300million Blog http://www.300million.com/blog/ Here are some of our poster designs for friends of 300m community food swap organisation, Apples for Eggs. http://www.facebook.com/applesforeggsaltrincham Chomp! ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=56 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:23:14 GMT Our campaign for our friends at Crisis is coming to a close as the various councils across London slowly start to tidy up after Christmas. We scoured the streets to advertise the fact that Crisis provide help and support to single homeless people all year round and not just over Christmas. To find out more about the great work Crisis do, visit http://www.crisis.org.uk/ ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=55 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:11:32 GMT 300million in American Sign Language. Rock on! ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=54 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:20:02 GMT 'Gifts' to our 3,000th Twitteree ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=52 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:04:19 GMT Today we attended the Marketing Design Awards ceremony, and boy, were we glad we did! Yota http://www.300million.com/work/yota/ won the IT, Internet and Telecommunications category and was highly commended in the Identity category. But that’s not all. The Body Shop http://www.300million.com/work/the-body-shop/ took top prize in the Charity & Non-Profit category. The Marketing Design Awards recognise how design forms an integral part of a brand’s marketing planning and that it’s had a tangible impact on that brand’s performance. So naturally we’re thrilled that these ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=51 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:54:24 GMT The bells are ringing at 300million again. This week our work on the Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Campaign for The Body Shop has been shortlisted for a DBA Design Effectiveness Award in the Design for Society category. The Design Business Association (DBA) works to promote the central role of design in business to achieve commercial growth and success. Their international awards are influential and authoritative, using commercial data as the key judging criteria. Judges are exclusively brand ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=50 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:46:03 GMT An interview with me by Creative Choices has just been published online. Creative Choices are part of the UK Government-funded Creative & Cultural Skills programme – that aims to better prepare people who want to work in the creative sector. I hope it helps those out there who fancy working in an exciting arena of ideas, creativity, pencils, paper, Apple computers, ‘debate’, words, lateral thinking, fixed-wheel bicycles and occasional use of PowerPoint… It’s a lot of fun and can be very ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=49 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:58:43 GMT With Indian summer still in the air, our faces are doubly flush because our work for Yota and The Body Shop has been shortlisted for the Marketing Design Awards. Yota’s got two nominations, in the IT, Internet and Telecommunications category and the Identity category, while The Body Shop’s made the grade in the Charity & Non-Profit category. The Marketing Design Awards are all about how design has formed an integral part of a brand’s marketing planning and that it had a tangible ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=48 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:50:16 GMT I recently gave an interview for a UK government initiative to promote creative skills. They asked for a few views of the studio to convey the feel of everything. So I got our Chris to fire off the Canon hither and thither… ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=47 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:12:59 GMT A note to future 300million placements, the way to a creative's heart is through their stomach. Our current intern Adam has come up trumps with this tasty coconut and cherry cake and he's had the foresight to make one cake for the team and one just for me. Mmmmmmmmoist! ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=46 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT Next Thursday we will be on the panel for the regular Designer Breakfast meeting to discuss "Getting business overseas". With clients currently in Singapore, Zurich, Moscow, Paris, California and Brussels, we will be sharing some of our insights in how we've won and delivered these projects from our HQ in Exmouth Market. (Having failed all our all languages). Come along if you want to find out more. Thursday 22 September BBH, 60 Kingly Street, W1B 5DS 8.00 for an 8.30 start and a ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=45 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:53:21 GMT So I'm going for election to the D&AD Executive Council. Any members out there can vote now - voting closes 31 August 17:30 GMT. Read my manifesto here: www.tiny.cc/lawless-manifesto D&AD members can vote here: www.tiny.cc/vote-lawless Download a poster of hand drawn design issues here: http://wtrns.fr/JlYSs1ClHwUJAw ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=44 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:00:14 GMT After becoming our 2,000th twitter follower, Staffordshire based strategic designers; Smart Ideas became the lucky recipients of a special prize of 300,000,000 dollars. The only slight dampener on the inevitable celebrations up in the northwest would be that the currency in question is in fact Zimbabwean dollars. With the currency's value fluctuating daily we are unsure of the exact exchange rate but we think it's somewhere around the £5 mark. We have been reassured that they won't allow this unexpected windfall to change ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=42 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:26:46 GMT Last night saw the final lecture under the reign of current D&AD president and AllofUs co-founder Sanky and the best was definitely saved til last as the multi-talented Wayne Hemingway took to the stage. The talk consisted of a whistle-stop tour through Hemingway's career, starting at the age of 18 when he left Lancashire to head for London with his then girlfriend and now wife Geraldine, right through to the present day and his Vintage festivals. There were loads of ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=41 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:35:00 GMT A couple of weeks ago, Kerry and myself spent a day at Bucks University to explain the ins and outs of life as a design intern and also to set a creative brief to the year one graphics course. We were delighted to welcome a select bunch of young designers back to 300million HQ to show their ideas to us. We were all really impressed with their thinking and also the confidence shown when presenting to us, leading us to conclude ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=40 Tue, 24 May 2011 11:01:56 GMT Five fair reasons to win a pitch 1. You do this sort of stuff all the time. 2. Your personable approach. 3. Your pitch is detailed down to the nth degree. 4. Your big idea brings the client out in a sweat. 5. You referred to their organization as being the ‘Dr Brian Cox of their sector’. Five fair reasons to lose a pitch 1. You do this sort of stuff all the time. 2. Your personable approach. 3. Your pitch is detailed down to the nth degree. 4. Your ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=39 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:42:51 GMT Today we welcomed the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow). The students are in the UK to learn about design management and stopped off at the studio to find out how we set about; briefing, planning, budgeting, resourcing, managing, evaluating and developing our projects. Tomorrow is Women's Day in Russia (a national holiday). So, Congratulations on Women's day. Or as we like to say in England. Happy pancake day. ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=38 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:07:36 GMT Fresh with Oscar success, the King's Speech looks likely to generate $300million at the box office (reported the Guardian this week). We like this, if for no other reason that we created the brand for FilmNation, one of the backers for the film. 300million produces entertainment brand Entertainment brand produces King's Speech King's Speech produces 300million It's a nice world sometimes. Well done all involved. ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=37 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:30:28 GMT ...to Elliott Quince who joined us this week as a full time Art Director, fresh from a stint at McCann's. We love the smell of marker pen in the morning...who doesn't (it also looks like we might need to increase the order of full-fat coke too). ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=36 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:19:32 GMT Last week saw the departure of Designer Adam Mitchinson from the studio (the one with the Get Out sign above). Thanks for all the heavy rock over the past 2 years Adam. Pure Pop from now on though (apart from the rather enjoyable trance album we eased into Friday with this morning). ... http://www.300million.com/blog/post/?ID=35 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:15:43 GMT