Friday Fun II: We have David Kleinman!

We had a minute of madness….

(No Davids were harmed in the production of this film)

Friday Fun I: Fashion Fail

Following the rather amusing “Black&White Plaid Shirt Friday” when Barney, Michaela and a certain Dave from BL:ND all came to work in none other – and then pretended to be cowboys – Charlie and Chelsie decided they were going to do one better… and wear the exact same (may I add, highly distinctive) dress.  Oops.

Our Friday Status Meetings will now not only discuss new business and promotion; but also the next week’s wardrobe schedule!

It’s the Highlife for Sim!

Despite the summer feeling so far in the past, we’d thought we’d share with you some fantastic artwork by our illustrator Sim Marriott!

Sim was commissioned by Cedar Communications to produce a front cover based on an article about travelling to Sardinia, Cyprus, New York and the Dominican Republic with kids!

The character design on the cover is fantastic and took over a week to design – we really recommend you click on the image to check out the larger version!

Why you should never run for a train….

Poor Radim (AKA Brand Nu).  He spent his Halloween Eve in the hell that is THE HOSPITAL!  with a broken leg… how did it happen?:

“[I was] running in wrong direction down the stairs at Wimbledon, trying to dodge the people on my way to a party.  Only two steps away from getting it right!”

So, lesson learnt?  Will you ever run for a train again, Radim?

“Will I f**k!? “

We at jelly all wish him a swift recovery and a happy 6 weeks in an attractive plaster-cast – get well soon!!

If you’re on twitter, we suggest you all send your happy thoughts to him @brand_nu

AAH! A YETI!

There is! Seriously!

Skoda’s latest machine to rev out of their factory doors is called Yeti.  Archibald Ingall Stretton are in charge of their digital marketing and approached us a few weeks ago with a brief: The Yeti needed a more picture-book feel, in order to appeal to Mum’s.

Our Karen Cheung was perfect for the task!  She drew various illustrative parts and hand-painted them before sending them to AIS’s digital department for a breath of life.  There will be 3 pop-up-book-like digital banner campaigns featuring Karen’s fantastic artwork.

We’re excited to reveal the first has just gone live – go to: http://www.whatcar.com/Search/yeti/ and pull on the tabs!

Halloween Competition Winners!

The past week we’ve been holding a Halloween Design competition, where we’ve asked you – our friends – to design a Halloween-Themed Mr Jelly Pants. (No idea what we’re talking about? Click here)

This year has been the best response we’ve had so far for publicity and entries and we’d like to say thank you to everyone who had the time to enter! Let’s not forget everyone who forwarded the e-mail to their friends and re-tweeted our posts for entries. Thank you too!

The office has got a little heated with debate with who should win… hence why it’s taken us 4 hours to decide!!

The winner of our Halloween Competition was sent to us by illustrator Kareen Herbert! Our office instantly fell in love with this and she received the most votes in our office by a long-shot!!

She chose our Trick Prize – which means she’ll be receiving a lovely box of random stuff found around our office! (A sneak peek here!)

Our runners up were submitted by Glenn Maguire at Sparkle Media and Matt Poscha at Proximity London – well done to you both!!

Gallery:
All of our entries can be viewed on our Flickr page here

If you missed out on the chance to win, but still made – or would like to make – a Mr Jelly Pants, please send them in! We’d love to feature everyone’s versions of Mr Jelly Pants in our gallery.

All our current entrants and any we receive in the next few days will receive an Alison Carmichael Abandon Hope poster as a huge thank you from us at jelly – you’ve all put huge smiles on our faces

Here are a few links related to our competition:
Jelly London Halloween Project
The Faces Of Hate
Evil Has a New Name
(please submit any we’ve missed out!)

Pizza Express – Lettering in Dough!

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October has seen Pizza Express throw some fantastic deals at their customers; and displayed some rather tasty artwork by Alison Carmichael.

Work Club approached Alison a few months ago with the idea for dough lettering.  jelly worked along side Pizza Express’s very own “Dough Master” to shoot a very large batch of dough with Alison’s letters cut out…

jelly soon realised that this wasn’t the way forward, and another shoot was organised with a real Pizza Express Chef – and the lettering was re-touched later.

If you’d like to see the version online – and of course, get some cheap pizza deals! – go to www.pizzaexpress-offers.co.uk

JUST 1 DAY LEFT TO SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN!

Last week we got in touch with details for our annual Halloween Competition.

Already, we’ve had a fantastic response via our twitter and e-mail campaign!  But, there’s still plenty of time for you to have a go and send us your design!

If you’d like us to refresh your memory, http://jellylondon.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/fun-friday-halloween-competition/!

We’ve also set up a flickr page with our current in-house entries – check them out!!

Acer receives the Brand Nu treatment

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Our fantastic Brand Nu recently provided his artistic touch to Acer laptops. His illustrations were used on a 20-page supplement in the September Windows Now Magazine.

“I had open reign how to interpret the brief, which resulted in mixture of photography, handrawn and simple vectors to emphasise the perspective and user stories. The work was very enjoyable, it gave me a platform to try yet again to push the trademark ‘Brand Nu’ style in different direction”.

You can see more on his blog here!

Drinks for Advice!

Last week, Charlie and Chris were asked by Steph Webb at Coventry Uni’s ‘Charge Team’ to come and talk to their third year Graphics and Illustration course students.

Charge is a wonderful student organisation that raises funds for the Coventry end of year show by organising talks from such industry luminaries as Si Scott and other UK design/illustration heavyweights. Our own jelly heavyweights went to see them with a laptop full of jelly projects and two heads full of sound advice about how to get on in our tricky business.

The guys talked for over an hour and then were whisked off to the pub by the students where they answered more questions in return for drinks… a far trade we thought.

Jelly are happy to be involved in a great cause like Charge and hope to get involved again the future!

You can see more pictures from the event on our flickr page here!