4am start. Catch first flight to the Big Bagel to meet cosmetics client CEO with Kirshenbaum Bond and Partners (our US network affiliate).
JFK very snowy. CEO cancels meeting as I sit in reception. Deep breath…
Productive meeting with Jon Bond on future opportunities for our respective businesses – food for thought. Spend the rest of [...]
Arrive home late afternoon. BAA yet again fail to find ‘sky-bridge’ and we sit on tarmac for what seems like hours. Surreptiously fiddle with blackberry. Pained messages and emails from client and Soho House ‘’call us immediately you land – problems’’. With dread, call client.
Wind up! Buggers.
Evening clearly terrific success. Madge, [...]
Remember the mix tape? Hours spent with fingers on the record and pause buttons, trying to get the perfect collection together to impress that girl/boy/hip friend? If you’re feeling nostalgic then have no fear, the people at Suck UK are here with a lovingly-crafted USB stick that fits within a cassette outer, including space for [...]
Thursday
Wake early to message from target car manufacturer – thought they’d gone cold. Very good start to the day. Makes up for one too many ‘Golden Goose’ cocktails (with real flakes of gold naturally).
Post mortem with client on first night – agree some finessing to PR strategy.
Second night goes without a hitch – much greater [...]
Next time you’re at your desk eating your grub and wish you were somewhere else with a better view, why not visit Nigel Harniman’s portfolio website. He’s an automotive specialist photographer, but also has some awesome desolate landscape shots that will transport you elsewhere, albeit for just a few minutes. Bon apetite!
Monday
Arrange to meet Client in Montpelier square early doors. They’re in Pret, I’m in Café opposite, no time to rehearse. Big meeting with F1 Grand Fromage. All plays out well. Sniff a deal in the offing. Exciting day.
Tuesday
Fly to LA to oversee the unison between Soho House and Grey Goose for a run of [...]
This great little bit of visual trickery for Think! has been around for a few weeks, but is nevertheless worth a look if you haven’t seen it. A simple ‘Awareness Test’ that forces you to reconsider how you take in information while driving. Smart stuff from Leo Burnett London.
Do the test here.
A random report of the interesting (and not so interesting) experiences and thoughts of a man caught in the perpetual halogen glow of airport terminals.
LHR dawn – traffic better than usual. Fly to Coral Gables, Miami for 24 hours to present new brand platform to Whiskey client. Miami wet and cold, no need [...]
” Fashion fits in whenever a certain lifestyle is being celebrated, and that is apparent everywhere in Formula One…like fashion, F1 is all about evolution and reinvention, every year bringing new trends and developments.” Michel Comte, the renowned photographer (who we recently commissioned to shoot Michael Schumacher for our Bacardi global corporate responsibility campaign [...]
At the risk of looking like a fan-boy movie geek, comic book superhero extravaganzas like Marvel’s new Iron Man movie get me quite excited. Not only is Iron Man the first Hollywood movie that Marvel comics have produced directly, without a major studio financing the project, it’s also got reformed reprobate Robert Downey Jr. as [...]
