Businesses are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to promote their business in today’s tough climate. Those businesses that have been around the block a few times will be investing heavily during the recession to promote their brands - whilst smaller competitors fizzle out. There are many promotional devices that companies use for brand promotion such as leaflets, websites, email marketing, text message marketing and so on, but one product that seems to deliver the message on a number of levels are Media Mats, which are simply floor mats that carry your organisations promotional messages.

These durable Media mats can be used to advertise special offers, display your company’s logo or to simply welcome people to your premises with a friendly greeting, reinforcing your brand as they enter and leave. Restaurants and bars have been using these products effectively to promote offers in their establishments with the use of bar runners and media mats.

The surface of these Media mats can be printed to very high standard in a variety of colours and can be used as large floor based promotional devices. Some products such as coir mats are hand-made and the colours available are limited to a few dozen. However promotional mats and media mats can be directly printed on and can carry highly striking images that are only limited by your imagination.

Create Mats have recently commissioned a simple CMS website developed by Sizzle Media; to offer highly competitive pricing on Media mats. Working exclusively with some of the largest mat manufacturers in the world, Create Mats are able to offer any kind of media mat at probably the most competitive prices in the UK.

Sizzle Media were commissioned to develop a web projects that was simple to maintain and cut out all the jargon, to offer people searching for Media mats a one stop service for their media mat requirements.

You can check out their amazing pricing yourself by calling 01706 436 102, you may even get a discount if you mention Sizzle Media!

It's finally here: NOISE 5 - the latest edition of the world-renowned series of design books by our friends at the Attik. As far as big design studio monographs go, the Noise series has a huge international following and each issue has become a collectors' edition.

Self-published with only a 3000 limited run, each book has cost over £200 to produce, resulting in a visual feast of experimental design and extensive print techniques. The book showcases over 250 pages of stunning design, using 9 different kinds of paper stocks and over 40 print finishes including hot foils, scratch-off inks, hi-build gloss varnishes, embossing and heat sensitive inks, and the result is a very tactile and very beautiful piece of work.

This book has been 3 years in the making so you can imagine that it's very hot property for those lucky enough to pre-order a copy. But since we're not just any old web design studio, no, Sizzle Media are one of the very few privileged enough to get a complimentary copy well before the book hits the stores!

Having pored over it since its arrival, we absolutely love it. It really is a work of art and has everything a designer could wish for and more. It's absolutely saturated with creativity and you genuinely sense the attention and effort that has gone in to the production – not to mention it cost a small fortune to produce!

Overall it’s a landmark piece of work by the Attik and a highly recommended purchase for any print or web designer when it does eventually hit the book stores.

Thanks to the Attik for our copy :)