Writing
Tone of voice. No tone of voice.
What is tone of voice? And does it really matter? We can show you. All we need is some butter and a Jedi Master.
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.
On the Underground. On the Subway.
Here are two ads from ING Direct. One’s from London’s Underground, one’s from New York City’s Subway.
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
I spy with my New York eye lots of little wordy details. Snaps from our trip to the big apple.
Just don’t do it
We think we’ve uncovered a global conspiracy to make all straplines sound the same. American Express’ strapline used to be ‘Don’t Leave Home Without It’ and now it’s ‘Realise Your Potential’. They had a memorable line and now they could be anyone. If they swapped their line with Microsoft’s ‘Your potential. Our passion’ we bet [...]
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.
‘The foodie’s answer to the promotional golf ball’
That’s Naomi Matthews’ thinking behind this tea towel for her clients. It’s also a taster of the brand we’ve been working on for her new food company, Bread & Butter.
Billy Bookcase
What’s on our reading list? We’ve been asked this a few times and we’ve been a bit flummoxed. We haven’t actually come across that many books about what we do. Copywriting or business writing books are usually too narrow (writing helps with our day job, but it’s not all we do). And the branding ones [...]