CLOTHES PEG

Installation in Belguim.

via The Debonaire

Great paper art film

Brilliant way of bringing books to life.
Neil

iPad Art by Hockney

Hockney is exhibiting his "paintings" of flowers on iPads. The exhibition is called fresh flowers because he draws at 6am and by 7am the finished art is sent to the iPads on the exhibition wall in Paris.
Fresh art on digital poster spaces?
Neil

HAPPY FRIDAY

via sub-studio

NOT YOUR AVERAGE INTERVIEW

Any opportunity to get his gun out...

THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING

SORRY OLD BLOOD

Back slaps all round from St Luke's to the winners of the D&AD Student Awards. Our very own Al Young took part in the 'Sorry old blood' campaign promoting the awards which included other industry figures such as Dick Powell and Michael Wolff.

Rest easy, no creatives were harmed in the making of this ad.

WHAT DO YOU CALL YOURS?

Vagina madness has hit St Luke's (and there's a sentence I never thought I'd write).

Our new Mooncup campaign launched on Monday and has steadily been gaining attention. We have received well over 1,000 entries on our poll page where people can enter the name they call their talulah / treasure / fangita with some extremely imaginative entries.

Jimmy Carr was even taken aback by one of our posters and promptly tweeted a reaction.

Time to get down to the nitty gritty - what do you call yours?

GREAT BRITISH ROAST DEBATE

Phew - a busy week here at St Luke's! We’re delighted to announce the launch of Toby Carvery’s TV, press, radio and online campaign which aims to demonstrate Britain’s passion for roast dinners. The TV ad shows people debating what makes their perfect roast, for the radio hear the lovely James Corden delivering a rousing speech on the subject of the roast dinner. Join the debate on Toby Carvery's Facebook page.

LOVE YOUR VAGINA

Do you know your pumpum from your minky? We are very excited to see the launch of our unbranded campaign for Mooncup, which aims to encourage women to ‘love their vaginas’. The Mooncup is a safe, eco-friendly alternative to tampons and sanitary pads.

We have designed typographic posters with names that women use for their vaginas ranging from ‘Lady garden’ to ‘Va jay jay’. The posters direct women to the website loveyourvagina.com, where they can find out more about Mooncup. For a bit of fun, women can enter what they lovingly call their lady parts and help us find the UK’s top five names - definitely not for the faint-hearted...

Google Wave's 2009

Google wave's depiction of most memorable moments from 2009.

Phew.

Flow chart friday

via the shallow end

BRAWN GP TEAM: YOU'VE EARNED YOUR BOWTIME

Jenson Button has finally become Forumla One world champion and by gum have the Brawn GP team earned their Bowtime.

So we decided to tell them, placing ads in the Daily Mirror, Star and Sun.

In the words of Marcus Graftus, 'Your time has come!'

ST LUKE'S DAY

Friday saw St Lukers celebrating our namesake’s day. After bacon sandwiches, and with the image of beautiful new meeting rooms fixed firmly in our mind, we donned jumpsuits to rise to the challenge of those four dreaded words: CLEAR OUT THE BASEMENT.
Some interesting discoveries were made:

1) We had enough furniture to kit out an entire 80s advertising office (internet surfing chairs that look like ironing boards! Remember them?! No? Probably best not to…)

2) Neil Henderson still has table football skills

3) Coral the intern is excellent at bubble wrapping (thanks Coral btw)
The good news is it won’t be long til the basement is refurbished and we can expand downstairs. Plus we created a mini freecycle, supplying most of Bloomsbury with new furniture and books. Enjoy everyone.

St Luke's wins Harvester

We're very happy to announce Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers owned restaurant chain, has hired us for its new account.

Harvester have briefed us to produce a campaign which will launch next year.

Simon Cope, Director of Marketing at Mitchells and Butlers said, "St Luke's have created an idea that will form the basis of our communications for the next five years. We were impressed by their deep insight and ability to create a powerful agenda that will affect all parts of the Harvester business".

A STORY IN SAND

Thanks to The Young Creative Council post on FB extolling the joys of geekdom (as if we need convincing...), which included this staggering clip from Ukraine's Got Talent.



ITV just looked even cheaper...

Mark Vernon's ten ancient tips for the modern world

We've been helping out The School of Life expert Mark Vernon with the launch of his new book, 'Plato's Podcasts - The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living'.

Ex-priest Mark is a founding member of our client The School of Life whose previous publications include 'The Philosophy of Friendship' and 'Wellbeing'. According to Mark, 'writing a sermon is remarkably similar to writing a feature; and speaking to parishioners is remarkably like to talking to a microphone'.

In advance of the book's release, Mark has compiled ten tips based on the philosophies of the old school heavies to help us deal with the high-tech world of modern life. Pretty useful in the heady, relentless whirl of advertising.

Don't know your ARG from your APG? Web 2.0 baffles and web 3.0 frankly terrifies? Pah. According to Mark, this is nothing compared to the rapid, intrepid changes the ancient Greeks had to cope with. Try dealing with the new technologies for constructing the Parthenon. Mark's advice: think like Zeno the Stoic and go with the flow.

NEW RNIB CAMPAIGN

St Luke's new campaign for RNIB launched this week. Our brief was to begin the journey to recruiting a new generation of supporters for RNIB, by putting the issue of sight loss on to their agenda.

People have a very superficial understanding of sight loss and its implications. In fact, without the sort of support RNIB offers, losing your sight can mean losing the life you had and the future you dreamed of.

With this campaign, we're hoping to create engagement and empathy with the issue of sight loss by encouraging people to consider how losing their sight would affect them personally by asking them the question ‘What would you lose from your life if you lost your sight?’ and inviting them to tell us their answers.

The campaign shows groups of real people including rugby players, chefs and hikers, in the midst of their activity with their eyes shut, contemplating their own answers to the question.

What would you lose from your life if you lost your sight?

DJ YOUTUBE

Be a digital conductor. In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

Play all the videos simultaneously or a couple at a time, in any order.

LEGO LOVE

8-Bit Stop Motion Trip With Legos - Watch more Funny Videos