The Southwold Concert Series, for which Spring is patron and marketing partner, will be adding to the Southwold Christmas festivities this weekend with a Christmas Extravaganza.

Back by popular demand, West End stars Elinor Jane Moran and Richard Knight perform along a host of local musicians including rising star and BBC Chorister of the Year finalist Olivia Castle, and the Saint Felix Choral Society with their director Andrew Jenkins.

The programme includes excerpts from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, opera, musicals, cabaret, Gilbert and Sullivan and a feast of Christmas songs.

Tickets cost £12 – to include mulled wine and a mince pie – and accompanied under 16’s are welcome to join us without charge. Tickets are available on the door of St Edmund’s Church from 7.00pm or via Spring on 01502 726161 or at 4 Church Street, Southwold.

Ex-Springer Steve Mellor – one of our first designers, and a really lovely chap who left us to pursue an artistic career – has featured in this month’s industry-insiders fave, Computer Arts, with his artworks Blue Gold and Apogee.

Norwich based Steve describes his Spring time with fondness in the article: “I worked with such a creative team and learned essential skills for developing my work.”

It’s always a pleasure to see Spring alumni flourish, and we look forward to following Steve’s progress over the next few years.

In the first of a weekly series, we’d like to share some of the great things about Spring clients. We’re starting with Signs Express, one of the newest clients to hit our folio and a great Norfolk company that symbolises the entrepreneurial nature of the region.

Signs Express was founded by David Corbett and Franck Eliel in 1989 in Norwich, and now has 80 franchised outlets across the UK. The company prides itself on its training programme and the quality of support it offers to its franchisees, many of whom are running extremely successful businesses. Its brand reputation – of expertise and skill  – is upheld consistently across these franchises, testament to the quality of its people.

Spring’s working with Signs Express to provide design and artwork projects, which have so far included emailers, sponsorship marketing and their 2012 calendar. No mean feat, this last saw us commission 12 photographic scenarios from scratch, each season appropriate and with the Signs Express icon hidden somewhere in the scene.

We’re excited about 2012, which will see us develop our partnership with Signs Express across a range of exciting projects.

Spring’s latest arrival, Nikki Palmer, has settled in well to her new role at Spring and we’re thrilled to have her here!

Already an experienced account handler, Nikki has worked with big client such as Adnams, Network Rail and Toshiba.

We’re thrilled to have a new Nikki on board, she knows and loves Southwold, which is such an important part of life at Spring. Nikki’s got a great track record so we’re excited to add her to our fast-growing team.

Nikki will be working with lots of our clients including Dance East, TMJ Interiors and Mark Harrod.

Spring was delighted to be commissioned by the AONB Suffolk Coast and Heaths to provide editorial for the Autumn/ Winter newsletter. Over an intensive month we paginated, interviewed, wrote and edited articles including Emma Hibbert’s favourite pub walk, updates on Alde and Ore Futures and events listings.

The resulting newspaper is now widely available across the region in pubs, shops, TIC’s and offices.