This is part three of a series of behind the scenes blog posts about the making of the latest QUT television commercials. More on driving, because that’s what you do here. (Dubai isn’t a place to stroll anywhere – it’s too hot, there are too many roadworks, fuel is too cheap.) Anyway, in Dubai, car number [...]
Read MoreThis is part two of a series of behind the scenes blog posts about the making of the latest QUT television commercials. Shooting begins in earnest. First stop, the Dubai HQ of the engineering firm our young QUT student already works for. They’re using a brand new and highly secret welding method to build secret components for [...]
Read MoreThis is part one of a series of behind the scenes blog posts about the making of the latest QUT television commercials. God gave man hair for two reasons. To stop him passing out after banging his head on the floor joist when doing a bit of illegal wiring under his old Queenslander. And, to prevent [...]
Read MoreThe hot topic over breakfast this morning was the new internet search facility, Wolfram Alpha. Discussion soon ensued around the service’s name. Next time you want someone to do a search to answer a question, are you going to ask them to ‘Wolfram Alpha’ the question? Seems a bit clumsy to me. Google [...]
Read MoreGiven the rapid growth of our Sydney office over the past year, it made sense for BCM to have a Creative Director looking after the creative aspects of our Sydney accounts. This is why we are pleased to announce Geoff Reid, a highly awarded Senior Creative with nearly 20 years industry experience at leading agencies Leo [...]
Read MoreLike with our recent Aprils Fools Day microchip campaign, it was satisfying that our client Pelikan Artline implemented our idea to take the only responsible course of action in The Weekend Australian, The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age by informing the country of the upcoming federal government budget deficits. It was not something that Artline took [...]
Read MoreI’ve always loved reading reference materials, and probably always will. So if anyone out there had any doubt left in them that I’m not a total dweeb, banish those doubts now. But I’m unashamed in my love of absorbing facts, figures, diagrams and histories. Growing up, those facts came almost exclusively from the set of encyclopaedias [...]
Read MoreIs there anything more annoying than the sound of fingernails screeching on a blackboard? Not much. Though, I have to admit that the ubiquitous use of the word ‘ubiquitous’ comes incredibly close. I’ve tried to ignore it – honestly I have – but every week when I open What Next that bloody ‘u’ word is there, [...]
Read MoreAre we all loving Mad Men? I am. Just finished watching the 1st season on DVD. There’s a scene in one of the early episodes where a slick young account exec is having martinis with his high-powered New York City lawyer father who asks him, “So, what exactly is it you do?” This reminded me of conversations [...]
Read MoreHas the world of social media grown so big and so quickly that the rules and protocols haven’t quite caught up? What’s acceptable? What’s not? Where are the lines drawn? Well, to answer this let me pose some questions. Is it OK for your boss to ask to be your friend on Facebook? As a ‘40 something’ married [...]
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