We love everything about LEGO (except standing on a piece).

So we were well chuffed when It’s Nice That asked us to help with the copy for their Inner Piece installation.

The idea was to give visitors a chance to create their own flowers in a meditative flower-making workshop, using the LEGO Botanicals range. Our job was to plant some relaxing floral ideas in their minds.

Like The Hyasynth, an Eighties flower that emits waves of soothing electro-pop.

The Bellflower, a bloom that shimmers in your mind like a wind-chime.

Or the Shrinking Violet, a flower with the power to shrink your worries.

It was a nice change from digging the garden.

The absolutely fabulous John Doe Group brought us in to help them crack the new Tennents Lager campaign. After months of collective brain-squeezing and Tunnock’s Teacake-eating we distilled it down to a single word that captures the soul of the brand...to a T.

Our pals at Arteus asked us to write the script for Celtic’s annual Christmas TV ad. They wanted warmth. They wanted wit. And they wanted to sell loads of Celtic merch in time for Christmas. Just like Ange, we delivered.

SCOTTISH TWITTER VISITOR CENTRE

The brilliant folks at Flying Object in London came up with the idea to create a physical space for their client, Twitter UK to celebrate the phenomenon a.k.a #ScottishTwitter during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They asked us to help them bring the idea to life. During its five-day life span thousands of people visited the centre and there were over 22.5 million impressions on Twitter.

Twitter UK briefed us to create a print campaign for Metro and Stylist to promote their tongue-in-cheek Valentine’s pop-up the #DatingTwitter Advice Bureau as part of a UK and USA-wide campaign around dating. To promote the ‘advice bureau’, they also asked us to live-tweet throughout its four-day existence. (Four days being the average length of most modern relationships ; )

Newcastle United football manager Steve Bruce photobombing random people's wedding photos? Bizarre. But last year it was the football meme of the season. It exploded all over the internet like a confetti cannon at a celebrity wedding. The guy who kicked it all off now has 34.k followers. Inspired by his work and keen to engage with their football Tweeters, Twitter UK asked us to help them open an online store crammed with Steve Bruce-themed wedding accessories: we had to name the store, suggest ideas for the products and do all the copywriting for the website. 'Bruce Up Your Wedding' was born:

You could order a whole bunch of ridiculous items like Steve Bruce 'Catch The Bouquet' Goalie Gloves shots and Twitter would send you it for free. The shop sold out the day it was launched.

Glenglassaugh is an exceptional coastal single malt Scotch whisky shaped by the land and the sea.

Client: Brown-Forman

Production house: Eyebolls

Director: David Boni

DOP: Julian Schwanitz

Music: Oliver Farrell and Clark Pullar

BenRiach is an adventurous Speyside single malt famous for their creative approach to whisky making. So were the great team we worked work with: production house Eyebolls, director David Boni, DOP Julian Schwanitz, and last but not least, our two incredible original music composers Oliver Farrell and Clark Pullar.

The Glendronach Distillery

We had the pleasure not only of making this film but also tasting the most amazing sherried single malt whisky in the world.

Brand: The Glendronach

Client: Brown-Forman

Production house: Eyebolls

Director: David Boni

DOP: Julian Schwanitz

Music: Oliver Farrell and Clark Pullar

The GlenDronach 15 Revival 2018 release has been awarded the highest possible accolade of Double Gold at San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The best whisky deserves the best drinks photographer. That's why we worked with Paul Hampton to create a set of images for the launch in press, travel retail and PR.

Here’s a wee film we made for Screen Facilities Scotland .

They asked us to write something that would shine a light on Scotland’s world-class movie-making expertise and persuade foreign producers shooting in Scotland to use Scottish crew and facilities instead of bringing their own.

Everyone involved gave their services for free, from producer Joanne McLeod and ourselves to our director David Boni.

To find out how we did it, click here.

Food is an integral part of Leith’s culture and vibrant community. While we all enjoy eating and cooking, we throw away a lot of food. Food waste is bad for the planet and bad for our pockets too.

We created our ‘Leith’s Good with Food’ campaign for Changeworks’ Zero Waste Leith project to help you reduce food waste and increase recycling.

RESULTS
40% of those who saw our poster campaign were producing less food waste and participating more in food waste recycling, with 31% starting to recycle it for the first time ever, and 47% creating less.

There was also an 18% reduction in food waste on the Leith street where we targeted this messaging, which contrasted other streets where food waste recycling substantially increased.

CREDITS

Online film:

Animation: Dani Labrosse

Sound design: Olly Farrell

Sound recording: Finiflex

Posters:

Photography: Euan Myles

First there was Trainspotting. Now there’s Flyspotting.
Our anti-flytipping campaign urges Leith residents to become flyspotters. We created it for Changeworks as part of the Zero Waste Leith project funded by the Scottish Government through Zero Waste Scotland and the European Regional Development Fund to make Leith a cleaner, greener place.
Photographer: Euan Myles.

We launched the campaign with an event where we created an on-street living room furnished with dumped furniture we collected on the streets.

Campaign results:
• 9 out of 10 respondents found the campaign useful.

• 85% of people now feel their community is better informed on how to tackle flytipping.

• More than half of the respondents said they were now more willing to report flytipping.

Sun’s over the yardarm, sailor. We're proud to have helped Jump Ship Brewing to create a brand for the best tasting beers in the UK. You'd never know they're alcohol free. (And vegan, and gluten-free.)

We worked with Nevis Design and Paul Hampton to launch this brand on its voyage to greatness.

Our social media campaign for Jump Ship Brewing.
Animation: Dani Labrosse
Sound effects and music: Olly Farrell

With funding from Leith Chooses we created a campaign for Leithers Don’t Litter to help mums and dads teach their kids that it’s not cool to drop litter. We made five posters. But they’re not just the usual posters. There’s a little creature hidden inside each one. To reveal them, parents have to download a free augmented reality app called “Leithers Don’t Litter: Pukemon” onto their phones and hold the phone in front of the poster then look at the poster through the screen. To download the app from the Apple App Store click here. For the Google Play link click here.

This campaign wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Dani Labrosse who designed the Pukemons and created the app, Euan Myles and Bob Winton who made the film, and Euan’s lovely daughters who really enjoyed themselves catching the Pukemons.

Inspired by our feathered friends in Leith, we wrote this film for Have You Got The Bottle? Please share it and visit their website so you can have your say about what kind of deposit return system Scotland's going to get: 

http://www.haveyougotthebottle.org.uk/consultation/

Animation and voices by the brilliant Will and Ainsley at whiterobot.co.uk

In this video we just made for Have You Got The Bottle?, injured animals send a heartfelt message to Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform to help save their lives.

Director: Will Anderson 
Music producers: Olly Farrell - Musician, Andy Lumb, Clark Pullar
Singers: Missy Mc, Ewen Green, Mirren, Gerry Farrell
Musicians: Guitar - Olly Farrell, Mandolin - Andy Lumb, Fiddle - Peter Menzies
Recorded at Banana Row Music Studios

FUNDRAISING MAILER AND POSTER

This is the ‘Midlothian Madonna’, the centrepiece of YMCA Scotland’s Christmas fundraising campaign. We designed the mailer as a Christmas card with a difference and produced posters to go up in Scottish churches. We commissioned award-winning Scottish photographer David Boni to take the shot which quickly went viral on social media.

The YMCA celebrated its 175th anniversary this year. Our fundraising mailer played on the fact that not much has changed in the world since the organisation was founded. Today in Scotland, every fourth child is born into poverty.

For thousands of young Scottish people, Christmas isn’t the most wonderful time of the year. Give a young person the support they desperately need by making a donation here.

Brian Bilston, poet laureate of Twitter wrote this moving poem for YMCA Scotland to help fight holiday hunger among Scottish schoolchildren. The mailer had an astonishing response rate of 41%. (Average good direct mail response rate is 4-5%)

For this gig, Optima Connect teamed us up with Phil Adams of I Know Some People, one of the savviest strategists in B2B comms. In the spirit of David v Goliath, our Optima Connect client gave us licence to go after those big global data science/data engineering consultancies who dress up what they do with fancy words and false promises. The result was ‘Data Without The Blah-Blah’, a five-word brand promise any data-driven marketeer can relate to. Yes, data’s complex. But it doesn’t need to be complicated.

We created this TV commercial to launch Bellfield Brewery’s range of beers in their new livery.

Animation: Ross Hogg
Music: Jacuzzi General at Paradise Palms

Extremely low budget TV commercial for Bellfield Brewery. Do you recognise the voice over?

When we were asked to name and launch a luxurious, addictively moreish Scottish tablet, we took our inspiration from The Bible. Gluttony gave us the name, The Third Sin. The temptation of Eve gave us the serpentine 'S' in our logo.

Nevis Design took these elements and made the packaging as gorgeous as its contents. At the last minute, unbeknownst to us, the client changed the colour of the box to Cadbury purple but we still prefer our standout Dusky Pink.

As well as doing the naming and the branding, we were asked to create a campaign of social media posts. You’ll find some of them here.

Social media campaign to promote Cushiedoos home deliveries during the 2020 pandemic lockdown.

We love a G&T. So we were pretty chuffed when Drink Better Ltd chose us to name, design and launch their delicious new premium Scottish tonic water. We called it Cushiedoos and worked with our talented designer mates at StudioLR to get the look and feel just right. With a smart trade strategy and mouth-watering photography by Paul Hampton, Cushiedoos Superior Tonic is already ruffling a few feathers in the mixer category.

In July 2019 we made a series of eight online films to help Cushiedoos fly on social media.

Director: Matt Brown

Production house: MBP

Music: Olly Farrell

Most staff training sucks. It’s about as motivational as those 'motivational' posters people put up round the office. Rocket’s different. It’s a real-time business simulation game designed to get pulses racing and sphincters twitching. Games Without Frontiers asked us to help them sell Rocket to HR people all over the UK so we created this DM campaign that takes the piss out of boring work awaydays and team bonding sessions. Our six cheeky cards, with cartoons by Nigel Sutherland, are getting a response rate of 30%. So if you want to stick a rocket up your business, give us a call.

A RUBBISH EXHIBITION

We’ve all been to a rubbish exhibition. ‘Crapitalism’ really was ‘rubbish’. We designed posters attacking big brands for doing too little about litter, using smartphone photography of real litter lying where we found it. We also showed exhibits made from litter, designed to prick the consciences of the brand-owners and make them re-consider their company policies regarding litter and recycling.

ONLINE FILM

The SFSA is the independent voice of Scottish football supporters. They commissioned a full academic survey to find out directly from the fans how they felt the game was run in Scotland and they asked us to promote it. We made a cheeky little film for them, with the message ‘Have Your Say Or Get SFA’. The results were spectacular. As soon as the film went online, it spread like wildfire. Over 16,500 Scottish football fans completed the survey and the findings are being debated in the Scottish Parliament.
 

ONLINE CAMPAIGN FOR SFSA FANS’ AWARDS

Our campaign to promote the SFSA Fans’ Awards, the only Scottish football awards where it’s the fans’ votes that count.

Leithers Don't Litter teamed up with Scotland's best magician, Elliot Bibby to clean up the streets of Leith. Elliot is the only person in Leith who can make rubbish disappear by magic. (The rest of us better use the bins.) The film we made went viral, reaching over 11,000 people on Facebook alone.

Zero Waste Scotland commissioned us to produce a downloadable online toolkit with messages local authorities and community organisations could use to discourage flytipping in their neighbourhoods. Each piece was designed to work in its own specific context, on pavements, in parks and even on the side of construction workers’ Portaloos. Our social media posts used innovative techniques like 360 degree photography to make the messages harder-hitting.

SELF-DEFENCE CLASSES

When local gym The Club decided to offer self-defence classes to its members, we produced this series of ads for them, featuring some less-than-cuddly creatures that know how to take care of themselves.

Litter costs the Scottish economy £52million a year. We produced this online toolkit for Zero Waste Scotland to help make a dent in that depressing statistic.

The commonplace insults hurled at people who have problems with their mental health is something that perpetuates the stigma around mental ill-health. In this short film, made for mental health charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, we ask everyone to “Mind Your Language”.