Shelf Awards Work

This year's Shelf Award brief was to illustrate the importance of parents reading with their children and making it a daily part of their lives.

Our over arching theme was 'Don't be a part time character in your child's story'.

Have a look and let us know what you think...

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

Good afternoon Sunday blog readers,

Yesterday I attended an exhibition at the famous Tate Modern. 'Exposed' presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers.

The exhibition explored the idea of photography without permission touching on iconic and taboo subjects. It was deeper than I had expected, by capturing photos of people without them realising allows the true atmosphere of that particular moment to shine through, capturing true emotions within the photograph, the exhibition even hosts one room to moments of suicide attempts, and sadly successes.

What I particularly find interesting is our fasnication with other's private lives, reminding me of why Big Brother was such a phenomena and why people often spend hours on social networking sites. As a society we are obsessed with watching others, finding out about their lives and comparing our lives to theirs.

The exhibition also made me think about the concept of privacy in our current society. With expansion of the Internet and social networking sites privacy is an issue that has caused many debates, especially Facebook privacy. We constantly expose our lives to anyone who will listen or look at our pictures. Everything and anything is acceptable. I can find out what Joe Bloggs was doing last night, who he was with and his location, with the help of the recent Facebook places launch.

The exhibition also touched on surveillance. The UK is one of the most surveyed countries in the world, with technology constantly being updated allowing us to find new ways to have a glimpse of the lives of others.

All in all, a brilliant day out that I would recommend before it ends next weekend, it questions many things that are so relevant in our current climate and gave me real food for thought. Go along and see what you think for yourself.

Casey

Bad Blogger People!

Firstly we would like to apologise for the lack of posts.

As most universities start back tomorrow we felt we should update you on how life is going as postgrads.

We are entering our 9th week at Billington Cartmell now and are still enjoying the new and exciting briefs which are being thrown at us everyday. We have been working on some great stuff and given responsibility of live work with deadlines to meet! All very exciting!

As one of many grads at the agency we are beginning to settle in, finding our feet within the dynamics of the agency, which is great. What the future holds for us when our three month probation is up is still undecided, but all is very exciting.

Lee and I are looking to write a short post here soon, giving advice to the current 3rd year advertising students at from our university and to anyone else who will listen to us for that matter!

Stay tunes.