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Archive for 2008/01

It’s raining jobs

We’ve been busy recruiting in January and here’s some of the new positions that we are in the process of filling.
A Head Teacher for one of Capability Scotland’s schools…

A Telephone Sales Executive position for The Scotsman Publications.

Plus a whole host of positions for Edinburgh Leisure. In fact this was a cracking wee ad because The [...]

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Recognition

It’s nice to be recognised. As you wander down Princes Street and bump into an old mate, a family member, a blind man. And it’s no different in business, so we are pleased to join the fold at the Recommended Agency Register. We are now, officially, one of Scotland’s finest. [...]

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ALL WORDS AND NO PLAY MAKES ENGLISH A DULL LANGUAGE.

 
The Washington Post’s winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. coffee , n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2. flabbergasted , adj. appalled by discovering how
much weight one has gained.
3. abdicate , v. to give up all hope of ever having
a [...]

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Womens’ guile

 
 
 
 
Eleven people were hanging from a rope, under a helicopter. Ten men and a woman. The rope was not strong enough to bear the weight of them all, so they decided that one had to let go because, otherwise, they would all fall.
They were unable to choose that person, until the woman gave a [...]

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More new work

Hey, we’re on a roll.  This is the new campaign for Edinburgh Leisure for their January Health and Fitness membership drive featuring the stunning mugshots of Michael Pinkerton and Catherine Lock.

Early results are encouraging!

There’s also a really nice radio ad featuring a great blues guitar turn by a bloke in South Queensferry.  (That’s a very [...]

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New work

Our carpet and flooring client, Eddie, famous for fabulous flaunting of his fineries, has let loose these two cracking sale ads produced by us in December. We rather like them.
This one’s for the Edinburgh Carpet and Flooring Warehouse…

And this is for Floors 4 U…

Pete is delighted that his puntastic skills were at last recognised.

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TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING

Helene sent the following as an all staff email.  As an alarmingly accurate commentary on the success of modern child rearing techniques, we thought it worth sharing. Roll on 2037…
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.        
1977 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.                                                                                                                                        
2007 – Police are called, [...]

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Another year another opportunity

 
As the new dawn of 2008 breaks the team here at 60 Watt has, perhaps not with a great deal of originality, but bucketloads of commitment, taken stock of some of our, admittedly few, weaknesses in 2007 and vowed to turn our backs on these minor irritations.
Iain is on a mission, quite simply, “to smile [...]

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