Cafe Portico - Cup Cake Heaven

Café Portico at The Terrace is operating under new management.

The very talented Ellie Wade has put her considerable culinary experience as a chef and food connoisseur in to providing a new Café Portico experience. Most of you will have experienced Ellie’s fantastic recipes and creativity when Foogo was open in the Cornhill (before the brand was bought out and the shop closed last year), and for those of you who haven’t then a real treat awaits you!

Cafe Portico will be open between the hours of 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday. Ellie hopes to extent these hours at a later date.

Ellie is also planning a series of special events including open mic' (15 June and 20 July) and jazz evenings. Please keep a look out for further details.

POP Design Agency and WebLincs unite against crime

POP Design Agency and WebLincs.co.uk have been commissioned to re-design and re-develop an entire family of web sites for People United Against Crime.

The organisation, based in Sheffield, are having web sites designed and built for the following organisations: People United Against Crime, Business Crime Reduction Centre, NS FRITS and TruckWatch.

The design of the sites will be within a overall theme, but with each organisation having it's own branding and corporate colours.

The sites will be developed using WebLincs.co.uk's own cutting-edge Content Management System (CMS) SiteFood. The system is unique in the way it can manage several web sites within one installation, making it ideal for companies containing several brands.

For more information about SiteFood or how POP Design Agency can help market your business call 01522 845 057.

Mark Chambers at London Zoo!

Mark Chambers (28), who works from The Terrace in Lincoln, was selected by London Zoo ,from hundreds of illustrators across the country, to redesign the children's section of the famous attraction.

Called Animal Adventure, the new children's zoo has been given a £2.3 million revamp and aims to immerse youngsters in the sights, sounds and smells of the animal kingdom.

The wild world of characters designed by Mr Chambers along with rhymes and play zones will bring young animal lovers face-to-face with red pandas, porcupines and prairie dogs.
"It's all part of a massive 10 year redevelopment of the zoo," said Mr Chambers, who is signed to the London-based Bright Agency. "Previously the zoo had used photographs of animals and it was all very proper and not much fun. They decided that they wanted to use illustrations and a different way of teaching kids about animals."

Two main child characters designed by Mr Chambers will guide children through a series of information boards in four different zones of the new zoo.

His work – which will be seen by around 1.2 million people each year – will even form the backdrop to the zoo's cafe and will be placed on souvenir pens and pencils.

Phil Holmes, interpretation developer at the zoo said Mr Chambers was the best illustrator they could find.
"Mark's illustrations were the perfect match for Animal Adventure," he said.

For further information visit...

http://www.thebrightagency.com/ www.childrensillustrators.com/markillustration

POP wins the race for Silver Dream!

POP wins the race for Silver Dream POP Design Agency has been drafted in to produce a series for e-brochures for exciting new motoring event, Silver Dream Rally. The Silver Dream supercar rally begins in London and travels through Brussels and Switzerland to Monte Carlo.

Take a look at there website to find out more http://www.popdesignagency.co.uk/.

The book festival is back; at The Terrace!

The book festival is back, starting 13th May - 17th May. The tickets went on sale to all Festival Friends from March 25th and on general sale from Wednesday 1st April.

Words in Special Places - Join us at some new festival venues to enjoy the literature of Lincoln with our special guest readers. Wednesday 13th May 10am at Café Portico. Free.


David Hewson’s detective duo Costa and Peroni police the mean Italian streets of Venice and Rome. Find out why the author chooses to set his crime thrillers in abroad and how the foreignness of another country can get under your skin. Saturday 16th May - 1pm at Cafe Portico. £4/£2.



Marcel Theroux: Far North. Award-winning novelist and documentary film-maker Marcel Theroux’s novels include The Paperchase and A Blow to the Heart. His latest, Far North, leads the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity’s origins to its likely end. Bleak, haunting, spare – and yet ultimately hopeful - the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world’s fragility and beauty, and its unexpected ability to recover from our worst trespasses. Saturday 16th May at The Terrace - 4pm. £4/£2.

POP Design Agency secures County Life contract

Terrace based POP Design Agency has been awarded the contract to redevelop Lincoln-based publishing house County Life's entire online presence - including the Lincolnshire Life magazine website.

The Lincolnshire Life project includes an exciting new online outlet for local producers. The Lincolnshire Shop will not only sell County Life's own range of Lincolnshire Flag merchandise and subscriptions to Lincolnshire Life magazine, but will also be an opportunity for local retailers to sell Lincolnshire produce.

Lincolnshire Life is a monthly magazine devoted to the history, culture and contemporary life of Lincolnshire. The magazine has over 50,000 readers spanning all four corners of the globe.
County Life Ltd is a family-run company and is headed by Caroline Bingham, who is the Chief Executive.

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