Nobody leaves without
cake and a balloon

You’re crackers, m’lady

You don’t have to be an airhead to eat these…

If writing were tweeting

Read it bigger here.  Thanks to @campaigner

Two awards we won in 2011

Completely unrelated to each other. Except they were both for our Santa Brand Book.

Met Office buffeted

Forecasters at the Met Office have been handed a booby prize for their baffling use of ‘gobbledygook’.

The weather service was singled out by the Plain English Campaign for using the words ‘probabilities of precipitation’ rather than telling people if rain was ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’.

From Metro newspaper

Turned Out Nice Again

Turned Out Nice Again are a recently formed creative agency currently living in Old Street. The founders jumped ship from various top agencies to start a creative agency which is as much about thinking as craft and design. We love them as they designed and built this very site and have tasty biscuits. They’re busy chaps and are also currently working with WWF and The International Herald Tribune.

For every occasion

Looks like life expectancy has extended to truly entrepreneurial proportions.

Merry Christmas 2010!

*Santa* is a Concept, not an idea. It’s an Emotion, not a feeling. It’s both Yesterday and Today. And it’s Tomorrow as well. Our rather popular Christmas card from 2010, the Santa Brand Book. Available in flippable, downloadable and emailable format here.

Merry Christmas!

BBC1 2.20pm The Snowman. A boy with long-term emotional needs invests in a short term relationship; will his partner’s assets prove too liquid? Our  Christmas card this year is the Radio & TvTimes, Financial Services Edition. Read, download and email it here.

Irregular regulations?

A gift for anyone in financial services: wince at our specially-regulated Christmas ad from DFSA.

The word on the street

Words are everywhere. In our heads, in our hearts, in songs and on TV. We like words, love them in fact. They can make us smile, make us angry, make us sad. This one made us LOL.

Motivational poster in our office

Read carefully.

Overheard

“You’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”