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700 Bars of Green and Black’s Chocolate…………………..YUMMMMMM!

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:38:00 +0000

Not so long ago, we helped to create this record-breaking art installation for Green & Blacks chocolates.

Commissioned to coincide with the launch of the new packaging, the installation comprised of a contemporary mosaic piece of art by Sir Peter Blake - who also famously created the Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album cover. At 4m wide x 3m high the free-standing unit comprised of a large format print rear-mounted to clear acrylic panel which was overlaid with 700 bars of chocolate!

2LK Design were responsible for the detail design, specification and execution – right down to the arm-aching fixing of each chocolate bar to the wall! Although I’m sure Michaela, Dan and the guys managed to sustain themselves by sampling a few – they even brought a few back to the office for us to try!

The display was installed to run alongside a website where visitors could imitate Sir Peter's work themselves by creating their very own piece of artwork using the new packaging – and the prize? The display itself, complete with 700 bars of chocolate!

The display was installed at Cadburys head office for a PR photo shoot with Sir Peter Blake in attendance and then the whole thing was moved to the The Rag Factory in Brick Lane, London for an high profile art event including work from Tracey Emin.

Look out for the display in the Guinness Book of World Records too! An application was made for the display to go into the famous book for the largest confectionery piece of art in the world!

Our thanks go to ‘Agency Republic’ who we worked with on this one – and who also created this beautiful film.

2LK Brainstorm on Virgin Trains

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:58:00 +0000

2LK_virgin_trains, originally uploaded by 2LK Design Ltd.

If you want to promote a clients services, how better to know what they are all about other than getting out there and seeing what they do?

So thats what we did - Valuable Thinking Time!

On Ya Bike!

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:02:00 +0000

Congratulations to Michaella & Gaby for raising money for the British Heart Foundation by going on a sponsored bike ride from Richmond to Windsor; they raised £255.00 and £312.00 respectively!!!

Michaella cycled the 29 mile route in just over 3hrs 15min and Gaby did the longer 37 mile route in a fast 3hrs 30min raising a fantastic sum including gift aid of £722.00 between them. Well done to both of you!

There was about four and a half thousand cyclist taking part in this event; so big it took nearly an hour just to get to the start line! The route started off in Richmond and ran alongside the Thames which was a nice flat ride, however once they got further along the course they began to experience some hills but they did not let this faze them and cycled up every hill with dogged determination. The route then split into two sections for Professional and Non Professional cyclists! Gaby had decided from the beginning that she was going to go on the longer route so it was no surprise that once she got to the point of choosing which way to go she chose the longer route. Michaella was cycling together with her friend and had started far behind Gaby; she was not to sure which route to choose and was going to decide once she got to the junction, unfortunately her cycling buddy did not feel up to doing the long ride so Michaella cycled the short route.

The worst bit for Gaby was once she got onto the Professional route, the hills started getting bigger, longer and much harder to cycle up, but digging deep she found a bit of extra energy to overcome even these.

Gaby & Michaella would like to thank everyone who supported them in their attempt to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

Special thanks from Gaby to her Husband who went out on every long training ride and ended up with a sore backside! :-)

Thank you Gaby for the contribution – at last I’m not the lone 2LK Blogger!!

2LK Feeds You!

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:48:00 +0000

That’s right, we have now enabled some feeds for you to subscribe to, both RSS and by email, so there is no excuse for not knowing what we have been up to!

Links to both the feeds are up above, but just incase you can’t find them we thought we should include this as well…..

40 x 3 = Fresh’n’Funky

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000

That’s 3 of us!

Andy aka Big’n’Bad brought home his very own special party incarnation – Fresh’n’Funky Productions – in celebration of his BIG day! The big guy took to the decks (virtual PC type things!) to play his thing and celebrate in style – a good turn out of friends, family and colleagues obviously had a good time.

The outfit selected didn’t quite fit – so a tailored shirt was specially commissioned and we are awaiting the modelling photos – update to come

Also, we are awaiting some more photos, strangely they are a scarce – but I’ll post any that I can find.

More of Fresh’n’Funky as well – this won’t be a one off! Future dates are in the pipeline and the latest news, posts etc can al be found at the Facebook page – click away to find out more………….

Happy Birthday big man – enjoy the holiday, see you next week.

40

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Well, that’s it! The fountain of youth ran out for the 2LK Blogger and I’m now 40!

I’m not the only one this year at 2LK to hit this landmark, Gareth celebrated a few months back and Andy is not far behind – more on Fresh’n’Funky next week!! B’n’B is celebrating by spinning the wheels of steel and playing some ‘Phat! Tunes’ at his Birthday bash this weekend, so I’ll be updating the blog with some photos of that on Monday.

Meanwhile, I celebrated in a far more relaxed style and headed off with the family to explore the delights of ‘Kernow’.

Birthday lunch at Jamie Oliver’s 15 in Watergate Bay was an excellent way to start the week, with the remainder of the afternoon spent on the sand watching the surfers which was pretty cool.

Sand castles built and lunch run off, we headed back to our retreat of Little Carwinnick which was fantastic, Pam & Nigel have the most fantastic cottages and barns in the middle of the Cornish countryside – beautiful location on the Roseland Peninsula, a brilliant base for our week of exploring.

Highlights of the week include, Afternoon Tea at the Lugger Hotel on dismal rainy afternoon. Introducing the kids to Scones, Jam and Clotted Cream – the view from the tiny slipway in the bottom of the cove is amazing.

St Mawes is also pretty cool, great Castle and loads of boats over to Falmouth and other places. St Agnes was also really nice, lovely beach, good surf and very picturesque.

But finally, we had to head home – but on the way we made one more discovery! Porthcothan.

What a brilliant place and what a fantastic way to spend our last day in Cornwall. The beach is beautiful, surrounded by the most amazing cliffs and rock formations – great sand – wonderful rock pools – loads of surf etc. There are even the ubiquitous Bay Watch style Life Guards.

Thankfully, it was one of the sunnier days of our holiday – shame it was the last!

We might be back…….

Anyway, Happy Birthday me!

Congratulations to Duncan & Rose

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Weddings are a wonderful thing and last week Duncan finally got round to doing the decent thing and marrying his long suffering girlfriend, Rose.

Obviously, Rose looked resplendent and Duncan was the Smartest we’d ever seen him!

So off to Chichester we went in best suits, ties and dresses to celebrate with them – unfortunately they refused to take us all to Thailand with them on Honeymoon – bah! Anyway, we hope they have a fantastic time and enjoy the sunshine.

Although, for the bit we did attend, we had a great time – girls looked lovely and the guys didn’t brush up to bad either(apart from the wardrobe doppelgangers!!)

Rumour has it, that not only did Gareth and David arrive together and leave together, but they got dressed together……… anything else they did is just hearsay!

Everybody enjoyed the warm Summer evening and the generous doses of Champagne, there were a few sore heads the next day after the late night celebrations, cheers!!!

Finally, I have to say that we wish the happy couple all the best for the future……and see you soon.

Summer Fun in the Rain (again!)

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:53:00 +0000

A bunch of us went off to the Park last Saturday evening to enjoy a Picnic in the Park to enjoy a trip down memory lane to take in the delights of the The Backbeat Beatles and The Counterfeit Stones. However, most of us don’t have any memories down that lane as it was all before our time!

So off to King George V Playing Fields, Farnborough with umbrellas and coats on top of the cool boxes in readiness for a evening of 60’s and 70’s musical delights.

It was a bit damp, but a few beers brought out the dancing shoes.

As you can see, the rain didn’t put us off - although dancing in raincoats isn’t exactly a fashion statement!

Thanks for Dan for organising it, Angela for strawberries and cream – maybe see you there next time?

http://www.picnictomusicinthepark.co.uk/

Shepherds and Pink Tea Pots

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:55:00 +0000

In celebration of the Blooming English Summer, I took a quick trip down to the Hampton Court Flower Show to see what was going on in the horticultural world. I wasn’t interested in the digging and prolific amount gardening supplies on sale, more the feature gardens and displays that some of the green-fingered types had been creating just down the road from me.

I must admit that I was quite surprised at what was going on, my favourite garden being the Soft and Quilted (sponsored by a Loo Paper!) which featured dozens of Oak saplings surrounded by a kind of open palisade somewhat reminiscent of Stone Henge. It was actually quite cool.

A couple of other notable examples were the Shepherds Bye, which was great with an almost ‘virtual’ shepherd and sheep printed on glass – clever little touch as I suppose you couldn’t trust either of the real things to not wander off.

There were a few others with garden buildings, mostly kit form and/or having some kind of ecologically sound theme – all sounds a bit TreeHugger but I’d certainly like to open my back door to see something like Sadolin’s Nature to Nurture. Very cool, just imagine soaking up the summer sun, having a nice cup of tea and just relaxing here………….

Well that would be nice, but we were unfortunately repeatedly reminded that this was a typical English Summer – and we stuck with it until the showers finally beat us back……………. a good day though and food for thought, anyone up for growing an Exhibition stand????

Flickr brought right to you!

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:48:00 +0000

To save you from trying to find the Flickr feed, we decided to bring it straight to you. Please give your browser a couple of seconds to load the images, then sit back and enjoy the slideshow - hovering over the images will let you see both the controls and the thumb-nails.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Is hot today or what?

Flickr is here

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:00 +0000

2LK have joined the Flickr bandwagon and uploaded a series of images of some of best work to the web for all to see.

Click on the image to see some more of our great stands for a variety of clients, big and small / home and away that we have been working on.

The Honda stand to the right was put together with our Canadian counterparts Taylors and was rolled out for the first time at the Montreal Car Show last year, it’s since been installed at a number of other Canadian shows and looks to be set for a continued program for the next couple of years

2LK Design Ltd @ Flickr.com or check out www.2LK.com

A Glorious Day at the Races

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:51:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we took early advantage of the summer sun and took some of our glorious lady clients to the races. Together with the Queen, jockeys in the full regalia of their racing colours, some wonderful company of the ladies in their best frocks and fancy hats we had a wonderful day out.

No doubt a few quid was thrown the Bookies way and several large glasses of champagne and Pimms quaffed to to moisten the throat before cheering those winners on. A glorious day was had by all and not everyone came home with an empty pocket/purse either. Thankfully the weather did stay fine all day and those fantastic hats managed to stay on.

Here, There & Everywhere!!!

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Well, it’s been a busy week here at 2LK!!! Not exactly here though, more like everywhere else! In the last week we have been travelling far and wide and clocked up a fair number of Air Miles between us.

Various members of the team were travelling to see/meet various clients and install stands right around the Globe. Some us of didn’t get too far, only Paris for the Air Show. But ,one of us made it to Nigeria, another to Singapore and two of us found ourselves in California!!

So, with representatives in Europe, Africa, Asia and America we were truly global. A presence on FOUR continents – just for a day or so anyway……

We are all back in Surrey again now, doing some real work at our desks for a bit (and catching up on those travel tales – Nigeria sounded fun!), until next time…… Bon Voyage!

La Maison Mason – at home home with Dan and his family

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:27:00 +0000

Just a week or so ago, one of our team made the National Press – unfortunately it was the Mail on Sunday! Well, he got a couple of nice photos for the album and his wife, Sue, did all the talking by the look of it.

Just in case you are wondering, Dan is the second from the left.

Dan is one of 2LK’s Directors and we happen to be an Exhibition Design Agency, but Graphics is one of our things and Dan is the guy in charge (take a look at www.2lkgraphics.com to see what he has been upto), but obviously we have plenty more other things up our sleeve…

Super-star Tri-athletes

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:23:00 +0000

So it came to the time when the training was done and two members of 2LK set forth to test their strength and stamina against the best that Crondall could offer. After months of training and a certain amount of uncertainty, 2LK’s very own little and large set forth to conquer the annual challenge that is the The Crondall Supersprint Triathlon.

Both Emily and Andy had spent long hours running, swimming and cycling getting themselves ready for the event. This being the first attempt for Andy which made it a particular triumph that he managed a respectable 1 hour 33 minutes around the course. In fact, it was an absolutely out-standing effort – the man mountain now swims like a fish and would take on Lance Armstrong on his new bike, shame he hasn’t learnt to run without gloves yet!

At 1 hour 20 minutes, Emily is now the 6th fastest woman in Surrey – catch her if you can! With this success behind her, she’s now after a new bike to go even faster!

No doubt there will be more to follow, 2012 is not far away and with a bit of luck one of these will be in Team GB come the London Olympics.

Huge congratulations to the both of you, all the effort paid off and the rest of the office enjoyed a nice lunch time at the Plume of Feathers, which makes a change from you two dashing of to the pool every other lunchtime getting fit.

You put the rest of us to shame, maybe next time there will be a few more of us? Maybe……………

Welcome

noreply@blogger.com (2LK Design Limited) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:02:00 +0000

    
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