Posts Tagged ‘Manchester Design Agency’
September 27th, 2010
by Jennie Ambrose
This is a strange one for the we like section but I’m treating it as more of a celebration of the life and work of photographer, Corinne Day who sadly passed away recently after a long term illness.
Corinne’s unique style introduced us all to a new way of shooting fashion. It’s a more realistic, unposed & edgy feel known as ‘heroin chic’ which to some people was seen to “make heroin addiction seem glamorous and sexy and cool”. And although her style at times was shocking it has changed the way we all look at fashion photography. Helping us to try new styles and inject more personality.
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Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertising Agency Manchester, Advertising Photography, Art Direction, Corinne Day, Corinne Day Diary, Corinne Day Diary Exhibtion, Creativity, Design, Design Agency, Fashion Advertising, Fashion Photography, heroin chic, Kate Moss, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Photography, reportage photography, The Face, Vogue
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September 9th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
Back when I was a student, there were a couple of songs that everybody seemed to go gaga over. The first was by a band called Stiltskin entitled ‘Inside’ and the other was by an act called Babylon Zoo whose song was called ‘Spaceman’.
Both of these songs are notable for the fact that they became so well known in the UK because they were first aired to the British public via Levi adverts. In the case of Spaceman, the interest in the track resulted in it going straight to number one, where it stayed for five weeks. The track also went to Number 1 in the single charts in twenty-three countries and at the time Babylon Zoo held the record for the fastest selling single for a UK debut artist.
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Tags: Apple TV Adverts, Aretha Franklyn, Award Winning Advertising, Babylon Zoo, Biosphere, Direct Marketing, Feist, Flat Beat, Flat Eric, Freak Power, Guinness TV Adverts, Levi's TV Adverts, Louis Armstrong, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Michel Gondry, Mr Oizo, Music in Advertising, Nike, On Her majesty’s Secret Service, Stiltskin, The Beatles, TV Advertising Agency
Posted in Advertising, Advertising History, Blog, Creativity, Fashion Advertising, General Interest, Television Advertising | 10 Comments »
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September 8th, 2010
by Sonya Greenwood
At the weekend I finally had the chance to go to the Cornerhouse and view an exhibition called Unrealised Potential. This is a collaborative group exhibition brought about by artist-curator Mike Chavez-Dawson. The show is an active investigation into the potential of unrecognised, unfinished or unfulfilled ideas, blurring the lines between artist, curator, visitor and producer.
Back in 2003, Mike Chavez-Dawson presented a series of certificates under the title, ‘Potential Hits’. Each certificate stated the name of the individual artist, the title and idea of an unrealised exhibition. Chavez-Dawson then invited a number of contemporary artists to contribute to Potential Hits by answering the following:
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Tags: Art Exhibition, Brian Reed, Cornerhouse, Cruikshank, Direct Marketing Agency, Gavin Wade, Harry Hill, Len Horsey, LGD LUCK SA, Liam Gillick, Lyn Harris, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Megan Bell, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Planta de Anodizado, Potential Hits, R. Buckminster Fuller, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Sam Ely, Unrealised Potential, What is Wealth?
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August 30th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
The great thing about a Bank Holiday weekend is that it gives me a chance to catch up on the exhibitions or interesting places that I have on a list to visit. One of these places is often my home town of Bradford as that’s where the fantastic National Media Museum resides, which is a place you can always rely on to have some interesting and thought-provoking exhibits.
Recently, various news sites highlighted a report conducted by Ofcom (The Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) which stated that Consumers are spending almost half (45 per cent) of their waking hours watching TV, using their mobiles and other communications devices. You can read the full report here.
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Tags: Art Exhibition, Bradford, Errol Morris, Immersion, Interrotron Method, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, National Media Museum, Ofcom, Photography, Photography Exhibition, Portraits, Robbie Cooper, SEO Company
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August 22nd, 2010
by Jo Richards
Small is beautiful. Following on from Julian’s theme of little ideas that can be hugely impactful, one of my favourite street artists, the anonymous Slinkachu, fits neatly into this category.
His on-going microscopic street art project, ‘Little People in the City’, is utterly charming in terms of minimal representation of the human condition. Basically, he custom-designs miniature models from train sets and makes them over with modelling clay hoods etc, plus a few props. After putting them in their own real life scenario, interacting with subjects from Big Ben to bird poo, he then leaves his painted creations to fend for themselves in big bad cities. Poor little people. But not before documenting snapshot evidence of their short-lived existence; i.e. until the street-sweeper swish them away. There’s loads of photos on his website and in book, which is delightful. In fact, it was the most interesting artifact I found in the St Ives Tate Gallery at first visit.
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Tags: Banksy, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing Agency, Inner City Snail, Little people in the city, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Miniature Art, Online Marketing Agency, PPC Agency, SEO Company, Slinkachu, St Ives Tate Gallery, The One Show
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August 13th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
Here at Red C towers it’s safe to say there are plenty of cake lovers. Now that’s not saying we have lots of fat people here… no it’s just that we appreciate a good bit of cake with a cuppa now and then. Out of all the cakes we love here one type goes down better than most… and that’s the lovely cupcake.
So we were really chuffed to bits when one of our regular freelancers went into business for herself making cupcakes. Top freelance designer, Sarah Wilson, has applied all the wonderful skills she used to show when designing things for print and for the web and applied those same talents to making the most scrummy cupcakes we’ve ever got our gobs round!
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Tags: Cake Lovers, Cupcake Designs, Cupcake Maker Manchester, Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing Agency, Freelance Designer, Hey Little Cupcake, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Online Marketing Agency, PPC Agency Manchester, Sarah Wilson, SEO Company
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July 8th, 2010
by Leigh Whitnall
Financial Services… sounds dull doesn’t it! Ask the average person on the street what that phrase means to them and the ones that stay awake will struggle for a definition. The trouble with ‘Financial Services’ is that it’s a corporate phrase that has found its way into consumer facing communications.
In the struggle to unite the benefits of credit cards, loans, investments and insurance under one umbrella term, a phrase has been created that means nothing to the consumer. Customers of course, use ‘money’ to buy cars, clothes and holidays, they save and invest ‘money’ and protect the ‘money’ tied up in their belongings with insurance. So when we were asked to rebrand the ‘Financial Services’ section of our client’s retail website, we knew just how to help it resonate with consumers.
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Tags: Art Direction, Brand Agency Manchester, Brand Makeover, Copywriting, Digital Agency, Direct Marketing Agency, Financial Services Design, Financial Services Rebrand, Graphic Design Agency, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Money, Personal Finance Made Easy, Rebranding Work, SEO Company
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June 13th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
Before I start this blog, I’ve set myself some ground rules. Simply because I know there are lots of blog postings, articles and galleries on the web dedicated to really funky and creative business cards. There is nothing wrong with these cards… it’s just that one of my biggest niggles about fancy business cards is that they don’t fit in my business card holder, or my wallet for that matter!
Ok that may be a bit old fashioned of me. But I like my business card holder. It serves the lovely purpose of holding lots of business cards that I can flick to in an instant. The only problem with it is that if the card is larger than 3.5 × 2 inches… I have to get the scissors out, or it just gets lost. And until someone invents a business card app for my iPhone, I’m going to stick to paper.
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Tags: Adoré Business Card Psychology, American Psycho, Business Card Designs, Clever Business Cards, Craig Edmond’s Blog, Direct Marketing Agency, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Gaping Void, Graphic Design Agency, Hugh MacLeod, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, PPC Agency, Psychology of Design, Red C Business Card, SEO Company, Steve Martin, Steve Martin's Business Card, The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains
Posted in Blog, Branding, Business Improvement, Copywriting, Creative Concepts, Creativity, General Interest, Inside Information, Marketing, Red C | 15 Comments »
June 6th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
The classic advert for cigarette brand Silk Cut
About six and a half years ago I gave up smoking, having smoked for well over ten years. Giving up was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, and I take great pride in the fact that I did it without the help of plastic cigarettes, patches or funny-tasting gum.
To a certain extent I quite miss smoking. I used to love the chats that I had with Jim, Neil and Nick in the dingy smoking room. I used to love lighting up after a really good meal and savouring the tobacco with a coffee or Cognac. More than anything, though, I loved the advertising… that was until the Labour Party introduced the legislative bill known as the ‘Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002’.
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Tags: Advertising History, Advertising Legislation, Art Direction, Benson & Hedges, Benson & Hedges Advert, Brand Advertising, Cigarette Advertising, Cinema Advertising, Classic Advertising, Collett Dickenson Pearce, Digital Agency, Direct Marketing Agency, Leo Burnetts, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Marketing Agency, Marlboro, Marlboro Advertising, Marlboro Country, Press Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi, SEO Company, Silk Cut, Silk Cut Adverts, Surreal Advertising
Posted in Advertising, Advertising History, Blog, Cigarette Advertising, Creative Concepts, General Interest, Influences, Press Advertising | 17 Comments »
May 27th, 2010
by Julian Gratton
Like all good Finance Directors, Mark Dowds loves to keep a tight grip on any money that comes his way. So it’s good to hear that this weekend he’ll be doing his best to give some cash to some other people… by walking the three peaks of Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell.
Together with eleven other people, he will be spending the weekend up in the hills trying to raise £5000 in aid of Christie’s Hospital.
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Tags: Ben Nevis, Cancer Hospital, Charity Walk, Christie's Hospital, Digital Agency, Direct Response Advertising Agency, Email Marketing Agency, Finance Director, Manchester Advertising Agency, Manchester Design Agency, Manchester Direct Marketing Agency, Marketing Agency, Online Marketing Agency, PPC Agency Manchester, Scafell, SEO Company, Snowdon, Three Peaks
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