Eva Awards

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:40:00 +0100

Little Pony Promotions been shortlisted to the final 6 in the Enterprise Vision Awards!
Please click here http://www.enterprisevisionawards.co.uk/new_business.php to vote for me, I need your vote!

August Offer!

lisa@bighorse — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:11:00 +0100

Happy to August!
The sun may have stopped shining since august arrived, but we thought we would give you something to smile about with our august offer.

This month its flyers:
A5 full colour double sided flyers on 140gsm glossy paper
250 £30
500 £40
1000 £55

This is a blog only offer, its not available anywhere else!
Offer runs until August 31st 2011.

To take me up on this offer just click here!

All orders must be placed by 31st August 2011. Payment is due on order by bacs, credit or debit card or paypal. Price excludes VAT. Based on artwork supplied.

We have moved!!!

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:09:00 +0100

We are finally installed in our new offices, we can't find anything but its in there somewhere!

We moved in mid June and we even have phone lines although that took several weeks. We are working on our showroom/meeting room and our production suite should be all set up by the end of July.

Feel free to drop by and visit us at 9 Farrington Street, Chorley PR7 1DY. Our phone number is now 01257 440376. Our email addresses are unchanged.

July offer!

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:56:00 +0100

We have been busy little bees and not given you any offers for months so its about time we did!
This is a blog only offer, its not available anywhere else!
Offer runs until July 31st 2011.

A popular line that we have only just started!
In conjunction with our sister company Little Pony Promotions we are offering Bags for life

Cotton Shoppers, just £2.00 each plus vat.
Excluding artwork. Normal Price £3.00 each plus vat. Cream cotton shopper with short handles, full side, full colour transfer print to one side with small full colour print to second side.

To take me up on this offer just click here!

All orders must be placed by 31st July 2011. Payment is due on order by bacs, credit or debit card or paypal. Price excludes VAT. Based on artwork supplied.

New Project - British Commercial Vehicle Museum

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:49:00 +0000

We just completed the first phase of the website for the British Commercial Vehicle Museum. The phase one static website will be soon accompanied by an ecommerce site to sell the museums merchandise. Watch this space…

To view phase one click here

Follow us on twitter!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:44:00 +0000

Yes its true we finally gave in and caught up with the rest of technology and set up a Twitter!
You can follow Bighorse and Little Pony Promotions on Twitter – Look for us under Bighorse Design and Little Pony Promotions on facebook.

A promotion

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:34:00 +0000

After over 10 years of serving as a committee member to the Central Lancashire Business Club, Lisa was promoted to Chairman at the March AGM! Along with the current committee we have events and speakers lined up to interest everyone in the coming year.

Visit newsletter.centrallancashirebusinessclub.co.uk for the latest info.

Super signage and a top bacon butty

lisa@bighorse — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:51:00 +0000

Good friends of our at the Full Belly Deli got their sign up this week (designed by us). Leaflets and price lists to follow but while you are waiting why not nip down to see Carl and Michelle and get the best bacon butty in town! (and I'm told the Cajun chicken is pretty good too!). FUll Belly Deli, Pall Mall, Chorley

New Project - Peter H Smith

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:26:00 +0000

We have just finished our first joint venture with web developers Copper Creative!
We have spent the last few months working on an e-commerce site for Preston Company Peter H Smith. The site now offers full ecommerce functionality and complete with a clever admin panel they can control their stock and offers on a daily basis. For a sneaky peek click here.

January Special Offer

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Its New Year and its offer of the month time!
This is a blog only offer, its not available anywhere else!
Offer runs until January 31st 2011.

We have been doing a lot of rebrands and new business start ups since new year, so to celebrate we have decided to put ourselves on offer!

50% off all logo designs until the end of the month.
Including new logo designs normally £150, re-brands normally £100, re-freshing existing logos normally £75.

To take me up on this offer just click here!

All orders must be placed by 31st Janaury 2011. Payment is due on order by bacs, credit or debit card or paypal. Price excludes VAT.
Artwork supplied in a variety of formats for future use.

New Project - Personalised Maglites

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:12:00 +0000

We completed a job for new client C-Tec before christmas. We were asked to source some interesting and useful promotional items that the C-Tec team could send out as christmas presents. After sourcing some pretty unusual items (Louise really wanted them to go with the desktop garden!) they settled on the engraved maglites.

New Project - KiDs of Bolton

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:08:00 +0000

We have been lucky enough to be able to work with Bolton Wanderers star, Kevin Davis and his lovely wife Emma who started the KiDs of Bolton Charity last year.
We completed the literature for the Ladies Lunch that was held at the De Vere in Bolton at the start of December.

For more about KiDs or to find out about future events, click here.

Ongoing project - Sweet Dreams book 11

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:02:00 +0000

We are now well through our big annual project for bed manufactuer Sweet Dreams. The big (and i mean BIG) brochure is on press as i type with plenty of work still to do.
The stylying and layout of book 11 might be done and dusted but the preperations for the Interiors show at the NEC continue ready for the shows opening on the 23rd of January.

New Addition - Little Pony Promotions

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:55:00 +0000

From the start of January we have a new addition to our little herd!

With the installation of several heat presses and vinyl cutters, Little Pony Promotions is our latest venture. Louise has been hard at work getting to grips with all the machinery and produced her first few ranges before christmas.

We can still source all kinds of promotional items as before but now we have the added bonus of being able to produce short run items in house, ideal for our smaller customers.
Our new website will be up and running soon with all our products on so watch this space!

Happy New Year!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:30:00 +0000

Happy New Year to you all! We hope you had a wonderful relaxing christmas break and wish you all the best for the new year.

New Project - Jack and The Beanstalk

lisa@bighorse — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:03:00 +0000

Finished and printed this week is the promotional literature we have been working on for St Paul's Amateur Players in Adlington.

We provided a full suit of leaflets, large and small for the group to advertise their next production.

Jill Heeks says "I'm really impressed!! The quality and efficiency of this job has been fantastic - I only do St Paul's posters and printwork as a hobby and have to fit copy writing/ proof reading etc into my spare time and the Jack & The Beanstalk work has been the most stress free job I have done for them - and that is completely down to yourself - accurately interpreting my brief and producing work extremely quickly to the exact standard we are looking for."

New project - Waterbottles

lisa@bighorse — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:34:00 +0100

This week we finished a project for new client Go Try Rugby based in Whittle-le-Woods.
We sourced and produced personalised water bottles to be given out and sold at the rugby camps. With their push pull lids, in 500ml we think they look pretty good (dishwasher safe too!)

New project - Driveway Cleaning Co Website

lisa@bighorse — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:48:00 +0100

This week we finished of branding, literature, stationery and a website for new start up Driveway Cleaning Co.
Driveway Cleaning Co. Specialise in maintenance and repair of paved driveways, cleaning, resealing and refurbishing.
They took advantage of our new start-up pack to get everything they need to start marketing themselves.
To have a look at the site and find out more about them click here!

Completed project - Telford Show

lisa@bighorse — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:14:00 +0100

Last week was a bit manic for anyone who passed through studio as we helped client Sweet Dreams prepare for the Telford Bed Show.

We produced a full suit of literature, including flyers and posters along with some prototype Point of Sale boards and even printed Pillowcases.

The show was a great success and now we are starting on the preparation for the Interiors Show in January!

Completed project - An Evening of Sport

lisa@bighorse — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:10:00 +0100

We recently finished a project for new client, De Vere Venues. They were hosting a celebrity, charity event in aid of Variety Club and Gloves at Whites Venue.

We produced the event programme, raffle and entry tickets and we were pleasantly surprised to see our artwork on the big screen most of the evening!

It was a great event that raised a significant amount for both charities, although there was some dodgy dancing going on later in the evening!

New project - Jennifer Charity Website

lisa@bighorse — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:05:00 +0100

This week saw the completion of the website for Jennifer. You may have seen James Edginton and his Father performing on Britains got Talent as Father and Son. They might not have won but htey have done something far more worth while!
Jennifer has been set up to help support widowed fathers and their children.
They are planning several events in the upcoming months as well as encouraging the general population to get involved!
To have a look at their site or to make a donation to Jennifer click here.

October Offer! - Early Bird offer!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:43:00 +0100

This is a blog only offer, its not available anywhere else!
Offer runs until October 31st 2010.

This month its Year Planners. Take us up on this early bird offer and save £'s on our A3 year planners!

Printed in full colour on both sides on 350gsm Silk or Matt Board, minimum run is just 5!
Fully personalised header and colour scheme, you can even highlight your own important dates!
6 months per side.
Just 50p each

To take me up on this offer just click here!

All orders must be placed by 31st October 2010 and artwork approved by 5pm 1st november 2010. Payment is due on order by bacs, by credit or debit card or paypal.
Production turnaround is 3-5 working days from artwork approval. Price excludes delivery and VAT. Artwork £15.

New Staff - Meet Louise!

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:56:00 +0100

From the first of September Bighorse Design is an employer!
Louise started on September 1st on a Blackburn College apprentice scheme. With a design qualification under her belt already and keen to get stuck in, she will be a great asset to the studio.
Louise will be working on general design projects along side me, and I am to get her set up in couple of areas of her own within the company that I don't currently work in.

So remember next time you call and launch into an explanation (you know who you are - there are plenty of you :) ) that I might not be the one who answers the phone!

New project - Wheel cover and Van livery

lisa@bighorse — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:49:00 +0100

Its been a week of vehicles ths week, firstly a spare wheel cover for a new client

Then a full van livery for Lion Systems!

Client focus - Garry Cook Photography

lisa@bighorse — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:18:00 +0100

This week i delivered the flyers for client Garry Cooks new project - Brilliant Blackpool
Garry has been documenting Blackpool in a series of stunning photos and is now putting them together in this hardback book. Although not released on sale yet you can take a sneaky peek at some of the images and pre-order your copy.
For a link to Brilliant Blackpool images or to Pre-order your copy just click here!
Being part of Brilliant Blackpool means you'll get bonus images and downloads - and an individually numbered limited edition book.