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Posted on: 31 Mar 2009
31.03.09 Realbusiness.co.uk
Our FD, Ben Dunn, has been shortlisted in the Real Business/CBI FDs’ Excellence Awards: 2009.
The category Ben is up for is Young FD of the Year.
The FDs’ Excellence Awards,supported by the CBI, recognise the nation’s exemplary FDs and the principal suppliers of services to the nation`s finance director community. Congratulations Ben and we wish you the best for the next stage in the Awards.
All the team at Wax!
Category: Awards
Posted on: 30 Mar 2009
30.03.09 ISP
The ISP Awards 2009 nominations are announced – after hundreds of hours judging by over 200 industry experts.
And Wax Communications has been nominated in three categories for Waterstone’s ‘The Big Book Bank’: Best Retail Campaign, Best Social Responsibility Campaign and Best Art Direction and Copywriting.
We are all looking forward to the awards ceremony on June 4th!
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks and it’s only going to get busier. So instead of looking to Time Out magazine to relieve this weeks stress I think we might be ready for some Time IN!
Unless you have been preoccupied living in your converted 1 bedroom oak tree in the emerald forest with your cult of pigmy giraffes, you might have noticed Hollywood’s recent obsession with turning graphic novels into summer blockbusters, the most recent of these being: The Watchmen (the bible of graphic novels).
So here are a few New Graphic Novels for you to try before they become big time movies. And by the time your friends ask you to go see them you can respond all poshly and say, ‘Well that sounds nice, however I’ve already read the ummmm graphic novel and the page to screen adaptations are horrendously ghastly and just don’t emmmm truly capsulate the errrrr diagrammatic essences of human emotion pictorially displayed in a reduced time period of 1 hour of visual entertainment’ (or something like that).
Category: Awards
Posted on: 23 Mar 2009
Wax Communications ongoing work for Waterstone’s ‘The Big Book Bank‘ campaign has won the Revolution Innovation Award 2009 in the Retail Category.
The Revolution Innovation Awards recognise the most successful, innovative and well executed digital campaigns ‘that demonstrate innovative thinking and effectiveness’.
The campaign judges believed ‘The Big Book Bank’ campaign “created a powerful and exclusive experience for its target audience, who then made the work famous by telling others about it.”
Sophie Boston, Senior Account Manager at Wax Communications commented:
“The Big Book Bank has proved to be a winning campaign and we are delighted with the way it has activated school children, schools and parents alike”.
Waterstone’s Children’s Marketing Planner commented:
“The Big Book Bank was created to encourage children to read more for fun and share their love of reading. This campaign, devised by Wax Communications has grabbed the imagination of everybody involved and we are delighted with the award for this on-going activity”.
‘The Big Book Bank’ was created to reach out to school children, parents and teachers in a school environment and talk to them in an exciting and innovative way.
The objective is getting schools to sign up to a books and reading activity that achieved a balance of ‘fun’ and ‘education’ which is linked to the National Curriculum, with teachers delivering the activity in the classroom.
Problem: Stuck mid-career, mid-love, mid-life?
Solution: PUPPETS!
By far one of the best performers I have ever since the day of my birth (Sept.09.1982), Ronnie Burket comes to London to bedazzle your mind and curb your mid-life woes until March 28th with his new show, Billy Twinkle Requiem for a Golden Boy at the Barbican, London.
Complete with Saucy burlesque strippers, roller-skating juggler Bumblebear¹s and cruise ship life epiphanies; this is one that should not be missed!
And not to be biased or anything but, Ronnie is a fellow Albertan from a little town called Leftbridge, about an hour or so from where I¹m from in ‘Canerdeer’ (Marc trying a Canadian accent).
So get off your boot an go see em EH?
Peace out
Brydon.
It’s not because these little ladies are black and yellow (too obvious) nor are we working for the Honey Monster (you cynics) – simply that I think there’s something quintessentially British about the bumblebee buzzing around the garden on a hot July day.
Climate change, poisonous pesticides, disappearing hedgerows, a bee virus … whatever the reason, the bee population in the UK is plummeting.
The result is not only less honey on your toast/cereal/yoghurt in the morning but as these little creatures are the very best at pollinating, we could lose many species of wildflowers and plants common to our countryside.
There’s a bunch of folk who’ve got together to do something about this crisis; see more at the Bumblee Bee Conservation Trust and BBC’s Blue Peter is giving away 75,000 free Be Good to Bees packs of wildflower seeds.
I’ve sent off for some, come the spring me and the kids will be doing our bit. In the meantime, please don’t tell my wife – she’s apiphobic!