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Archive for 2009/05

You can always rely on Frenchie

Helene set off for a meeting at 9.00 this morning and came back five minutes later having forgotten the Pantone book she needed for the meeting.
“When you’ve got no head, you’ve got legs; as  my Dad always says” she declared, happy as Larry.
Right.

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IT’S A WAR OUT THERE, FINAL EPISODE.

And now, the end is near and so we face the final curtain (enough, already – Ed).
Yup, it’s VE day for our war-themed 60 Watt house advertising campaign and the final ad in the series is in this morning’s Scotsman as I write (nice position too, thanks guys!). 
You really should see it in the paper, [...]

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IT’S A WAR OUT THERE, WEEK FOUR

Hot off the press, the latest in our “Austerity” series appears in the Scotsman today in all its full page glory.  (We know, we were up early excitedly thrusting our 75p in the general direction of the poor, beleagered newsagent across the road.)
We sent out a preview copy to a few friends and clients yesterday and the response [...]

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BULBS OF STEEL

At our stage in life, it’s not often you get a compliment from a lady.  Particularly when the lady in question says you have, “bulbs of steel.”
But we have.  And she did.  Here’s the proof:

Flattery, as they say, gets you everywhere.
What makes the whole thing even more intriguing is that nobody knows the identity of [...]

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG

 
Spring has most definitely sprung.  Oh, yus!
Witness this impressive photo of spring blossoms taken by our senior designer, Helene.
Eschewing the latest digital technology (she gets enough of that at work) Helene favours an old Polaroid 210 Land Camera she bought on Ebay last year for twenty quid.  Here’s a picture of the old girl (the [...]

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IT’S A WAR OUT THERE, WEEK THREE

We’ve had a great reaction to the first ad in our austerity series – Squander Bug - and lots of comments.  Those helpful people at the Scotsman even got into the spirit by throwing in a free insertion last week (thanks, guys!).  
Onwards and upwards with a fresh execution in this morning’s national newspaper.  Ration books?  Powdered Eggs?  Chicory [...]

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