CREATIVE REVIEW / MOTHER

This month we were thrilled to be profiled in Creative Review's Graduate issue. We even made the cover (That's us looking ridiculous on the left hand side).

"The September issue of CR is all about this year's graduates. We have given all our feature space over to eight eager, fresh-faced young creative types yearning to make their mark...As well as showing their work, we have also asked them about their hopes, dreams and fears about starting a career in visual communication." CR Blog




We have also been invited to exhibit our work alongside the other graduates 'Downstairs at Mother'. Below are a few snaps of us setting up, giving you a glimpse at what's instore.




Please get in touch if you would like to come and see our work. Alternatively, more about the exhibition and September Graduate issue can be found on the CR Blog.

Ideas Man

A true tale of sheer ruddy persistence.

Sheridan Simove wittily unfolds a number of his creative endeavors, detailing the rock bottom lows, knock backs, and often successes of bringing to life his eureka moments.
With a stand out chapter detailing his endeavors as a thirty something masquerading as a midlands schoolboy, baggy trousers and all, the book is an inspirational read, guaranteed to leave you feeling creative.

Simove undoubtedly proves “action is the foundational key to all success”.

To find out more about the book and a number of Simove's other ventures visit his Talent Shed.

Is it just us...

Flicking through an old book of Hockney posters, it's brilliant to be reminded of some of the fantastic work David Hockney's given us (the people of the world). As the final page is turned and our heads whirl with a sudden urge to pick up an easel, the corner of our eyes see the artists photographic portrait on the inside back cover. Another hero of our time comes to mind...


Bubbles (From popular Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys) and Hockney.

For anyone yet to watch Trailer Park Boys (TPB), it comes with our recommendation. If you liked Hockney, you'll love TPB.

I Love My Mum

Finally we are selling off the very last batch of our I LOVE MY MUM Tees.
If you want one grab it while you can as we have a very very limited number left.
Tees can be purchased from: jamesandjoe.bigcartel.com

He Loves a Fat Girl

He does indeed love that fat girl!
I stumbled upon this on youtube and I really don't think it has had the exposure it deserves.

Saving our Bacon

An image too erotic not to post. Enjoy!!

Voice Drawing

Yes, 'voice drawing'! You've tried soduku, 'work' and throwing snowballs at young children, so here's a new way to pass the time..



Use the power of your speakbox to create a continuous line drawing – just talk loudly, sing quietly, or whisper suggestively to create all manner of directional shapes. We didn't find voice drawing too easy, but ditto for GTA IV and look how good that was.

One commentator (Jesse) suggests that "It's fascinating to watch it draw out some of your favorite songs". Perhaps we'll give that a go..

so click here to jump aboard.

(Microphone needed)

Pet Shop Toys

Humpin' hotdogs and much more at the (Greenwich) Village Pet Store...
The Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill

Big Mac vs Whopper taste test.

To see visit the following link:
http://www.bannerblog.com.au/news/2008/12/whopper_virgins.php
Amazing, engaging and ingenious!

Happy Christmas

2008 in photographs

We stumbled across a stunning collection of images summing up a few of this years big events. With 40 images in total its worth taking 5 minutes out of your day to reflect on the ups and downs of the past year.
The series was collected by the brilliant "news stories in photographs" site: www.boston.com/bigpicture.

Here are some of our favorites:


"Photographers take pictures of an injured man during clashes believed to be linked to recent anti-foreigner violence in Reiger Park informal settlement in South Africa on May 20, 2008."


"Staff stand in a meeting room at the Lehman Brothers offices in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London September 11, 2008. Lehman Brothers eventually filed for bankruptcy."


"Samuel Peter from Nigeria receives a punch from Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine during their WBC heavyweight boxing world championship fight in Berlin."


"Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the world's first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus strapped to his back, flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14, 2008 above Bex, Switzerland."

The collection is split into three sections: 1/3---2/3---3/3

Since we've been apart.

My brother recently made this nice (yet a little depressing) booklet for his ex girlfriend. It has that "arrr i know how you feel, mate" quality to it. We've all been there and we'll all probably be there again, lets just hope we learn from it all..
To view the booklet full size, click on the animation below.

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Andy is a brilliant young designer who helped us on Ape, among a number of other projects, check out: www.andycallahan.co.uk

Movember been and gone.

For those of you who didn't participate in 'Movember' the name might not be instantly familiar, so just think of it as Novembers' hairier sibling. To celebrate Movember (A Moustache in November) members are asked to cultivate a hairy upper lip for 30 long, whole days.

It's been an emotional journey but we must now bid farewell to our bushy cock-blocks. Right before we shaved the bad boys off we took an essential memorial picture.


Tim (Left), James (Up), Will (Right), Joe (Down)

RIP Tash.

Find out the truth behind Movember here.

Cyriak

Cyriak is a Brighton Based animator whose warped animations have probably mashing your melon somewhere on the internet before, whether you knew it or not.
Apparently his videos are an attempt to visualizes the insane world inside his head, and we love it.
One day I hope we might be lucky enough to collaborate with this young man from my seaside.
Check out a collection of his greatest fits below.

Please visit www.cyriak.co.uk

You Tube Mixes

Some creative twists on the youtube standard, found on the great I Heart Photography blog.

Homo Promo

"Right-wing evangelical groups accuse gay people of having an agenda to promote homosexuality… What would it look like if this ridiculous idea were true? GT approached advertising agencies and asked them to work up some campaigns that would sell ‘Homosexuality’ as an unbearably appealing choice and recruit to the cause. This is what they made for us. Read what the ad creators said about the thinking behind their work in the November issue of GT."
– GT Magazine, November 2008

As friends of the GT team, we got involved in this months Homo Promo feature, below is our execution (Interview here).


– "Anything she can do..."

See all the contributors ads on the Facebook page, or read the magazine and hear the different thought processes behind each concept.

Is Jesus a friend of yours?

Zap!

Cursive Buildings

We all loved the Sleeve Face phenomenon that swept the nation, then it just become a little "done". Don't fret however, as now we have Cursive Buildings (I think that's what they're called??).
Created from animated gif's of usually 2 images "Cursive Buildings" create 3 dimensional perspective by adjusting the pictures visual layers.

See more of these brilliant yet possible epileptic fit educing images at:
CursiveBuildings.com

Shake like a Jelly

We'd like to say a big thanks to the lovely Marina Orlova for mentioning our YouTube account, KeirsCallahan, in her highly informative "Shake it like Jello" video.

Ever found yourself tormented by the ignorance of not knowing where the word flabbergasted comes from? Us too. But don't worry, Marina, aka HotForWords, was there to help:


"Shake it like Jello"

Sometimes it can be a bit of a chore to express exactly how you're feeling, but thanks to everyones favourite Russian philologist that struggle exists no more. Tackling a plethora exciting words and phrases each week, Marina is the #1 - most subscribed 'Guru' on YouTube. If you're yet to see the best of her oeuvre, click here to browse the words already covered.

YouTube
Official Website

Thanks also to Tim for alerting us of our long awaited mention! "Another mystery solved by your trusty HotForWords."

Bringing the creative portfolio right up to date.

This week Campaign magazine ran the feature:


Bringing the creative portfolio right up to date
by Matt Williams Campaign 11-Sep-08, 15:00

Creative graduates are now showcasing their work on the web. Creative chiefs review four online portfolios.

Guess what, we may not quite be graduates yet (1 year to go), but they were kind enough to give us a mention anyway!

Will Awdry, creative partner at Ogilvy and previously of DDB & BBH fame, nominated our site for the article.

At first we were apprehensive, we simply haven't had time to update the site for a few months. Having recently made huge changes to our print portfolio, updating the layout, adding new work, and binning a lot of old ideas, we had planned to tackle the online version next. However it seemed we had nothing to worry about, Will Awdry had given us a brilliant report.

Below is a section of the Campaign article.
The whole article can be read in the current issue of Campaign or online at www.brandrepublic.com/Campaign

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Joe Keirs and James Callaghan, unattached
Apprasied by Will Awdry creative partner, Ogilvy

Among legions of toads, Joe and James' oeuvre is a real prince. Granted, they don't leave a phone number and the telly wasn't loaded in when I saw it, but their stall is positively groaning. Some of the ideas are clever, some dangerous and some, well, plain demented.

There's a parody of the Coke "11.30am" spot for the Dairy Council. It's a little extreme.

They have tucked into a British Library brief using offal as their medium. A Photoshop, stop-frame dancing cat fronts an estate agent.

There are nice ideas for Ted Baker window displays, an exquisite homage to Eric Gill for Leeds University's visual identity and an approach to possible cottaging locations that balances serious intent with understandable provocation.

The team posts snapshots of themselves, like strange refugees from Wet Wet Wet, but they're deeply ironic, so that's alright.

There's a Flickr section, a blog, some great YouTube picks and a shed-load ?of other stuff. The site is copyrighted and they even run a shop from it.

The assembly evidences great craft and wit. I don't like all of it and some ideas are naïvely gauche, others a little familiar.

I'm not really sure whether they know if they are designers or ad people. They clearly don't give a toss about what sort of media channel they operate in.

I was able to absorb all of this in five minutes.

Of course, I'm now eager to meet them. They've used the medium du jour to get themselves across to their audience - creative directors - in a smartly digestible way.

As it stands, their "portfolio" doesn't guarantee them a job, nor would I give up on hard-copy cousins as a result. But it does put them out there in a highly seductive competitive set.

www.JamesandJoe.co.uk

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Our good friends from the old D&AD workshop days, Eddie Fisher and Charlie Hurst also got a mention for their brilliant and ever so slightly homo erotically titled site www.eddielovescharlie.com.
Well done boys, and congrats on Kittcatt Nohr.