Christmas is on its way - including at DNS. We have designed various seasonal giveaways, to make sure all our DNS partners are captivated by the magic of Christmas. There are traditional German Lebkuchen for the gourmets among you, with packaging designed by DNS. We will be sending out printed Christmas cards with an artistic design, also available as e-cards. A desk calendar featuring a cloud filled with Friedel chocolate is just right for every sweet tooth, rounding up the DNS advent collection.

Our art director Tina Bernhardt is not only an expert with the computer mouse when it comes to putting a face you can see onto visions, philosophies and products in hi-tech, as the local Ebersberger Zeitung newspaper recently reported. Graphic expression also means profound artistic talent, where the brush and palette are as indispensable as ever, as Beate Maisch summed it up in her report. A former student of the German Master School of Fashion in Munich, fashion and advertising graphic designer Tina Bernhardt has been working at griffity for 15 years, while still maintaining her reputation in top-class exhibitions.

"The Power of Blue" road show will be presenting the new partnership between DNS and IBM. DNS and IBM will be holding this "blue" morning for its business associates in Munich, Berlin and Cologne. Visitors will be given an opportunity to find out more about the background and advantages of the partnership and the products that IBM and DNS will be supplying, and about this super-intelligent shade of the colour blue. In addition to designing the invitation card for this event, griffity has also created a sticker for the pen set to go with it.

The F5 Application Security Conference to be held at the Capitol in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, will be receiving professional publicity from griffity; in addition to selecting the location, we will be responsible for the whole event management. To draw the attention of CEOs and IT managers to this open event, F5 has entrusted griffity with the entire design for advertising the event such as invitation cards, website and advertisements. F5 is anticipating between 100 and 150 individual participants at the conference.

Milbank is an international law company with over 500 lawyers and 138 years of tradition to look back on. The company has now opened an office in Munich, and we have designed the invitation cards for the opening ceremony. To ensure effective support for the eleven lawyers that will be occupying this new office, the company has placed the design for the jobs ads in our capable hands.

Netoption has entrusted realization of its multimedia solutions for networks to griffity. Netoption's customers will be seeing the company in a new corporate design, and griffity has designed the logo alongside designing and producing the company's office stationery. We will also be supplying Netoption with our professional support in the website relaunch and in preparing their new image brochure.

"Strategies for fast. Profitable service delivery for the next generation" will be the topic of discussion at the half-day seminar for the telecommunications industry. The event will be held by Bea in Düsseldorf's Malkasten at the end of October, with an anticipated 50 guests taking part. Bea has left the job of event management in the hands of griffity, which has also designed a web portal for the telecommunications industry as well as advertisements and invitation cards.

Enterasys and Siemens are planning a joint information workshop for Siemens sales staff - the topic will be "successful network solutions with Enterasys." During the workshop, they will be looking into new joint solutions for network projects. The two-day workshop will be taking place in Zugbrücke Hotel in the town of Höhr-Grenzhausen, and griffity has been entrusted with the entire event management including hotel bookings, catering and equipment. Apart from that, we will be setting up an event website that we have designed to handle participant registration.

NetASQ, a French firewall and VPN manufacturer, has been taking the limelight with its products in a number of different events. After holding training programmes with its distributors in Munich and Cologne in the summer, NetASQ will be taking part in the autumn IT Security Partner Solution Days. The NetASQ team will also be putting in an appearance at a stall in the Security Area at the Systems trade fair. To make sure that their guests feel right at home, they have hired griffity for the event management.

Now online-the new Digital Network Services website that griffity has designed and implemented for the specialist IT enterprise. The site has all the latest information on the company presented in a concise, clear format for customers and anyone else who is interested. If you're looking for something besides information, DNS has thought up an attractive competition-with one of thirty-three original works of art as a top prize awaiting the lucky winner. DNS entrusted griffity with the competition's graphic implementation.

F5 has now sensitised around 10,000 IT officers, CIOs and medium sized companies to the subjects "high availability and security" and "application traffic management" with a mailing. griffity not only took over the optical design of the mailing, but also formulated the content. The four-page flyer also encouraged addressees to register for the F5 newsletter - readers had the chance to win one of three weekends with a BMW Z4.

The DNS (Digital Network Services) website that griffity has planned, designed and realised, has been a popular success so far. The company has now contracted the DNSedu website's design, and griffity will be preparing the basic planning as well as the templates that DNS can include into its own content management system. We will also be revising the content. The target groups will be both partners and end customers of DNS. The aim of the relaunch is to liven up the company's image while encouraging online bookings and increasing customer potential through improved structure and increased clarity. The design will be more fresh and modern. DNSedu's range of services includes Citrix and Sun certification training. DNSedu is also the first and only Authorized Training Center for F5 products, and imparts knowledge in Internet traffic, high availability and content management.

Clean shoes for the trade fair, business cards kept in mint condition, and a spotlight on the trade fair's highlights for the companies' guests at CeBIT-all thanks to the advertising gifts that griffity produced for Enterasys and its distributor, Avnet, for the trade fair. This was also the first time that the logos of the two companies came into active use, engraved by laser onto these advertising gifts for all eternity. The guests at the booth were given a choice between a shoe-cleaning set, business-card case and Maglite flashlight to take with them on their travels through the endless halls of the CeBIT trade fair. We also produced miniature replica Mini racing cars with the company logos printed on in colour for a partner event, a kart race. Together with griffity, Avnet will also be realising future projects aimed at enhancing the Enterasys/Avnet partnership marketing effort.

Portal characteristics, their development and administration will be the main topics of discussion for the attendees at the TechTalk event programme hosted by BEA Systems. The company chose griffity to make the necessary arrangements involved in all eleven events. TechTalk will be bringing developers, project managers, consultants and sysadmins together in Budapest, Prague, Zurich, Munich, Frankfurt, Moscow and Warsaw. To ensure that the attendees feel right at home, griffity has not only selected and booked the locations, but also organised the technical equipment in the conference rooms along with conference documentation and catering. Additionally, griffity prepared and sent the invitations and created the local websites. BEA is anticipating 40-60 attendees at each of the events, for which griffity has also designed and booked, amongst other things, inserts for Java magazine and Entwickler, the specialist journal for developers, to publicise the BEA TechTalk event programme. A text ad in the Java Spectrum newsletter finally rounds off the marketing initiative for this series of events.