It's okay, I'll just wait.

Just been fooling around with an online picture editor called picnik and was nicely surprised by the loading graphic. Instead of the usual 74%...75%...yawn... The bar prepares you for a lovely picnic in the sun with birdsong and lashings of ginger beer.

Let's Get Together and feel alright.

It's been a busy start to 2008. After a couple of false dawns and arguments over the perfect speech bubble shape, our new site for Coca Cola Great Britain has gone live.
You'll notice that Let's Get Together is fairly empty at the moment, well, that was always the plan!
It's up to you, the public, to ask questions and Coca Cola to bloat their database with answers. You can ask them anything, like 'What is the fastest land animal?' but what they are really hoping for is important health, nutrition and environment questions about their products and company.

Stay tuned, because over the next few months our first two films will be posted. Parents will get together with real employees from Coke and try to answer some of your questions on film. Burp.

They're here to save the world and eat icecream

It's the Climate Cops! Our new project for npower launched today. Singer and mother Sophie Ellis-Bextor, joined pupils from Thornhill Primary School in London, as part of the ‘npower Greener Schools Programme’ a five year initiative designed to make UK schools more sustainable.

This is the first site we have worked on that is be part of a school's curriculum.Pupils play three games to qualify as a cadet and then enter the hallowed 'Climate Cops Academy'. They can also visit the HQ to download wallpapers, wanted posters andyour cadet certificate when you complete the missions!
We wanted to make the three games fun to play, but also have an important energy saving message. In 'Whack-Attack' large stand-by buttons switch on and pop up randomly, and you must bash as many off in the time limit. 'Chase The Waster' is a two level sideways-scrolling racer. Catch the gas guzzling car on your solar-scooter... And save the polar bear, save the world! In 'Polar-Gotchi'.
The games were developed by educational game experts FutureLab in Brighton.


"...Climate change is like, sooo not cool"

CLIMATE COPS IN THE NEWS!
‘Climate cops are fascist throwback’
Sophie Ellis-Baxtor 'moves and talks'
Marketing Week - Positives of Pester Power

The gift that keeps on giving

Mod Your Rod Our latest idea for Condom Essential Wear was a long time coming *fnar fnar*, and almost didn't make it! Originally called P*** My Rod, we partnered with a 'well known' music television channel. Unfortunately, its big US boss person pulled the plug on the project. Boooo!
After a few more changes (and recording a new track!) it's up and erect.

The site aims to change the preconception that teenagers think there is only one size of condom. To do this our sexy Mod Your Rod mechanic helps you build a replica (or in my case, fantasy) penis, then adorn it with accessories and one of the many condoms on offer. It doesn't end there! You can send your 'Rod' to a loved one or show it off in MySpace. Happy Modding.

Crap idea

Strange Belgian ad for (...wait for it...) an ING current account.

Some nice little touches, like, if you select female, an option to invite a friend appears.
Also when you finish doing your business, an upload bar shakes from side to side.

i need to go (i-n-g?)

Only in America

I really hope that this is a hoax. The sick news is, that in some American states it's legal for a thirteen year old girl to marry with parental consent!

Testimonial from site...
Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too! - Mrs. James P.

UPDATE:
T'was a hoax

Speech bubble hell

We've been working on a project about conversations and opinions and needed a logo. Our designer came up with a great solution using speech bubbles.

Now I can't stop seeing logos with speech bubbles in them.

The logo works, the client's happy.



I feel dirty.

We say support She Says

We've been saying it for weeks. Why aren't there any female creative teams? The problem can't be that men are born creative thinkers, or built better to cope with stress.

She Says aims to change the digital landscape with the promise of attractive pay packets, private car parking spaces and buckets of champers at the top.

Oh, and events held by top advertising industry experts. Guest speaker this month - Jo Brand (only joking)