Being a proper coffee addict I was relieved to find it on the Greek Island of Lefkada (probably because of the huge number of Italian tourists there). Not only excellent coffee but a great brand Identity.
Based in Trieste, Italy since 1933, still a family run business, who have embraced the Arts very nicely thank you – have a look at who they have collaborated with – Sebastião Salgado, David Byrne and Marina Abramovic for starters…
http://www.illy.com
Love it.
Who said desk jobs are boring… AMS NEVE make some of the biggest and best PRO AUDIO mixing desks in the world – and we designed, shot and produced Ads and brochures telling the music industry just that.
It was an education shooting at Abbey Road, Elton John’s old studio in Cookham and some down and dirty indie studios, as well as the Iconic Broadcasting House and some of Soho’s finest sound for film studios.
This was from a series of corporate ads, designed to reinforce AMS NEVE’s credentials as a global player.
Portraits shot by Robert Walker, copy – wrung from his very soul, by Neil Lancaster.
Here’s some work we’ve done for The Italian Rice Council, who wanted to promote the use of Risotto rice in the UK. Getting more established now, but still underused as a menu item – we shot and produced a 24 page recipe book that was mailed to a Caterer & Hotelkeeper database of chefs and available from a freephone number in BBC Good Food, Good Housekeeping and She magazines.
Recipes by cookery writer Valentina Harris, Photography by the lovely Heather Brown heatherbrownphoto.co.uk – I made sure the risotto tasted as good as it looked..
We do a lot of work in the clothing sector. This is a small brochure for the Shooting Estates market – if you start with a great product, use a brilliant photographer and sprinkle some pixie dust from our bottom drawer, you won’t go far wrong. Do we make it sound easy?
Good. It’s just what we do.
As part of our lovely packaging work, we’ve done a fair few wine labels – and some associated advertising. And we’re hungry (thirsty) for MORE. Here’s just a taster, but if you’re interested we have a cellar-full you can sample (that’s FOUR gratuitous wine-gags on the run).
Call us and we’ll un-cork (FIVE) a few sparkling (SIX) ideas for you.
Cheers…
Following on from their world famous ‘Rollerblades’ campaign, Evian launch the brilliant ‘Baby Inside’ commercial using real people, not models - symbolising the effect of Evian on the bodies of adults of all ages. Agency is BETC Euro RSCG, Directors Legs and music is Wordy Rappinghood, produced by DJ Mehdi and Uffie. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jAWtWUaU
On TV at the moment there’s a clever twist at the end to link to Wimbledon -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qpd51zirEw&feature=relmfu
Bloody great – even bought the T-shirt!
Royal Greenland are distributors of premium quality prawns – and probably our longest running client. Over the years we’ve done some great ads featuring the all-star team of Heather Brown (photographer), Jo Brewer (home ec and recipe concepts) and of course me (art direction and head food taster).
The Prawn Cocktail is still Britain’s favourite starter – here’s our supercharged version, designed to inspire chefs through the trade press:
And this is one from a series of testimonials featuring real life chefs and the dishes they create with RG prawns. Photographer John Higginson:
It is Dave Roberts, sporting the shirt of his beloved Bromley FC, Conference South league. Dave is a copywriter, author and all-round great sage. Currently residing in Hartford Connecticut, he is responsible for the vast majority of our copy (except the best bits, which I write).
He has written several books including the brilliant ‘The Bromley Boys – The True Story of Supporting the Worst Team in Britain’, and is about to embark on a tour of the UK promoting his new book 32 Programmes – ‘The hilarious and moving story of a man called Dave and his most precious possessions…’
I can also exclusively reveal that work is underway on Sad Men – ‘The flipside to Madison Avenue’s mad men. Life in tiny provincial agencies that never make the pages of Campaign or Ad News.’ I’ve had a sneak preview of the first three chapters and it is very funny.
See more of the great sage here:
New website now live for Encore Petfood. The brief asked for translation of the distinctive pack graphics onto the website, as brand recognition is high. We’ve also managed to feature Dexter-the-Vacuum-Cleaner-Riding-Cat. Now that’s not a sentence you read every day. Check him and the rest of the site out at:
http://www.encorepetfood.co.uk/my_pet_video.php
We LOVE working with food and drink. Some even say we’re quite good at it. See for yourself – more of our hard working yet lovely foodservice work can be seen on our cleverly downloadable pdf:
http://www.iwp.co.uk/Assets/PDFFiles/CaseStudyFoodService.pdf
New York Agency Anomaly launches first new national TV, outdoor and radio ad campaign for Budweiser in the UK, “Grab Some Buds”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjFuFvjBIFA
Showing Budweiser being prepared in anticipation of various social events including a music festival, baseball match and barbecue, this is the kind of ad the Americans do so well (though Anomaly appear to employ a good proportion of Brits and run a London office).
Music is You! Me! Dancing! by UK-based indie guys Los Campesinos.
Almost good enough to convince me to buy Bud…
Love it.
