We’ve recently collaborated with the lovely design fellas at Sticky Creation on a print and online campaign for TV Channel CBS Action.
We were asked to unleash our inner geek to come up with a suitably cinematic image to be used as the centrepiece of the campaign for the launch of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

The result combined a distinctive “schematic” drawing of the iconic, eponymous space station, with an original, beautifully rendered, full colour illustration of DS9 floating in deep space (appropriately enough)

The creative is currently gracing billboards the length and breadth of the country, as well as various Trekkie-ccentric publications and websites.

We also created some very lovely banners for London’s recent Comic-Con.

None of the team has subsequently been set upon by an angry mob of geeks so we must have got something right!

How to punch above your weight

Marketers from companies including Arcadia, GSK and Universal Music convened at The House of St Barnabas in Soho, London, on Thursday 8th July for a breakfast event co-hosted by ourselves and Contagious Magazine. Speakers took to the altar in a beautiful chapel and the  event wound up with gastronomic delights at a small farmers’ market in the garden at St Barnabas. The 80-strong congregation, chaired by Contagious co-founder and editorial director Paul Kemp-Robertson, listened to marketing gospel from Gav Thompson, founder of mobile network giffgaff, Jon Mitchell, Spotify’s UK managing director, and Louise Kjellerup Roper, chief ripple maker at Method. Our contributions came from Matt Cole, digital creative director, plus Richard Holman, founder and creative director, which followed the theme for the morning, ‘Punching above your weight: the value of a twinkle-toed approach’

Click on the link below to see the exclusive online interview with Richard Fine, Founder and CEO of Help Remedies.

http://www.contagiousmagazine.com/2010/07/contagious_devilfish.php

This week we’re all about ‘lean forwards people’. We like this type of person, because in the US they watch the A&E channel for whom we’ve just launched a new national US campaign.

It stars all the, well, stars of A&E’s drama shows and was a lot of fun to shoot – if you don’t believe me, check out our very own Lee with Gene Simmons. Hard to tell who’s the real star here huh?

Lean forwards people get involved in the drama on their screens. Have a look at the new work here.

In other news, we’ve just finished a pitch yesterday so big up to Kate and Matt and fingers crossed for a good result later on this week.

Have a good week y’all.

It might be rather gloomy in the skies of Covent Garden but inside our devilfish offices the sun is shining – we have a new campaign being finished up for a huge US broadcaster and another pitch came in this morning – busy days are happy days. This is all somewhat in contrast to how the devilfish footie team felt at 10pm on Thursday when they were rudely defeated, but for effort alone they should have won out.

It’s gearing up to be a busy June and July, with lots of questions beginning with the phrase ‘you’re not going on holiday in the near future are you?’ Following the ashcloud shocker which prevented us from making it to Lisbon for PROMAX Europe (and much worse, prevented Richard from presenting his speech on ‘Ten Great photographs :an inspirational guide to the power of the single image’, Kjetil, Matt and Lucy are putting on their shades and heading out to La La land for PROMAX’s West Coast event in a few weeks’ time. No doubt their drinks party will be the happy, bubbling affair people have come to expect from devilfishers, with the LA sunshine to soothe their heads come the Thursday.

Watch this space too for news on our breakfast briefing event with Contagious magazine in July.  We’ve got some awesome speakers – Gav Thompson from giffgaff whose launch campaign goes live this week; Jon Mitchell from Spotify who are taking on the old models of the music business, and Louise Roper of Method, the coolest most interesting cleaning brand known to man. All these guys – and our own from Devilfish and from Contagious magazine – come together under the headline of ‘Punching above your weight: the value of a twinkle-toed approach.’ More details to follow… see you there or in LA!