Max and Bens big day out

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Yellow Treehouse

Magic Salad Plate

Morning Fresh dirty dishes

Bleeding Billboard

V Pocket Rocket

Fosters drop the bomb

Tipp-ex shoot the bear

Chatroulette the last exorcism

Old Spice

Chalkbot

Whopper Sacrifice

Million phones

Tap project

The Great Schlep

Puma Index

Marc Echo

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These ads were done by a couple of guys at work, Josh

and Jamie. They are famous for their typical Kiwi style.

We have just found out that they are leaving Colenso

to start their own agency suitably called 'Josh and Jamie'.

We wish them good luck but we are pretty sure they

don't need it!

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For a good example of kiwi deadpan humour check out these virals for 42 below, worth a browse.

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Cult Kiwi vid. Always blow on the pie, Safer communities together. Enjoy

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Big fan of this video, great art direction to go with an original testimony from Dock Ellis.

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Direct Mail sent to Vodafone customers encouraging them not to use their phone while driving.

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2for2, originally uploaded by Max Batten.

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2for2, originally uploaded by Max Batten.

Radio

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We finally got our radio ads made and they are being aired right now. Click the

links to listen. Print execution coming soon...

Vodafone 2 for 2 Pub

Vodafone 2 for 2 Car

Vodafone 2 for 2 Dress

Its been a busy few weeks with lots of briefs coming in and lots of late nights at

work. It's good to be busy, and with only a few weeks left at Colenso we are trying to get as much work done as possible.

We have really got into the swing of things and learnt more about how to present work, and how to approach different briefs.

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It's been a good week for us starting with a few new briefs with more scope for creativity. We showed our road safety ideas to the ECD and got a thumbs up which was great. Yesterday we got another Vodafone brief, this time for an international calls offer, a couple of ideas went to client today so we'll find out how things went tomorrow. We've also been given an interesting brief for Random House Publishers encouraging Kiwis to buy new releases for christmas and support the local economy. Competition work for the Young Guns call for entries is coming along well. We'll be posting work as soon as possible but meanwhile we've got a few more pics.

First ad in print (and a few lessons learned about working with clients). Hello real world.

Weekend trip to Rotorua thermal springs. Quite the smelly place.

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We have been at Colenso BBDO for a couple of weeks now. Long enough to get a couple of ads published, albeit small ones. We have started to learn the ways of the office and how working on a project really goes. The client has the final say, which can be pretty frustrating when they start piling on the mandatory additions.

We have sat in on a recording for a radio ad and a TVC and have also been shown how to present ideas to client and Creative Directors.

Colenso run a program called 'Bacon Factory'. This is where creative briefs are released for everyone, which means that if we come up with the best solution then our ad could be made. This is a great way to get some inspiration and show what you can do on some good creative briefs.

This week we have been working on ideas for a competition called 'Young Guns', as well as branding a new yoghurt strictly for men and brainstorming some road safety campaigns. Pictures are on the way.

We save the traveling for the weekends, renting a car for a couple of days at a time. This weekend we went to the Coromandel, North East of Auckland. The weather was good and we finally got to see some of New Zealand! have a browse.

Men, Sea and trees. Enjoy.

Next stop, New Zealand

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After sweating for 3 days, it was nice to land in a more temperate climate. Although after a few days of New Zealand's spring we miss the heat. City life is pretty spacious compared with Hong Kong. We haven't had a lot of time to explore the great outdoors just yet but heres a couple of pictures to keep you up to speed.

Home sweet home (a 4 bed dorm with a funky smell)

The office

Men in cars

Late night at the TVNZ party, schmoozing with celebs we don't recognize

You can take the boy out of Wolverhampton...

An attempted day at the beach. Shame its winter.

And so it begins...

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First stop Hong Kong. Need we say more? Here's a few snippets from our 3 day tour. Sea sun and Sushi.

Moon cake festival was approaching. We found these cakes in G.O.D. (Goods of desire), a twist on the usual moon cakes you can get your hands on.

G.O.D. is known for taking iconic, traditional Chinese designs and finding modern uses for them. We think they're worth a browse: www.god.com.hk

Efficient public transport...