Today we did our Secret Santa's. I think everyone was suitably impressed with their gifts.

Our last day this year will be on the Friday 18th December and we will be coming back on the 4th of January. It's been a really challenging year for us, but one that we have been fortunate to be involved in some great projects. We have launched a number of new brands through our strategy and identity services. Also digitally we have managed to design and build a number of websites that have been hugely successful in terms of traffic and also through the development of technology involved. 2010 is going to be a big year for Hoffi as we already have a number of projects that are set to start as soon as we get back. We have also got a number of other ventures that we will all be working on over the next year.

Finally for all you Welsh speakers out there. Our very own Elin Williams will be on Wedi 7 talking about her passion for embroidery. Hope everyone has a great festive season and we will see you in the New Year. If you want to contact us before the 18th then please feel free to.

It's been a long week but we finally managed to get some shots of some branding and advertising for Wyeverne Electrical. We used a shop front on North Road, Cardiff to advertise the flagship store in Roath, Cardiff. Not 100% finished yet but getting there.

I went with Elin to the third Eco Network event at Cardiff Central Library, yesterday. The event is an ongoing project by Ecodesign Centre, the design community and the Welsh Assembly Government with the ultimate goal of moving towards sustainability in the future. This event was based around a workshop facilitated by Ed Gillespie from Futerra.

By future projecting ten years into the future we looked internally at our own companies to see how the practice of designing may change. When I first started envisaging this I was thinking flying cars, aliens that kind of thing. But then when you look back ten years not a lot of fundamental changes have taken place. For sure things have got faster and there are many more channels of information but it still seems not that far removed. I will post some images of the event when Ecodesign centre release them.