Plymouth is a horrible little city, its streets are wide and the wind blows deep across the soul for anybody unlucky enough to be spending time there. The nearby Devonport Dockyard not only services nuclear submarines, it also serves up squaddies who do their usual weekend punch-up thing. It also has the ugliest shopping centre [...]
February, 2012:
The 1992 vision of Mondo 2000 was right and wrong, but also true
I picked up my copy of Mondo 2000 – User’s guide to a new edge (Thames and Hudson 1992) the other day. What an optimistic and anarchic place the soon-to-be digital world was then, and indeed for the next few years. Fax machines were vogue, mobile phones were still big and barely anyone was using [...]
Spending too much time in front of a screen?… go to a Cat Cafe in Tokyo
It’s February, the weather is sh*t, the media bombards us with stories about certain days being the most depressing of the year and mobiles, laptops, iPads, cinemas and TVs drag us into their screens of otherworldliness. The evenings are long, there are no spontaneous outdoor activities and if it wasn’t for sex we’d all go [...]
What can agencies learn from REAL people?
* This is a guest blog from Roger Warner, Managing Director of social media agency C&M Advertising legend Bill Bernbach and footballing philosophy legend Socrates figured out that there’s a lot of value to be had in asking real people real questions. We’ve been doing quite a lot of it lately at C&M via our [...]
