When we saw this ambient idea in Edinburgh’s St Andrew square gardens, Tamsin’s first reaction was “Wow, an actual real ambient idea from London placed in Edinburgh” because in truth we very rarely see this kind of stuff. (It usually runs in, well, London and that’s it). So big respect to both agency and client for taking the idea on tour. However we have a couple of gripes. Firstly the thought is very familiar. It seems every time a zoom camera is launched this “giant object” route is brought out of the bag. Secondly the model of the conker is absolutely beautiful. So why after going to so much trouble to make it perfect in every detail did they allow the model maker to scratch in a production reference code in huge type, to the stalk of the model? It’s a bit like producing very realistic moon landing pictures then leaving a reference code on one of the prop rocks. (At least that’s what our conspiracy theorist Art Director will tell you). So, are we suspending disbelief here or not?
Unfortunately despite our initial enthusiasm we decided that this conker is a bit of a chestnut.

We recently met up with the founders of Sherwood films to discuss mutual business opportunities.
They kindly invited us to join them at the Sherwood film club, held at the voodoo rooms in Edinburgh.
And what a great event it was. It’s a new venture and the idea is to bring together like-minded artists, musicians, film makers (and the odd ad agency) to showcase talents and share skills to help each other bring their ideas to life.
Sherwood for instance are shooting the second in their trilogy of horror movies (the first winning awards, despite a total production budget of twenty quid). And at the end of the evening they had a musician who’d offered to write an original score for the film. So clearly the idea works.
They even filmed a singer songwriter live on stage as part of a series they produce called “one song gigs.”
And the evening was made all the better spent in the company of our good friend, Darcie Tanner Condie. We discovered that she’s now joined Civic as their social marketing guru. So we’re looking forward to working with them in the very near future.

A Grand Prix night out to be precise. Because that’s what mightysmall walked away with at only our second Scottish ad awards. (Apart from the top award we also won best press ad, best press campaign, best professional ad and best ad on a mobile medium and a commendation for best poster campaign too, but we don’t want to show off).
We’re absolutely delighted and we’re just as pleased with the huge number of congratulatory messages we’ve been getting from, well everybody. Thanks a lot for all your kind words. They mean as much as the metal dirk.

After a competitive pitch between 4 Edinburgh agencies and design companies, mightysmall (having teamed up for the pitch with design company 39steps) have been appointed to the Waterfront Enterprises business. Waterfront Enterprises is a new venture, which aims to offer everything from corporate entertainment to IT training for Scotland’s business sector.
With exclusive access to the state of the art facilities offered by Telford college’s £71 million campus; it’s staff and even its students, Waterfront Enterprises is already making an impact in the market (Sir Tom Farmer has already used the facilities to organise a business event and dinner for 350).
Mightysmall has been asked to produce the brand communications strategy and 39steps will create the corporate identity and website

Graham Clarke, Commercial Director, Waterfront Enterprises, said:.
‘When we invited mightysmall to pitch they had been recommended to me by two contacts I spoke to about agencies. So, we put them on the pitch list and they didn’t disappoint. Mightysmall and 39steps are getting busy now helping Waterfront build a brand from scratch and we are looking forward to it being ready for market.”