I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at Engage 2007 in SIngapore by Contagious Magazine. This was a big deal for me as I’d not done much public speaking to a big audience. My talk was on The Art of Conversation – word of mouth, bespoke messaging, doing rather than talking etc and I think I tried to fill it with too many jokes. But afterwards I got pointed towards this blog post on “Not Dead Just Fucking Busy”- where I was actually quoted. So thanks for that. It’s not exact but you get the jist. Also probably the best thing I said all week to be fair.

I created, art directed and illustrated the new FON strategy and branding. The challenge was to give it a unique but compelling global proposition, so WiFi For Everyone was born. For more examples of FON work, peruse Shoreditch WiFi and BTFON

The Venice Project have been a client for a few months now, but we couldn’t talk about it for ages. We’ve just made some films of people from The Venice Project talking about what it is and how it works.

This is part of the strategy to build the buzz around the project among tech enthusiasts. This isn’t about hype or stunts, but by getting their people talking directly to the community, just telling the truth.

So I thought about what we wanted to reveal at this stage, planned some scenarios, and took a documentary film maker to Leiden and London to shoot them. The briefest bit of editing, and then we posted them on their website.

Here they are for your viewing pleasure. Look out for a few odd touches! My favourites are the blank phone conversation and trying to explain how Joost will work with figurines.

Online campaign to back up the European BlackBerry campaign.