Not a complete wash out!

Today i went to Bristol...
...And it rained! ALOT! I had planned for such events so had a trusty umbrella. I must say i do like the rain especially summer rain. But, it is just not convenient for walking from ad agency to ad agency. I had to protect my book with my life (well my dryness). All the way up the top of the hill to Clifton and along the way to my first stop of the day at Different Kettle.



There I met the team and Dave Sturdy (great name). We went through my book and i had some good feedback and some really good constructive critism. This critism focused on some of the copy (Amnesty), which I know is vulnerable to "attacks". Although the descriptive measurements on the cones seemed to be really liked by both agencies. I left Different kettle with an offer of a placement which i will definately follow up! So it was back into the rain! and to my next venture. I was goin to explore the Banksy exhibition but the queue was mahoosive and an hour and a half wait. In the rain! so i decided to give it a miss take a photo of the outside and pop down the road to snap a real life (although vandalised) original Banksy!






I then shopped! Allsaints sales are not ideal when you have no money. But alas all i bought was a new pair of diesel pants, this time the blue ones hahaha!

The afternoon arrived and i gave David Sloly a call who is the creative director of Mason Zimbler and Strange and Dawson.





I had a strong quick book crit followed by a tour of the agencies, which was then followed up by Tyrone and Dave who are creatives from the agency. Again this crit went well, again the cones going down nicely. I was surprised when the Aboards of Cluedo attracted alot of their attention especially when Dave at DK didnt seem to keen on the and suggested i removed them. Ideally the Aboards need to be vitalisedm but the guys at MZL agreed it was a really nice untapped medium. Digital elements seriously need to be incorporated. And being offered another placement at MZL i was told that i would get trained in various digital techniques, IDEAL!!! so i shall be on the phone and on the tinterweb arranging times and dates for these placements.

Plus i popped into the Apple store and as if by magic I had my lathargic iPhone replaced! just like that!