Showing off
Shrewsbury nominated for D&AD pencil
The branding work we did for Shrewsbury with &SMITH last year has won a D&AD award. Shrewsbury is the only branding scheme nominated for a D&AD pencil in its category (just nudging ahead of London 2012′s Olympic branding, no less). Read all about Shrewsbury here – then go there.
It’s the little things. Our words for Carluccio’s.
Butter, not margarine. Figs straight from the field, dried in the sunshine and filled by hand one at a time. A cake that takes 36 hours to make. ‘Snowflake’ meringues, wrapped in wax paper, by hand. The yeast master who look after the natural yeast, 365 days a year, when everyone else goes home… So [...]
Nice To Meet You, Nice To Meet You.
We’re talking at Nice to Meet You at Dalston Roof Park on the 12th of September, along with Marion Deuchars. We went to Nice To Meet You in June. It’s a good night. For £30 you get a gig, some dinner, some talks from people (Ben Hammersley was at the one we went to) and [...]
How do you brand a town?
Here’s the brand we created for Shrewsbury with design agency & Smith. The Original One-Off: a brand that showcases all the one-offs in Shrewsbury, a one-of-a-kind town that can’t be copied.
Molton Brown via We All Need Words.
Exotic ingredients from all over the world but made in London… we’ve summed up Molton Brown’s brand for them:
The School of Life parish newsletter.
Guest starring us.
Ad man Rory Sutherland gave a sermon this morning at The School of Life about influence. And we guest wrote the parish newsletter to go with it.
The day we went to Selfridges.
To speak not to shop.
Here’s Rob talking about stopping brand slop in Selfridges at an event set up by It’s Nice That. We were tickled that the soundbite flying around afterwards on Twitter was: ‘If you feel like a berk saying it you shouldn’t write it down. – Rob Mitchell’. We’re determined to bring the word berk back into [...]
KC: local words for local people
‘Proud to be part of local life’ – that’s KC’s slogan. They’re a phone and broadband company in East Yorkshire. We’ve been helping them make these seven words into more than a line, so they can show how proud they really are to be a local company (without having to say it all the time).
Innocent’s answer to tummy rumbles
We’ve written a guide to nicking stuff and leaving notes for innocent’s new recipe book. Written Ranted in our finest passive aggressive.
Minibar for the Mind
An overpriced packet of peanuts, a 50ml bottle of Smirnoff and a titchy can of Sprite? Not in our hotel minibar.