Every now and again we produce lovely little sketchbooks for our clients and staff to scribble down thoughts and express their creative side. We’ve just put the finishing touches to our latest one aptly named ‘Release Your Creative Monster’, which some of you will get if we have worked together. As a creative agency, we like our clients to have ideas as it gives us a foundation for our ideas. So ‘Release Your Creative Monster’ is about encouraging client creativeness – because anyone can have an idea and we’re happy to listen to it. If we haven’t worked together but you would like one anyway send us an email and we’ll see what we can do. If you fancy an integrated creative pow-wow all you got to is holler.
“Build me a site that we can manage ourselves” a regular request and something we enjoying delivering as it makes us feel like liberators. We are finding that our web clients want lots of control and very little on-going costs. We believe that this is just a sign of the times and we’re happy to follow the signs. www.mediabounty.com is a prime example of the aforementioned - a spanklingly brilliant site with lots of bells and whistles which, within a 15 minute CMS tutorial the client was in full control of. If you like the idea of being in control of your website, maybe you should give us a call.
Metal Bulletin Research magazine recently went digital, our brief was to communicate this in an exciting and intelligent way. After a lot of discussion and ideas, some quite silly, we settled on a rather intellectual theme, seeking inspiration from Billy Shakespeare. Hamlet quotes ‘Here’s metal more attractive’ (for the full meaning see here) so we gave it a cheeky little Angel twist and alas – ‘Here’s metal more interactive’.
We are pleased that our vast client portfolio is becoming even more varied. Most of our recent business wins have come from sectors that are new to us. These new clients have bought into our ‘we create reaction’ philosophy – if you’d like to create a new reaction, we’d love to hear from you.
We were asked to design and produce a menu maker CD-ROM to help pubs produce their own taste-tastic menus. It had to be simple and easy to use, so what could be simpleasier than an editable PDF. PDF’s are amazing things and we developed ours to allow users to create their own menus and insert sections, logos and prices using Acrobat Reader - clever stuff eh! Menu Master gives users who don’t usually work in a design environment an opportunity to produce smart menus and without needing any design software.
We love solving problems like these so feel free to throw yours our way.
The great David Brent once said “show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser”. Is winning everything? Unfortunately, in this business, yes! And we are pleased that we have won more pitches than we’ve lost this year. So the win storm did arrive after the pitch blizzard! Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be launching several new websites, a big – and quite exciting – integrated campaign, a tasty little ad campaign and then some more websites. New clients include Euromoney PLC, Tower Hamlets, Media Bounty, Fever Media and a couple of secrets we can’t mention yet.
The last month has felt like we’ve been caught-up in a pitch blizzard and are now waiting for the win storm to arrive. We’ve had some win drizzle and some dry spells already, but the forecast is looking promising. We’ve had time to get a couple projects out for Coca-Cola, a couple of web redesigns and new builds and a cheeky little MMS campaign for Carphone Warehouse. We’ve enjoyed gospel drum ‘n’ bass, Kaboom-dub on YouTube and are trying to start a twittition to ban Capoeira dancing from public spaces (it’s a pet hate thing we’ve got going).
We’ve also noticed that our local pub ‘Liberties’ sneakily changed its name to ‘The Camden Head’, which prompted our creative dept to come up with the slogan “Gives Good Beer”. As you see there is a need to keep these idle minds occupied. So if you are a googling client looking to rebuild or refresh your website, looking for a marketing campaign with digital at its heart or just curious about what mobile can do, google no further as you have hit agency-jackpot. Ping us an email or send us a brief.
We were briefed to create a quick and neat little MMS campaign for The Carphone Warehouse to remind new owners of pink Samsung Pixon and Tocca handsets about the P!NK promotion, which allows them to access a bundle of complementary content.
The result was a creative and effective piece of communication turned around, tested to the nines on both handsets and dispatched very rapidly! One of the perks of Angel as an agency is our ability to meet sharp deadlines and meet them well, so if you’re breaking a sweat over an urgent brief, give us a shout and we’ll make it all go away for you.
In all honesty we’ve had a cracking month, winning some new clients, rekindling some former clients, and continuing on with the good work we ended 2008 on. There have been highs, lows and graphic designers swaying in Michelin starred restaurants. Not to mention lots of hard graft.
One such high was this logo for MTV Impact – the music television giant’s new events and experience brand. MTV is amongst a couple of exciting new prospects for us this year, and we’re really happy to working with them. Angel was briefed to be fun and edgy whilst solid and reliable, cool yet authentic, flexible and universal.
So whether you need dazzling design, wonderful web work, creativest creative or a meddle with mobile, give us a shake!
Continuing our award-winning work for the Missing People, Angel recently implemented the charity’s brand new Runaways website. The site encompasses information on all of Missing People’s services for Runaways including SMS text service, telephone helpline and an interactive map detailing projects who work with runaways across the UK. Visit the site here.
We receive tons of speculative CVs, portfolios and job applications from people who have hit our site googling or otherwise. You guys seem to quite like us, which we’re pleased about of course and we always try to respond.
A couple of weeks ago we got such an e-mail from a graduate designer whose portfolio had enough of a flair to prompt us to invite her in. Then we spotted a bizarre coincidence that this was the portfolio of one Miss Melanie Angel. What a great name! As it turns out Melanie has got the skills as well as the cool name and has been dazzling us with reams of ideas since her arrival.
Send us a brief and Melanie Angel will give it the reams of creative ideas treatment. You will be as taken aback by it as we were.
The break was great and we don’t feel a trace of guilt about the fun we had, but now it’s time to man-up and get involved with 2009 - we think that with a bit of hard graft and a lot of creative thinking, everyone could be surprised with how well this year goes.
The first day back at our humble Camden Town abode has been quite frenetic, but we had time to put together a few suggested resolutions for our clients, present and beyond. And none of them involve detoxing.
These are all things we can help you do that will propel your brand into the year. Take our hand and trust us, the best is yet to come…
The Carphone Warehouse has been making the move to convert their customers to online billing, cutting out all that paper. It’s a scenario almost everyone will recognise - hundreds of pieces of important paper shoved in the ‘to do’ draw, often never to see the light of day again until the yearly spring cleaning session. Or until the next one arrives.
We developed the Take Control concept, which states that the ‘important pieces of paper’ headache can be cured by switching to online. We rolled this idea out across MMS, HTML e-mail and a simple, but effective piece of direct mail (managing to get an all important ‘green’ message in to the communication too). To sweeten the deal we proposed that customers who made the switch quickly would be given the chance to win laptops, holidays and Red Letter Days.
Needless to say we think it would be silly not to make the move. In fact whilst developing the campaign, those of us who hadn’t already done so, made the switch with our banks and bills. We have seen the light.
