Promoting Westons’ sponsorship of English Cricket

May 11th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

Although we may not look like it, we’re actually a pretty sporting bunch here at Together (well, we like Swingball anyway).

So when our dear old chums at Westons Cider asked us to come up with some eye-grabbing new creative to celebrate the sponsorship of the English Cricket Board by their Stowford Press cider, we sprang into action like a ’jaffa’ on a bouncy wicket (that’s a rather good bowl to you and us).

The result of our efforts was this super piece of creative that urges cricket lovers to celebrate their love of the game with a glass of Stowford Press.

You see, it’s not just the Swingball we’re good at.

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Our latest outdoor campaign for Nottingham Trent University

May 1st, 2012 / Andy Boulton

If you’ve been out strolling on the glorious streets of Notts in the past few days you may have stumbled upon one of these little beauties.

 

Its part of a series of outdoor ads we’ve done for our rather splendid pals over at Nottingham Trent University.

We thinks they look smarter than a duck in a bowler hat with a tiny moustache. But what do you think? Share with us your thoughts and feelings.

Oh, and enjoy the posters – our intrepid photographer, Artworker Ady, very nearly got run over in securing these shots. Poor Ady.

(Less sympathetically, Account Ninja Jen broke several major traffic laws in securing one of the snaps. Bad Jen.)

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A brand spanking new look for the Together Agency offices

April 26th, 2012 / Ruth Fox

Over the past few months, the Together offices here in Nottingham have been undergoing a make-over, just in time for spring.

We’ve splashed some paint on the walls and now have a lovely feature wall displaying Orla Kiely wallpaper. We’ve gained orange sofas to fit with our sunny corporate colours. We’ve bought some plants (and kept them alive!) to brighten the office, and promote a sense of calm. We’ve got some snazzy new posters up with inspirational messages on.

The result… The Together Agency has become an even greater place to work than it was before (impossible – we all thought!)

Check out these snaps and let us know what you think.

 

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Our DinoZoo microsite goes live for Bristol Zoo

April 25th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

Every now and again a job comes along that sends everyone in the (usually thoroughly sensible) Together studio a little bit giddy.

And the latest of these joyous jobs was to create the microsite for the big DinoZoo event that’s coming up with our old chums at Bristol Zoo Gardens.

Take a look at how it turned out (and have a little play on some of the fun and games).

We’re certainly chuffed with it so it just goes to show that all that, ahem, research we did messing around with toy dinosaurs was time well spent.

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Introducing Deskimo – creative desk rental from Together

March 16th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

 

Are you a designer, writer or just generally a freelance creative type in search of office space? Somewhere where you can come along, crack on with your own work in a creative and inspiring atmosphere? Then you, dear chum, are in luck.

Here at Together Towers, in the centre of Nottingham, we’ve just launched Deskimo – our desk rental scheme for creatives in search of welcoming place to come and do their work.

Take a peek at our little website to find out all about it. Tell your friends. Tell strangers. Tell your pets (not that they’ll have much to say about it).

Have a peek and we look forward to welcoming some brand new Deskimos into Together-Land very soon.

Discover Deskimo…

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Our new website for Resolva

March 8th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

Our creative fingers have gone all green over the past few weeks as we’ve been designing and building the brand new Resolva Weedkiller website for our new chums at Westland Horticulture.

And we’re now rather chuffed to say it’s all done and out there in the world of the internet for everyone to explore and enjoy.

Both Westland and ourselves are as happy as a Garden Gnome with the results. But don’t just take our word for it, have a peek for yourself at what we’ve done.

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Our new role with the National Trust

March 1st, 2012 / Andy Boulton

Our old chums at the National Trust recently got in touch and asked us if we had any clever ideas for how we could lend a hand with their Midlands marketing operations.

Fond of spectacular grounds, fascinating historic homes and of the National Trust’s other splendid offerings, we were only to happy to toss our creative hat in the ring.

And lo and behold they were so impressed with what we suggested they’ve gone and given us the go ahead to act as their dedicated agency for the whole of the Midlands region.

Happy times in the world of Together.

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Love is NOT…

February 15th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

Valentine’s Day is a time for grand gestures of love and beautiful romance. It is also a time for making incredibly bad decisions in the name of amoré. Decisions that more than often could lead to your arrest.

That’s precisely why, as an act of public-spiritedness we put together a Valentine’s Twitter guide to what ‘Love is Not’. Follow our wisdom and you may be ok. Just. Maybe not.

Love is NOT a jacket potato cooked in a microwave.

Love is NOT a gift voucher for an intermediate level scuba diving course.

Love is NOT a badly forged signature from Lee Sharpe.

Love is NOT tickets to a cage fighting event (human or animal).

Love is NOT a furious wild otter trapped in the shower cubicle as a ‘surprise’.

Love is NOT a vigorous handshake and a cheery wink.

Love is NOT anything remotely associated with the Card Factory.

Love is NOT an excuse for hiding in a stranger’s wheelie-bin.

Love is NOT turning up at someone’s office and performing a glockenspiel serenade.

Love is NOT writing a song only using words that rhyme with ‘cuddle’.

Love is NOT a poorly planned tattoo. On the neck.

Love is NOT something that should require safety goggles.

Love is NOT a film that ends with running in an airport. No one runs in airports.

Love is NOT writing poetry on the office toilet paper.

Love is NOT a ‘best of 15’ arm-wrestling tournament.

Love is NOT a sandwich containing over 30 different regional cheeses. Or maybe it is…

Love is NOT sharing a toothbrush. With each other and especially not with wild mammals.

Love is NOT a sculpture made from nothing but your own toenail clippings.

Love is NOT sniffing someone you only know casually.

Love is NOT something to express through breakdancing.

Love is NOT often found in a carrier bag of slightly soiled Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments.

Love is NOT gluing yourself to someone’s car bonnet.

Love is NOT a keyring. Or a novelty pen. Or hilarious comical plasters.

Love is NOT a lengthy series of four minute voicemail messages. Especially if the last one is just the sound of howling.

Love is NOT ‘posh’ crisps. Nor is it a grab bag of Hoola Hoops.

Love is NOT the David Beckham underwear that Designer John has bought himself. Shudder.

Love is NOT typing what love is not on Twitter while weeping enormous, lonely tears into the keyboard.

Love is NOT something that can be eloquently expressed through fridge magnets and Fuzzy Felt.

Love is NOT painting someone’s portrait on the side of a transit van.

Love is NOT an appropriate occasion for a Wesley Snipes film marathon.

Love is NOT best expressed through any form of kidnap.

Love is NOT a reason to sing on the bus. There is no reason to sing on the bus. Ever.

Love is NOT Sky Plussing every programme ever to have featured Claudia Winkleman.

That’s about it. Literally anything else goes.

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The Five Laws of Snowman

February 10th, 2012 / Andy Boulton

We know what you’re thinking. There’s a bit of snow on the ground, ‘let’s get out there and haphazardly cobble together a shapeless mound of snow, slap a raggedy hat on him and pretend to ourselves that we’ve created a man of snow.’

 

Get a grip of yourself. What you have created is a crime against winter.

 

But never fear, by simply following our ‘Five Pillars’ of creating a legitimate snowman you will soon be the envy of friends, neighbours and strangers alike. Until some unruly youth comes and kicks him down, of come.

 

1. Your Snowman will not fly. If he does, you should be terrified and in no circumstances should you join him on a magical adventure. Snowmen are notoriously murderous fiends and rather than taking you to a fantastical snowman party, he will strangle you in the woods with his surprisingly mighty twig-arms. You have been warned.

 

2. Defy fashion conventions. Hats, scarves and coal buttons are out. Ask yourself this: ‘how would Gok Wan dress my snowman?’. We suggest carrot-bottom chinos, a chunky knit cardigan, a snood and some natty boat shoes (without socks). Fierce.

 

3. The smoking ban does not turn a blind eye to snowmen. By all means, give your snowman a pipe but be warned you will also have to build an elaborate designated snow ‘smoking-area’ and adequate signage. You may also have to build several snow community-police officers to ensure the snowman smoking law is upheld. Save yourself a lot of hassle and just give the old chap a can of powerful lager instead.

 

4. Hooligans will attempt to kick your snowman down. This is sad and deflating, but unfortunately it is the natural lifecycle of the snowman. It’s his snowy destiny to be reduced to dirty mush by the boots of unruly youth and there is nothing you can do to stop that. Except maybe fill your snowman’s belly with bricks and angry wasps – but this is not something we could possibly encourage.

 

5. Name your creature. Whether you play it safe with something like ‘Snowy Bob’, or go for something a touch more experimental like ‘Professor Cyril Chillingford’ the poor chap will not be a proper snowman until he has a name.

 

Of course, once you’ve named him it is your duty to greet him loudly and cheerfully by that name (ignoring strange looks from folk in the street). You are also required to fall to your knees, weeping and screaming his name towards the sky when he melts into a rather miserable puddle.

 

These are the rules people. The snow authorities will be watching you…

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You can ‘go hard’?…you can go home

January 17th, 2012 / John Clemmit

I was flicking channels the other day (as you do) and the video for Will.I.Am ‘The Hardest Ever’ came on. It was one of those situations where I couldn’t pull my eyes away from what was before me. I was simultaneously mortified, outraged and curious as to where this video was going to take me…

What initially intrigued me was the close relation it had to the ‘Impossible Dream’ ad by Honda (made in 2006 in which a hirsute fellow upgrades his transport in the 2 minute story – to end driving his speed boat off a waterfall only to appear in a hot air balloon) and the Levis ‘Freedom to Move’ advert by Jonathan Glazer made in 2002 where a couple literally run through walls accompanied by Handel’s ‘Sarabande’ both award winning adverts and both brilliant executed.

The Will.I.Am (what a ridiculous bloody name) video takes both these concepts and literally turns it up to ELEVEN. It is a classic example of too much money and ego and quite frankly it’s rubbish. It doesn’t help that the lyrical content involves lines like: ‘Tell a jealous chicken I don’t know what the beef is – I’m just making money for my grankids’ nieces’ and ‘I’m way out like NASA, I’m way over here I done past ya, I get stacks of cash, you get cashews, I go hard, statues.’

I beg your pardon Mr I. Am, you are making no sense whatsover.

But what of the video? Well Mr I. Am begins on foot runs through a wall with ‘Hardest’ written on it, smashes through the other side on a bicycle and then proceeds to smash through walls upgrading his ‘rides’. At one point he is sitting on top of a ‘super train’ and just when he has gone through all the terrestrial forms of transport he’s up in to space where he then rips off the 2001 A Space Odessey light show (but with J-Lo instead) and finally it ends with bloody Mick Jagger singing ‘Hard like Geometry, and Trigonometry, this is crazy’!

Yes Mr Jagger crazy indeed.

1/10

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