The Phone Apple Should Have Thought Of
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D&AD Show
No not that there London outfit, I'm talking about BA(Hon) Design & Art Direction at Man Met, my old course.
It was the exhibition show so I popped my head in after getting and invite (below) from Tom and Ciaran. It was good to see their work as when I went in a while ago I didn't get to look at it, there's a Nissan brief that was given out and I've seen what a few people have done but there's was one of my favourites from the ones I've looked at.
Another piece that caught my eye was some work by Grace Gascoigne which involved sewing sentances onto objects and canvases, the effect looked really nice, as seen on the Cornerhouse here...
As I walked across I also saw this bench which I loved, it follows the ends of double yellow lines and just looked really good, no idea who did it sorry!
It was the exhibition show so I popped my head in after getting and invite (below) from Tom and Ciaran. It was good to see their work as when I went in a while ago I didn't get to look at it, there's a Nissan brief that was given out and I've seen what a few people have done but there's was one of my favourites from the ones I've looked at.
Another piece that caught my eye was some work by Grace Gascoigne which involved sewing sentances onto objects and canvases, the effect looked really nice, as seen on the Cornerhouse here...
As I walked across I also saw this bench which I loved, it follows the ends of double yellow lines and just looked really good, no idea who did it sorry!
The Void of Scamp
So Scamps gone to write a book...
I thought this was a shame, I've enjoyed his blog since I started looking for jobs in advertising and found some real gems of wisdom, some from him, others from comments left behind.
But without trying to sound like a div, what Scamp had there was more than just a blog. I'm sure it started that way but it ended up being a portal for advertising creatives, planners, gossip spreaders and the odd suit. People would use his site as a way of connecting with other sites through the comments left and his links, I was fully aware that if I ever made a comment on Scamp then it would result in double the hits over the next 24 hours. I'm sure others where aware too, Wal for instance used to comment on a regular basis and through this people came to know him and followed his blog.
To me it does seem that someones sorta pulled the heart out of the advertising blogosphere a little now Scamp has stopped, if there was a spare minute I'd go on, read some comments, visit new blogs and read new stuff. I'm sure that's how many of the people reading this now ended up here.
I'm sure Simon was well aware after some time what his audience wanted, they wanted to comment, they wanted to share stories and to gossip. The amount of comments in 24 hours he could pull was a credit to some of his astute observations of the industry, certainly someone spouting garbage on a daily basis (me) couldn't keep that amount of people coming back.
And now what?
Where has this conversation gone to?
Will anyone step up and fill the gap?
Maybe. Maybe he'll be back when the book written, I personally suspect he'll miss the buzz and will return, and the mass conversation will start right where it ended last week. Time will tell.
For one thing though, thinking about all this, plus the fact that Wal, Iain Tait and Biscuit Barrel seem to have new looks, I thought I'd join the crowd and make my site more in line with my personal site. I've even gone and got myself one of those fancy blogroll link bar thingys.
Giant baby attacks Manchester...
Billboard spotted in Manchester city center t'other morning whilst looking at a location.
Not even sure what to say about it?! I suppose at the least the giant baby crawling over the Manchester skyline caught my attention. Not that I read the copy until I uploaded the photo. I would have loved to see some of the routes they turned down.
UPDATE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Giant baby strikes again!!
This time put the fear of God into TBWA copywriter Paul Williams!
Facebook Recruitment
I got this friend request through Facebook yesterday, it's from a bloke claiming to be 'an outlawed urban revolutionary currently living life off the grid'.
Apparently he is 'providing people with the tools to differentiate between the authentic and the counterfeit.'
Sounds very matrix doesn't it?
Not a clue what it's all about, should I accept and find out how to differentiate the authentic or go back to the day job and continue trying to sell stuff?
Manchester Chips
This is Chips (not sure about the name), it's part of the planned development of an area of Manchester. I love the design of the building, but from my experience of the area I don't think I'd want to live there.
Have a look here
I just loved the quote from the article...
‘the sun may not shine much in Manchester,
but it does sometimes,
and when it does we want to sit by canals’
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