Crumpets roasting on an open fire.

It's been a busy patch - hence none of this - and now it's the run into Christmas, so it's sort of busy then it's quiet, then it's busy. It's good though because i've had a day or two to try and think with a clear head about something, and i've got some nice ideas out - so it's good. Yey headspace!

The picture is of a test shoot for Warbies, we've picked up a large brief from them and we're just going through the tweaking stage, as you do with most things. It should be around in the New Year.

Unfortunately we didn't get the Business Link work for Yorkshire, but that's quite good cos the campaign that did win isn't that great, so i wouldn't of held out much hope for any of the good ones getting through...

This is the shitz. *

Task of the week

Day 2, final day, of 'the task'.

It seems that yesterday lulled me into a false sense of security. Today is a totally different story. I knew the headphones were going to cause me trouble, I just hadn't realised just how many hours of trouble. But I remain calm and collected which isn't like me at all. Anyway they're done now and I've managed to finish the rest of it in the last hour or so.

So, that's the first illustration out of the way. 2 more to go...

Task of the week

Well, it's heading in the right direction, I think. Still a way to go yet though.

2 more cups of tea
Run out of biscuits
Music: The Shins, Yeasayer, Rilo Kiley, The Smiths.

Task of the week

Today I (Vicki) start on a mission...

I am producing an illustration made in 3D from paper to use in a promotional campaign for one of our nicer clients. It's on an online music theme.

Due to 'no budget', 'needed by the end of the month', I am embarking on this task myself, going into it with my usual, slightly foolish attitude of 'I can do that'.

So I started at 8 this morning armed with a selection of coloured paper, scalpels, glue, tape, and music to make and do by and it seems to have started well, if a little slow but I reckon I'm getting the hang of it now. I'm not sure if I'll be still feeling so positive when it comes to making the headphones.

Cups of tea so far: 2
Biscuits: 3 chocolate fingers
Music to make and do by:
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Concretes - The Concretes
Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood Me
(I hadn't set out on a Swedish theme but it suits the mood).

Northern Line

Here's a visual from the recent campaign we've done for Hallmark cards, they wanted to tell graduates that they've got a scheme where you don't need to know where you want to end up, but after training in various areas in the company - they'll set you off on your future. Seemed a good plan, so the line and a visual idea later and we had that ^.

It's going to be half A2 posters (which is nice) and flyers and online too. Nice.

Still staring...

I've also been staring out of the window recently. Mainly because there has been an inflatable banana stuck in the tree for over 3 weeks now. It hasn't moved and it hasn't gone down. I'm kind of liking it being there now. I hope it sticks around for a while longer.

Staring into space......

....i've been doing a lot of that recently. It's good because I've actually had some time to sit and think about a brief* - you need time when you think - yes amends need checking and yes you need to sort the costs for that shoot and yes you need to do the daily / hourly check of all the places you write and view - but you need time to think. And it's nice, because you come up with lovely ideas. Thinking is good. Long live thinking.

*in the loosest sense of the word! 'Can you do some cool stuff for ******?' - there's the brief, cool stuff. Hang on i'll open the drawer of cool stuff and stick their logo on it.

Baby talk.

Yes, well we've all been a bit busy recently.
I've (neil) been doing tommee tippee since we won it a while back, i'll stick up some of the ads shortly, but there's some shots of the shoot above - the ace Alex Telfer in action.

N

What happens when we get bad briefs...

Summer's here.

Not 100% where 'here' is exactly though. What with flash flooding and leaks, a few member's of brahm creative suffer from wet patches even on the driest days. It's also a sign of how busy we've been, that this blog has been left woefully bare, but we can sit back in our luxury spa pool bath eating a chip butty whilst someone else changes the baby....vague i know, but hopefully soon we'll be able to post up some of the bloody work we've done !


Enjoy your summer - it may be short !

One of Vicki's shots:

Found this chair while on a shoot with Chris Leah

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It's been ages.

But i suppose that's what happens when you get busy doing stuff n things.
But I've been out and about as usual, snapping things
and so has Vicki.

Our cup runneth over.

According to The Drum we're Yorkshire's advertising agency of the year 2007. Great.

Cup of tea (made in a pot of course) to celebrate, anyone, anyone ??

ace

i found this Sketchcast tool thing whilst trying to find out about
Parra for a job i'm working on, his illustration style is ace (plus it's on the Teenage Bad Girl album - double ace)

oh, happy new year too....

N