rubbishcorp® Nemesis | Creative Self-Promotion
The about text: ‘My name’s Nathan Cooper and I work in advertising at Anomaly, as a traditional creative. This is where I write my thoughts and put work up that I like. I don’t like blogging generally, the guys at Anomaly told me I had to. Since I’ve started working in advertising, the industry has lost its traditional roots. But what’s wrong with a good old character, a massive TV ad or a scratch and sniff? The industry has become obsessed with new media. My favourite medium to work in is direct mail, mainly because there are so many creative opportunities to use those pens that do a reveal when you turn them upside down. You may already knowhttp://www.rubbishcorp.com/. This is the kind of advertising I hate, someone obviously enjoys cashing in on my success and abusing my name to promote themselves. If you know who this is, please contact me at nathancooperblog@gmail.com.’
Otherwise, enjoy my blog.
Funny piece of self-promotion sent to me with the message: ‘We can carry on this way if you want. A progressive creative director gradually seems not so progressive. Or you could get back to us.’
Smart.
I particularly like the inspiration link.
@ Metaphwoar!
“y00t” I made the grade. I’m gonna be doing my Internet Advertising = Purple Rain 10 minute Metaphwoar on Tuesday November 9 at the Slaughtered Lamb EC1 from 7PM – along with 9 other dudes and dudettes.
Site and info here.
For Internet Week.
Thanks Andy.
Hello
I’m back. There’s a lot to catch-up on and I’m a Iittle behind – so bear with me.
w00t!
Dear Google,
Could a search engine detect and display an RSS feed from a returned site address? If it could then the search engine might somehow be able to offer the option to display that RSS content – meaning I could check a site before I made the decision to visit/not visit. It would be a little bit like integrating the Google Reader experience into search. If that happened then I could also probably subscribe to a feed within a search. And if that was possible – could you not serve a lot of other things in search?
It’s just a thought – but it seems like an idea that might be useful to a lot of people.
That was all.
Thanks,
rubbishcorp®
♥
rubbishcorp® Has Left The Building
Away until 24th Sept. Be good.
x
rubbishcorp® Talking In Amsterdam (ish)
I’m gonna be talking about ‘What Makes An Anomaly’, at the Creative Company Conference in Haarlem on the 14th of September. Maybe I’ll see you there…
Link.
Atomic Floyd FAIL
Last november the nice folks at Atomic Floyd sent me a pair of HiDefJax headphones. Nice looking phones with a quality sound. I liked them a lot, but then, about 5 months later, they broke. The sound stopped coming out of one of the tiny speakers. I alerted the Floyd who very kindly sent me another pair of the same phones. Awesome, except that pair is now broken. The sound has stopped coming out of one of the tiny speakers. Rubbish. Once is forgivable, twice is just bad.
So, if you read my post and have bought a pair – I’m sorry. If you haven’t and you’re looking for a new pair of phones, probably best not get a pair of Atomic Floyd as they seemingly only last 4/5 months.
Previous post here.
Atomic Floyd – for bad products – rubbishcorp® un-salutes you.
rubbishcorp® Cannes Young Lions Creative Stable
rubbishcorp® is sponsoring the Dutch and UK Young Lions contenders in Cannes this year. I’ve long wondered why sponsorship is largely reserved for people who do sport – when the mechanic clearly works across many other industries. The rubbishcorp® Cannes Young Lions Creative Stable is headed up by Niels & Pascal who are representing the Netherlands. Niels & Pascal caught my eye at last years Portfolio night with an outstanding level of thinking for two so young. I brought them into (what was) RIOT where they proved themselves as some of the best young creatives I have worked with, both in ability and attitude. Niels & Pascal now work for the mighty Achtung in Amsterdam and are certainly ones to watch.
Secondly, Alfred Malmros and Luke are killing it in the UK. Alfred is a member of my ‘non-department’ creative department at Anomaly. His (Young Lions) partner Luke is someone with whom I’ve had contact over the last few years (with his regular partner Wilf). These guys are all incredibly talented strategic creatives (creatigists as you’d call them if you were a t**t). Luke & Wilf currently working at Sony Music. Alfred’s sponsorship is technically a shared undertaking as Mr Paul (Hospital 100) Graham and Mr Malmros colluded in adding Anomaly to the rubbishcorp® sponsorship action.
I’ll be updating the progress of the rubbishcorp® Cannes Young Lions Creative Stable through out the week. If you’re in Cannes be sure to say hello to the boys and buy them a beer. Niels, Pascal and Luke will be wearing the pure rubbishcorp® branded (above) clothing, with Alfred wearing a hybrid rubbishcorp® Anomaly garment (below).
Go rubbishcorp® Cannes Young Lions Creative Stable!
N&P here.
Alfred here.
Luke & Wilf here.
Farewell Amsterdam
On Friday June the 25th I will be joining a few other people in Cafe Molenpad, Prinsengracht 653 to say farewell to Amsterdam. If you wanna come say goodbye I’ll be there from around 8…
rubbishcorp® Vs Anomaly
Just over 4 years ago I started to follow the fortunes of a small New York based agency called Anomaly. The thing that caught my attention about Anomaly was the way the company presented itself. Not since my early days at Mother had I heard an agency be so distinct about what it represented and what it intended to be as a brand. And not since those days had I felt such affinity with a company vision. Anomaly has since proven itself as that new model agency, blurring the borders between traditional marketing services and working successfully as a business development partner. That billing and work is attracting a certain type of client and partner – and it’s those people that I see as the future of this business.
A little over a year ago I learned that the small New York based agency was to become a small London based agency. We met and we talked about the possibility of my working at that agency. At that time there wasn’t really a need for a Creative Director, but I think, even then, we both knew that wasn’t going to be the case for very long.
And fortunately it wasn’t.
I am so happy to be able to announce that I am now that Creative Director. The opportunity to work with the brands on this roster is magnificent. And the opportunity to be part of the future of an agency as smart, special and as distinct as Anomaly is a career dream come true.
Bring it on.
Miami Ad School | Amsterdam
Very soon after I arrived here in The Amsterdam I started teaching at the Miami Ad School – last night (18 months later) I took my final class. As I left I realised that (professionally) the Ad School experience was one of the best I’ve had while I’ve lived here. Not only was it hugely rewarding to work with, and try help, so many talented people – but I also learned loads from each group of students as well as loads about myself and my work. The school does a fantastic job of giving students that want to work in ‘Advertising’ an opportunity to work with real agency people and get real briefs. The mix of tutor discipline is good and practically all of those I talked about it with said they loved the course and the opportunities it provided. Thank you Peggy, Joanna, Marjo and all for making my time there so worth while. If you’re reading this and you sat one of my classes please let me know how you are getting along. I am very sad to leave the school and I hope I can continue to work with students in London.
Miami Ad School Amsterdam – rubbishcorp® salutes you.
PS. Beer for the first person to name the dude in the foreground of the above photo.
rubbishcorp® ‘Pop -Up’ Playstation Portable
I’ve been perfecting the design of this unit for a few days now (obviously I’m pretty busy). A wheeled IKEA bedside table, 40″ TV, console selection, iPad, phones and 5m extension cable.
Makes any room in the house an instant ‘pop-up*’ arcade.
*Incase you don’t work in marketing – pop-up items are very ‘le dernier cri’.
Facebook Like Plug-In
This is a test post as I have just installed the fblikebutton plug-in. If said fblikebutton plug-in works there’ll should be a little ‘Like’ button just below this text. More to follow…
Pieneken | Concept Pub
I had this thought on the way to work this morning – what if you were to open a bar that sold nothing but beer and pies?
The initial idea would be to open one here in Amsterdam, but I guess the idea has a certain global appeal – just so long as there are English people around.
Heineken would likely never allow it – nevertheless, I think it’s a winner.
Anyone?
rubbishcorp® Vs CreativeSocial
rubbishcorp® is the voice of @creativesocial this week.