Last week saw Creative Director Mhairi invited to facilitate a networking event as part of the Glasgow Edinburgh Creative Collaborations event at The Lighthouse. Following on from guest speaker Sir Terry Farrel, Mhairi led the group in discussions about how to encourage the two cities to work more closely together to improve competitive advantage. (Mhairi now thinks she might steal the ideas and run off with them all!) Watch out for more MP collaborative ventures soon, it's the future!

Anyone that joined the MP team at the GFT on Tuesday night would have viewed the lovely little movie that is 'Helvetica'. We all had a great time and enjoyed watching our Creative Director, Mhairi Mackenzie join the panel of Bruno Maag (Dalton Maag), Jonathon Jeffrey(Bibliotheque), Hector Pottie (Third Eye Design) and the lovely Gianluca Amadei (Blueprint) in discussing the merits of the Helvetica font with the audience. If you missed it you can now buy the DVD from Amazon although you will miss all the brilliant banter from our panel.

At a loose end on Tuesday March 11th?  Why not pop down to the GFT to see an exclusive screening of Helvetica, a documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.  Following the screening our very own Mhairi Mackenzie will join three other leading graphic designers to chat about the film and this famous font!

Mucky Puddle are delighted to have won the pitch to design and build the new website for the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. Following the guidelines on National Park, Breathing Spaces, the new site will be centred around four main 'portals' relating to the ways in which people relate to the park. We have been hard at work on the initial build and design and look forward to showcasing the site in the near future.

Does your business recycle its ink cartridges?  Why not join Mucky Puddle - for every ink cartridge we recycle a donation is made to help the Chibobo community in Northern Zambia and we help the environment too! The money we raise will help build a much needed hammer mill for grinding maize . 

Just a quick note to welcome you back and wish you a Happy New Year from the team here at Mucky Puddle. We are busy finalising the new Metropolitan Bar website and are also celebrating winning a great new contract, more details of that will follow soon. It's going to be a busy year as Mucky Puddle continues to grow and build on it's strong client base, we will have more great events in the coming months and our website has some exciting features in progress at the moment. To keep up to date why not sign up for our newsletter. 

Hope you are all keeping warm out of the wintery weather! Just to let you know we will be closed for Christmas Holidays from Friday 21st December until Monday 7th January. See you in the New Year!

To those of you who came along to Pecha Kucha tonight, we hope you enjoyed it!  Mhairi will be uploading her slides to the site soon incase any of you would like a wee reminder or would like to go and check out some of the things she was chatting about. You can also sign up for our newsletter and we'll send you a reminder when the slides are ready.

We've just heard we have been shortlisted for the Creative Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Lighthouse. It is awarded to companies who demonstrate continued creative and commercial success and we are delighted to have been selected for the final stages. The award forms part of this years 1999 Gold Medal Design award and takes place on 16th November. We will keep you posted on how we get on.

Mhairi will be sharing some of her creative ramblings with the Pecha Kucha audience in The Arches on the 5th December. You can check out the Creative Entrepreneurs website for more info here. Come along, it's going to be great!

We will be running our first Perfect Web Design event here at MPHQ on Friday 16th November from 3-5pm. If you are interested in a new website or if it has been a while since you last visited your own, then come along and learn about how to make the most of the web. We will be discussing all you need to know when setting up your site as well as having some fun experimenting with the design process. Refreshments will be provided so you can make the most of the networking opportunity and sneak out of the office early! The event is free but places are limited so email us now for more details and to reserve your place.