AND THE WINNER IS…
A little shout out to Belgian director Patrick Van Hautem of Made in Brussels, who just picked up two trophies at the Greek advertising business awards, the Ermis. His film…
MUSIC FOR FACEBREAKER GAME
We occasionally find music for games and audio-visuals. The most recent track is the dotty electronic track “Kwaai Techtic” from the eloquently-named Tone Deaf Junkies. This South African electro team are part of one of the most exciting scenes at the moment and are featured in the new “Facebreaker” game from Electronic Arts.
THE NAME GAME
Names are probably one of the most difficult things to get right. Over the years, I have been able to come up with a fair number of product or company names. But there is no single way to get this right.
Amongst the recent successful ones is the MIPIM Horizons trade fair, which will run next December in Cannes. In this case, MIPIM asked the Consorcom agency to help them with the name as they wanted to create a new event to accompany the hugely successful MIPIM property market trade fair. As MIPIM Horizons will focus on emerging markets, we naturally focused on that aspect. We kept the mother brand name and developed a range of names evoking discovery, novelty and the like. The Horizons is quite a “natural” choice, as it is easily understandable and evokes a lot of things that are interesting to property developers.
COPYWRITERS AS GARDENERS
I have a garden, and I actually enjoy mucking in and getting things done. I've also learnt from experience that thinking ahead is essential. If you want to laze in…