Well we are that bit closer to the end of the year and more importantly Christmas! Of course this would therefore be a perfect opportunity to do a bit of sell publicity and say if you still need to buy presents then head over to www.leftandright.co.uk/lrstore for ideal clothing in the New Year.
A lot has occurred over the last few days here with many changes to take place in the New Year. We still have a lot lined up for the next 6 months and we’ll be keeping everyone up to date on future events. A new website for our younger audience is being worked on which will hopefully make a difference in many ways.
We hope to continue creating video online to promote the brand so if anyone has any ideas or wants to get involved let us know.
That may be about it for now. We may fit one more blog in before Christmas so speak to you all then.
Oh and it’s cold again which sucks...
Friday, 17 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
You got, that Friday feeling...
Wow for once a Friday that doesn’t feel like it has come around too soon!
Productively, this week has been really good for everyone in the office. Starting with your regular narrator here, the design department continued to create logo work with Shake Dance Crew for two more dance groups. Both had distinct styles, polar-opposites of each in fact, which made for a fun few hours of mock up and research. The end results were liked for both items and will be appearing soon enough on their garments.
As for the dance garments, our printing team headed up by Gem has spent the week going through the first batch of tops with the initial dance logo. The finish is great and we are very pleased with them. Our own logo will appear on the back (somewhere?...) so publicity should be cool.
BREAKING NEWS
A new video of our loveable Brad Hicks surfaced on Youtube. All a bit of fun for all involved but what we didn’t quite expect was the follow up email from Youtube stating the video had been blocked in about 50+ countries!!! Could it be Brads dance skills? Or maybe his frequent need to bare skin to anyone he’s known for more than 10 minutes? No. Unfortunately the truth is far simpler and far less exciting. Two songs which have appeared in the video only for comic timing and in no way were added to promote the brand itself were noticed by a record company and therefore we assume either the audio has been muted in these countries or the whole video has been given the strike out. Fortunately no actions need to be taken and the video should be fine in the UK and US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFfHwVuH9w
So we are now one of those outsider brands that have been banned! Good or bad, we’ll run with it for now.
And run with it we shall. Next on the list is new design for clothes so hear more about that next week.
I whip my hair back and forth...
Mark
Productively, this week has been really good for everyone in the office. Starting with your regular narrator here, the design department continued to create logo work with Shake Dance Crew for two more dance groups. Both had distinct styles, polar-opposites of each in fact, which made for a fun few hours of mock up and research. The end results were liked for both items and will be appearing soon enough on their garments.
As for the dance garments, our printing team headed up by Gem has spent the week going through the first batch of tops with the initial dance logo. The finish is great and we are very pleased with them. Our own logo will appear on the back (somewhere?...) so publicity should be cool.
BREAKING NEWS
A new video of our loveable Brad Hicks surfaced on Youtube. All a bit of fun for all involved but what we didn’t quite expect was the follow up email from Youtube stating the video had been blocked in about 50+ countries!!! Could it be Brads dance skills? Or maybe his frequent need to bare skin to anyone he’s known for more than 10 minutes? No. Unfortunately the truth is far simpler and far less exciting. Two songs which have appeared in the video only for comic timing and in no way were added to promote the brand itself were noticed by a record company and therefore we assume either the audio has been muted in these countries or the whole video has been given the strike out. Fortunately no actions need to be taken and the video should be fine in the UK and US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFfHwVuH9w
So we are now one of those outsider brands that have been banned! Good or bad, we’ll run with it for now.
And run with it we shall. Next on the list is new design for clothes so hear more about that next week.
I whip my hair back and forth...
Mark
Friday, 3 December 2010
Brrrrrrrrr!
Friday is blog day here at L&R HQ. So what’s been going on?
Well the biggest news breaker we have would be the sponsoring/partnership of dance group Shake! We are proud to announce we have joined forces with Shake and their multiple dance crews to help promote the varying styles currently circulating!
With this came an enjoyable week of logo design for each crew of which will soon be seen on their gear when performing. We shall keep you informed...
As for our ads in national sports mags, we have sent off the last two to the next Sidewalk issue and Surfers Path so if you are readers of the mags, check them out!
If you are part of the UK (and apparently see the news from as far as the US) then you may have noticed the bit of snow we got recently. To say it’s been cold in the HQ is an understatement (I write this to you all with gloves on!) so while work is important, so is play time. Being the highly creative one (glad you all agree there) I joined the many cold, tired and numb peoples in building a snowman! This particular one is a doorman for us so if your names not down, you’re not coming in!
I guess until the snow/ice lets up the work will continue to be put on the backburner but with things gearing towards Christmas, we hope you all can splash out a little on each other with some L&R clothing at http://www.leftandright.co.uk/
Until next time, enjoy the snow
Mark the creative yet rather cold blogger...
Well the biggest news breaker we have would be the sponsoring/partnership of dance group Shake! We are proud to announce we have joined forces with Shake and their multiple dance crews to help promote the varying styles currently circulating!
With this came an enjoyable week of logo design for each crew of which will soon be seen on their gear when performing. We shall keep you informed...
As for our ads in national sports mags, we have sent off the last two to the next Sidewalk issue and Surfers Path so if you are readers of the mags, check them out!
If you are part of the UK (and apparently see the news from as far as the US) then you may have noticed the bit of snow we got recently. To say it’s been cold in the HQ is an understatement (I write this to you all with gloves on!) so while work is important, so is play time. Being the highly creative one (glad you all agree there) I joined the many cold, tired and numb peoples in building a snowman! This particular one is a doorman for us so if your names not down, you’re not coming in!
I guess until the snow/ice lets up the work will continue to be put on the backburner but with things gearing towards Christmas, we hope you all can splash out a little on each other with some L&R clothing at http://www.leftandright.co.uk/
Until next time, enjoy the snow
Mark the creative yet rather cold blogger...
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