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ISSUE 22
23 OCT 2009
INSIDE
03UPFRONT 05NEWS 12CAMPAIGN ROUND UP 14THE
MARKETING FORUM REPORT 19SIBLING RIVALRY 20UNCLE
CARL 21CREATIVE REVIEW 25VIDEO GAMING REPORT
30LAST WORD 31APPOINTMENTS 32MARKETING
MECHANICS 34SERVICES 36RECRUITMENT
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It will now be integrated into the
Amaze Group with Clarke and Conde
joining the technology leadership team
which provides strategic technical
direction for the company, and will work
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TV AND RADIO ADS
The Co-operative has launched the latest
phase of the multi-million pound brand
campaign it started in February.
As well as running an edited version
of its TV ad from earlier this year, the Cooperative has now unveiled a new online
and national radio campaign and in-store
communications created by Manchester
agency Refinery.
The online and radio work, which uses
the good for everyone message from the
TV ad, centres on three of the organisations
major initiatives Renewable Energy,
Fairtrade and Community Projects and
gives examples of its work in these areas.
The three 30-second radio ads
feature a voiceover from the actor
John Hannah and will run across
major stations and networks including
Talksport from this week.
12CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP
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01 The Leith Agency has designed a book to accompany As Others See Us, the Homecoming Exhibition created by Tricia
Malley and Ross Gillespie, collectively known as Broad Daylight. The publication has introductory texts by Julie Lawson of
the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Professor David Purdie and features images of and texts by Eddi Reader,
Aamer Anwar, Peter Howson, Christopher Brookmyre, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Clan Chief Sir Malcolm MacGregor of
MacGregor, to name but a few. It is a celebration of Scottish culture, reecting and conveying through words and pictures
the work of Robert Burns. The exhibition runs at the National Galleries on the Mound Edinburgh until 7 November 2009.
The book is available from the National Galleries shop, bookstores or directly from Luath Press. See other images at www.
broaddaylightltd.co.uk.
02 Advocates for Animals, Scotlands animal protection organisation, is poised to unveil a new corporate identity
designed by the graphic design studio, StudioLR. The commission includes a new brand identity, stationery and suite of
merchandising material. A new website also launches on 23 October.
03 FC United of Manchester, the member-owned football club founded by fans, is working with This Creative as it looks to
raise money to build its own stadium. Gateshead-based Solution Group has launched a hand-illustrated annual report for
client Premier Waste. The eight page Annual Report aims to showcase the rms green credentials, and to bring this home,
the agency has illustrated each section with a cut-out gures.
04 Bristol-based Taxi Studio has been appointed to design a book for British Design 2010. British Design is an annual
publication from Dutch publishers BIS. It showcases the best of British design agencies across disciplines. The book launch
will be held on Wednesday 28 October 2009 at the Design Museum, London.
05 D8 has completed a large-scale project for GlaxoSmithKline. GSK, one of the worlds leading research-based
pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, asked the Glasgow and Birmingham-based agency to help with promoting
brand awareness amongst employees. James Young, D8s managing director, said of the work: GSKs in-house team have
built a fantastic resource so our main task was to encourage people to use it. As it was mainly an internal exercise we felt
it would be best to adopt a friendly, light hearted approach using illustration.
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Brothers in arms:
The Howells brothers,
then and now...
THE DRUM:
Right, now we have the two of you together... How did it
all start? Who followed who?
PHIL:
I was the first to get into the business as Im five years
older. Gareth used to visit me at work and thought it
would be a breeze. Then proceeded to make it look like
a breeze twat!
GARETH:
I thought it was all about having a cool office and playing
football in the corridor. The bugger never told me how
hard he worked. I loved it when he showed me the ads
hed done. I used to bore everyone saying my brother
had done that ad.
PHIL:
We both went to Llandovery College and Carmarthen Art
College. I went on to Kingston to do Graphics and Gareth
went to Manchester to do advertising.
Im very protective over my brother, though. Once at
Llandovery the school bully [called Rat] picked on Gareth.
I got a little annoyed and left the vermin battered, bruised
and hanging on a coat hanger for the rest of the school to
file past on their way to dinner.
On another occasion when Gareth and his writer were
having problems from senior management about leaving
to join a competitor I had to put a polite call in to the
creative directors to make the transition a little smoother.
Another time, I got Gareth a placement at Still Price
Lintas when he first started out with Tom Richards. I tried
THE DRUM:
So, how has it all turned out in your parallel worlds of
advertising?
PHIL:
Gareth has been more successful, but Im more
handsome and theres still a few years to go.
GARETH:
Im luckier. Phil has been in and out of the shit a bit. I
seem to have got lucky with my lot. Except having to
tolerate Shinton [Jonathan, co-founder of Newhaven].
We all have our crosses.
THE DRUM:
And when you get together for family dos, do you bore
the rest of the family with ad-talk?
PHIL:
Our Dad was in the SAS, if we talked about advertising
hed punch us.
PHIL:
Yep. If we could somehow find a way of working with
each other in the future brilliant! It would be great to
have someone scruffier than me in the office.
GARETH:
We do talk ideas pretty much all the time, though. Except
when Wales score.
GARETH:
I think we could work really well together. Mutual respect.
Phil is a big talent.
PHIL:
Our sister Rhian is a producer at The Moretti Agency. One
day shell be the most successful Howells.
PHIL:
I think we could work well together, hes a great talent.
GARETH:
Im told shes doing well. I think they are being kind.
CREATIVE REVIEW21
GARY SETCHELL
01MAGENETIC NORTH
HTTP://KIDS.TATE.ORG.UK/GAMES/
DISCOVERING-TURNER
Terrific site. Packed with engaging,
interactive content that covers art in a
way that my young nephews loved. I cant
possibly do it justice in this short review
but this work results in making the Tate
seem fun and accessible. 9/10
02CLUSTA
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WWW.THESATURDAYS.CO.UK
A surprisingly clean and classy site design
for pop girls The Saturdays. But this might
be because they havent made their first
million yet if the band wants to compete
with Girls Aloud, they need to invest in
features for their site like ringtones, games,
exclusives, etc. 6/10
04LIQUID
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WWW.ASICS.CO.UK/SPORTSTYLE
I liked this for two reasons. Firstly, it makes
Asics history of innovation relevant to the
leisure audience without being a lesson.
Secondly, when I checked out a pair of GEL
LYTE III, I was only a couple of clicks away
from buying them. Decent job. 7/10
05AIR CREATIVE
CREATIVE CRAFT SCOTLAND
If the aim of this ad is to tell me theres
more to craft in Scotland than knitted
loo roll covers, then it does its job. The
C word idea feels like it needed a more
provocative execution, though. 6/10
05
06MERLE
ADVOCATES FOR ANIMALS VIRAL AD
This lovingly-crafted film did a good job of
making me aware of this particular issue.
Gorgeous animation, a fatally-wounded
pregnant seal and Richard Briers voice
is surely a recipe for getting support from
animal lovers. 8/10
07AARDMAN ANIMATION
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half of the Camden Office with the UKs
leading location and events company,
1st Option. One glimpse of their website
www.1st-option.net and it quickly becomes
clear they bring a wealth of experience to
the table. As well as finding stills, TV, film
and event locations across the UK, they now
exclusively represent Londons legendary
icon, Battersea Power Station.
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19/10/2009 09:46
VIDEO GAMING25
Sponsored by:
GAMING GROWS UP
No longer the sole preserve of nerdy boys in dimly lit
bedrooms, video games are now enjoying mainstream
appeal. But with gamers asked to fork out upwards
of 50 for one hotly anticipated new title, how are the
agencies responsible for marketing games tempting
recession-weary consumers to part with their cash?
[l-r] Ubers creative for real-time strategy game Stormrise; its work-inprogress for upcoming title Aliens vs Predator and the agencys designs
for the Vin Diesel endorsed driving game Wheelman
RICHARD BENJAMIN,
MANAGING DIRECTOR, UBER
As games have become more mainstream (and more
expensive) how has the way they are marketed had
to change?
Years are spent developing games, Hollywood actors
add voiceovers, huge brands secure product placement
and the latest bands have their hits slapped on everything
from driving games to shoot-em-ups. This has raised
the bar in how games are perceived and has solidified
gaming as a true cultural benchmark shifting it out of
geeks bedrooms and into the mainstream.
The marketing needs to reflect these shifts in game
production/perception and this is why many campaigns
now resemble those for blockbuster Hollywood tent pole
movies confident, brash and slick. Of course there are
always the smaller releases with tight budgets (much
VIDEO GAMING27
Sponsored by:
[Clockwise from left] Two examples of Axiss animations for Sonys Killzone2; the same studios teaser lm to promote new
Bethesda Softworks title Brink; Head Firsts designs for MotoGP 09/10; and DKPMs work for Disney and Segas Football
Manager 2010, which is released on 30 October
ANDY WEIR,
CLIENT SERVICES DIRECTOR, DKPM
How is the games industry holding up during the
recession?
Historically there has always been a bit of a dip for the
Games industry in Q1, following the traditional preChristmas sales frenzy. Its fair to say that in 2009, this dip
was a little more severe and a lot of clients put marketing
spend on hold while they took stock of the situation.
There was a lot of uncertainty across all markets and
Games was no exception, but since Spring we have
seen confidence steadily pick up and overall 2009 has
been pretty buoyant compared to many other markets
and Q4 is looking as strong as ever with huge games like
Modern Warfare 2, DJ Hero and FIFA 10 likely to break
box office records.
Do budgets for games projects compare favourably
to those from clients in other sectors?
While overall marketing budgets have come down for
Games in 2009, in such a competitive marketplace
theres only so many corners you can cut. On the whole
budgets do compare favourably with other industries but
can differ wildly by title and theres been no real drop off
in budget for the really big ticket titles. On the other hand,
the big challenge this year has been how to maximise
ROI and create efficiencies, especially with smaller titles
weve seen publishers such as Disney and Codemasters
CHRISTINE BRANDWOOD,
MARKETING MANAGER, REALTIMEUK
How has this year been for you in terms of
commissions for games projects?
We have seen a bit of a drop in the high value, high
impact pre-rendered marketing trailers commissioned
by our clients but fortunately that slack has been picked
up by the commissioning of concept movies, smaller
marketing trailers and press imagery. Our clients are still
keen to produce these high-impact marketing trailers
but weve found that some games titles havent seen the
green light and some games release dates have been
put back.
As games become more advanced and in some cases
cinematic, does this put more pressure on what is
expected from you?
With the massively improved capabilities of the
current generation of consoles, the demand for higher
image quality and cinematic qualities has increased
enormously. We have had to create Hollywood
style cinematic trailers featuring stunning special
effects, spectacular action and highly detailed human
STU AITKEN,
MANAGING DIRECTOR, AXISANIMATION
How do you think the games industry is holding up?
It feels like some of the decisions are taking longer to
get green-lit, and the impression is that some of the
games publishers are being a little bit more cautious
in terms of what theyre pushing the green button on. I
mean certainly if you look at TV commercials they have
been slow this year and theres an idea that that market
is in crisis a little bit anyway. But in the games market
the games are still being produced and were still being
asked to pitch for a lot of stuff.
The gamers themselves are still hungry for new
titles and, as they are often quite vocal on the games
themselves, I imagine theyre not shy about speaking
their minds on the trailers you create as well...
I dont want to accuse gamers of being juvenile but the
reactions can be quite extreme. Everythings either totally
cool or totally sucks and its quite rare to get something
in the middle. Things like whether youre showing people
gameplay or something pre-rendered often comes up
and its a sensitive issue for clients.
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Stormbirds; Mere Mortals was comissioned to create graphics for Charlie Brookers TV
show Gameswipe, its work including a video games-style avatar of the presenter himself
30LAST WORD
L - R Managing Director
of Turn Key, Nik Entwistle
and Porsche Carrera
Cup driver, Lewis Hopkins
with the Porsche 911 GT3
DOODLE DISCOVERIES
DOODLE DISCOVERY
DAVE PYE, CO-CREATIVE
DIRECTOR, REFINERY
I feel this is a person who is on cloud
nine and happy with their lot, centred
and well comfortable in their own skin.
Perhaps they are into music and lots
of fun to go with it, not taking life too
seriously but at the same time they
know how to behave as well.
The initial N is strong with them and
connected to them.
I sense its someone who has an
active imagination and an eye for
new ideas and concepts within their
role. The creative side of them is what
attracts clients, as well as the fact that
they are good to be with.
They can and do spot a business
opportunity well before it gets to the
point of striking a deal.
They can balance being laid back
with a serious business head and I feel
this is what keeps things going with
them.
There is also something about the
way he sees things, from a different
angle and it works well. I really like
this drawing / doodle and the person
it came from.
Last week, MTP executive producer Simon Mallinson was presented with the
Outstanding Contribution Award at the Scottish Advertising Awards. Caught up
in the emotions of the moment, Mallinson missed a few words that he wished
us to pass on... And a couple of lighthearted highlights from the past couple of
decades.
My staff and friends certainly proved that they could keep a secret on Friday night. I
didnt have the faintest idea what was planned. There are things that should have been
said that werent.
When MTP opened in an office that cost 20 a week, all the good TV was being done
and being done well in London. It was a real uphill battle to convince people that we
could do it as well from Scotland. I only managed this because of the advice, help and
support I got in the very early days from some very senior, very talented creative people.
People like Will Atkinson, Jim Downie, Brian Williams, Nick Gibson, Mike Reynolds,
Simon Scott, Andrew Lindsay, Angus Walker, Bish & Bosh, Sion Scott Wilson, Frank
Stubbs, Les Watt, Rufus Wedderburn, Gareth Howells, Dougal Wilson and initially the
hardest to convince but once won over, wonderfully supportive, Gerry Farrell. They
taught me how to do it- that it was all about the director and his vision releasing the
potential of the script. I have to thank all the directors but particularly Martin Wedderburn
for consistently delivering award winning films over the last 10 years. All these people
need to be thanked. I also need to thank the clients for trusting me. Mark Hunter at TCB,
Pam Hyder at Standard Life, Tom Gill at S&N. Chris Dempsey at the Government.
On Friday night I didnt just forget to do the thanks, I also forgot to tell any jokes. So
here you are- the three funniest moments
s 7HILST lLMING FOR THE 3COTTISH 4OURIST "OARD LOOKING IN THE MIRROR OF A SERVICE STATION
bathroom and seeing my face covered in human doobie before realizing that the towel
Id reached for with my eyes closed had been used by the previous occupant as a
substitute for the missing loo paper. I thought it was a secret until the cameraman asked
me if I fancied getting shitfaced at the bar with him that night.
s 4RYING TO EXPLAIN TO #UBAN #USTOMS THAT THE SPY CAMERAS THEYD FOUND IN MY SUITCASE
were to put into giant Bingo balls so that the people wearing them could see out.
Que?
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it and I convinced him that I knew a company that made last minute forgeries.
Now, as Maureen Lipman would have said enough already and moving on theres
another recession and does anybody have any more scripts out there?
APPOINTMENTS31
MICHELLE HORNE,
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, CHAPTER EIGHT
1. The need to develop my experience of all things digital within an
agency environment whose knowledge bank is of oceanic proportions.
2. Ive been a freelancer for the last four years, prior to that, RAM Media
Group as Account Director. 3. Royal Mail, marketing assistant, launching
Special Delivery. 4. Id freelanced at The Whole Caboodle, the previous
home of Fiona Cartwright, head of marketing here it was destiny our
paths should cross again. 5. Christmas Day, Father Christmas is an
awesome bloke! All my most favourite food, presents and champagne!
6. Frankie Boyle no subject out of bounds and makes me laugh so
much that I make weird wheezing noises that I cant control! 7. The
Rocky Collection need motivation Rocky style to help shift the
extension to the temple after having three babies in three years!
CARL BAVIS, MARKETING ASSISTANT, CHAPTER EIGHT
1. An innovative and quick growing agency that was continually growing
alongside great clients and offering me invaluable experience and great
prospects. 2. I had been working in SEO on a freelance basis. 3. Worked
client side for a buildersuperstore.co.uk. 4. After attending one of their
regular website workshops, which led to a meeting with the MD, Mario
Thomas. 5. New Years Eve, which is also my birthday, giving me two
reasons to celebrate! 6. Peter Kay, he is so diverse and just makes me
laugh! 7. Album? Its all about downloads now! But it was the latest
Coldplay album X&Y.
PAUL BASSON,
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, CUBE CREATIVE
1. Cube has a great reputation coupled with a strong client base and their
plans for developing the business presented a great challenge. 2. Freerange
Design, an agency I co-founded. 3. Working for a design and build
exhibition company handling the British Airways account worldwide. 4. I
heard that Cube was recruiting so sent across my details, they gave me a
call and invited me in. It was evident that there was a good fit between us
and I was delighted when they offered me the role. 5. 25 January, the
birthday of my children Luke and Lauren, now coming up for 2 years of
age. 6. Jonathan Ross. He skates close to the edge in everything he does
and has the ability to charm people and get on with them no matter who
they are. 7. Ian Brown My Way. The man is a legend.
EMMA ASHBY, ONLINE MEDIA MANAGER, SWAMP
1. The people, an innovative approach to digital, and a great working
environment. Not forgetting the free cake. 2. Brilliant Media. 3. Media
Executive at the JDA Group. 4. Good fortune. I was looking for a new
challenge, and I was presented with a great opportunity. 5. Around the
1st October when the season starts to change into Autumn. 6. Larry
David (of Curb Your Enthusiasm). 7. In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy. Why
this band isnt massive is beyond me.
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32MARKETING MECHANICS
DOMINIC CONLON
DIRECTOR
HEAD FIRST ADVERTISING & DESIGN
CARL PUGH
CREATIVE DIRECTOR,
HEAD FIRST ADVERTISING & DESIGN
GAMES MARKETING:
TIME TO GROW UP
RELEVANCE, REALISM
AND RELATIONSHIPS
m going to let you into a secret. Its one of the best kept secrets in
marketing. This may come as a shock. OK, here it is: the video game
industry is a global business. It is worth more than movies and, well, the
marketing people who promote each product under its banner arent playing.
They know what they do isnt playing, its business.
As a global business, the marketing side of video games must be targeted,
strategic and fiscally responsible. It falls to other businesses, businesses such
as Head First (and all the many talented businesses featured in this issue of
The Drum) to promote and sell the products at a global level. If the product
is big enough then the effort must rival that of any Hollywood blockbuster.
This was true of Resident Evil 5, it was true of Guitar Hero and it will be true
of Modern Warfare 2. If you work in marketing then you could probably add
another half dozen titles to that list from the Christmas period alone.
What constitutes global, however, varies from title to title. Each territory
may have its own sub-strategy. Imagery may vary from country to country
as local brand managers look to personalise the marketing and take into
account local customs, local personalities or local trends. Sometimes this is
the right way to go.
There are, of course, complications in this approach. The Internet has
made this vast world of ours vastly smaller. When it comes to the release
of media, many consumers are subjected to marketing from all four corners
depending upon their browsing habits. Whilst many if the big magazine
portals are canny enough to target content and advertising at a local level,
things happen, stuff leaks and people share the high points and low points
of ad campaigns.
This isnt true just for video games of course, in fact its probably less true
for video games. For movies, sites enjoy sharing the local marketing efforts
as they look for the best creative across the world.
The Internet brings us all together and we cant have one bad apple letting
the side down. In many ways there is no local any more.
When we approached MotoGP, a campaign slated for full bloom next
year but which has already begun this year, we took the decision to think
about what it means to market at a global level. We were used to delivering
campaigns globally; many video game campaigns operate on a very
centralised approach - create one key message, one set of key assets and
then roll it out. Tweak locally where necessary. For MotoGP, however, this
approach needed refining because of the nature of motor-sports.
Motor-sports arent as big a phenomenon in the UK or the US as they are
in, say, Spain or Italy. It wasnt a question of creating key assets and then
tweaking locally by placing a key rider on the cover for some countries. The
campaign needed to think a little cleverer than that. It had to look at where
the real passion for the sport emanated from, where the real excitement was;
and then it had to convey that to the rest of the world.
It is the same approach when tackling any modern, global brief. Its not
enough to fit vaguely into a set of brand values any more, allowing local
marketing their own idiosyncrasies. But nor is it acceptable to force a
centralised message from one country on the rest of the world. The marketing
has to be cleverer. It has to be grown-up.
In some ways, the video game business is still trapped in the body of a
twelve year old. It still sometimes thinks and acts as a series of separate,
unconnected businesses. Brands often start and then end with the product
itself and that cannot be right for such a big, such a global business. In the
years ahead that will probably change but for now, for product marketing
making local global is the key. We need to go further and think deeper.
ts hard to believe that ten years ago Head First officially took on its first set of
projects and brought together an ambition that had been burning for some
time.
Back in 1999 the world was still riding a wave of optimism. Everything was
possible with lifestyle and culture at the heart of that.
Technology was making leaps and bounds into our daily lives as the boom in
Internet use and mobile phone proliferation was just occurring.
The boom would, in just under a year from our first day, explode as broadband
lifted Internet usage.
Technology was everywhere and those of you in the new media game will
look back fondly (maybe) at the development of Flash and the proliferation of
the phrase skip intro. Agencies, including mine, evangelised the potential of
online access as a marketing opportunity with e-commerce and client control at
its heart.
Our early websites trod carefully with Flash and sought to encourage regular
news feeds generated by the client. The online brochure was a whole new beast,
vigorous and alive compared with its neatly stuffed cousin in print.
Yet in the rush to new media and the development or anticipation of new
technologies, the rules, learned over a century of pioneers such as David Ogilvy,
were often sidelined or discarded.
Head First was established for a very good reason: a few of us felt we could
offer more to the publishers of games if we brought in techniques and experience
from outside the field. Let us produce work for other sectors, we argued, and
show how that can influence your advertising. People, we reasoned, have other
interests, other attractions, than video games. We needed to make games
relevant to a wider audience, to show how the fun and excitement of digital play
can fit into their lives. Beforehand, with very few exceptions, video games spoke
a language understood by specific groups of people. Meetings were devoted
to appealing to the hardcore, to existing fans of a particular game. Why not,
we asked, talk to the people who arent playing games? More people watch
Coronation Street than play your game. Why not ask why?
We wanted to sample the world and deliver our findings to the video game
industry. And in 1999 we had the opportunity. But perhaps what we forgot,
was that our knowledge of games could, in turn, inform the communication
of other sectors; that we could cross-pollinate advertising for the benefit of all.
When clients in sectors as diverse as mobile phones, radio broadcasters, data
systems, public relations, metal working and many more came our way we
were pleasantly surprised that companies understood our point of difference.
Our belief in our ideas was strong and we were adept at producing creative
campaigns for an industry with an over abundance of creativity. Our experience in
marketing video games to a fast moving, ever changing, trend hungry consumer
has transformed strategy into an ethos we can apply to any product because we
can add relevance.
These clients knew that they needed to return to the principles of good
advertising. They knew that all communication, all design in fact, is advertising
and that its only when you excite your customer that you can engage them.
Online, offline, it doesnt matter. These are the shared traits of any sector. And
now, after the love affair with new technologies has settled into a relationship,
after the politics of optimism has, hopefully, settled into the politics of realism,
now these companies are looking for the excitement within their own products.
We must remember that our lives are complex and that advertising cant
ignore this fact. As social networking begins to enable us to represent and share
the many different influences and interests in our complex lives, we must also
remember that deep down, the way in which we make purchasing decisions
hasnt aged a day.
Head First Advertising & Design
T: 0161 228 6699 E: carl@head-rst.co.uk
Blog: http://headblog.head-rst.co.uk
Web: http://www.head-rst.co.uk
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COPY WRITING
THE WORD DEPARTMENT
Tel: 07971 618 033
Contact: Doug Nolan
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www.theworddepartment.co.uk
CREATIVE COMMUNICATIONS
The if agency
Tel: 0161 926 3200
Contact: Christian James (MD)
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Tel No: 0845 652 6514
Contact: James Robinson
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www.zeffa.co.uk
ADVERTISING & DESIGN
Cactus Creative Ltd.
Tel: 01539 722944
Contact: Niki Plimley
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Unsuitable Ltd
Tel: 0121 224 7960
Contact: Richard Elwell
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AMBIENT AND OUTDOOR
Ad Cab Taxi Advertising
Tel: 0141 762 9407
Contact: Gary Watson
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ARTWORK
The Artwork Service
Tel: 07899668141
Contact: Jason Hopkins
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Duttons Design Ltd
Tel: 01275 850905
Contact: Mike Spurr
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www.duttonsdesign.com
Xylo.
Tel: 0161 236 4245
Contact: William Frank
william.frank@xylgroup.co.uk
www.designedbyx.co.uk
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION
Plum Films Ltd
Tel: + 00 44 131 555 1604
Contact: Micky MacPherson/Tina Foster
ads@plumfilms.co.uk
www.plumfilms.co.uk
COPY WRITING
Copy Monkey Limited
Tel: 01237426430
Contact: Martin Dorey
martin@copymonkey.biz
www.copymonkey.biz
Hollie Miller | Copywriter
Tel: 07729449615
Contact: Hollie Miller
info@hollie-miller.com
www.hollie-miller.com
Liz Holt Freelance Copywriter
Tel: 07919 365 335
Contact: Liz Holt
hello@lizholt.co.uk
www.lizholt.co.uk
Joe the Writer
Tel: 0113 8156800 / 07813883154
Contact: Joseph Hughes
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www.joethewriter.com
Simon Platt
Tel: 07771 911256
Contact: Simon Platt
me@simonplatt.co.uk
simonplatt.co.uk
DESIGN
39steps
Tel: 0131 557 1903
Contact: Julie Diver
julie@39stepsstudio.com
www.39stepsstudio.com
999 Design Group Ltd
Tel: 0141 332 2684
Contact: Gavin Clark
gavin.clark@999design.com
www.999design.com
Almond
Tel: 0131 553 5523
Contact: Adrian Hallam, Director
studio@almondtds.com
www.almondtds.com
Cityhall Design Partnership
Tel: 0141 204 0667
Contact: Joe Hall
studio@cityhalldesign.com
www.cityhalldesign.com
Dirty Design
Tel: 01179273344
Contact: Josie Harold
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www.dirtydesign.co.uk
Engine Creative
Tel: 01604 453177
Contact: Andrew Wise
andy@enginecreative.co.uk
www.enginecreative.co.uk
Heedi Design
Tel: 0131 555 5401
Contact: Veronica Ferguson
hello@heedi.co.uk
www.heedi.co.uk
Mortonward Limited
Tel: 0131 555 3553
Contact: Ewan Morton
ewan@mortonward.co.uk
mortonward.co.uk
Open Communication Design Limited
Tel: +44(0)117 300 5200
Contact: Al Kennedy/
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info@open-comms.com
www.open-comms.com
Redpath
Tel: 0131 556 9115
Contact: Richard Irvine
richard@redpath.co.uk
www.redpath.co.uk
Why
T: 0141 333 9464
Contact: Laura Harte
design@thewhyagency.co.uk
www.thewhyagency.co.uk
Unleaded
Tel: 07746 092214
Contact: Ryan Falconer
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HTDL
Tel: 01564 797420
Contact: Andy Thornley
post@htdl.co.uk
www.htdl.co.uk
INTEGRATED AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Andy Gallacher Photography
Tel: 07775 688 774
Contact: andy gallacher
andygallacher-photography.com
Jo Hanley Photography
Tel: 07765881693
Contact: Jo
johanley@johanley.com
www.johanley.com
Photoworkx
Tel: 07545 548 944
Contact: James Nader
james@photoworkx.co.uk
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Robert Brady Photography
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Contact: Robert Brady
rob@robertbrady.co.uk
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Scene Photography
Tel: 0115 9788688
Contact: Rob Smalley or Chris Burks
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Valerie Evans Photography
Tel: 07778533528
Contact: Valerie Evans
valerie.evans@ymail.com
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Contact: Annette Christie
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MARKETING
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Tel: 07731 871 908
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Email: mail@lynsayjohnston.com
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Contact: Zoe Tinsley
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and an end;
showcase 2 service projects (highlighting
design thinking, user research, co-design,
solution and delivery outcome) for which you
have been the lead designer;
be labelled with very short descriptions
e.g. for whom the work was done, software
used, date, importance of piece with
regards to your development and your role
in the project;
be easy to open, navigate and review.
To save e-mailing large les we would request
you upload your digital portfolio to a website (e.g.
creativepool, youSENDit, etc.) and send a link
with your covering letter and cv.
The covering letter, cv and link should be e-mailed
to brianw@skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk
by 10:00 on Monday 2 November 2009. We
anticipate that interviews will commence in
the week beginning 16 November.
To make your ads look great in press call 0121 643 2227
and ask to speak to Wayne Ricketts or Carl Prosser.
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