Archive for October, 2006

Cheap and cheerful

Monday, October 16th, 2006

We got our D&AD entry in – two campaigns for eBay, which were supposed to emphasize ‘cheap’. One campaign used the end line â€?With so many bargains, you won’t know where to put it all’, for this we came up with the idea of eBay Labs which was a fictional laboratory producing fantastical gadgets for [...]

Cover art and bollywood

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Here’s a couple of web goodies: a museum of bad album covers. With some pretty horrible examples. A good time pass: make your own Bollywood film.

Creativity, tea and stress

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I want to mention that I applied for this D&AD thing last year, but my proposal was not accepted – this was partially due to the fact that I had apparently not sent it in in the correct format – I was then told about another workshop, to learn how to set out your briefs [...]

Compete or die

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Having just finished my Duathlon, whilst revving up for the next one on the 22nd October, I have now managed to enter myself for the D&AD Advertising Workshops. D&AD is “an educational charity that represents the global creative, design and advertising communities”, and they have workshops twice a year that allow aspiring ad men and [...]