Insurance goes all Social Media

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Social media is all we seam to be hearing about at the moment. However, Brightenup are putting a different spin on it for one of the worlds largest insurance companies. Our current challenge, is to turn an internal communications intranet from being a place for corporate information into a fabulous space where employees will want …

80% science, 20% art

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Browser support for typography is a bothersome process and the cause of much debate, head scratching and occasional out bursts of frustration. So when we heard that the legend Jon Tan of Omni TI and local user experience super brain Richard Rutter were doing a Skillswap talk on typography, we made sure our bums were …

Get minted

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Those lovely people that are make lots of money, The Royal Mint, are running a super competition to design the 2012 edition of the 50p coin. The competition is open all of us who are over 13 years, UK residents and the lucky winner will see their design on the backs of 50p pieces used …

Moosehead packaging

Monday, January 12th, 2009

In the land of product and retailing, a year is not that long to get the all important Christmas gifting packs sorted out and on shelves for those pesky “early bird” shoppers who start in September. The brief to radically step change the Moosehead gifting range. The product will remain the same but the target …

Of course you do, don’t you?

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Of course you know what Twitter is, right? Simply put, it’s a social networking thingy that lets people join in an omnipresent conversation about whatever is happening at any given moment. A bit like, Instant Messenger, kind of like a Blog and something like Facebook. However it’s all conducted within 140 characters or less, from …

Geek Yoga Not Greek Yogurt

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

We all have to spend more and more hours in front of our computers these days. My wrists get clickly and my shoulders are up near my ears not to mention the stiffness in my legs and the inability of my back to bend to touch my toes like I could when I was 18. …

Samsung is baubles

Monday, November 24th, 2008

As well as being an amazing marketing agency, we also now run a Christmas decoration racket on the side. No really, we do. Well kind of. Those lovely people over at Samsung phoned us up in a bit of a pickle. They needed  branded baubles, and there wasn’t enough time to get them outsourced, so …

It isn’t easy being an intern

Monday, November 24th, 2008

It isn’t easy being an intern. You have to make 10 gallons of tea a day, answer the phone to strange people, and go to the shop whenever anybody wants tasty baked goods. All of this and you don’t even get paid! But even though you are effectively the office bitch, it’s also pretty cool. …

Student Travel Group branding

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Our current challenge is amalgamating, 15 individual brands into one fabulous corporate brand. Each of these brands is competing with each other for market share, price point and there’s little in the way of service differentiation. Our strategic thinking is leading us to create a brand strategy that will give the holding brand the gravitas it deserves …

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