Scamp is no more. It was always a good read, and delving into the comments page made me regularly pleased I wasn't in the viciously ego fragile world of advertising. It's been gone for a while, and I guess many people like me dip into if this is a blog... as suggested.
But the blog that's floating my boat right now is lets be human beings. I haven't met Ted, but he's written some of the smartest words about the future of marketing I've ever read. He was the first to blog about my favourite rebrand of the year, and despite being all, like, digital, is always bang on with what [I reckon] people want to engage with. No surprise then that he's an Innocent protege.
And all this despite the glaring lack of apostrophe that hits me like fingernails down a blackboard covered in eyeballs every time I visit.
Let us, Ted. The u is missing.
pic nicked from ted's post about Puccini's rebrand
The other blog that's made it onto the 'I'll start this just after I've checked this' list (seen on the rhs of this blog) is Mr Nick Hand's Slowcoast. Mr Nick Hand is awarded a prefix through sheer admiration. Mr Nick Hand is currently cycling around the coast of the whole of the British Isles (well, most of the bit on the right anyway - N Ireland lost out) blogging and tweeting as he goes. I was hoping I might get to intercept him in Badachro in August where I'm running the Great Wilderness Challenge, but he's already sailed past.
Slowcoast is one of the finest websites around at the moment. It looks amazing (LOVE that wood-cut banner design), and is both simple to navigate around and dead clever which is definitely the most difficult thing to execute. But best of all are Mr Nick Hand's soundslides.
Part of Mr Nick Hand's self set mandate for the trip was to visit artisans on the route. He makes audio recordings of these meetings and sets them to photographs he takes of them doing their thang. Mr Nick Hand is a wonderful photographer, so what you end up with is charming life-affirming accounts of people living rather than earning, set to beautiful images of them engaged in their craft.
Mr Nick Hand is doing all this in aid of the Parkinson's Disease Society. You should sponsor him.
