Falling demand has meant that BT have removed 31,000 unprofitable telephone boxes since 2002. Thankfully, that leaves 64,000 available advertising spaces for our client, Buy Art Fair. The number to call for tickets is 0844 815 4867.

Just stumbled across this on the Drowned In Sound website, a Japanese blog showcasing ordinary bento lunch box ingredients, arranged to recreate famous album covers. It even gives the breakdown of ingredients so you can create them for yourselves. Something like this has been done before with Lego I think too.

I was reading ‘Ways Of seeing’ by John Berger recently and was struck by something he wrote. In the section where Berger talks about ‘publicity images’ or advertising as it’s more commonly referred to, there was a section which states; ‘Publicity images also belong to the moment in the sense that they must be continually [...]

It was sad day at Glorious last week when we heard that one of our favourite clients, Cains Beer Company, had called in the administrators. The company bought a larger brewer last year, becoming a proper landlord as well as brewer. It turned out to be a bad time to buy almost 100 pubs. We produced [...]

For the second year in a row, Glorious has made the top four design agencies in the north – beating hundreds, no let’s say thousands of design agencies. The North of England Design Consultancy of the Year survey organised by The Drum looks at creativity, client satisfaction, financial capability and peer perceptions. We came second [...]

The awards season is upon us. So what better way to kick it off with a couple of nominations. Our poster campaign for French cigarette paper brand, Job, has been named a winner at the Gramia Awards - and we haven’t even put our DJs on yet. Now that’s the sort of award we like. [...]

Manchester’s leading museums and galleries have appointed us after a five-way competitive pitch. We’ll be unveiling a new identity and a campaign to promote their joint cultural offering later in the year. It’s fair to say that our client has a wide and varied product; from the Imperial War Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, Museum of [...]

Publishing giant Emap appointed us this month to handle the design and advertising for its new international Media Festival. The festival, backed by the NWDA, will become an annual event – with chairman Peter Bazlagette – the former chief creative officer of Endemol and the man who brought Big Brother to the UK – flying into [...]

Once again we were named among the top design agencies in the North – beating hundreds of firms to come fourth in this year’s North of England Design Consultancy of the Year Awards. It shows our consistency (we were fourth overall last year too). The awards, organised by The Drum magazine, celebrated the fact that we [...]