Brilliant idea from the chaps at Thoughtful.
USA, USA, USA, USA.
There's been a lot of posts and various blogs about the new skittles hourglass ad (which is great by the way). So instead of jumping on the bandwagon we thought we'd feature 3 our favourite ads from the good old U, S of A. We guarantee if you watch any of these when you're down they'll immediately bring a smile to your face...OOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Good at search engines, crap at communications
This morning a letter arrived on Ben's doormat addressed to 'Communications Manager, Keelhawk Ltd'. Now this aint his company but it did have the right address, hmmmmmm. Lets open it up and see whats inside. Pure class, the first line reads...'In the current climate it's more important than ever to ensure that every penny invested in promoting your business works as hard as possible' you mean like, for instance getting the friggin company name and address right eh? Douchebags.
Serge Gainsbourg. Looking louche, debonair and drawn.
Considering Serge Gainsbourg dabbled musically with everything from rock & roll to reggae in his lifetime, it seems only fitting that John Edwards lovely Draw Serge project should feature contributions that vary just as wildly in style (and sometimes just like the great man himself, in quality too.) Here's a few of our favourites so far.
Found through Andy Smiths blog, whose contribution is shown top.
The Michael Owen brochure - or the Michael Owen 'he's still good honest, remember that goal against Argentina?' brochure
Here's a few pages from the Michael Owen brochure that's being sent round to clubs at the moment (and only being read by Hull and Stoke by the looks of it). Now we're not going to go into the whole thing of why this desperate attempt has been produced etc. Just take one look at the bag of washing design of the brochure. Bad cut-outs, poor layout, graphs, tables the whole thing looks like someone's wet dream Powerpoint presentation. A new low for one of England's greatest strikers (we still have faith Michael). Next time, if you really have to do a brochure, sack off your agent and get a top agency to produce it for you. You can see all of the brochure here
Early days
The Sh! Award winners will be announced tomorrow, so congratulations to the winners.
Some really good work was on show, but what stood out more than anything were the great attitudes. Sorry if that sounds a bit trite, but so what. It was true. Creative departments tend to be the most cynical areas of any agency, so fresh, unjaded talent can really lift a place. And we're sure that most of those we saw, given the chance, will do just that. Just wait until we've got our next gig sorted okay?!
Anyway seeing as they all showed us theirs, we thought it only right that we show ours (well okay, a piece that won't make us feel too ashamed of our formative years anyway.)
Above is James's Student D&AD winning ambient media work for The Economist. Apparently this category attracted the most entries they'd ever had. And it was the only piece in the book at that time which didn't receive a (completely justified) good kicking from Graham Fink when he grabbed him for an impromptu book crit just as he was leaving New blood that day.
Your last meal
Great stuff from Kingston University graduate James Reynolds. His site has some crackin' work, but these stuck out. 'Last Suppers' is a series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners' requests for their last meal before execution. Gets you thinking eh? Ours would be fish, chips and a pint of Golden Best.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
