Monday February 1st 2010
Click on image to zoom inObviously you’ve seen the Conservative party’s first advertising of the election campaign but do you know the results it’s generating? Sadly for the Tories it’s not the results they were hoping for. Granted running a 96 sheet in Scotland with a big airbrushed photo of any English Tory politician is unlikely to end well and so it proved. The political graffiti artists were out in force but wouldn’t really have got great grades at the Watford Copywriting School. Their best effort being FUCK OFF BACK TO ETON, in red paint naturally. But please, please check out mydavidcameron.com and see just how creative people can really get with their graffiti.
Who's behind this site? MyDavidCameron.com was built by Clifford Singer, creative director at Sparkloop graphic design agency and creator of the Other TaxPayer's Alliance website. His website is voluntary and unfunded, and not linked to any political party – nor is Clifford a member of any. So just go and enjoy the funny posters. Better still you can download the poster and be creative yourself. We read about the site in Saturday’s Guardian in an article by Zoe Williams. So thanks for that Zoe. One small thing, when you say “ You see, here’s the thing with the Tories, their ad campaigns are always rubbish” we have to stop you there. Double whammy? Labour’s tax bombshell? And what about the poster consistently voted best ever “Labour isn’t working” ring any bells Zoe?
Pity their first effort of the 2010 campaign hasn’t reached those dizzying heights.
Tuesday January 19th 2010
Click on image to zoom inWe had a new business meeting in Lambeth Walk in London last week and we found ourselves presenting in a fantastic building. It is actually the original home of Royal Doulton. Or to be more accurate Doulton of Lambeth as it was when this pottery was first opened in 1815. The building is particularly ornate as befits people who created beautiful stoneware (and London’s sewer pipes). The Doulton Company finally moved out of the Lambeth studio in 1956 when clean air regulations prohibited the production of salt glaze in an urban environment. Today it is home to a range of lucky organisations that do not have to spend 8.hours a day sitting in a featureless glass box.
Tuesday December 22nd 2009
We've been invited to the annual ANNA awards. That’s the Awards for National Newspaper Advertising. We were nominated for a prize back in April when our work for the Communication Workers Union started running in every broadsheet and tabloid in the land. And on Wednesday the 27th of January we’ll be hobnobbing it in London with the other nominees for a cool £65,000 in prize money. Let’s hope that out host for the evening Rob Brydon will have a cheque with our name on it. If not well, never mind we’ll still be in the Annual and Brian will have done his best to drink the equivalent of his flight down, in free champagne.
Tuesday November 24th 2009
Click on image to zoom inWow. A retail and leisure destination launches in Aberdeen and attracts 1 million customers in one month. Amazing when you consider that the population of Aberdeen is only 209,260 (last time anyone counted). Whoever did the launch campaign for Union Square, owned by Hammerson the footsie 100 property developers, which included TV, radio, 96 and 48 sheets, must have done an amazing job. Congratulations to them.
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