We produced the Lush Times for Lush Natural Handmade Cosmetics for ten years and provide marketing consultancy when required. We write almost all their copy and the extraordinarily successful Lush website and some for their sister brand B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful. Please visit and buy lovely things to put in the bath and all over your body.
Writing training for Breast Cancer Care was really rewarding. Alex from HR needed someone to help his customer support team to building their skills and confidence when writing replies to their fundraisers.
Three of us lectured for Guildhall University Business School, Hammersmith and West London College and The Chartered Institute of Marketing Student Support Group, evenings and weekends, but we wore ourselves out and gave up. We learned a lot along the way. Our students had an average pass rate of 85% (some just weren't trying).
Recently we've been parachuted into huge organisations like Shell, Cadbury Schweppes and Unilever to help with internal communications and marketing strategy.
Learn to Dream turn your photographs into magnificent works of art; clients include Gered Mankovitz, thousands of happy snappers and The Sony Proud Gallery in Camden. Their team of skilled and really lovely people needed some help to plan their next five years and lyrics writing for their new brochure. We visited, listened, advised and wrote the words.
Sarah's particular interest in brand identity and its evil twin, counterfeiting, led to her latest book The Fake Factor, published by Cyan Books. The Japanese edition came out in November 2006.
Little Max has been connected with the influential not-for-profit organisation 26, a group dedicated to improving the use of words in business and everywhere else they turn up, since it launch at the 2003 London Design Festival. Sarah is a member of the management team. 26's third book, Common Ground, has inspired a series of events funded by the Arts Council which Sarah and Triona are organising.
For Urban Icons we provided a marketing plan and helped to launch the company on a limited budget (and spent the fee on their fantastic recycled furniture).
The Royal Geographical Society gave us the task of producing a marketing plan as part of their Heritage Lottery Fund application for £4m for a new building to house their archives and open them to the public. (Successful!).
We advised on a marketing plan for Hobson's Publishing marketing department when they were short of resources.
Diptic, a culturally based consultancy came to us for advice on how to reach new markets. Museums and galleries should visit this site to see Ferran Bach's original alphabet project.
We got Quires, the stationery supplier, online. Go there for very good value stationery - without paying extra for postage, insurance and many other hidden extras that some less reputable but well known stationery suppliers charge for. QPC also do most of our printing for us.
For The Guardian and Channel 5, we ran Resonance® research projects with our US partners, Gang & Gang. For Channel 5 this resulted in the splendid 'smile' poster campaign.
