Roome Consulting

Roome are wetting their yellow pants with happiness to be sponsoring Brief2008

This semi-serious social event will bring together teams of young planners, account people, designers and creatives from digital or integrated agencies to answer and present back a brief in two hours, probably under the influence of alcohol. 

Brief2008 will be held on Thursday 17^th July 2008 at the Design Council on Bow Street, and has the following confirmed judges:

Iain Tait (Founder, Planning/Creative Partner, Poke)
Amelia Torode (Head of VCCP Digital)
Ben Milligan (Head of Planning, Holler)
Richard Knight (Creative Partner/Founder, Mission21)
Rachel Lawlan (Director of Integrated Strategy, DLKW)

This event will be a chance to discover what kind of thinking comes from people from different backgrounds as well as a good excuse to socialise with like-minded keeners.

Being a big fan of the 1960’s cult show ‘The Prisoner’, myself, means that I am Very excited at the news of a series remake with Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel (of The Passion of Christ fame) due to play the infamous No.6.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7483053.stm 

Be Seeing You

But really, it’s a lovely site. Well apart from the ‘Stomp’ inspired intro maybe but hang on for the graphics. Construction = cool. Who knew.

The bare faced cheek of some people is astounding

Recent web stalking has revealed a number of bloggers talking about an advertising trend in Japan based on search engine results. Instead of typing a URL into the address bar a simple sign ad tells people to type a search term instead.

 

As Stuart at Fenton Benton, Benton & Fenton points out you can try this for yourself in Firefox, but I’ve found it’s also possible to change your settings so that the result isn’t simply what you’d get if you hit the Google ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button - the default option will load the number 1 ranking website of the keyword searched, instead of listing matching websites, so if like me you never rely on a lucky feeling, you can change it like this:

In the Firefox address bar, enter about:config and then press Enter.

In the Filter: field type keyword.url

You should see a preference name of keyword.URL in the list. Double click it and an Enter String Value input box will appear.

Replace the string with http://www.google.com.my/search?q=

Click the OK button and you’re done.

Well any of you who are up on the best blogs around will have already read about this on Mr Taits blog but thought it was so great had to include it on ours. The number of times I’ve wondered whether its just me, well now I can check at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

If you are trying to access a site and its not working, you’ve refreshed, you’ve waited, you’ve turned your computer on and off again, and then thought hmmm maybe its not me. Its the little things that make a difference.

Our office has developed into some what of a gallery thanks to Cookie and Nicky. Pop by for a cup of tea and take a closer look!

Us Roomie’s are very excited about the release of Michel Gondry’s latest flic: Be Kind Rewind.

If your excited about it too, then make sure you watch Gondry’s attempt at a trailor where he plays all the characters himself!

Enjoy

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Today I was told about a fabulous website! I dont know how long it has been in existance or if the digital world has already digested it and spat it out! But here it is…take a look, learn, add to it, love it!

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

The four of us Roomeies would like to wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Eleanor, Ed, Edit and Shelly

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