Posts Tagged ‘Friday fun’

  • Friday fun #18

    Factually this is out of sequence but the results will be ready to see next Thursday. The idea – buy cheap art in the charity shop – make new art on top of it. Some remarkable results already – see this little ditty from Jnr.
    The grand opening is on Thursday 26th November – the culture [...]

  • Friday fun #17

    Another one of those, not quite the normal Friday fun but this definately happened on a Friday posts. Our various technical teams decided to hold a brew off and LAN party as part of our one up-man-ship series.
    From the magic keyboard of Big JR: The beer brewing competition drew an eager crowd, keen to test the [...]

  • Friday fun #16

    As a warm up to a BT show and tell, we decided to go back to the time of tapes and answer phones. To celebrate the ‘I’m not here speak after the beep’ message that was once a mainstay of every boozy bachelor pad that has now been replaced by that annoying voice from your [...]

  • Friday fun #15

    In need of some instant fun we decided to have a Kemp Folds inspired session. Take two pictures of Hard Man, Ross Kemp fold and enjoy.
    Once we’d warmed up we took random photos of our colleagues and held a fold off. Each person took a random print from the table, folded it as required then [...]

  • Friday fun #14

    With lots of work to show we decided to adopt a pecha kucha style presentation and crack through 7 projects in super quick time. For those that don’t know - pecha kucha format is 20 slides with 20 seconds a slide. To make sure we ran to time, all the slides were set to autoplay [...]

  • Friday fun #13

    Inspired by In B-Flat and MJ Advertising, we wanted to think up ideas for creating a simple web page containing only 1 or more YouTube videos. A low tech video experience.
    With thought starters: Music, diary films, banking tips, energy savings and holidays on the cheap, we set about thinking up some ideas. 15 minutes later [...]

  • Friday fun #12 Cannes on the cheap

    Not our regular Friday activity but Cannes on the cheap was fun and some of it happened on a Friday.
    In attempt to keep costs down we decided (quite rightly) to forgo the usual (or so I’m told) expensive rooms in the Martinez, Carlton or Grand and decided to head to the Parc Bellvue camping site [...]

  • Friday fun #11

    Technically not a friday - was a wednesday but high jinx abound as a set of LBiers took on a Brick Lane Treasure Hunt challenge involving some impromptu promotion for our favourite coffee shop, Nude. That’s one way of enjoying the hot weather I guess.

  • Friday fun #10

    It was the G20 week - we’d all seen how the press had managed to goad 5 or 6 protesters into taking some action against several thousand Police and we wanted some.
    So what would our protests be? The protest against annoying geezers playing music from their mobile phones managed to get our heckles across but due to the enormity of this [...]

  • Friday fun #9

    This brief was for the Westomatic - Riviera Ultima with Simm logic. Or in other words ‘Pimp the coffee machine’. This isn’t your shiny Gagia desktop wonder - this is the big bad post box sized beast. We have two and they need a refresh. The main graphics area is up for grabs - what [...]

  • Friday fun #8

    Part 3 in our Copywriter series
    Rewrite the lines from famous ads. Use the D&AD as your inspiration. For some reason this just descended into chaos with the results being censored… It’s for your own sanity and protection you understand.

  • Friday fun #7

    Part 2 of our copywriters take control series.
    So you’re pitching that new idea and want a snappy description to easily communicate what it’s all about. Why not practice with a few film ideas. You know the drill by now - divide into small groups - scribble things down - present them 10 minutes later.
    Death Aquatic - I see nearly dead [...]

  • Friday fun #6

    Inspired by the snow and frustrated by our country’s inability to cope with anything other than light rain, we decided to vent our feelings in a complaints letter to a local train service.
    We decided it would be much more fun to do it as a celebrity - cue split into 4 groups, pick a celeb [...]

  • Friday fun #5.5

    A few Fridays ago, the Facebook album art meme swept through the office. Here are a few of our creations. You know the rules.

  • Friday fun #5

    Long before the recent popular facebook meme we had our album art task.
    Start with a few random images from our new creds deck, a couple of markers, scissors, prit-stick and a few scraps of paper. Select a random music genre; then dream up an artist name, 4 track titles and create an album cover. 10 [...]

  • Friday fun #4

    Once upon a time…
    So what do you get when you fill lots of balloons with compressed air and interesting words? In this challenge we had a collection of balloons which need to be popped and then their wordy contents rearranged into two amusing stories.

    We’re just trying to get the resulting X-rated stories past the censor [...]

  • Friday fun #3

    Up next was our 5 minute sketch-off. The rules are simple; sit opposite a fellow member of the creative department, arm yourself with a small set of markers and one piece of paper. 1 2 3 sketch.

    And a few of the results.

  • Friday fun #2

    Next in our series of Friday frolics was the ‘always successful’ create a typeface from your own possessions in 8 minutes and no longer. Cue the normal stuff like: belts, shoes, wallets, glasses, keys, mixed in with a few more sign of the times items: lanyards, USB sticks, monitor leads and batteries (lets not ask). [...]

  • Friday fun #1

    Back in November and inspired by Chris T and Clara’s trip to Hyper Island we decided to change our creative team meetings. Instead of just showing off our work; finished and in-progress, we decided to begin with a 10 minute challenges.
    Inspired by the impressive show of facial hair for Movember we decided to get everyone [...]