When You're Not Invited To The Party, Turn Up Anyway...

One of our latest cheeky little ads for Fentimans. Morning Advertiser, an on-trade magazine, publishes a brand report every year. It turns out that you can buy an ad space in the report. So obviously...

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The moral of the story being, when you're not invited to the party, turn up anyway, with a twin-ended dildo.

Friday Festival Of Fentimans

These are the latest ads in our print campaign for Fentimans, following on from this, this and this. The elements in each have been hand-printed on our vintage press, as we illustrated in this post. By the way, Friday is a great day to try your first Fentimans. You can see some of our other work for Fentimans here.

Save Small Shops - Every Little Helps

We plug for the little guy at Sell! Sell! We believe that in general, lots of small independents are better than a few giant conglomerates, not just in the advertising business, but on the high street, and beyond. We think it makes life better, communities richer, and ultimately makes for a better product and service. Maybe that why we tend to attract interesting challenger brands or independents, we love the fight against the big guys. And the big guys don't need the best thinking anyway, they just out-muscle the competition.

Whilst rummaging around our archive for a new project (we'll tell you about that shortly), we came across this campaign we did for Friends of the Earth a couple of years back. A bit of a blast from the past, but still as relevant today I think. It was made, as you'll notice, to deliberately ape a particular style of campaign that was everywhere for a certain large company. The simple message - if we don't use our small shops - we'll lose them. Everyone hates it when their local grocer or butcher shuts down, it makes them sad, the local community feels less rich for it. But people are busy, and have to be careful with money, they go about their business as we all do, and don't necessarily put two-and-two together - what you put in equals what you get out.
 
Alexi Sayle, being a supporter of the campaign, kindly donated his time for the voice-over, it was shot by Ben Jones and Greg Fay through the lovely people at Partizan.

Our New Bullshit Free Zone Posters Are Now Available at STARTUP VITAMINS

Since we made our original Bullshit Free Zone (hyphen deliberately omitted) posters back in May 2009, we have probably sent out about five or six hundred to people fighting the good fight against the rampant encroaching army of bull. Whilst our supply ran out some time ago, we still get many emails from people asking for them. So to meet the ever-present demand, and to keep things interesting, we have teamed up with those fine folks at STARTUP VITAMINS to produce a new and improved BFZ poster.

It's now in four different colour schemes, each in two different sizes, and you can buy it ready-framed for those more formal bullshit free zones in your life. We have some samples here in Sell! Towers and they are stonking – beautifully printed on very good quality, thick paper. Rest assured, get one of these in your life, and no one will be in any doubt of your approach to jargon and waffle.

So why not pop over to the website and get yourself one - here - even better buy one of each and put one in every room.

A huge thanks to Julia and the team at STARTUP VITAMINS.