Rangemaster ads make it on to The Drum

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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.

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