In recent days I’ve been working on some PR for an innovative new company called Shopjacket. Formed by designer Neil Wilson and commercial property consultant Paul Murphy, Shopjacket transforms empty shops by fitting specially-designed panels to give the impression that the shop is back in use. The aim is to tackle the blight of empty shops on high streets, which have a negative effect on town centres and the wider community.

The company has already received a lot of media attention, with the first shop to receive the Shopjacket treatment, a rundown former Select store in Whitley Bay that now looks like a thriving delicatessen, featured everywhere from the Telegraph and Mail to Radio Four and Sky News.

You can read more about Shopjacket and see some of the press coverage here.

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Last week I worked on an update of the Morley Literature Festival website. This year’s festival will take place on 11 to 17 October 2010. You can read more details on the MLF website here.

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Back in the day at Tonto Books I worked on a publication called The Non-Beardy Beer Book, a compendium of irreverent booze reviews. I wrote a good number of reviews for the book, and some of them have appeared online at the Non-Beardy Beer website. Here are links to eleven of them:

Budweiser
Budweiser Budvar
Carling
Corona Extra
Efes
John Smith’s Original Bitter
Kaliber
Lynx Premium
Miller Genuine Draft
Newcastle Brown Ale
Skol

If you like the taste of that, you can get The Non-Beardy Beer Book here.

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