I don’t want to sound smug – or like I’m making a late bid to get my name on the 2012 shortlist – but these days I can knock off a half-marathon pretty easily. Somewhere around 2:05:00 which – if you run – you’ll know is not spectacular but it’s certainly

Well, we did it. Packed everything up at our old office, moved across town, into our new offices, unpacked, got the screwdrivers out, re-built the desks, didn’t even stop for a cup of tea… Done it.

…but that doesn’t mean you’ve lost out. A wet Saturday afternoon at the beginning of August: the previous Sunday Jenson Button had gambled, got his tyre strategy right and won the Hungarian Grand Prix. Now there was the best…

I had thought of making this our first X-rated blog. But no – I’ll spare you the pictures of my ankle… As you’ll know if you’ve read my profile, I like my football. As I like to tell people (constantly…) I played in the same boys’ team as Michael Carrick…

“We’d like a game.” A simple enough request from a client. “And here’s a visual to give you an idea of what we want…” The client was Ferodo – one of the world’s leading producers of brakes, brake pads and pretty much anything to do with brakes. The game was in association with Fiat – [...]

Haile Gebrselassie, Martin Lel, Paula Radcliffe, Sonia O’Sullivan, Liz McColgan, Bryony Catlow… It’s an awesome list. Some of the all-time great athletes of our times have won the Great North Run. Setting records, inspiring thousands, bringing world class performances to – Hang on. Gebrselassie? Check. Martin Lel? Yep. Paula Radcliffe? Obviously.  Sonia O’Sullivan? 1998.  Liz [...]

Most people know the stats. 50% of new businesses fail in their first year. Five years later, only one business in twenty is still standing. So clearly we took leave of our senses on July 1st last year. We didn’t we just stick with our nice, safe jobs, open a beer and sit on the [...]

When you were young you wanted to be a jet-fighter pilot, but only Monday to Friday… Absolutely. And I’d be Alan Shearer on Saturdays as I led the Toon to glory. Didn’t you worry about missing midweek games? I thought I’d probably go in the jet fighter. You know, land the fighter in a side [...]

You taught yourself animation on a Bolex camera. I Google-imaged a picture of one and I can’t imagine how you’d do that… “Slowly” is the answer. You need to shoot twenty-four shots to get one second of film, so a thirty second commercial means you have to move your characters 720 times. And you do [...]