Posts Tagged ‘work’
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
It’s a college. No it’s not, it’s a record label. Sorry, it’s a TV studio. Hang on, no, it’s a computer games firm.
Let’s start again. Confetti is definitely a bar and meeting place. And all of the above, it seems.
Nestling in the centre of Nottingham, Confetti is quite unlike any media company I’ve ever encountered. And I’ve encountered a few. Established in 1994, the organisation launced as a well-equipped, creative technology school for college students and school leavers. It was the vision of Craig Chettle and initially worked with The People’s College of Further Education. As Craig puts it, “We wanted to create a place and an opportunity that was not available to us when we were in further education.”
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Tags: business, Confetti, Education, learning, Magnus Shaw, Magnus Shaw blog, marketing, Nottingham, Technology, TV, work
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Merry Christmas? Times are as hard as a granite boulder, encased in steel, painted in superglue and treated with a rare carbon compound.
Broke is what we are.
Blame a multitude of politicians and stab an accusing finger in the direction of international bankers and I will be with you, brothers and sisters. Had the former been watching the latter, we may not be in this sorry situation. Add to this negligence a patchwork government hell-bent on hobbling the voluntary and public sectors and we’re staring down the wrong end of a long, bleak winter. But again, what’s to be done? In the creative industries, can we really lighten this crushing load in any meaningful way? I feel certain we can.
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Tags: 2012, apathy, blog, blogger, business, Christmas, government, Magnus Shaw, new year, phone calls, work
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
A great philosopher once said (or perhaps it was Kylie, now I think about it), “Better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t”. Whoever, to my mind, it was the winning principle behind the classic, advertising agency creative team.
Take one copywriter, find an art director of a similar standard and level of experience, and introduce them to each other. Ensure they stand a reasonable chance of exchanging the odd civil word, bung them a couple of briefs and if the resulting work is on target – or at least, shows some promise – bingo! You have yourself a creative team.
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Tags: agency, art director, award, blog, concepts, copywriter, Creative, idea, job, Magnus Shaw, Magnus Shaw blog, office, open plan, room, team, tradition, work
Posted in Advertising, art, blog, Careers, Comment, Copywriting, Creative, Design, recruitment, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
The results are in and the news is not good, I’m afraid. UK advertising agencies have failed to win a single gold at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. It’s the second year this has happened and now there’s talk of an industry that isn’t trying, losing its lustre and throwing up work that is simply not good enough.
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Tags: Advertising, agencies, Awards, Britain, British, Cannes Lions, chops, Creative, creativity, excuses, gongs, grand prix, Guinness, Honda, Leo Burnett, losers, Movies, Playstation, USA, winners, work
Posted in Advertising, Awards, Best and worst, blog, Comment, Competitons, Copywriting, Creative, Design, Events, New ideas, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
My approach to gainful, corporate employment has always been quite simple:
1. Go to work
2. Try to do a good job
3. Try to have fun
4. Go home
It seems to do the trick and has served me quite well through the years. However, in recent times, senior managers have taken it upon themselves to add a little spice to the workaday soup, a certain something to boost morale and sculpt colleagues into productive groups. This is the horror of the corporate team building exercise.
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Tags: ambulance, bonding, challenge, colleagues, creative director, dancefloor, dancing, design agency, feet, firewalking, funking, Funky Room, hijack, hospital, hostages, insurance, kidnapped, Magnus Shaw, masked, MD, motivation, salesmen, sunglasses, team building, telecoms, work
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
As a rebellious young punk, the two lifestyle choices I found most objectionable were the possession of a mortgage and the obligation to work in an office five days a week.
And so, inevitably, it came to pass that in later years I found myself owing a considerable sum to a building society in exchange for a house and spending long days in a procession of creative studios in corporate office buildings. That’s growing up for you.
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Tags: 5Live, baguette, bath, box room, career, clients, coffee, commute, commuter, cosy job, daytime, email, empire, freelance, freelancer, freelancing, health and safety, home working, job, kettle, Magnus Shaw, paperwork, Paul McKenna, Phillip and Holly, punk, radio, Richard Bacon, self employment, shower, train, TV, twitter, work
Posted in Advertising, art, Careers, Comment, Copywriting, Creative, recruitment, Social media, Technology, Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Chris Moyles hasn’t been paid. You may have heard. In fact, if you listen to Radio 1 at breakfast, you can’t have missed the fact, as he spent a good ten minutes telling his audience.
(Hear the clip here).
Now Mr. Moyles may well be an overrated oaf who sounds like a distant friend phoning you up after too many drinks, but his woe will be ringing bells with freelances throughout medialand.
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Tags: business, cash, client, fees, freelance, invoice, late, legal, Magnus Shaw, money, payment, unfair, work
Posted in Advertising, Careers, Comment, Copywriting, Creative, Design, News, recruitment, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Wedded bliss – discovering an inspiring media hub.
Thursday, January 12th, 2012It’s a college. No it’s not, it’s a record label. Sorry, it’s a TV studio. Hang on, no, it’s a computer games firm.
Let’s start again. Confetti is definitely a bar and meeting place. And all of the above, it seems.
Nestling in the centre of Nottingham, Confetti is quite unlike any media company I’ve ever encountered. And I’ve encountered a few. Established in 1994, the organisation launced as a well-equipped, creative technology school for college students and school leavers. It was the vision of Craig Chettle and initially worked with The People’s College of Further Education. As Craig puts it, “We wanted to create a place and an opportunity that was not available to us when we were in further education.”
(more…)
Tags: business, Confetti, Education, learning, Magnus Shaw, Magnus Shaw blog, marketing, Nottingham, Technology, TV, work
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