Office desk

My good pal Matt Lees has started a 2010 One-a-day blog at http://www.iwantedjamsponge.blogspot.com/. He is a (ahem) PR based chap but don't let that put you off, he's good with words and it makes a great read.

A post yesterday of everything on his desk promted me to have a look around me and do the same, so here goes...

 

My iMac, complete with post it notes covering a film reference (A Matter of Life and Death), dates for Glastonbury, a very rough idea for an art direction layout, the word Lotto (£85million draw tonight) and 2 x coupons for LoveFilm. A Cadburys mug filled with various pens as well as coffee sachets stolen from various travelodges, a plastic fork and a set square. Another mug, now empty. A biro. My iPhone on the bit of card i use to scribble stuff on, also with the keyboard and current (dull) brief. Infront of that is a memory stick from the nice people at Chief. 

My phone with own number written on top. A Top Gear V8 pencil sharpener alongside 2 empty bottles of Westland Plant Rescue. A file thingy with an Obey book and old/current briefs. A sodastream cd (due for bin). A Wild Bean Cafe brand guideline book and a scamp of an idea for them. Half a fan (half on my desk, not half a fan).

Sennheiser headphones, Uncle Joes Mint Balls tin with pens, mostly chewed N60's and N50's, along with 2 pencils. A lamp with a reminder for me to ring a ticket hotline that messed my order up online. A PG tips monkey hands from the lamp by a pair of thumb handcuffs (how very 'advertising'). A collection of various papers/scamps/layout pads from current projects. A desk tidy (ironically) stuffed with a note paper stacks, external hard drive (don't tell IT), a SD card reader, Ben Sherman union jack wallet, a business card that I made into a iPhone stand (geek), a snow globe, some horrible mints in a pill jar and my keys, complete with Swiss Army knife.

If you want anything from it, ask, i might not send it to you but you never know. I might.

Twit briefs

Idea stolen from an idea retweeted by Dave Trott...

If planners are so in love with Twitter why don't we get them to start writing briefs in 140 characters!

Brillant!


New Year, Same Blog



Happy New Year all. I haven't made any new years resolutions as I'd never keep them.  But work related goals for the year...

- Keep creative, try and drown myself in a bottomless pit of art direction.
- Don't stop being pro active.
- Shout more.
- Get some TV work out of the door.
- Blog how I was wrong about twitter. Here's me.
- Get back to reading more.
- Take more photographs.
- Drink better coffee.
- Push. My self, my ideas, my crafting.

( image via cakeheadlovesevil)

FFFFound

I love FFFFound and have done for years now... I even had some work featured on it a while ago. I'd love an invite to join it. If your in any kind of a position to offer one of these then please spread some Christmas joy my way and invite me!

adam@adam-richardson.co.uk

New Durex Press Ad...


Invaded Space...

Something very strange but nice happened yesterday.  As well as the normal 'work' work I've normally got a couple of random bits and bobs going on myself, just to release a bit of creative energy I suppose. One of these was a collection of war photo's I had collected and wanted to do something with, not necessarily to prove a point or make a statement. I had the idea of mixing the photographs with old space invaders to see what happened. I liked the results so put them on my behance profile.



Above is one, click here to see the rest.  I uploaded them about 7pm just before leaving work. The next morning I had an email saying they had been featured here. As I got into work it became pretty apparent it was zipping around the net at a rate that really surprised me, features on notcot.org and designyoutrust were some of my favourite.

It was good to see how a viral message can travel and spread from blog to blog and around the world. A lot of the work we do in the agency never goes anywhere which can be quite frustrating at times, it was good just to send a little something out into the world without all the red tape and barriers.

Many thanks to everyone who forwarded and featured the work, and all the postitive comments, a few people have succumbed to chinese whispers and claimed I took the photos, which I did not (they are credited at the source) but thanks all the same.

Ex girlfriend's back...

I've heard many people talking about the feeling that when an brand leaves an agency and you see the first ad from the new agency, it's that 'seeing her with the new boyfriend' moment. For the first time it's now happened to me.

I spent a lot of the last year working on ghd, a good product with a great brand. It was a good learning curve and although a lot of work never saw the light of day there were some ideas we did that I was pretty proud of.  A few moments ago I saw the new tv ad, more info here if you fancy or have a look...




I wasn't sure what my reaction would be when I saw it, and I'm still not sure now. I'm not going to do a Simon Cowell and crit the ad, it's not my place. I had mixed feelings about it but I wasn't filled with a 'fuck me we should have done that' moment.  Maybe ex's are best forgotten.

Hey Jude...



Click to make biggggggger

Normally I wouldn't post something so suit-like as a flowchart, but this made me smile.