HEAD BLOG

When I sit down to write an ad or plan a campaign I can spend an hour or two browsing the Internet. Some people might recognise this behaviour as evasion but I like to call it the search for inspiration.

I’ll avoid the usual advertising temples and wander instead to sites that can take my mind away from the blank page before me. These sites could be great little bookshops or they could be this one, The British Larder. Read more…

We’re back on the sizzle today following a discussion about Scott Adams. Not the creator of Dilbert but the designer of video games from the early days. Read more…

I get up, each week day morning, at around 5:30. That gives enough time for the usual ablutions and leaves me plenty of time to catch a lift to the station. I like a long, slow start to my day. Rather than take an extra hour in bed, thinking about the deadlines I’ll have to meet I like to get up early and lower myself into the day. Too much, too soon, could kill me. Read more…