December 2009
Tweet A Wish
View our 2009 Christmas card! This year we're donating to Make-A-Wish Foundation UK who grant magical wishes to terminally ill children and young people. We've created a Twitter visualisation that captures the spirit of Christmas by translating special tweets into donations. Every time someone tweets a wish, glue will make a donation to Make A Wish.
November 2009
glue and BBH appointed by Google.
After a multi-country competitive pitch, we have been appointed by Google, along with BBH Labs, New York, to develop the communications strategy and creative for an exciting new campaign for Google Chrome which incorporates display ads, outdoor, online videos and a social app.
October 2009
Our new work for the DCSF
Take a look at our new work for the DCSF, a website that encourages 11-16 year olds to consider taking Science and Maths at A-Level by demonstrating the wide range of exciting careers that can be achieved by studying Science and Maths. The site features a range of video case studies on exciting and inspiring careers, such as a Sports Technologist and a Games Developer.
September 2009
Glue are 10!
Next month glue turns 10. To celebrate 10 years in the industry we kicked off a month of activity with a party (in true glue style!) by co-hosting onedotzero's launch of their annual festival, adventures_in_motion which returned to the BFI this Summer and is now embarking on a global tour.
Next on the agenda is a birthday glue cake bake. Oven gloves at the ready!
August 2009
Our First Campaign for Visit Sweden!
We've created four viral films for Visit Sweden, to encourage UK holiday-makers to travel to Skåne. The four films feature "Dave", a parody of the cliché British "yob" abroad, humorously brought to life with a voiceover by Simon Day of "The Fast Show" fame. In each film Dave, our "ambassador" travels around a different part of Skåne and makes disparaging & colourful remarks about everything he sees. Be it a stunning coastal scene, cultured café or beautiful location, nothing ever satisfies Dave's unique cultural tastes. At the end of the day, he'd rather be in Southend!
Check out the virals here.
July 2009
glue's partnership with onedotzero
glue is very proud to be supporting the return of onedotzero_cascade, onedotzero's ongoing education project for this years festival which takes place at BFI Southbank from 9 - 13 September. Our involvement will see us collaborate with D&AD and the University of the Arts London on a week-long workshop in August ahead of the main festival, aiming to plug young creatives and students from all backgrounds and disciplines into the heart of the creative industries. We'll take this further during the festival itself with two workshops as part of the innervisions sessions on Friday 11 September. You can see the full festival programme here. We're really excited about helping expand the remit of the onedotzero_cascade and supporting the further development of the programme going forward.
June 2009
Glue Design Blog
One of our gluers, Marky Jenkinson is taking part in this years Fireflies Charity bike ride through the Alps. To support Marky's ride, glue have created a blog which keeps track of his location on a google map. The blog also has Marky's twitter feed so he can tweet while his feet peddle frantically for 9 days over some of the most grueling climbs in the world. 90,000ft in total! To enable us to keep track of his location we have sent him on his way with a GPS tracker. This allows us to keep track of his position anywhere in the world. Click here to tweet words of encouragement and send comments to the blog which will be updated as and when he finds time to rest..!
April 2009
Glue Design Blog
Please bid a warm welcome to the glue Design Department's latest addition. The glue Design Blog. Forgive it being a little rough around the ears, it's still in its infancy but already it's a fantastic resource to the design team of all things interesting from around the web. Check it out at www.thegluepot.co.uk
March 2009
Woolworths Win
We are delighted to have been appointed along with The Brooklyn Brothers, by Shop Direct Group to drive social media engagement for their Woolworths brand in the lead up to it's re-launch as an online retailer. Check out the Woolworths blog here.
February 2009
glue's Tomorrow's World Party!
We recently hosted a "Tomorrow's World" themed party to celebrate innovation and originality with an exhibition of futuristic inventions made by the glue team! Check out the photos here.
November 2008
glue is 9th on The Gunn Report
glue can now proudly announce that we ranked 9th in the annual Gunn Report for 2008. The Gunn Report is an independent report on creativity for the advertising world which combines the winners' lists from all of the major advertising award contests from the whole wide world.
October 2008
The Cake Bake 2008
We held a cake bake competition for charity. Some of them were a little unusual, in particular the 'angry shaved cat' cake and the 'pig's head' cake.
September 2008
Our new work for 3
3 recently tasked glue with promoting their new 3 Skypephone S2.
See how we helped to launch it here.
Liquid
Are you one of those people who think drum and bass is just noise? Well some of it is. BUT now there's a new type of d'n'b. A new wave of music which is growing in popularity called 'Liquid'. It's a sub-genre of drum and bass. More vocals, more rhythm and less random, uncontrollable spurting of bass lines. It's really a great change for drum and bass - Such artists fronting this new genre are; London Elektricity, DJ Marky, High Contrast, Danny Byrd, Logistics to name just a few and are all worth a listen to (Spotify has enough Liquid to get you started). We also recommend listening to the founder of Hospital Records' (London Elektricity
We hope after you've had a listen, you will have view on drum and bass. If not, don't worry, it's not for everyone. Maybe try Mazzy Star Top Hits.
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