Paris Monster: You don’t always need to follow the rules
We saw this amazing band in a small club recently – the photo above shows just how small! One guy plays drums with left hand, synth bass with his right…
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Support Europe’s Screenwriters and Directors
The EU parliament’s draft Copyright Directive could guarantee audiovisual authors an equitable share in the success of their work. But it needs a little encouragement … please consider signing the…
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Women-fronted films are top three highest-grossing movies of 2017
It’s worth remembering that even *apart* from being simple common sense and absolutely the right thing to do, ensuring equality and diversity in filmmaking also ends up just producing more…
Read MoreLogo design for the screen
As an addendum to the post on the craft of logo design, we spotted the new Sonos logo this morning. It seemed interesting but perhaps a little complex … until…
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The 22 immutable laws of marketing
Our approach is absolutely rooted in classical marketing and there is no better way to understand the key principals then to spend an hour or so with this book. “The…
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Kubrick and Us
It seems that Kubrick and us have at least one thing in common … we both love movies and typography. He was, it seems, “wedded to his sans serifs”. A fascinating…
Read MoreLeadership: Strategy vs. biology
We just found an incredible film that we had to share. Here Simon Sinek describes the biological reasoning for leadership in a manner that is the antithesis of the usual…
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Stomp box branding lessons
We spent a number of very happy but tragically wage-less years in the music industry. Like many companies today, the brands that dominated the equipment market in the 1990’s had…
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Don’t say it, prove it
There is a great pub near our office that serves beautifully prepared, home cooked food. The menu tells us that the ingredients are of the highest quality, individually selected and…
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Be generous with praise
The importance of good manners with colleagues and with competitors is not new and not just for reciprocity. Just ask Alfred Hitchcock. (Found via the excellent @FilmHistoryPics Twitter account)
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