Jolly good marks!

We are delighted with last weeks win at the Travel Marketing Awards. We scooped a Silver award for 'We'll give you more of a holiday' created for our lovely client Mark Warner.

The champagne was flowing last Thursday as we got to enjoy the company of some of the big players such as BBH and Ogilvy at the beautifully lavish InterContential Park Lane.

And here are some of our award winning figures: Our campaign for Summer 2012 saw a 21% increase on last years booking with an additional 30% increase in bookings from new customers. Mark Warner recorded it's best Summer since 2006! We're beyond chuffed with the award and would like to thank Mark Warner for an awesome partnership.

Primarni girls just wana shop

We've been really rather busy for the past few weeks, so when a brand spanking new Primark opened up on Tottenham Court Road, us ladies just had to have a nosey (for a purely marketing purpose only.) ...And oh la laaaaah, they had pulled out all the stops - from bicycle rickshaws, Primark sweets, balloons in the street and scooping up every advertising space in TCR tube station. The store with its 'new smell' has some thoughtful displays, my favourite being the tube carriage inspired clothes racks.

£70 later, and what will be known as my most expensive blog (I hope) and we had our bags of swag ready to take back to the office.

Right place wrong time!

We missed the action on Pall Mall as you can see but the sharp-eyed will spot that London 2012 was ready for Paula Radcliffe in the marathon this time around. Of course we are loving the Olympics, it’s rather ruddy exciting being third in the table right now and it’s definitely been a pleasure to watch.

Our little expedition to Horse Guards was a tad disappointing, it’s a bit of a creative desert. We couldn’t find the Olympic typeface to critique, didn’t get a peek at the branding to appreciate and no sign of any Stella McCartney creations to criticise either. Ah well, send me to Rio in 2016, I’ll do better!

Longines in Westfield

So when the boss asks if anyone wants to go to Westfield Shopping Centre to photograph our latest Longines advert, of course I was the first to raise my hand!

The luxury watch brand features Kate Winslet in the latest campaign and is shown across the shopping centre on LCD screens. I spotted one in the ‘Village’ section next to other iconic brands such as Prada and managed to get a quick pic. It’s a stunning ad and exudes elegance just like its surroundings and with Kate’s sign off, it looks good to me!

Time flies when you’re having fun

OK, so we were really at Harrods on a mission to check the quality of our largest ad this month!

When Backes & Strauss produced a limited edition Jubilee watch that’s specially crafted with 60 diamonds and doesn’t leave much change from £100,000, we had to make sure that everything was tickety-boo.

Don’t mind if I do

Walking past Harrods one sunny lunch time, we spotted their Jubilee inspired window displays, and of course our very own queen of creative couldn’t resist trying on a crown or two!

From diamond encrusted pieces to embellished rugs and coatings of hundreds and thousands, they were amazing and definitely called for a photo posing as Queenie!

So if you’re in the area, try on a crown or two too.

Liz is feeling the love.

One, two, three – Jubilee.
The words on everyone’s lips at the moment… And why not! The weather is gorgeous, Pimms has a home on my desk in work (mad men much?) and we also get two glorious days off work…!!

Brands haven’t missed this opportunity either by creating some clever patriotic re-branding dedicated to our beloved Queen Liz. Kingsmill shall now be known as Queensmill and Marmite now hails as Ma’amite! I mean, excuse the pun… but you either love it or hate it – and I’m lovin' it, you cant go wrong with a bit of bunting!