Cast your minds back. Remember when I used to be Planning Director of Dare and Claire Hynes used to be Joint MD? I was the bearded one with wavy arms and she was the tall, unfeasibly glamorous one.
Ever wondered what happened to us? Well, despite the multitude of rumours (coming up with an ill-fated promotional stunt for Pussy Riot, helping launch George Michael’s new single at the Closing Ceremony, doing a little PR for Kate Middleton), we were in fact beavering away on creating a sparkling new agency start-up within the V7i group.
And as of 1st September, we can proudly announce the launch of Mr President. It being merely a little start-up, we have developed small agency syndrome and have hence named it after the biggest, most important thing we could to make ourselves feel better.
Whilst sneaking about under the radar for almost a year, Mr President have been working on lots of briefs for our (amazing) founding client, Bacardi Global. As well as conjuring up campaigns for AXA and a little pro-bono project with LocalGiving.com which is about to go live in October.
You can have a look at a few of our wares on this temporary Tumblr. I designed it. And I'm crap at design. A new shiny site and logo is in the creative department as we speak.
In a few weeks we will be decamping to some new offices in Soho Square with our team of 8 lovely people (mostly Canadians). We will no doubt shout about that when we've nipped to Ikea to buy some chairs to sit on.
In the meantime, we are going to crack open (another) bottle of Martini Prosecco to toast Mr President, and to thank Dare for all the years that myself and Claire were part of the family (as well as for their backing of our new venture). Happy Birthday, Mr President.
Congratulations, great stuff!
Posted by: Paulcampy.wordpress.com | September 15, 2012 at 06:02 PM