The Fresh Digital Awards were held last night at the Hilton. We only had one piece nominated, so it was good that one won. 100% ain’t bad. The Warburtons We Love Bread website picked up the award for Freshest Digital Campaign. Well done Adam P, Mark, Jono, Stu, Emma, Darren and everyone else I’ve missed out. There’s always one.
Hats also tipped in the general direction of our neighbours on the 3rd floor of Basil Chambers, the neighbourhood who picked up the Grand Prix. See you at the bar.
A great philosopher once told us: “We’re all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two. Fun and laughter on a summer holiday, no more worries for me and you. For a week or two.”
It’s a belief that’s been held by many civilisations throughout the centuries, but it wasn’t until we recently started work with luxury travel company carrier that we really understood its true meaning. These guys know how to holiday. And we know how to do websites. So it seemed only natural that they asked us to design a website for all their holidays.
It went live last week – click here if fancy heading off on probably the best holiday you will ever go on. Thanks to everyone who worked on the project with us.
Unfortunately, due to something happening in the US most of the national newspapers seem to have overlooked the big story of the day – The Grocery Company have just launched a range of Nando’s Peri-Peri chips (like crisps but a bit posher) which they kindly asked us to do the packaging for.
They come in three mouth and eye-watering flavours: Hot Peri-Peri, Peri-Peri Chicken and Smokey BBQ Peri-Peri, with more in the pipeline. We’ve only tried a couple of bags so far (the hot is genuinely hot - you have been warned) and from today if you go down to your local Tesco store you should be able to pick up a bag or two or (ideally) three for yourself. Just make sure you pay for them too: crime isn’t a way of life.
Just found this video by Gnarls Barkley on James & Joe’s blog (otherwise known as Keirs and Callahan). Great casting and the dialogue’s particularly good. It’s been a while since I’ve been on James & Joe’s blog (which is why many of you have probably seen this video before), but there’s always plenty of good stuff on there. Well worth a look if you haven’t already.
So, last Friday we had eight grads showing their portfolios in our office. Good people they all were, and some good work on show too. If you are looking for some grads to add to your creative department it’s definitely worth giving these guys a call/ email/ carrier pigeon:
Unfortunately we could only take one person on and in the end we decided that person was to be Gemma, who’ll be joining us sometime soon. So well done Gemma, and well done everyone else who applied. And while we’re at it, well done you too for whatever you’ve done today.
First we had thousands of ping pong balls bouncing down the street in San Francisco. Then we had Scottish tower blocks exploding with paint and plasticine rabbits running around New York. Fortunately this stunt has nothing to do with Juan Cabral or Sony, the people of Dallas just did it because it seemed like a good idea. Oh, and to set a Guinness world record.
Last night was the Roses Design Awards. We did pretty well last year and although we had a few pieces nominated we genuinely didn’t feel we would beat our tally. So it was nice to be wrong.
Emma and Gre were both nominated for Emerging Designer of the Year, and, to our amazement, they both won it. Not that we had a favourite. Mr Rix’s sizeable ego was swelled even further by picking up Designer of the Year, and our digital department proved they’re a force to be reckoned with by picking up a Gold for The Neighbourhood’s website and a Bronze for Warburtons. Silver Cross won Silver for Packaging and Gold for The Little Book of Silver Cross in Promotional Literature, as did The University of the Arts Prospectuses for Corporate Literature. All good so far.
But then a funny thing happened: after seven years of waiting, we finally picked up the Grand Prix, for the Silver Cross Book. Gobsmacked. So all in all, seven Golds, a Silver and a Bronze - needless to say everyone’s feeling pretty chuffed with themselves. Or at least we did last night. Today we just feel like crap.
Well done to everyone who worked on the projects, thanks to the Drum and all the judges - Malcolm Garrett, Jane Pluer, Mark Hurst, Ben Stott and Ian McFarlane, and congrats to Music and The Neighbourhood, who also picked up awards. Finally a massive thank you to all our clients for trusting us to do the work that we love doing. All we need to work out now is how we better this next year.
