This month is all about the disco house sound from Germany’s Tensnake. His latest track “Coma Cat” is causing a real stir on all good dance floors.

D&AD’s New Blood promotional posters have taken an interesting turn this year, after some harsh criticism for appearing too pompous in it’s 2009 campaign. This time round the posters feature members of the creative community again, but this time captured at the point of ending it all: the talent of new blood proving too much for them to cope with. But yet again the posters have caused great debate amongst graduates and members of the creative community alike, some finding the posters extremely offensive, while others asking why they focus on prominent creatives rather then showcasing graduates work. However this would be hard to do as it would be impossible to show the breadth of talent on one poster. By showing the quality of its membership instead, D&AD hope to inspire young graduates, but at the same time they run the risk of looking too elitist and self-indulgent. The posters aren’t all doom and gloom however, the photography is dark and sordid, but at the same time humorous,  highlighted by the funny captions stating ‘no one was harmed in the making of this poster.’ One thing is for sure the posters aren’t boring, they have caused outrage and received admiration and will be very memorable…until next year anyway.

Congratulations to Hain Celestial UK who have come 41st in ‘The Sunday Times 60 Best Green Companies 2010′ list, with help from one of it’s most famous brands, and our client, Linda McCartney Foods leading the Meat Free Monday campaign to fight climate change. The organic food company was also the second highest ranking food and drink company on the Green List!

To read the full article and for more information on how they achieved their green place – >Click here

Searching the caverns of YouTube we came across this very cool video of Warhol displaying his colour painting techniques on an Amiga computer. Then again Debbie Harry makes everything look cool. Love the interface of the application!

We had a very civilised and productive digital planning session with the Portillion team at the Soho Hotel. There is nothing better then being in a fresh environment to stimulate much needed freshness of ideas for a new website development. Soho Hotel is a nice quiet space, with a great Sunday film club to break up a west end power shop!

We managed to explore user profiling, online marketing models, interaction tools and the most amazing afternoon tea all very necessary to creating a new website strategy for Portillion. I think the sugar rush did the trick…

Hunter have produced a range of cool wellies in association with Water Aid for this years festival season (I know, why wont it be sunny?). Colette the cool Paris boutique are selling the Hunter Water Aid Wellies and its a great example of brands, the planet and consumers joining together and getting value and doing some good. £50 from each pair sold goes to WaterAid, helping transform the lives of those currently living without access to safe water or sanitation

The team are enjoying the disco delights of Walter Jones, especially their underground hit ‘Living without your love’. Watch the YouTube video below or call us and ask to be put on hold for a short office boogie!

The talent that is Jenny in our accounts team has persuaded her racing driving dad ‘Dougie’ to advertisie our agency on the side of his car. We are loving this and the super style racing version of our logo. Dougie we salute you and good luck in the next ‘Auto Grass’ race!

Sophie found this blog about Puma redesigning the packaging of their shoes, working with The Fuse project, they spent 21 months researching the most sustainable ways to get shoes to their customers and came up with a fabric bag and sheet of cardboard.

The new bag uses 65% less cardboard than a standard shoe box, it takes up less space and weighs less when shipping. It also doubles up as a bag to carry your shoes, cutting out the need for a plastic bag when you buy in store. Puma also claims the new design will save about 8,500 tons of paper, 20 million mega joules of electricity and 1 million litres of fuel!

The promotional video is quite cool and explains about the project. http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/puma-reinvents-the-shoe-box.html

As part of our commitment to help the planet and be a greener business, we now recycle all our waste. It was surprising when we first investigated this that we found there is no service provided by our local authority!

We have hired Pearce Recycling to collect and recycle our waste www.pearce-recycling.co.uk and we use these cool, environmentally friendly bins to store our waste.

Well on our way to achieving our 10:10 pledge to reduce our company emissions by 10% in 2010.