Through out the second world war bananas were in short supply in a Britain enduring severe food rationing. By the time the first bananas were imported from the Caribbean, many children that had grown up during the conflict had never seen let alone eaten a banana. Indeed Evelyn Waugh famously traumatised his son, Auberon, by consuming by himself and in front of his son, the first Banana Auberon had ever seen.
Imagine the scene, the docks of London, Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow packed to the gunnels with dirty little oiks and street urchins in thread bare clothes eagerly anticipating their first taste of this rare and exotic fruit.
This month I want to advocate VW. Not that nicey nicey stuff from DDB London with its achingly dull restraint and ever so accutely observed…
Oh look its Billy Joel, throwing a stone inside a glass house
There I’ve actually gone and said it, I don’t get ‘digital’.
A shamless use of Woody Guthrie for no other reason than the photo is excellent and boy is that a slogan
It seems that the classic advertising slogan has fallen deeply out of fashion.
Mark Earls of ‘Herd’ fame and I got together with Russell to talk about the way we set about preparing as planners for an intial…
Sergei M. Eisenstein’s 1925 film, Battleship Potemkin
I have been giving a bit of thought to HHCL recently.
A wonderful pamphlet by S.O.R.T design – The Society of Revisionist Typographers
I’ve been thinking about aphorisms again and why they are such wonderful things.
Photo courtesy of Balls is clearly much less of a campaign than Honda’s ‘Power of Dreams’ but as one off TV commericals go really rather…
The The Charge of the Light Brigade is in so many ways a lesson for brands that think about social media as just another channel.
As you may know my basic philosophy about brands and web 2.0 is proceed…with caution. Social media is unfamiliar territory for brands and their representatives – largely because the rules are created by the community not the communicators – and they should stear well clear unless they know exactly what they are doing.
Fred Dibnah – steeplejack and an advocate of Britain’s industrial heritage. He would have hated all of us but that doesn’t stop us loving him.
After a feisty exchange about Honda it is time to think about which campaign to advocate for October.
The rules are emerging slowly.
