Juice + Fashion =

I recently came across 'Doy Bags' (www.doybags.com). A company run by a women's co-operative in the Philippines, that uses old recycled juice packs to create some pretty cool looking bags.

To me, the company seems exactly how a business of this kind should be run. The items are really good, but not overly priced, it is environmental in a way that is innovative and can be easily seen, but most of all, the website makes the whole business seem very transparent, even using pictures of the workers and the recycling/making process.

My only complaint is that I don't know a lot of the juice companies used in the items. The moment they get an Innocent man-bag, I'm there!

What would Jesus drink?

There are so many energy drinks out these days, that the only way I can decide which one to buy is by mentally playing out a fight between the animals they're named after. Which is why the poor Red Rooster will never pass my lips... I just can't picture it beating a bull or a bear, let alone a shark!

Luckily Coca-Cola have made a new energy drink ridiculous enough to beat them all. Sure, it would be pleasant to have the energy of a bull, but why bother when I could be a 'RELENTLESS INFERNO'.

A Relentless Inferno! Take a moment to fully comprehend the power of those words. I'm fairly confident that if I drank it, I would explode in a ball of very alert fire.

And all of this is backed up by a can with such dark colours and ludicrously unreadable writing, that it manages to look like a cross between a real Ale and the Bible. I also received a money off voucher for it, which included the line 'Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the energy to change the things I can'. It's like some sort of holy miracle can!

I love things that are over the top and a biblical energy drink is just about silly enough to earn my money. Plus it would easily kill a bull...

Blogger, we hardly knew ye!

There will be a short period of me not typing things, as I get back into Uni work and sort out an internet connection in my new house (just in case anyone thought I was getting lazy!).

Hopefully I'll come back with all new work to show and maybe even some interesting topics of discussion. Well, interesting to me anyway...

After years of...After years of...After years of....

After years of lesser films, such as the Matrix, being copied in adverts over and over again, at last it is the turn of a real classic.

Yes, Groundhog day is back on TV, but this time to sell phones. I can't tell if I like the Vodafone advert or not, but it's entirely irrelevant, because Groundhog day is awesome and therefore the advert makes me happy.

Who ever is first to turn the Super Mario Brothers Movie into an advert gets all my money...

Things with which I did at Public

Here is the result of an anti-smoking brief I worked on and presented at Public.

http://www.mortfolio.co.uk/SmokingPresF.pdf

If anyone wants to see it in a non-pdf form, I will be writing it up on Mortfolio.co.uk soon...ish.

I tried to take an original approach to solving the problem, so I would be interested to know what people think of it!

All of Doncaster breathes a sigh of relief...

My week of work experience at Public has come to an end. And a very useful experience it was indeed.

I shall soon post the results of my exploits. Look away now if you like smoking...

Sofa, so good

My idea for DFS managed to win the APSOTW competition here: http://http://joymachine.typepad.com/northern_planner/2007/08/okay-heres-the-.html

Really greatful for all the feedback there and some of the other ideas are superb.

Also, I promise I'll write something useful on here at some point...