Creative

Spanking new carpets can be a pain: ours were rapidly covered with rugs after a few younger family members visited. So this ad for Vanish from Havas hits the spot. A well-spent 30 seconds. By Havas creative Rosie May Bird ...

Danish footballer Christian Eriksen almost died on live TV the other night after suffering a cardiac arrest in Euro 2020 and The British Heart Foundation and agency Saatchi & Saatchi have been quick out of the blocks to remind us ...

The Lawn Tennis Association and The&Partnership are attempting to reposition tennis as a game of the people ahead of the start of Wimbledon on 28th June. This “U In?” campaign features a cast of all ages, sizes, cultures and skills. ...

The Flower Council of Holland’s and agency Fever Unlimited joined with New York floral artists Miller & Lycett to create pop-up floral installations at London landmarks, including Eros in Piccadilly Circus and a set of red phone boxes in Soho. ...

The ad industry has a problem with diversity (you may have noticed this already) and Havas has now joined the ranks of London (and global) agencies in appointing what it calls a “diversity lead.” Is lead as important as director? ...

Sipsmith is the official gin partner Of the Wimbledon tennis championship it seems (you can add it to Pimm’s too if you want to fall over) and agency Ogilvy has produced a diverting effort with Sipsmith’s stop-mo Mr Swan mistakenly ...

Creativity is something you recognise when you see it (or you should be in another business) but it’s hard to describe. Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland has been looking into this for, well, quite some time. He argues that adland has allowed ...

Cannes Lions are on next week and this one – Beats by Dr Dre’s ‘You Love Me’ from agency Translation – is a certainty for a lion or three, the only question being which category or categories. As more and ...

England football manager Gareth Southgate won’t need reminding of a previous Euro football tournament, 1996 when he missed a penalty in the shoot-out against the eventual winners Germany. Pizza Hut then enlisted him with Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle who ...