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Making of: Spinning Sprouts

For our recent Sprout Christmas competition, the development team were tasked with the creation of a 360 degree spinning representation of our prize jar of sprouts. Having some keen photographers within the team, we jumped at the chance to bring our gear in, and convert the kitchen area in the manor into a quick photo Read more

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2012! Will the internet still be here?

This month, .net magazine asked our development team the big question. Maybe the biggest question everyone is asking at the beginning of a new year. What will be the most significant trend of 2012? Some believe it will be the end of the world but not our two senior developers… So what will it be? Read more

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A warm welcome to Nia!

Marketing & New Business is pleased to have a shiny new team member among our ranks – please welcome Nia Lonergan to the Coordinator role! Nia joins straight from graduating with a BA in Politics from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwhich. Not a ‘green’ grad- she has experience as a fundraiser for Read more

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Simple ideas are still the best!

Like most people in the industry, when I have some free downtime I enjoy looking through books and surfing the internet for inspiration and creative ideas. Recently while on one of my favourite creative portals Fubiz I stumbled upon Ben Heine, a young Belgium painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer. I have been particularly interested Read more

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New jobs at the manor…

It is an exciting time at the manor at the moment… Spring has sprung, we are approaching our 3rd birthday, and after a number of impressive wins we are looking to expand our team. So if you want to be part of an award-winning agency that is working with global names and has a desire Read more

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Less is most definitely more!

In an age where information is king our visual senses are constantly bombarded on a daily basis. This is none more so than in the supermarket environment where choice is overtaking need. It’s refreshing to see a packaging project which sets to strip out redundant information, providing the bare essentials and identifiable international brand name. Read more

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Too many chefs? Not in our kitchen.

Here at the We Love Manor you won’t hear battles raging or sabres rattling over ‘who is more important, the designer, or the developer, or the UX’ kind of argument that so frequently pops up on the web. While others may be fixated on ring-fencing tasks and generally treading on each other’s toes, we love Read more

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Super Advanced Zip Archive User

One of those “I always forget how to do this” posts. At least if it’s here I know where to find it. Assuming I remember. Scenario: Client sends zip archive. Developer is using a Mac. (Error 1 – Operation Not Permitted). The default archive utility in OS X doesn’t play nice with password protected zip Read more

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No one wants to be the Christmas Leftover…

The final countdown to Christmas has begun… As the familiar sound of Christmas songs and the twinkle of lights sweeps over us this season, everyone looks forward to some time off to celebrate. Not the We Love team though… The Resource Manager has locked them in the manor to work overtime and it’s up to Read more

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Saying a fond farewell to ‘Movember’

As ‘Movember’ draws to a close, we all look back with fond memories at a truely entertaining and in certain cases epic moustache growing month! Yes we have seen horseshoes and handlebars, ‘My first’ and fully grown lip ticklers! Some of us where not able to see the month out, but all of us made Read more

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