We’re all looking forward to the imminent arrival of our new Digital Account Director on 1st September. Simon Chalk joins us from TMP in Bristol and has a fantastic track record working with clients to produce really effective and innovative e-strategies. He’ll be working with our teams across all clients and we’re confident that he’ll be able to add a new dimension to our growing services.

OK, so here’s the official picture of our win with Mike, Lance, Joel, David Mitchell and a nice lady. All looks very civilised. Happy client, proud agency, slightly bored host.

What the camera didn’t catch was Mike Tamlyn, our Art Director, stealing both awards, declaring himself the ‘Art Direction’ Daddy and challenging other art directors to a trophy jousting competition to see who’s ‘really got the minerals’. He was last seen slumped in a corner, cradling the trophy and whispering something like ‘I don’t care if people say you look like a whisk, I think you’re beautiful, my precioussss’.

This picture was taken moments before he made off with both trophies.

It was the CIPD Awards last night and around about the same time that the Germans were dispatching the Portuguese at Euro 2008, another model of efficiency, with more than a hint of flair, tasted victory. We were nominated for Best Innovation and Best Diversity for our work for Brighton & Hove City Council and triumphed in the Diversity category. Considering the zombie like figures and bleary eyes present today, one can only assume that the richly deserved win was celebrated with equal determination. And rightly so.

Checkout our case studies section to see the award-winning work in all its glory.

It was with some trepidation a few weeks ago that we decided to put our ‘Be Bold’ mantra to the test by sending many of our clients an online questionnaire to find out just what they think of us and our services. Most have come back now (with one or two notable exceptions - you know who you are!) and the feedback is really positive.

In a nutshell, 75% of respondents put the quality of client service in the top 2 categories out of 5 giving an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5. Creative received 3.6 out of 5, our digital services a pleasing 4.05 and our culture (ie. what are we like to work with) a very wonderful 4.3.

Perhaps the most pleasing statistic, though, was that 91% of the respondents said that they would happily recommend us to someone else in the future.

So, some room for improvement without a doubt and we have certainly taken on board all of the individual comments that were made along the way. But, it’s great to feel that we are on the right track and thanks to everone who contributed. Your tenners are in the post.

At pitches, there’s always lots of big agency talk about ‘really getting under the skin’ of the client. Which when you think about those actual words, is a bit scary. But, it is true that you can’t come up with great work if you don’t know your client.

With this mind, Claire, Rachel and Gemma headed off to Burger King to join their crew for a day. Relax, they were heavily supervised so that any food they produced was up to BK standards! They had a great day, pics are below and we’d like to thank everyone at Cannon Street for letting a bunch of account handlers cause chaos and a particular big thanks to Nana for excellent induction and Silvia for her limitless patience!