Press release – bpma Student Design Award winners

Now in its second year, the bpma student design competition attracted a record 150 entries mostly from leading Design University, Brunel. The competition aims to find exciting new ideas for promotional products.  Judges Gordon Glenister, bpma, Simon Edwards, 3M (sponsor), John Travis, Will International (sponsor) Lee Callaghan and Paul Cunningham, Pepagon (sponsor) sat down earlier in the year to select the final 8.

On Friday 25^th November In a Dragons Den style presentation the finalists came together at 3M HQ in Bracknell to present their ideas. The judges couldn’t decide on an outright winner so awarded joint first prizes to James Eaton with his Safelet Alarm Wristband and George Coombes with his Micro SD Card back up device which is both waterproof and shockproof.  The Group Prize was accepted on behalf of Team ‘Drink Healthier Pen’ by Nicholas Jones and Natalie Grange.These winning designs along with a number of other entries to this Years competition can be seen at the 2012 Trade Only National Show in January. The winning students shared a prize fund of over £2000 and a 3M goody bag.

‘John Travis,Marketing Manager at Will International commented,it has been a privilege to work with such inspired young people for the duration of the BPMA Student Design Award.They are a credit not only to themselves but to their University,Brunel and their Tutors who have been so supportive during this campaign.’

Winner George Coombes commented, “Winning a design competition which is sponsored by 3M, bpma ,stands out on the CV. It gives potential employers an indication of my level of design skill”

The bpma is helping inspire young design talent and we would like our members to look next year at potential placements from these top Universities, commented Gordon Glenister Director General.  The bpma has already had a number of entries in for the 2012 competition which will be judged in April 2012.

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In the most cases the promotional product will have to be printed. What could you supply and how does this all work?
The files you would like to have be printed on the gifts have to be related on special formats when you will deliver them.
These are:
- Vector EPS
-Tiff, JPEG. The minimum resolution should be 600 dpi for line art (drawings), and 300 dpi for grayscale and halftone work (photo).
- PDF format (in highest quality) without compression. Designs delivered with a resolution of 72 dpi or less are not useful!
- The texts can often be simply imported by the supplier and « put », meaning that the products need an email with your text and the products will do the rest.

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Posted by Delphine Keng from ODM Group

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil.

Used for: Caps, Umbrellas, T-Shirts, Mugs and many others that has flat or relatively flat surfaces

The stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

Feature of printing:Screen Print

1. Used widely – can print on plastic, clothes, metals and many other materials
2. Good printing thickness, up to 20 micron one time
3. Real printing effect
4. Good light resistance – can be used for outdoor product
5. Comprehensive ink option
6. Big printing area – up to 3* 4 meters
7. Can be reused/reclaimed after printing

Printing logo to increase brand awareness has always been one of the best method to promote your company or products. Usually, screen printing is used on promotional products when the logo has less than 4 colours.

Ok, so now you have received a quotation from this Chinese supplier you selected.

Next step: calculate how this quote will convert into a successful, aggressive selling price that will help you win your client!
Import costing can be dangerous, as slight mistakes can have a disastrous impact on your margin, and you could end up running your import operation at your own costs…

So here are 5 tips on how to properly cost an import project:

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Bangers, also known as tap-taps are inescapable items for cultural, political and sport events. If you want to support a team, a movement or a demonstration, you can make noise with your 2 sticks and show your logo through the crowd. Nevertheless, there are important points you need to know before falling into the trap and buying defective bangers.
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The 11th edition of PSI will take place on 15, 16 and 17 September 2009 at Paris Expo, Pavilion 5.2/5.3 – Porte de Versailles.

The PSI Paris is one of the european meeting point for the gift and premium market with over 250 exhibitors, 350 brands will be represented and more than 4 700 professional visitors will participate.

Here are our questions to Clémence Long, PSI Paris trade show Director:
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Today I received following mail from the company Zintuig in Holland, one of the main actors in the dutch premium and gift market.
“Henk, our brand new website is online, it looks great and I would like to get your feedback on this website. All input is welcome.”

I know Zintuig and specially its owner Steph quit well and I’m sure he’s very proud of this new website. Let’s check together if he’s allowed to have the dream :
“I have the best promotional products website in the World”

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Sandrine Balaguer is giving us some news about European Sourcing !!

For those who are not aware of « europeansourcing », it’s a Mega on-line database,www.europeansourcing.com.

Genuine search engine of promotional objects and business gifts, listing more than 1500 catalogues of European suppliers…
Its goal: To connect the promotional product market actors in Europe, while respecting everyone’s working habits and culture.

What’s new about European Sourcing??
Interview between DocLogo+ and Sandrine Balaguer:
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Imagine, up from tomorrow, there are no promotional products any more in the world. What is the impact apart from my own businesses to collapse? What will a world without promotional product look like ?
Be careful, if you can’t give the answer, it might mean that promotional products are useless !
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Imagine, up from tomorrow there were no promotional products in the world any more. What is the impact apart from my own businesses to collapse? What will a world without promotional product look like?
Be careful, if you can’t give the answer, it might mean that promotional products are useless ! Please send us your ideas! We’ll post them below.
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