Filed under: advertising, business, creativity, design, marketing, politics, web2.0 | Tags: Campaigning, Carnyx, Don Smith, gareth Howells, the drum, The Drum Power 100, voting, Who has the biggest creative ego in Scotland.com?
I am nominated for the Drum Power 100 and if you’d like to vote for me feel free. (But I think the link is fecked actually.) And anyway no clients are on the list so who cares.
But this is where the real battle lies. Two creative Goliaths are out to slay one another.
Gareth Howells (Newhaven) versus Don Smith (Realise – ex Union. He has retired from advertising).
Because they are creatives they can raise the bar.
I love this.
Filed under: advertising, creativity, marketing | Tags: Drum Poll, most creative city in britain, the drum
People of Newcastle I salute your home pride. Deluded as it is. If I was being unbiased I’d say Manchester. As it is I voted for Edinburgh.
Filed under: design, press articles | Tags: Corporation pop, design agency, manchester, manchester design, manchester design agency, North west, the drum
I’ve just been asked to work as an advisor with a great design company in Manchester called Corporation Pop. (Mancunian for tap water in case you were wondering.)
I’ve been working with them since last spring and have built up a really good relationship with their two directors, Dom and Dan.
It was reported in the North West yesterday, here. And in The Drum, here. And here. My oh my.
They’re a great business and I’m really looking forward to it.
Filed under: advertising, design, photos, politics, web2.0 | Tags: power 100, the drum
Apparently I am among the 100 most powerful people in Scottish media and marketing! I find that rather amusing. If you don’t believe me follow this link. Better still, cast a vote for me and I might not end up as the 100th most powerful person in Scottish Marketing, which would be decidedly disappointing having made the cut, so to speak – like Scotland reaching the final stages of a major football competition. Remember them?
You will note of course, if you read the small print on the poll, that I was in fact one of the judges. You can be assured that I left the room when my name came up for voting.
(Actually I didn’t, so had to put up with a sustained barrage of slagging and many, many reasons for my non-inclusion before the cheques I had posted to the other judges kicked in and did their job.)
What is also rather amusing is that the most powerful man in marketing, Alex Salmond, was not eligible for inclusion, which thankfully left a wee space for me to squeeze in in 100th place.
Ach, life’s a bitch, then you die.
Filed under: About think hard, advertising, design, photos, press articles | Tags: doodles, leith agency, lowe london, roger stanier, the drum
Got a nice cheeky note from an old friend and mentor, Roger Stanier, who now works at Lowe in Londinium this morning.
It made me laugh. The cheeky monkey.
