Lately, I’ve been working on a project for a financial client in London. It’s been great working on the launch of - let’s just call it “The Thing I Can’t Name” - from the get go. From the very germination of the brand, to thinking about how it will launch internally (they need their own people to use this thing), and externally to the world. This work was the internal teaser, created by Zolty and myself before he so rudely moved to London.

We wanted people to get excited about “The Thing I Can’t Name”, so we put several of the above installations in the elevator lobbies on each floor of their corporate headquarters. Each installation demonstrates the idea of product evolution - of how you never look back at the thing that is replaced - and included a matching copy line that helped drive home the idea.

See pics of all installations here.

At the same time, throughout the offices we continued the theme with posters sans installations. Click through to see a bunch of featured copy lines here.

The external launch is not due until February/March 09, which is when I’ll remove all this cloak and dagger stuff.

When you work in advertising, or any creative field for that matter, your creative powers are greatly influenced by what you do outside of work. You need to create stuff for yourself, then put it out there. Set and forget. That’s why I write the SHNoos, and why I made the following video.

I am not a professional (as the sound quality of my voice over will demonstrate), but I think it showcases something that has influenced me lately. For your viewing and listening pleasure, please enjoy Zephyr, the movie.


Zephyr from Noodle on Vimeo.