Just back from pitching in London- more later, but here’s two things I learned from watching other people today: When you do a presentation, you can do all the preparation you want but it’s worthless unless you’re really passionate and your interested in what other people have to say. If your enthusiastic about whatever it…

It’s going to be busy in the next few days, not least because of pitching. So in the meantime, here’s a thought about the advantages of input from other people.

It’s hard reading The Scamp or the The Ad-pit and resist commenting on the work out there, so I give in. Since wine is one of my favourite things in the world, I should have been interested in this poster persuading me to specify cork stoppers for my wine. But why the hell should I…

That’s what Scott from work calls Gu ice cream. Idon’t know what the ice cream tastes like yet, but he reckons it’s better than anything else he’s tried. The damn fine packaging makes me want to find out for myself.

  I like these Durex ads. I like the insight that condoms will be used more if they can help people get better sex, I like the way the brand is against boring sex. Most of all, I love how they demostrate how that product benefits needn’t be dull if you get the tone right. 

It’s not unusual to love the Star Wars films for people my age, they remind us of a happy time when the biggest worry was getting the Millennium Falcon for Christmas. What is unusual is being thankful for the second trilogy too like I am. I don’t like the films themselves, but  this back story…

In his comment on ‘Love the suit’, Will raises a point I hadn’t considered before. Planners are prolific bloggers, creatives are writing some interesting stuff and even clients are at it. So where are the account handlers? Maybe they’ve nothing to say, maybe they’re too busy doing all those things planners and creatives hate. Am…

Here’s a great post from Life in the Middle in appreciation of account handlers. Not only is great to see someone recognising the work they do, it’s from a the client side. 

Why don’t more people use science as a place to look for ideas and inspiration? Perhaps the problem with most science writing is the lumpy, impersonal way it’s written, few seem to able to bring it to life. J.Bronowski’s book on the rise of civilazation is an exception though. A big theme is the idea…

Did you know that many hamsters blink one eye at a time? A big part of being useful to other people is having loads of information, so I like collecting stuff; facts, pictures, film and anything else that might come in handy. So here’s some more useless facts for a rainy day.