by
Lolly and Nat,
23 November 2009, 17:49
This is just lovely. Thanks to Elliot for discovering it. And Scott C for creating it.
by
steve henry,
23 November 2009, 11:23
"Digital creativity has yet to produce its masterpiece". Discuss. Using, perhaps, 140 characters or less. Thus spake one of the bosses of the digitally-focussed agencies I've been working with recently. It’s fascinating. Digital media are...
by
Lolly and Nat,
18 November 2009, 12:28
So last week we heard that we won the Campbell Lace Beta Comment Competition. Hooray. Thank you kindly if you voted for us. We thought James Mitchell's blog pastiche was awesome, and Matt Winn's Downfall parody had us in bits. But we're chuffed...
by
steve henry,
16 November 2009, 09:12
I went to Albion the other day to do a bit of honest non-execing and found the door locked in my face. Hang on, I thought. Have they finally figured out that I'm a useless fraud and decided to keep me out of the agency at all costs ? Would there be...
by
robert campbell,
16 November 2009, 05:27
We're now six months old. And for all sorts of reasons Garry and Robert have decided to do something that Ogilvy, Mather, J Walter Thompson, Doyle, Dane and Bernbach, never did: take their names off the door. So now we are just (Beta). And all the...
by
steve henry,
09 November 2009, 10:28
Schadenfreude’s a lovely word , isn’t it ? I was reminded of it, reading Robert Harris’ review of Gyles Brandreth’s autobiography recently. Seeing the failure of Brandreth’s career to take off, Harris remarked that “even Richard Dawkins might start to...
by
Lolly and Nat,
06 November 2009, 11:13
We've been going to an amazing sketch-writing course on weekends. It involves watching classic sketches from Smack the Pony and Monty Python, laughing a lot, and then analysing why. So it's basically heaven. Oh and then we have to improvise on...
by
robert campbell,
05 November 2009, 04:02
We're delighted to announce that Nat and Lol scooped the Beta Blog Bonanza with nearly half of your votes! So they get the grand. We think they might be on holiday, so as soon as they get back we'll present it to them. So congratulations to Lol...
by
steve henry,
02 November 2009, 08:51
A few years ago I was thinking of setting up a club called “Five Creative Directors Behaving Badly”. The idea was fairly explanatory in the title. I think the members were gonna be me, Robert Saville, Trevor Beattie, Dave Droga and Robert Campbell. But...
by
robert campbell,
01 November 2009, 13:14
Entries for the amazing Beta blog £1000 giveaway are now closed. We want you to decide who wins the £1000. See below our shortlist of potential winners. At the bottom of the page is a natty polling device. IN SUMMARY.... 1) The amazing Campbell Lace Alpha...
