about us

a bit of background

Based in Lagos on Portugals' Algarve coast, Gráfica-Link is an independant design agency offering a personalised design service catering to your individual requirements - we're here to take care of all your design-based projects - from concept to delivery!

Alto Club Fore! Four out or four, to be precise - Gráfica-Link win the contract to maintain the Honours Boards for the home Golf Club at Alto Club, Alvor. This means we're now regularly upkeeping Honours Boards for Clubs and Societies at all four Pestana golf courses; Alto, Gramacho, Pinta, and Silves.

We'll also be producing a logo design for reproduction in print, and embroidered onto club merchandise.

"The Siege & Conquest of Silves 1189" book launchGráfica-Link provided a slide-show for the launch of "The Siege and Conquest of Silves 1189 - a tale of the Third Crusade by an Anonymous Crusader", held in the Library lecture theatre of Silves Municipal Library. Local figures such as Isabel Soares (President of Silves County Council), Rogerio Pinto, Rosario Bual (heads of division of Silves County Council) and Maria-José Mackaaij (Director of Silves Municipal Library) plus many residents, friends and family were also in attendance.

The Library lecture theatre was full almost to capacity to hear author Jon Wilson deliver an engaging presentation introducing not only the book and the inspired team behind it, but also the character of the Anonymous Crusader and what could only have been his 'journey of a lifetime'.

Lagoa to Lagos Gráfica-Link goes West! Although Lagoa will continue to be our administrative base, JJ Lane's recent move from Porches to Lagos means our design base will now be in Lagos. Contact details, including our postal address, remain the same.

Mesquita Press In the run-up to publication of their book, Mesquita Press have again partnered with Gráfica-Link, to design and build their website.

We've opted to develop their website using the popular Wordpress platform, as this will give the Mesquita Press team total control over the finished website, to Blog the progress of their publications. In addition, they plan to add a 'back-catalogue' of posts which should be interesting insight into how the Anonymous Crusaders' story was brought to life.

Siege & Conquest of SilvesLocal author Jon Wilson launches Mesquita Press to publish his non-fiction book "The Siege & Conquest of Silves 1189". As well as employing our services to manage pre-production and publication of the book, Gráfica-Link have been asked to forward proposals for their logo design and assist with the book launch later in the year.

AGUK Golf Course Information Launched this month - Courses.Algarve-Golf.co.uk!

OPRA Property Renovation Launched this month - OPRA-pt.com!

i-Spy360.com Gráfica-Link were keen to get involved with photography specialist i-Spy360.com - assisting with the use of their impressive 360-degree imaging equipment and providing photo-enhancement and preparation for the images to be used in online 'Virtual Tours'.

view website and i-Spy360 Virtual Tour...

Conscious Earth Launched this month - Conscious-Earth.com!

Alhaurin Estates Launched this month - AlhaurinEstates.com!

Our first Spanish client, a Real Estate agency based in Alhaurin el Grande, near Malaga.

Dental Solutions Europe Launched this month - Dental-Solutions-Europe.com!

Miller & Schültz Launched this month - Miller-Schultz.com!

Network Gráfica-Link and Network, the Business-Womans' Association of the Algarve, begin a working relationship that would last a number of years, successfully expanding, developing and maintaining the groups' website until the Association had grown sufficiently large to employ full-time staff to manage the project in-house.

Quinta da Calma Launched this month - Quinta-da-Calma.com!

Carvoeiro Golfe & Country ClubeWhen asked to provide a range of Honours Boards for the Golf Association based at the Pestanas Gramacho clubhouse, Gráfica-Link teamed up with expert local carpenter and cabinet-maker, Joe Norris.

The combination of traditional wood-working and finishing skills with our modern signage techniques has proven to be a lasting success - regular updates are made to the boards as and when required by the Association, and we also now tend to the Honours Boards at the Pestana Pinta and Silves courses.

gathering momentum! The addition of a number of local property management and sales agencies to our client-base provided many positively-met challenges throughout 2004 - Algarvida Lda., VDM Propriedades and Algarve-Villa-Rentals.com kept us more than busy, which allowed us to expand into, equip and staff a new office in Carvoeiro.

The contract to publish "The Algarve, Then & Now", a book by local writer Jenny Grainer, served to demonstrate how flexible Gráfica-Link can be. The project required that we embrace new pre-production techniques and liaise with larger printing facilities in order for it to be a success.

Plus, regular commissions from well-known Algarve businesses such as Fleet Street Lda. helped establish our reputation for cost-effective publicity work, by providing opportunities to design advertising for the Algarve Resident, the most popular local English-language newspaper.

Gráfica-Link is launched... ...founded by local residents George McKee and JJ Lane with the aim of providing Algarve businesses and individuals cost-effective design solutions combined with a friendly, reliable service.

2003 provided, amongst a number of varied initial projects, development of the Algarve-Golf.co.uk website (who we are happy to report remain satisfied customers to this day!), various publicity materials for Chris Garveigh Real Estate and donation of a website to the Lagoa Bombeiros fundraisers to aid their efforts.