…which means it is used to promote something, namely Antimatter Design.
Antimatter Design’s 2010 Portfolio can be viewed online at antimatterdesign.com/portfolio.pdf. If you seem like the type of person likely to give me a bit of freelance work, I could even send you a hard copy, if you ask nicely.
In light of the amount of Spam I’ve been getting in the comments section of this site (well done – you’ve found a way round the captcha, you clever little beggars), here are some adverts for Spam, the meat substance:
Following the controversy surrounding the London 2012 OIympics logo (which I, frankly quite like,) the new mascots for the games – Wenlock & Mandeville – have been unveiled. Probably to more controversy. But once again I, frankly quite like them.
Read the full story about them at telegraph.co.uk
According to Amnesty International UK, this ad was due to appear in the Financial Times today and was funded by 2000 supporters. The ad encourages people to question Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta at Shell’s AGM. But the ad was pulled by the FT at the last minute. Amnesty have in turn requested this ad be shared by as many people as possible so that they can see it and hopefully act on it as well.
For anyone out there who found the ‘Ashley‘ doll a bit creepy, don’t worry. You can now get ‘Little Umi’, a lifelike baby chimpanzee that you can take care of and fill that deep seeded need that you have to nurture a small ape.
To me, the price seemed a tad high for something that frankly gives me the heebie jeebies, but when I saw that it came with a free dummy, I was instantly sold (actually I wasn’t).
DoGood Advertising started life as Colony Creative, a collaboration between graphic designer Richard Rogers and copywriter Stephen Simpson which now specialises on work solely for charities, environmental groups and not-for-profits.
I think we both were becoming gradually more and more cynical towards working for larger private sector companies. We had one or two not-for-profit clients whom we seemed to get on really well with – so we had the thought ‘imagine all of our clients were doing good things for society, rather than being purely profit focused’. This was essentially the thinking behind Do Good.
We don’t have a strict ethical policy that we must adhere to. It’s more about running our company in a practical, open way that we think will have a positive effect on our clients, suppliers and people who see our work. It just so happens that we’re into recycling and reusing materials, and we also prefer walking and cycling to meetings.
The main thing we do is make sure that the clients we work for are doing something beneficial to society. That’s why all our clients so far are not-for-profit organisations.
Budget. Charities have hardly any money to promote their invaluable work. While big private sector companies seem to have plenty of money to sell you something that, let’s face it, you could live without quite easily.
Hard. But I think this is the same in all sectors, not just charities.
A few of our clients have been forced to do more work in-house. So standards/effectiveness will obviously suffer.
It’s not that bad. Yes, you are absolutely right – we print directly onto disused packaging. We started doing this purely for ourself for business cards and the occasional leaflet, but we got such a great response from our clients that we decided to offer the service to anyone who’s looking for rubbish business cards.
We are planning on spending more time on our charity The Good Academy which offers work experience to junior creatives trying to break into to advertising and design business.
See more work by DoGood Advertising at dogoodadvertising.com
Like this one, which just makes me go ‘what the hell?’
So there I was, standing at the bus stop waiting for a bus and then this guy standing outside the pub starts shouting abuse at me for absolutely no reason at all whatsoever. So I said to him “bad night, mate?” and he said to me “I’m a pure psycho, ya dafty.”
Anyway, long story short, his friend punched me in the arm and I utilised by exemplary charm and sales skills and then got a taxi before they could focus enough unmitigated hate at me to pursue the matter any further. Overall the whole incident was completely and utterly unnecessary – check out the bruise on my arm:
However, it did remind me that I had taken a photo of this excellent ad for Break the Circle of Violence – an initiative started by Strathclyde Police. The ad features a wall covered in ‘menshies’, small pieces of graffiti written by ‘neds’ (reputedly violent criminal youths from the underclasses of Glasgow society – known as ‘chavs’ in other parts of the UK.) Menshies are used to denote the presence of members of a gang in an area, to announce relationships, deaths, crushes, or to write abuse or slander about people known to the writer. In the case of this ad, it’s deaths, and it shows the risks involved in taking part in gang violence.
So there, bus stop guys – carry on like that and you’ll be getting yourselves into big trouble.
