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Not Voodoo: Don't Panic!

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Monday, May 24, 2010. As the creative responsible for some of the biggest ads of the last few years (not wishing to reveal too much about my identity, but think 'Cog', 'Balls', 'Gorilla', 'Surfer', 'Labour isn't working', ' Ello Tosh got a Toshiba? This might not seem like a huge amount of money, but I think it would strike most sane people as a lot to pay someone who can't draw, to draw. I also write words obviously, but rarely more than six in a row. The thin...

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Not Voodoo: Beauty is exuberance pt. 2

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Thursday, July 30, 2009. Beauty is exuberance pt. 2. Ok, sorry I haven't been blogging at all, really, for a couple of weeks. I have made up for this, I think, by being an incredibly prolific adman. In fact, I reckon I might be in the running for the creative with the most print ads in print this year. I'm fairly serious about this. So I did about 7 of them. So that makes 20 ads since January in a year in which I also managed to get made redundant. Apart from m...

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Not Voodoo: Mood Film

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Threw down the gauntlet on this one. If you don't read their blog you're a blasted imbecile. Oh you soppy sentimental thing you. Lucky for the cheerful blind they will never be able to see this. Thought it was a bit average. Then along came the endline. And that changed everything. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Brother Stevie's Mind Bending Wolf Eagle Blog. Dave Trott, Mad as a Lorry. Read all of them?

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Not Voodoo: Fitting in and not fitting in

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Friday, March 18, 2011. Fitting in and not fitting in. That's me in the corner. It was a blessed relief. So, after a stint at Shepherds Bush job centre. Nearly two years as freelancer. And some more higher education. I got this full-time job. I don't want to go on and on about it, but I like the place I work. I know I know: 'You've changed GC. Shilling for the man GC. Just another happy, ordinary stiff huh? Well maybe I am right? What a good agency does, or sho...

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Not Voodoo: Check out my new office!

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Thursday, April 02, 2009. Check out my new office! It's Shepherds Bush JobCentre Plus*! The redundancy money is gone ladies and gentleman. I made it disappear. Rock historians may be interested to know that this is the building where Joe Strummer first clapped eyes on Paul Simonon and Mick Jones. He thought they were going to beat him up. Often, in situations that might otherwise be corrosive to my self-esteem I like to imagine that I'm a rock historian. But ev...

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Not Voodoo: Andrew Landsley rap

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Friday, March 25, 2011. Ok, ok, this a weird idea. But as an answer to 'How do you inform a disinterested youth audience about the fine print of NHS reform' brief it's a pretty good hit. You can pack a lot of information into a rap. This would be an immensely boring long copy ad for instance. I wonder who made it all rhyme though? Did they brief the MC? How odd. Really good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Dave Trott, Mad as a Lorry.

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Not Voodoo: Proximity "In Which Our Hero Falls Another Rung On The Creative Ladder."

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Proximity "In Which Our Hero Falls Another Rung On The Creative Ladder.". I also worked at an agency where they used the word viral. Viral - guaranteed cult classics, neither of which, sadly, ever saw the light of day. Labels: Lessons learnt the hard way. Scamp's stats are high because he reels gullible fools like me in with his 'what do you think? You could just get a web cam and then we wouldn't need to come to your office. Winston ...

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Not Voodoo: DM - The Medium's medium

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Thursday, January 08, 2009. DM - The Medium's medium. It's become kitsch to refer to advertising to a "black art". Occasionally people still say "web optimisation is a dark art", but I assume they do this because it feels good saying it, like saying the phrase "black ops" almost makes you feel like you yourself are capable of abseiling through someone's window and silently garroting them in the night. Labels: Lessons learnt the hard way. When did that happen?

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Not Voodoo: D&AD New Blood Greatest Hits

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Sunday, July 03, 2011. D&AD New Blood Greatest Hits. So I'm doing a talk at New Blood tomorrow, and I thought I'd want to direct them to the blog which I no longer write. So here are the greatest hits kids, from back when I was a blogger:. 1 The Placement Tradition: nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. 2 Dave Trott writes. 3 DM, the medium's medium. 5 5 Tips that will help you win all the awards. 6 My first ad. 7 Beauty is exuberance. Follow me on Twitter.

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Not Voodoo: Oral fixation

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Always outnumbered. Generally overdresssed. Tuesday, December 16, 2008. I gamely agreed to write this 'copy' as they kept calling it, thinking I might after all need some pin money to tide me over whilst I completed my first novel. And honestly, how hard could it be? There is a tragic coda to this story. Shortly after writing this fine piece of advertising I had a terrible row with the man who ran the company and was asked to leave the building. That night I went drinking with the wild-eyed art direc...