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One Minute Brief WINNER: Create the 2013 OMB Christmas Card

One Minute Brief WINNER:

Create the 2013 OMB Christmas Card

We were overwhelmed by the brilliance of the entries for this brief. It is a real shame that we can't give more than one winner here but we can only send one out.

We will be sending it out mainly as an e-card with a few physical copies also being sent.

Make sure you send us an e-mail to interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk so we can send yours to you.

The winner is @owenjevans with the 12 days of Christmas parody. We think it really captures exactly what OMB is about. We don't claim to be amazing. We don't claim to come out with an award winning idea every time. We are silly. Some of the ideas are shit. Some of the work is done on paint. The main thing is that we all have a great laugh doing it with a fantastic community spirit. And it is all about them 5 gold ideas. We love the card. Well done Owen. Also below are a few of our favourite entries.

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Post-it notes

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Post-it notes

Probably the best ever response to One Minute Briefs. Some superb ideas with great quality and quantity.

Therefore, we have lots of winners for this brief. All well deserved.

You should all give yourselves a post-it on the back.

The winners are:

@thescampfactory with 'I can't live without them' Eyecatching and funny. Quality idea.

@WorldOfOlly with the absolutely amazing line ' prevent a sticky situation with a sticky situation' Clever but hilarious.

@JustJoel_ with an advert that hasn't been designed yet. Love this different thinking.

@Placey80 with 'there's no point faking it' great line and visual that goes up against new technology. The original is best.

@lpbiesty with 'passive aggressive notes' Lovely insight.

@RSJWalker with the reminder to buy post-it notes on her hand. Superb work.

@Bshryane with this nice visual of a 'memory stick'.

@NealeCP with 'Post it, own it' Really liked the thought in this.

Thanks to everybody who got involved. Some of you would have won had it been any other day.

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Kanye West

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Kanye West

A very popular brief for, what seems, an unpopular guy!

Lots of negative responses to the brief but a lot of them made us laugh. We like laughing innit.

The winners today are:

@katesteeth with 'The Grand Kanye' Epic line and image. would be nice as a CD cover.

@stephenhunter21 referencing some of Kanye's lyrics.

@matthew__wyatt who uses Kanye West as a role model in a slightly different way. An insightful idea. Really nice.

Thanks for all of your entries.

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One Minute Brief entries: Campaign against match fixing

One Minute Brief entries:

Campaign against match fixing

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Create a tribute ad for Nelson Mandela

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Create a tribute ad for Nelson Mandela

This week saw the sad passing of a true legend who fought for his rights and changed a lot of people's lives. We thought it would be nice if we could use our community to create a big tribute to him.

The entries were particularly good for this brief and we think the 3 winners are fantastic.

In no particular order here they are:

@PaperJamCreate with 'Best in Peace' Stunning line.

@BOC_ATM with a nice take on the South Africa flag and the peace sign.

@chrisod1993 with an amazing line 'blood sweat and 27 years' Great work.

Thanks to everyone. This is our 500th post. We can't do it without you all. Nuff respect.

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One Minute Brief entries: Create a tribute ad for Nelson Mandela

One Minute Brief entries:

Create a tribute ad for Nelson Mandela

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Handcuffs

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Handcuffs

After a slow start today we got a brilliant amount of entries for a very fun (or serious) brief depending how you take it. Lots of great ideas as ever.

Here are our winners:

@misterDJC with a great idea that can be seen in 2 ways depending how you rotate the ad.

@aga_nat with a nice visual using the male and female symbols.

@OwenJohnston with a police recruitment ad. Very cheeky idea. We like cheeky.

@PaperJamCreate with the great line and double meaning 'can't contain yourself?'

@lpbiesty with some fantastic copywritten ads for extra strong handcuffs.

@joe_from_CP with the AMAZING season line. 'Merry Wristmas' Hilarious.

@ShireenDew with this great command visual using the cuffs themselves.

Thanks for all of your entries. Fun brief coming tomorrow.

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Manchester Twestival OMB Workshop

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Manchester Twestival OMB Workshop

Last week we had a stand and workshop at the Manchester Twestival event. It was a great night with lots of industry talent and local artists exhibiting.

We were overwhelmed by the amount of response we received on the LIVE Twitter wall and the number of people around our stand was superb.

Due to this, we had lots of people having a go at One Minute Briefs and everyone seemed to have a good time. Our OMBLES were even taking over the stand for us as we chatted to people over a beer or 17.

The results were fantastic, some really shit ones, some really crazy ones, some really funny ones and some great ideas too!

Great to meet more people off Twitter and gave us a good taster for the OMB event we want to do in early 2014.

Our overall winner on the night was for the brief 'Mobile Hairdressing' and the idea was brutally simple. A mobile with hair. Eyecatching and straight to the point. Could be developed into a great ad. @louisa.craggs wins a bottle of champagne for a minute's work. Well done. Might be worth letting @CelinaKS have a glass too for her support!

We had an immense amount of entries and here are the ideas that we felt stood out.

@fayscho with 'slugs' I like the idea of real slugs on a face to advertise this eyebrow waxing.

@damnson with 'give peas a chance' a nice epic idea for a simple product. Peas.

@duncandibble with this comic book style story without an ending for drink aware. Very nice idea.

@emmascamell with an ideas based idea for glue-sticks. Great thought.

@alan_cripps Who says account men can't have good ideas? Nice copy idea for push up bras.

@OrchardTweets with 'Birds' for KFC. A bold claim that is just the product and made us laugh!

@mrowainthomas with 'Make a clean entry' to advertise doormats. Simple. Funny. Effective.

Thanks to every single person who entered.

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One Minute Brief entries: Advertise Handcuffs

One Minute Brief entries:

Advertise Handcuffs

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Manchester Twestival

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Manchester Twestival

As we were invited to take part in the Manchester Twestival this year we thought it would make a great brief that would allow us to feature everybody's work.

Lots were tweeted about and taken photos of at the event and shared which is great to see.

We have chosen one overall winner who receives the Paul Arden book and signed naked photos of us both.

The 2 runners-up will each receive signed naked photos.

Winner is @tomcdixon with 'The Socially United City' works on so many levels for the event as well as showing Manchester. Great work.

Runners up are @matthew__wyatt and @alvo_muses with these great lines that work brilliantly for what Twestival do.

Thanks to everyone who got involved.

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One Minute Brief entries: Advertise Kanye West

One Minute Brief entries:

Advertise Kanye West

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Selfies

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Selfies

So the latest word to enter the English Dictionary is 'Selfie'. Whether we like it or not, we can't ignore it. It has become part of society. We thought it would make a great subject to see what everyone makes of it and there was a brilliant number of entries today.

Was good to see some of you actually sending us some selfies! It helps when we meet people at events. Sometimes people come up to us and expect us to know who they are from Twitter. If we haven't seen you we won't know! Might even set up a page devoted to OMBLES. What does everyone think?

We've got some great winners today.

@mrowainthomas with 'me meme' very simple use of copy. Eyecatching.

@alvo_muses with this simple CTA for best results. A very alvomusing entry!

@atAlexGoddard with 'Shoot yourself in the face' I've always wanted to write that on an ad but never had the chance. You beat me to it so you win!

@violetdarling with this very philosophical campaign for selfies. Great stuff.

@matthew__wyatt with the nice line 'me, myself and iphone' Nice style too.

@lpbiesty Not exactly an ad but we love this inception selfie. The cat looks pretty chilled on it too. Also this fantastic ambient idea using bathroom mirrors. This NEEDS to be made. Absolute piss-take but hilarious. Genius.

@PaperjamCreate with 'Touch Yourselfie' Nice and cheeky ad for physical photos from Polaroid.

Thanks to everyone involved!

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One Minute Brief entries: Advertise Selfies

One Minute Brief entries:

Advertise Selfies

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Slang

One Minute Brief WINNERS:
Advertise Slang

Fun subject to start the week with today. Lots of fun entries came through as a result and we have 4 winners.

@exmc2andrew with his nice take on Literal Scribbles to show how crazy slang can be at times.

@katesteeth with 'Safe Blud' Not exactly the most on brief in terms of advertising slang itself. However, one of the great things about OMB is that an idea that is shared can spark an idea in someone else. And we think that this could make a great spoof campaign to raise awareness of HIV etc in younger people.

@mrowainthomas with 'Village Idiom' Nice play on words. Simple but eye-catching.

@boc_atm with 'It is' Very simple. Silly. And got a few votes.

Thanks to all those involved.

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One Minute Brief entries: Advertise Slang

One Minute Brief entries:

Advertise Slang

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One Minute Brief entries: Campaign against creatives working for free

One Minute Brief entries:

Campaign against creatives working for free

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One Minute Brief WINNERS: Create a logo for new band Bad Advice

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Create a logo for new band Bad Advice

Last week we had a great brief to create a logo to help promote the new band Bad Advice.

With some great prizes on offer, it was a brilliant collaboration and we have now had the winner and runner-up chosen by @chrissyleese and his bandmates.

The overall winner is @jamesbayani with this effort. Simple, effective and goes well on the background shown here.

In second place we have @sheisapenguin with this nice thumbs down visual.

The band would like to thank everyone who got involved. They will be in touch with the winners about the prizes in the near future.