Year: 2007
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Green is the colour
Following John Grant’s posts on green issues and brand niceness, interesting to note M & S’s new move to invest £200m over the next 5 years to become more environmentally friendly. The impressive thing about this is that it seems to be pervading all areas of their business, from how energy efficient their stores…
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Sowing the seeds of…
Okay, not reeeally sure I get it that Ad Age have just named the Agency of the Year as ‘The consumer’ (I agree with Paul on this). They acknowledge that they ‘might end up looking derivative’, and yes, post-TIME person of the year, they have. ‘A portfolio of consumer-generated commercial content from last year’ they…
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What every planner wants…
Quite a few blogs (including Seth, johngrant, paul ) about the launch of the iphone. I quite fancy the AppleTV. Chiyeckitout…
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Grass roots genius
Anyone else really enjoying the ‘Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS’ on the beeb? I think its genius. Fascinating insight into how a huge public organisation works and the sort of programme that gets you shouting at the telly. But the most amazing thing is how the staff at the sharp end have all the…
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Watch out there’s a bubble about
I’ve just come across the story about how NY designer Ji Lee got so sick of seeing ads he decided to print up 30,000 empty speech bubbles and post them on outdoor ads in and around the city. It wasn’t long of-course, before the public were filling in the blanks, turning a ‘corporate monologue into…
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Starsky & Hutch Cortina
Starsky & Hutch Cortina Mobile! Originally uploaded by kittymaduk. Sorry, here’s an even better one
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Starsky & Hutch Cortina
Starsky & Hutch Cortina Mobile! Originally uploaded by kittymaduk. Sorry, here’s an even better one
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Starsky & Hutch in Bethnal Green
Starsky & Hutch (Bethnal Green) Originally uploaded by Dave Gorman. To accompany my thoughts below…
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Starsky & Hutch in Bethnal Green
Starsky & Hutch (Bethnal Green) Originally uploaded by Dave Gorman. To accompany my thoughts below…
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Memories…like the corners of something
Jon Howard has just posted on memories from 1977. It got me thinking about my most memorable year from the 70’s. My vote goes to 1976. Here’s 10 reasons why: Perhaps we could start a vote for the most memorable year, 70’s or not. What’s yours?