Once Upon a Time in America
The lovely people at PlayStation invited us out to E3 in LA last week. It’s the global pow-wow for the movers and shakers in the gaming and entertainment industry. Here’s a shameless reminder of some...
View ArticleTwo Weddings, No Funerals
Mrs Corlett (Née Murray) isn’t the only one to have enjoyed a big day recently: the Talented Mr Preece, our Senior Interactive Designer, has just returned from his honeymoon. Whilst we don’t have any...
View ArticleOwen’s New Umbro Video
Stephen Owen, not Michael. Although when you watch the video below that Ste filmed for Umbro, I think you’ll agree the similarities are uncanny. Both Ste and Michael look no more than twelve years old....
View ArticleThe Site of Music
You may have already seen Music’s cover and feature in August’s Creative Review. If you haven’t, and you have £5.70 to spare I recommend picking up a copy. If you haven’t, and you don’t have £5.70 to...
View ArticleLOVE & Marriage
Taking the LOVE 2009 wedding count to three at the weekend was our designer Mr Rory Sutherland and his lovely bride Eleanor. Here’s a picture of the happy couple: Congratulations guys – hope the surf’s...
View ArticleClass of ’09
Dear Abby, Adam, Alex, Alex, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andrew, Amit, Anna, Anthony, Anthony, Ashley, Ben, Ben, Becky, Charlotte, Christopher, Christopher, Chris, Clint, Daniel, Danny, Dany, David, Dean,...
View ArticleClass of 09 – Round 2
Last night we had eight young and talented designers and two young and talented copywriters in the agency with their portfolios. Shortly before they arrived I had a conversation with a member of the...
View ArticleNo Pain, No Gain, and No Babies.
Two things of varying degrees of pain happened over the weekend. Firstly our Finance Director Mr Paul Chorlton completed the Great North Run in a more than respectable 2 hours nine minutes, raising...
View ArticleRichard’s Big Day
As some of you will have already read our joint-MD Richard Hall left us on Wednesday to go traveling. He’s off to Peru, where, quite possibly he will see some stuff. Peruvian stuff. Although Rich has...
View ArticleIn Case Of Emergency
After doing a Slightly-Longer-Than-60-Minute-Makeover at Umbro’s offices we’ve started to turn our attention to our own building. Sadly since we moved in three years ago we haven’t really done that...
View ArticleAll He Wants For Christmas Is You
After a rather lazy 30-second search on Google I found The Times’ Top Ten Gifts for Men, 2009. They are, in reverse order: 10. A sonic scrubber 9. A wall storage cycle rack 8. A laser spirit level 7. A...
View ArticlePorridge
Ste Owen has ventured into the brave new world (for him) of porridge for breakfast instead of his usual Coco Pops or Frosties. He’s looking for some inspiration to liven up his new ‘Paw Ridge’. A...
View ArticleTo brew, or not to brew…?
The Brew. Honest, reliable, friend. An ice-breaker. A comfort. An all-round good egg. Yep, we like brews… But do we? … Really? There are strange fancy boxes in the office kitchen. Spotted them next to...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN TO K&G X10 LAUNCH
The 12th of April 2010 marks the end of a 6 months labour of LOVE with the launch of ‘Korpi & Gordon X10’, the book we have created for contemporary Scandinavian textile designers Korpi &...
View ArticleBelow, Job*
Are you an experienced designer of top (shelf) digital stuff? Do you pump out web/digital design like there’s no tomorrow? Do you get all hot and bothered over ideas getting it on with concepts? Do...
View ArticleLOVE makes the FT
Our Chris was quoted in the FT last week in a Special Report about the North West Creative and Digital Industry. This is a seminal moment for LOVE as we get a comment in a real grown up paper! Well...
View ArticleChris Conlan Caption Competition
It’s Chris Conlan’s birthday today. Friend, boss, nature lover, granddad, Chris is an inspiration to us all. Happy birthday mate from everyone here at LOVE HQ. We usually make a hideously offensive...
View ArticleNew People
We’ve got a couple of new starters to introduce. First up is designer Alan Wardle, who joins us after ten years working in publishing, most recently at Computer Arts Projects magazine in Bath. His...
View ArticleLOVE 1350
Our new global campaign for Umbro sportswear is all about how you live your life in the 1350 minutes of the day away from the 90 mins on the pitch. In the interests of science, we polled the LOVE...
View ArticleEmployee of the month…
This months award goes to our Ste who has managed to get to 1st in the world (out of 2,640,158 million people) in the fantasy football league! POSSIBLE END LINES: Well done Ste! And yes before anyone...
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