Auf wiedersehen Grand Union!

Friday was our last day at the Grand Union, we enjoyed it a lot although we felt two weeks were too short. We couldn't stay on since we agreed to another placement a while ago. We would like to thank James & Stu for getting us in and taking care of us, we had a great time there and learned a lot (but not enough!) about good digital advertising.

Grand Singing Union

The agency is going crazy about singing at the moment, everyone is getting in shape for the SingStar presentation tomorrow. We're trying to contribute something as well, so we work on ideas and stuff. Our desk is very tiny (bad) hence it looks always busy with only a few papers on it (good).

When an idea recession hits us we tend to look very desperately at our tiny desk and search the walls for inspiration.

Since the best way to help seems to be singing we are left with no other choice than sing along – Val enters the agency’s history with the lowest score on SingStar ever (I think it’s because of Kristin’s voice in the background!).

To enjoy more wonderful Grand Union madness visit their wonderlicious blog littleunion.

Also - check out www.flickr.com/photos/debauchee/ for much more impressions from the podfight last week. Very nice pictures there, can anyone spot the one with us?

Back and alive

Ah, it feels good to be back again after our long break. On Monday we started our first digital placement at the Grand Union - so far it's been wicked. The agency is mid-sized (we're still counting people) and located in Notting Hill. The whole bunch is nice, we'll get to know more and more people - mainly in the kitchen - we have a challenging brief and we're getting used to know our enemies - banners. Two things to know about this placement:

1. Creative digital advertising can be very very good fun
2. Making tea is essential for making friends

Now. Lots of stuff on our to do list, we have to catch up with lots of people, write lots of emails and get a lot of stuff done. Phew! Let's start.

Sayonara

Our placement at JWT has come to an end after seven weeks. We've been working on brands like After Eight, Kellogg's, Rimmel London, Kenco Coffee, Benadryl, Milky Bar, Sunsilk and Aero. We learned very much, we went to a shooting, we had lots of free chocolate and met a big bunch of friendly people - a good experience overall, thanks a lot! After such a big agency we'll changing to something smaller.

First we'll take two weeks off though. Kris is going on a trip to Tokyo and I will be traveling around germany a little bit.

We'll be back on the 19th of march to start a two weeks placement at the digital agency Grand Union. Getting hands-on web experience, yes we're looking very much forward to that! I'm hoping that Kris will take time and post some nice pictures from Japan on the blog, if not you'll get a proper review when we're back in two weeks time.