Archive for November, 2006

Dig a hole

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Here’s a funny site that asks “If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?”. The site was made by a Brazilian called Luis Felipe by the looks of things, so I suppose this translates in to “If I dig a hole in a straight line to the other side of the [...]

Purge

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

At 12 o’clock on the dot (high noon, in fact), last Thursday, we received an email from the MD of our office. It ominously said “As a result of this significant change in the business environment it is now essential that we review how we are organized to ensure we have the most effective organizational [...]

Saatchi and Gaucho II

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Mr Porteous seemed to be wearing a pained expression when talking to us, but it was probably just me. It took about an hour and a half to run through everyone’s ideas, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were lots of good ideas and a few quite crazy bad ones. It was interesting to see [...]

Saatchi and Gaucho

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Yesterday Team Gaucho, that fledgling advertising team, attended their first weekly D&AD workshop. It was held at Saatchi and Saatchi in Charlotte Street, and adjudicated by a copywriter there called Rob Porteous.
Our brief was for Doctor Martens and �liberating creativity’ was the direction we were meant to be heading. Arriving at Saatchi was quite a [...]