The Mother of Finds

I’m not really into reviewing eateries, I find it quite pretentious and sad when ad folk do the one up manship on restaurants and some predictable fame seeker will say in total cliché form The Ivy. It’s fucking shit anyway. Having said that, I’m no greasy spoon man either, with vanity strong in my veins [...]

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Old ways of working will die with the old skool

Like the sun will rise in the morning advertising has at last woken up to something that was said by myself and Sam, oh, some 4 years ago.     This was that the current working model of AD and CW as creative teams is a bit pony these days and that teams of a [...]

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Leo Burnett Dubai & a frustrated chicken in Kuwait

  I’ve recently been completely bowled over by quite an amazing piece of ‘on a shoe string’ work that has come from Leo Burnett Dubai. I’ve been harsh on the region in the past for a number of reasons but since following this campaign I’ve seen that great and fun ways of doing stuff can [...]

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Own a football club

I found this today and it’s an awesome idea. Visit: www.myfootballclub.co.uk The idea being that you pay £35 and for it you have a stake in a football club, can vote on buying players, training, takeover deals. They’ve just signed a club which if it was to be successful would be a great story. Also, [...]

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Distributing Shock

 I’m quite late to comment on Marilyn Manson, he’s been around for years and everyone has mentioned that he’s a marketing genius but I quite fancied a brain dump on him. I’ve been watching his videos of late and using some of them as stimulus in certain briefings as they really capture the dark side [...]

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Brand Innovation vs Brand Image

  Firstly, is it boring to talk about how agencies need to change, how the structure put in place in the 1950s might not be the best way to handle such a fragmented 2007 and that possible conspiracy theory that if agencies were honest the whole industry would crack at the top due to the [...]

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Visiting Home

  I’m off home tonight, to the majestic city that is Newcastle. I hardly ever get to spend a long weekend there and as a result it makes it extra special when getting there i.e. the bars I would fall in and out of a student, all my friends who I grew with outside of [...]

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Filling The Plate

Things are really gathering a bit of momentum. AdGrads is approaching full-time job required status and the folks at Brand Republic have very kindly asked us all to blog there as well. In addition we’ve set up the requisite Facebook group to try and get suggestions from people about what they want AdGrads to be, [...]

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Blogs That Make Us Think

A little while back, Will noted us as one of the blogs that makes him think. So as is the custom, we’re going to tell you about the blogs that we read, and suggest you read them as well. Adliterate: Richard Huntington always comes at things from an angle that make you think ‘Why didn’t [...]

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Arty Farty

I’ll just launch into this one. My partner is a Sculptress; she travels pretty much all over the world on private commissions, competitions, residencies or is in the UK on public commissions. As a result I pretty much have to spend 60% of my spare time in art galleries and exhibitions…..you can usually find me [...]

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