@PukkaMatt @cressy_5 offside lads. Rubbish. ;)

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In the Chair.

Me? Steve Price of Unsuitable & One Black Bear? Chairman of PACE? With my reputation?

Well, age and fatherhood has certainly (slightly) mellowed my social antics of late but it's with the greatest of pride and pleasure that I take the helm of this grand old institution. It's certainly been an ever-present in my career to date. The PACE Christmas Lunches of years gone by being the stuff of legend in the depth and breadth of their debauchery!

But being involved in the organisation for the past few years has made me realise what a good thing PACE is and an initiative that deserves to be preserved as the world around it continues to turn itself inside-out.

I’m allowed to chair PACE for two years and you won’t find me trying to turn it into something it’s not. For me, PACE is about three things:

Networking, Enjoyment and Altruism.

My own network has been significantly broadened - with significant business gained in the process - since I got involved and I’ve certainly had a lot of fun. The charitable side of PACE, however, is something that is often overlooked with many thousands of pounds being raised for worthy local causes each year and not a penny profit made by anyone involved.

The perception of the creative industries is often a cynical one, and those of us plying our trade in advertising still suffer the red braces ‘greed is good’ stigma from the 80s. I, for one, take a great deal of pride in ‘giving something back’. Warren Buffett levels of philanthropy it isn’t, but it’s gratifying to do what you can for good causes and supporting PACE and its charities by attending an event is about as easy as it gets.

*polishes halo*

Now... have I talked to you about membership???

Liars

Take a look at the copy here http://www.fonesure.com/business/index.html

In particular the passage that reads: "Replacement handsets provided within 48 hours with a 7-10 day turnaround for repairs."

Turns out I'm mis-reading this. It doesn't in fact mean that within 48 hours of me reporting that my phone is broken, I will receive a replacement and if it can be repaired, it will be done so in 7-10 days.

What it actually means is that I phone them up, report the fact that the phone is dead. They then email me a claim form which I have to fill in, print out and post (yes, post in 2011) back to them. This should be with them tomorrow, let's say 24 hours.

They then send the claim form through to the claim assessment department, who will then (if everything is in order) send me a bag in which to send off my phone, so another 24 hours minimum.

On receipt of this bag, I then package it up and send, at my own cost, recorded delivery off to the repair department. Another 24 hours.

They then look at the phone and if it can't be repaired (I guarantee it can't) they will inform me "usually within 48 hours but up to 10 days" - let's give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that they will do this in the 48 hours I was quoted on the phone.

After this, they then say they will have a replacement phone to me within 48 hours.

So, at best - a replacement phone will be with me in 168 hours. At worst, 384.

 

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As always, @ST3VEPR1CE is off to a flying start.

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Steve Price - PACE Chairman

Big congrats to our very own Steve on becoming Chairman of PACE for the next two years. Read more here.

New NatEx game from One Black Bear

Our sister digital agency, One Black Bear, has developed a new online game for client, National Express Buses. Launched for Christmas, the task is to drive through the festive traffic collecting presents, puddings and snowmen along the way. Play it here.

Probably the closest we'll ever come to Mad Men

Here's the positioning of one of our ads for Helps Stop Snoring in today's Telegraph.

Rangemaster ads make it on to The Drum

Click here to read all about it and see the ads.

As seen on TV...well almost

In one of the world's weakest claims to fame, we had an image we shot for EIC last year appear on tonight's Gadget Show thanks to Sony World Photographer of the Year and friend of the agency, Martin Brent.

It was used to test the best photo printers. Well done Mart, you're a star in the making.
You can watch it here in all it's full colour glory.

Please vote for B-Hive

You may or may not remember that we worked on a campaign last year for the brilliant student placement scheme B-Hive. Well, the scheme and website (created by One Black Bear) are up for an Invisible City award, which is promoting the creative talent of Birmingham. So, be a darling will you and add your vote. Just click here and then click a star. It's that simple. Voting closes on August 13th so don't hang about. Thanks.

That's surely in contravention of Health & Safety.

We're doing a mailer at the moment for Rayburn to support the launch of their website, which was built by our sister digital agency, One Black Bear. We needed reference to the lids, so off we went, camera in hand, to the AGA shop in Mailbox, only to find we needed to get higher for the perfect angle. Cue very nice sales chap who instantly lent us a step ladder. Mailer will be ready to see at the beginning of next month.

A sad divorce in Adland

I was sad to read today that one of the greatest agency-client partnerships in advertising came to an end this week after 28 years. Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has resigned one of its founding clients and the basis of its legendary creative reputation, Levi's.
My favourite (although let's face it, if you're of a certain age, you grew up on this advertising and they were all great) was the 1992 ad "Swimmer".

James and Matt are toast

So, James and Matt have left us to head down to the smoke on a placement there. Obviously they won't like it in that there London and will be back where we'll be waiting behind a big wall with Cilla and open arms like some long lost twin sister (80's TV references are great when referring to people who are just into their twenties).
In the meantime, we'll have this lovely toaster they bought for us as a reminder of their HOT ideas - geddit?...Sorry.
Good luck guys.

Ooh we are flattered.

Back in the 90's (when everything was brilliant) we did an ad (press and poster) to launch the Subaru Forester Turbo. Simple idea, as this was an offroad vehicle that went very fast we put a speed camera on a forest trail. We won loads of awards with it both here and in the states and it appeared in quite a few books and journals as well as making the cover of a Contact (Automotive photographers) book.
Everybody was happy, especially us, as this lead to quite a nice pay rise and bonus.
Now, ten years on and with the help of a couple of students (Matt & James - very good by the way) here on placement and that thing they call the internet we've found quite a few other people who liked the ad too.
Named and shamed, they are: McKee Wallwork (USA) with their work for Porsche; Ogilvy & Mather (Austria) with an ad for Ford; Gramm Werbeagentur (Germany) for Range Rover and most recently Saatchi & Saatchi (Australia) with an idea for Toyota.
So, pure coincidence or a little plagiarism? Whichever, we're just proud to have had an idea all those years ago that seems to have gone on to win so many awards around the world and worked hard in shifting product for so many different brands.

Original links from here.

Hospital work gets picked up by the Birmingham Post.

If you click here, you may also see the online ads in action. They're the one's with the plasters on. Click here to see the posters etc.

Hospital work gets coverage on The Drum

Read about it here. See it in situ here.

Unsuitable win a Heist Award

We're proud to announce that we've won a Heist award for our BCU work in the 'Best Integrated Campaign' category. Rich and Steve joined the BCU marketing department at the Palace Hotel in Manchester to collect the award and have a few celebratory drinks.

Woo hoo, another bit of new business.

Read all about it and how excited we are on weareunsuitable.com

Everybody say hello to Helen.

Read all about her here.

Pixels takeover New York and then the world

How long before it becomes an ad for Sony?

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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