Tom & Charlottes Blog: March 2010

Monday, 29 March 2010

Word.

'Nuff said

What A Load Of Cobblers #0000001

Welcome to "What A Load of Cobblers". A T&C series exposing the most heinous crimes of semantic buffoonery. #0000001 came in the form of an estate agent's email invite to a gallery opening in Clapham. Introducing the artiste...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Moved.

Spinnaker is now all set up and ready to go in our new SE1 home. Just a few little tweaks left to do, but we'll show you when all is polished up.

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Here is a scamp of our 'almost' canteen rescue poster from last month. If only...

Google 23.03.10

100th birthday of Akira Kurosawa celebrated with Google doodle.

Friday, 12 March 2010

Google.

As you may have seen before I am a fan of the lovely Google takeovers that pop up from time to time. Here are a few from my collection.

I know, different from the Google's but still tickles me six months on.

Last night.

Last night we were lucky enough to go to the Gala (and World as it turned out) Premier of Sony Pictures latest Rom Com 'The Bounty Hunter'

We got to walk down the red carpet, eat as much free popcorn as we wanted and meet the two stars of the film, Rachel from Friends and the guy from the 300. Grand old night out, Cheers Sony.

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Moving email, signature and homepage for Spinnaker Direct.

We have spent this week over seeing the design of our "Were Moving!" information. We finally simplified it to glossy packing tape with a Spinnaker twist.

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Moving.

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Spinnaker are moving to our new premises today. We are moving "Saaf of da riva" to Emerson St. Studios, near the TATE Modern.

Monday, 8 March 2010

What me looks like.

It just occurred to me that no one out there in the real world knows what we look like. So here are snaps of Tom & Chaz, just in case.

LEGO Tom -

LEGO Charlotte -

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-photo/id347363502?mt=8

Robert McGinnis paints for Stella Artois 4%.

As cutting edge and up to date as I am here is the latest, 6 month old, Stella campaign.

When Mother wanted to achieve an authentic 60s look for its recent poster campaign for Stella Artois 4%, the agency turned to illustrator Robert McGinnis, who created classic posters for films including Breakfast At Tiffany's and Barbarella, as well as Bond movies Live And Let Die and Thunderball.

"Because Stella Artois 4% lives in the 60s Riviera, we tried to make the work look as genuine as possible, so it becomes a homage to that era rather than just a parody of it," say Gustavo Sousa and Rodrigo Saavedra at Mother. "Robert McGinnis is undoubtedly the best film poster illustrator of the 60s, and probably one of the best poster designers ever, so it wasn't a hard choice. In fact, we had been referencing his posters when we started looking for illustrators, but we thought he was retired. Eventually we thought 'what if we try it?', and we decided to give him a call. Like we expected, he was retired, but to our suprise he told us he was willing to come out of retirement to do this project."

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/robert-mcginnis-paints-for-stella-artois-4