One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise Bonfire Night

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Advertise Bonfire Night

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise Toilet Roll

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Advertise Toilet Roll

Today we did a talk to lots of brilliant students on the Graphic Design & Advertising courses at Sheffield Hallam University. We've had lots of great comments on Twitter from everyone and hope our advice helps a few of them make a difference in the creative industry. 

At the end of our talk we got the whole lecture theatre involved in a LIVE One Minute Brief to Advertise Toilet Roll. Below are the huge amount of submissions that actually got One Minute Briefs trending in Sheffield earlier on!! Brilliant Stuff.

We'd like you to all tweet votes to @oneminutebriefs for your fave entry and we will give the winner a prize.

Thanks for welcoming us to Sheffield Hallam. Twas great meeting you all.

One Minute Brief Entries: Create a poster which shows how ‘Overcoming obstacles make you stronger’ for @AlemFoundation

One Minute Brief Entries:
Create a poster which shows how ‘Overcoming obstacles make you stronger’ for @AlemFoundation

One Minute Brief: Create posters to show ‘Overcoming obstacles make you stronger’ for @AlemFoundation

In the second collaboration with KriticalMass we have a great opportunity to get your work out there to lots of people and do something good at the same time. We're looking forward to see all the great ideas. Good luck :)

Brief:

Create a poster which shows how ‘Overcoming obstacles make you stronger’ for @AlemFoundation and @poweringgood


Prize:
Winner will be chosen by One Minute Briefs & BBH co-founder/kriticalmass board member, Sir John Hegarty and announced on video.
Winner will be also be published in the Metro on Tuesday 25th November and seen by 3.5 million people. So get involved!

Include:
kriticalmass logo & Alem Foundation logo
Use the hashtag #alem2rio2016

See info about Alem's journey to Rio 2016 at kriticalmass.com/p/alem2rio2016

Charity:
Alem Foundation seeks to provide opportunities to underprivileged children in Ghana. Born from the passion of Alem Mumuni - Ghana's 1st ever Paralympic cyclist. kriticalmass.com/p/alem2rio2016

One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Corsets

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Corsets

Bit of a saucy brief this one and enjoyed looking through all of the entries! Some good ambient ideas too.

Here are the winners:

@liam_aldridge & @dissential with a couple of breath taking ideas. Nice bit of humour mixed with style.

@reverendpixel with 'Slim-Faster' Nice parody with product benefit.

@chorles with 'Basque in all her glory' Could make a great campaign.

@_hhcreative with a squeezed in billboard. Nice thought.

@sharpstuffbits with 'waist management' Eye catching headline.

Well done all.

One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise National Cat Day

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise National Cat Day

A fun brief in celebration of cats across the UK and the entries were brilliant. There were lots of clever and funny ideas on show which captured to spirit of the day with some great winners.

@creativebrummie with a brilliant take on a cat pole. Clever visual.

@supercoolkp using the Grumpy Cat to great effect.

@sianellenj with 'Paws for thought' Nice relative copy.

@richbayley80 with a superb visual scratch of 'every dog has it's day'

@liam_aldridge @gazzamatazzzz with 'Be more cat' Could be a great tactical response campaign.

Well done all.

One Minute Brief WINNER: Advertise Spoons

One Minute Brief WINNER:

Advertise Spoons

Everyone loves a good spoon and today's brief was in honour of the unsung hero of cutlery. We had a great response with lots of fun ideas. However, one really stood out to us and got lots of votes.

@chorles with 'no-one likes a shit stirrer' Brilliant piece of copy and imagery. And we don't have rules on swearing etc here so it's all good. Anything goes. This one made us laugh and is deserving of the win.

Cheers everyone. 

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise Spoons

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Advertise Spoons

Moving on...

Moving on...

Good evening everyone.

We wanted to let you all know that we have now left our position of creative team at McCann Manchester. 
It is a decision that we have given a lot of thought but we feel the time is right to take on a new challenge. We have made a lot of good friends at McCann and we wish everyone there every success in the future. 

Here's what we've been upto since we joined a couple of years ago....

We have worked on some great projects with great clients, collaborated with McCann Barcelona/Helsinki/London/Paris, and picked up various creative awards for our work in the Roses, MPA, NABS, Fresh & been Cannes Young Lions finalists in both 2013 & 2014. We have also built up a following of over 15,000 people on Twitter and featured on blogs across the world including the New York Times and Buzzfeed.

Aswell as this, we have been able to turn our concept One Minute Briefs into a vibrant, creative, social community that produces fun, engaging content each day. It has been a pleasure to meet such great people along the way and talk at events for D&AD and the BBC alongside people like Sir John Hegarty, Wayne Hemingway and director Tony Kaye. We are proud to have received recognition for our efforts recently by being highly commended by Cannes Lions Media Academy, made it to the final 30 of the Pitch UK and been shortlisted for the Great British Entrepreneurial Awards. We were also given a special invite to Downing Street.

We have always tried to go that bit further wherever we work and that is why we created our very own agency pub, ran the agency football team & even designed an agency racing car. We've also been known for getting a bit creative on agency Christmas decorations! (See pics below)

In the past few months we have mentored the Top 6 graduates for the McCann 'Advertise Yourself' recruitment campaign that we created and took to D&AD New Blood. This received a huge amount of entries and has been a very rewarding project to see through start to finish. Good luck to the people who made it through.

We were proud to represent McCann Manchester for one last time at the Fresh Awards this week and leave on a high after an enjoyable couple of years. Below are the results of the categories we were involved in.

Fresh Award - McCann Manchester - McCann Mcr - Recruitment - Silver
Fresh Award - McCann Manchester - CrossCountry - Poster - Bronze
Fresh Award - McCann Manchester - CrossCountry - Art Direction - Nomination
Fresh Award - McCann Manchester - The Haunt - Internal Communications - Gold
Fresh Award - McCann Manchester - Nestle Cheerios - Social Media Campaign - Bronze
Fresh Award - One Minute Briefs - Self Promotion - Nomination
Fresh Award - One Minute Briefs - Social Media Campaign - Bronze
Fresh Award - One Minute Briefs - Breakthrough - Gold
Fresh Award - One Minute Briefs - Social Networking - Gold

Fresh Award - Nick Entwistle & James Clancy - Fresh Faces of Advertising - Specialist Award

We'd like to thank McCann Manchester for being a great place to work in the past couple of years and the support we have received throughout. We will miss the pool parties.

Below are a few pics of some McCann Memories & the recent Fresh Awards: 

See you all soon.

Nick and James

We are currently working freelance and we are also available to do talks and workshops for events. If you'd like to work with us or collaborate...please get in touch at interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise National Cat Day

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Advertise National Cat Day

One Minute Brief WINNERS: Campaign to raise awareness of #WorldStrokeDay

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Campaign to raise awareness of #WorldStrokeDay

Some very hard hitting posters today in response to an emotive brief. Some were were very graphic and impactful but a bit too strong. The winners really hit the brief perfectly with a sympathetic approach. Really nice work.

@chorles with a thought provoking ad that makes great use of a stat and the time it takes to make a One Minute Ad. Superb. I want to see this become a real poster.

@little_scamp85 with a beautifully written piece. I want to see this turned into a real piece. Could make a great piece of film. Maybe we should turn it into one?

@glennscholefiel with 'left right left left left' Great army themed ad. Again' would love to see this happen for real. Maybe even if the army got on board with it?

@worldofolly with an emoticon based idea. This would be a brilliant SMS campaign. Make it happen.

I've got to say that these are amongst the strongest entries seen on OMB and can be developed into great ads. E-mail us at interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk and we can try to help make it happen.

Thanks everyone.

One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise POGO Sticks

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise POGO Sticks

A fun brief with a brilliant response in terms of numbers and quality so we have got a great set of diverse winning ideas which you can see below.

@christinabutton with 'the floor is lava' Great idea with nice insight.

@chrisod1993 with a 'syringe' visual. Brilliant. Would like to see this worked on in terms of art direction as it could be a fantastic ad.

@richbayley80 with a very nice piece of typography. Would be great for branding.

@paperjamcreate with 'Spring Sale*' Nice simple cheeky thought.

@creativebrummie with a lovely scamp. Sometimes no words are required.

@iainthorley with 'PoGoPro' Simply brilliant thought. If this hasn't already happened. Let's make it happen as a campaign. E-mail us.

@joe_from_essex with 'bouncebackability' Nice use of this recently formed word.

@norwarican with 'Karaoke' style ads. Brilliant with song lyrics or could even work nicely as TV ads.

Excellent stuff by all.

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Campaign to raise awareness of #WorldStrokeDay

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Campaign to raise awareness of #WorldStrokeDay

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise PogoSticks

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:

Advertise PogoSticks

One Minute Brief WINNERS: Advertise Jeremy Kyle

One Minute Brief WINNERS:

Advertise Jeremy Kyle

Amazing response to a great brief. Jeremy Kyle trends every single day so there must be a lot of people at home watching it and we thought it would be a good topic and the response was superb.

We had lots of 'Feel better' ideas which were great thoughts but didn't quite make it into the winners.

Winners are as follows:

@matthew__wyatt with a ticking time bomb set at 9-25. Stunning.

@sharpstuffbits with 'my life isn't so bad after all' Cheeky copy based route. Nice.

@ullger_art with 'you slack fuck' Brilliant and hilarious.

@stutecopy with 'Who's the daddy?' Very clever line and visual.

@carlhalford with an amazing typographic visual created by a lie detector. Want to see this for real.

Well done all.

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise Jeremy Kyle

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:
Advertise Jeremy Kyle

One Minute Briefs Winner Advertise the Ad Pad Plain.

One Minute Briefs Winner
Advertise the Ad Pad Plain.

Today we had an overwhelming response to a great brief with over 120 entries! The quality matched the quantity too with the best ideas being brilliantly simple to reflect the simple nature of the product.

That's why the overall winner receiving the prizes is @supercoolkp with 'No rules' Reflects the product and approach to creativity. E-mail interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk for prizes.

Runners up narrowly missing out on prizes are: 

@samcarter27 with 'Break the Rules' A simple idea that uses the original Ad Pad to good effect.

@richbayley80 with 'the Ad Pad gives you the edge' Really nice copy.

@owenjevans with the hilarious line 'borderline sheet to plain sheet' Brilliant.

@dairoberts with 'Think outside the box' Very simple but effective.

Well done to all involved!

One Minute Brief ENTRIES: Advertise the Ad Pad Plain

One Minute Brief ENTRIES:
Advertise the Ad Pad Plain

One Minute Brief of the Day: Advertise the Ad Pad Plain

One Minute Brief of the Day:
Advertise the Ad Pad Plain

Today is another collaboration with our friends at the Ad Pad.
They are offering great prizes to the winner so get involved!

1x A3 Ad Pad
1x A4 Ad Pad
1x A4 Plain Ad Pad

Background:

The Ad Pad is the only pad designed specifically for ad creatives. Our latest product, The Ad Pad Plain has removed all the boundaries. It’s a plain pad for extraordinary ideas. 

We will be including inspirational quotes from leading illustrators and typographers screen printed on the backboard of the pad to educate and inspire creativity. 

These quotes will change with each print run. 

Brief:

Create a One Minute Poster for the Ad Pad Plain.

The proposition:

You can create anything out of nothing.

Links: 

http://www.theadpad.co.uk/products/the-ad-pad-a4-plain

One Minute Brief Entries: Advertise Corsets

One Minute Brief Entries:
Advertise Corsets