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Gesta non Verba

April 7, 2009by laurajb 2 Comments

Or as they say outside of the Roman Empire, Deeds not Words. Its a saying thats been around a while. And an ethos that is to be commended, celebrated and […]

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Posterboy – New York’s answer to the Shoreditch Decapitator…

January 28, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

There’s something really appealing about the mash-up of broadcast and outdoor media for artistic/social commentary purposes – it often brings out some painful truths. From old-school audio-pirates like Douglas Kahn […]

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advertising, art, general brilliantness
Emma and Jo - two of the She Says crew

Our Inaugral She Says Golden Stiletto Awards

November 22, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Thanks to Getty Images for a great night – in excess of 200 women at the event, and some incredibly high-quality pieces of work entered for judging. Yasmin (Dare) has […]

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advertising, design, general brilliantness, my press life, She Says

Sprint produces the Now Widget and Now Site…

November 15, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

And creates one of the funniest pieces of work I’ve seen in a while. The kind of thing that can only be done entertainingly the first time, its made the […]

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advertising, general brilliantness, interweb

Amnesty bullet

September 24, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

I don’t often plug and play a straight-down-the-line bit of TV advertising on my blog, but this piece for Amnesty International France is great. Easy to do good work for […]

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advertising, great advertising
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Marlboro Mummy – disturbing old advertising 101

September 18, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

This from BoingBoing.

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advertising

An MPU that actually made me stop and watch

September 16, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

Checking out the questionable new Saatchi ad for Guinness on Creativity Online, and down in the bottom corner I spotted this great little ad for the now corporation in NYC. […]

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advertising

The rise and demise of ‘display advertising’

August 8, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

I was interested to check out Google Trends on the term ‘display advertising‘, as in the space of about 12 months, its become a real throw-around term in terms of […]

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advertising, interweb, thought pieces

She Says – The latest viral

July 31, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

James Cooper from Dare gets all dolled up at Marketing Week for our fourth viral film.

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The Wind – Brilliant energy company ad

July 30, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

You’ve just got to love this splendid film for Epuron, a wind energy supplier.This TVC won a Gold Lion under the film category in the 54th edition of the Cannes […]

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general brilliantness, great advertising

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