Well, it’s not entirely goodbye as we’ve packed up our beloved blog and moved to the more grown-up Beak Street Bugle. We’ve loved watching the blog’s stats rocket around the world and there’s a fabulous and faithful group of followers who we hope will switch to the Bugle. Do drop us a line at beakstreetblog@gmail.com [...]
February 11, 2012
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The creative industries is full of creativity – whoddathunkit? Higher Pitch has been celebrating the artistic talent hidden in the nooks and crannies of adland, and now they’ve got a brand new video documentary to prove just how talented you guys are! Since 2010, Mel Fong Brown and Suzie Quill have been doing their bit [...]
January 12, 2012
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The Whitehouse had opened in Amsterdam teaming up with fellow edit/post production house The Ambassadors. From the left: Ed Meijaard and Halbo van der Klaauw, both managing partners, The Ambassadors, David Brixton, managing partner, Whitehouse Post and Ton Habraken,creative partner, The Ambassadors. Whitehouse founder David Brixton, who first worked out of Amsterdam through DGW in [...]
January 10, 2012
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In the real world girls are of course much better at video games than anyone else, but here’s Mind’s Eye director Ben Wilson’s take of sketch group The Idiot of Ants caught up the game Call of Duty. Call of Duty is very funny. Did everything follow a script or was there quite a bit [...]
January 5, 2012
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Enough! That’s it, celebrations are over. Get up off that sofa. You can only comfortably watch ten episodes of The Killing in one go anyway. And did you catch that timely reminder from Academy’s Si & Ad for Weight Watchers which aired across the UK today? This will make you feel better. The promo set [...]
January 1, 2012
Tags: Alesha Dixon, Finish Post, Saatchi and Saatchi, Si & Ad, Weight Watchers | Comments (0)
We know we shouldn’t drink and drive but it is post christmas lunch and an hour has been misplaced doing wheelies on the new interactive Honda campaign shot by Michael Geoghegan out of Partizan. Here it is: “an ‘Off The Grid’ Google Street View: a 360o spherical film that ventures into the unknown and ends [...]
December 21, 2011
Tags: 3-D, Honda, Michael Geoghegan, partizan | Comments (0)
It’s just nine sleeps to Christmas and it’s that time of year when extravagant wastefulness is kind of the default setting. But for creative Ben Kay (and author of the brilliant If This Is A Blog Then What’s Christmas?) there’s one particular form of profligacy that’s really winding him up: bottled water. With some help [...]
December 16, 2011
Tags: advertising, ben kay, bottled water, campaign, environment, george floyd, gus filgate, waste, water water everywhere | Comments (1)
“Why on earth would you want to move here,” asks anyone from the UK who has been on a shoot to New Zealand. And this is the very question we put to Summer Agnew – with Curious Pictures in NZ / Oz – who has freshly signed to Mustard in London and making the big [...]
December 13, 2011
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Moxie’s James Griffiths has captured the 60s childhood of Kirit Pathak, the chairman of spice company Pataks, in this charming film, the first in a new tv campaign. Like all tricky things the film looks as if it was easy… The most challenging aspect of the shoot was to get all of the detail, design, [...]
December 7, 2011
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It looks like we’ve all been good boys and girls this year, because Santa (a.k.a Blinkink’s David Wilson) has lined up a whole series of festive treats for us in his Alternative Advent. And not a lump of coal in sight. The countdown to Christmas has truly begun, and Blinkink’s David Wilson is doing all [...]
December 2, 2011
Tags: alternative advent, blinkink, christmas, david wilson, metronomy, oscar cash, we have band | Comments (0)