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Category Archives: Advertising
Fresh Meat
Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work…
Posted in Advertising, Animation, Art, Awards, Books, Branding, Brands, Design, Digital, Fresh Meat, Graphic Design, Illustration, Just for Fun, The Partners, The Partners Poll
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Fresh Meat
Each month, we’ll be posting a short profile on our most recent placements. You can find out a bit about them, and see some of their work…
Posted in Advertising, Art, Branding, Design, Fresh Meat, Graphic Design, Illustration, Just for Fun, The Partners, The Partners Poll
Tagged David Tolmie, Fresh meat, Placements, Tim Sumner
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World Anamorphic Branding
Last week a couple of The Partners were in Davos, Switzerland to take part in the World Economic Forum’s 2011 annual meeting. Surprisingly we weren’t there to share our opinions on the conference agenda ‘Shared norms for the new reality’ … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Environment, Exhibition
Tagged 2011, Anamorphic, Davos, Deloitte, World Economic Forum
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Meet Dot
Here is a rather interesting approach to the promotion of the Nokia N8 and it’s microscope lens attachment. The lens was developed for use by Doctors in remote locations to take photographs of blood samples. These can then be sent … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Animation, Video
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Ikea + cats = LOL
It is the holy grail: how do you get more hits on the web without spending a fortune on advertising? Dare I say it, there is a simple way: with cats.
An ill-informed post about b2c social media interactions and the legal issues therein
OK, so I say ill-informed as I’m not up to date on the latest UK legislation, my knowledge is a couple of years out of date, so please excuse me if this is utter guff, however something occurred to me … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Brand Strategy, Business, Campaign, Digital
Tagged Agency, Art, Business, experience, Fun, People, Social Media, ted, Tools, Twitter, Work
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Intangible value?
This week we were delighted to have Ogilvy supremo Rory Sutherland come in and share his recent TED talk discussing advertising and intangible value. Rather than me spending the next couple of lines wax lyrical about the things he had … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Video
Tagged 2009, Advertising, Application, Creative, Flash, Global, Ogilvy, play, Poster, Rory Sutherland, ted, TED talks, Twitter, Video, Work
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Missed opportunity
So I love these new ads for Intel, having worked for them in the past agency side, these ads are certainly a move on from where they were, and I love the human ‘bong’ at the end, but why oh … Continue reading
Take an opportunity when you see it
The economic downturn is challenging us all to look for new and inventive ways to get more ‘bang for our buck’. It might be daunting – dare I say it frightening, but for those of us willing to take risks … Continue reading
My WEF diary
At the end of January, I took a little trip from the (relative) warmth and comfort of my studio desk in Albion Courtyard, to the bleak wilderness of Davos, high up a mountain in the Swiss alps. A spot of … Continue reading →