Hello and Welcome....

A whole world of Walkman...

2009-01-30T09:01:00.000-08:00

...a big one for the boys in the concepting for popular site Sony's Walkman Worlds...there cosmic be the first screen you see...

Rob and Dip.x

Gridtastic...

2009-01-30T08:56:00.000-08:00

...Fooks did quite alot of work on the becks site and Fusions campaign...example of such below...

Fooks.x

It was christmas time...

2009-01-30T08:51:00.000-08:00

...and time to unwrap with Vodafone..

..and here it is in the wider world...

Anna and Summer.x

Sony lifestyle...

2009-01-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

...for the vaio..

Anna and Summer.x

And they all fall down...

2009-01-30T08:46:00.001-08:00

..anna and summers dominoes all fall down..

Anna and Summer.x

We like drinking...

2009-01-30T08:02:00.000-08:00

...becks at dare. Heres rob and dips concept for the fusions event banner...

Rob and Dip.x

Another Banner from the schoolers....

2009-01-30T07:39:00.000-08:00

Anna and summer on Vodafones latest campaign, built by Fooks...

The girls concept also applied to escualtor panels on tube:

Anna, sSummer, and Fooks.x

And again...

2009-01-30T07:24:00.000-08:00

..another of the chaps concepts...

Rob and dip.x

Cherry picking...

2009-01-30T07:21:00.000-08:00

..barclays MPU from the creative tour de force of Rob and Dip..

The boys.x

Expand time...

2009-01-30T07:13:00.001-08:00

Anna and Summers concept for Sony expandable banner..bootylicious...

To see the expandable banner click here.

Anna and Summer.x

The nook...

2009-01-30T06:59:00.000-08:00

..London's smallest gallery space...set up by lukey stenzhorn, a graduate from last years dareschool, the nook is a small exhibition space for artists outside of Dare..currently exhibiting is an ex Falmouth uni friend Alex Turvey..pop on down!

Blog is here.

Slow-mo Fooks...

2009-01-30T04:33:00.000-08:00

..captain Green made this stop frame animation from the first Dare FIFA tournement in the pipe and slippers..whats up with my eyebrows?

Thats green at the front, and my hand stuck in his Rudi Voller hair.

To see in full click here.

Fooks.x

Hold the front page...

2009-01-30T04:29:00.000-08:00

..Dip and rob are front page news for this page takeover concepted by them and built by 'pure silk' Nadeem..

To see in situ click here...

Rob and Dip.x

Meet the neighbours...

2009-01-30T04:21:00.001-08:00

...back to what we like best (after hard work)...

so back in September the 'Noho' design agencies inc. Fallon, ilevel, dare and grand union went on a big bender bonding session around local pubs. The booze was free, as was the jelly. Safe to say we all had alot of fun, Fooks ended up in a bus depot in Walthamstow at 5am and Graves Morris decided to sleep leaning on the railings outside dare...awesome.

What is Viveros' game?

Filmtastic Nokia...

2009-01-30T04:07:00.000-08:00

..one of my first full builds...assisted by the goff-father...ta blood.

Fooks.x

Prism animation...

2009-01-30T03:53:00.000-08:00

...for sony ericsson conference in Athens, these animations were on plasmas on stage, one of my most complex projects so far...deal with the world of social networks. I heart twitter.

To see in animation click here.

Fooks.x

Some more vodafone retail...

2009-01-30T03:50:00.000-08:00

its a vodafone frenzy...

Fooks.x

Flashing Fooks....

2009-01-30T03:44:00.000-08:00

Flash build for new samsung phone...

Fooks.x

Sony vaio...

2009-01-30T03:41:00.001-08:00

Anna and Summers concept for sony vaio AW laptop....

Anna and Summer.x

Vodafone plasma...

2009-01-30T03:10:00.000-08:00

The work of young Anna and Summer once again...this was a concept for instore scrrens at Vodafone stores across the country...great idea and beautifully executed. Fine work all round..

Click here to view

and here we are...

Anna and Summer.x

Working together...

2009-01-30T03:04:00.000-08:00

So we thought a nice start would be a dareschool banner through and through...anna and summer produced the concept and Fooks did the flash build. We are working increasingly on vodafone together, shows what can happen in a year we guess...

Fooks, Summer and Anna.x

Dareschool end of term review...

2009-01-30T02:28:00.000-08:00

...so we are now finished at Dareschool and I am pleased to announce all five of us have been taken on full time...Fank you Dare! We have neglected the blog a bit of recent months as we have all been working so hard (most of the time). In order to let you see what we've been up we've decided to upload some of our best bits of work from the year (and a few parties). There is no dareschool running this year but hopefully will be back in force in 10' (looks weird I meant 2010). Anyway its been a pleasure, Dareschool has been the best intro to the industry for all of us....enjoy.x

The 08' dareschoolers.x

DARESCHOOL WINS YIPPEE!...

2008-10-23T13:55:00.001-07:00

..so last night was the campaign big awards at the The Grosvenor Hotel, and the dareschool site/scheme won an award...

Alan Aldridge...

2008-10-14T04:00:00.001-07:00

..so last night I went to the Design Museum on Londons southbank to go to the launch party for Alan Aldridges retrospective 'The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes'. Hes worked for many a client, most famously the beatles, the stones, And Warhol and penguin books. A uni friend works for the design studio which curated the exhibition and did a marvellous job, was a cool night with lots of free champagne. It runs from the 10th October to January 25th.

fooks.x

Banners galore...

2008-10-09T04:10:00.000-07:00

...so we were looking for a nice place to go for a beer and were sent this link by Lukey S...imagine our joy to find two dareschool banners on one page. Rob and Dips concept at the top and Ians built banner on the right.

This pubs giving me good vibes.

YCN/This is studio/ Nike...

2008-10-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

So I got an extended lunch last week to go and check out a free YCN orgainsed chat in conjunction with Nike and little design company this is studio. It was held at a nike pop up store in shoreditch and was a talk about the company and screenprinting. Was really cool and got lots of freebies....

Creative bowling.....

2008-10-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

So the kind people of dare (and particular ta to Brooky B) decided everyone deserved a treat so took us bowling down the road, much crap bowling was done, much county under 16 standard bowling was done (Ash) and most importantly lots of free beer was drunk...

Dare school gets nomination!....

2008-10-01T09:24:00.000-07:00

....for best graduate scheme in advertising, we'll keep you posted!

Creatives?....

2008-10-01T09:21:00.000-07:00

Cheque shirt...check

jeans....check

trainers...check

Fooks, dip, rob, ash and ricardo, staple designers wear.

Becks continued....

2008-10-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

And he's some videos of how the below were created....
Beck's Live Studio - Guest 22

Beck's Live Studio - Ian Fooks - Video 6

Beck's Live Studio - Guest 6

fooks.x

becks fusions, mixer, live studio...

2008-10-01T08:56:00.000-07:00

So Dare won the Becks account back in march time and since then have been working on a variety of very interesting projects with them, ian worked on the initial logo designs (see older posts)for the becks fusions gigis in manchester feat. Massive attack and santogold amongst others, and the very good mixer.

Probably the highlight was the becks live studio in September....

(Thats Fooks via Flo Heiss blog)

The live studio was a unique online project by which a week long live video feed from studios in north London were on the Becks site, this consisted of YCN competition winners and various special guests creating artwork over 4 minute long tracks remixed by visitors to the Becks mixer.

Heres some of fooks' attempts:

Banner crazy...

2008-10-01T08:46:00.000-07:00

...Dare create many a banner, vodafone seem to take over facebook and many other sites so it's good to see the concepts going live, heres one for samsung omnia, based on the idea 'everything in one touch'....

rob and dip.x

Update.....

2008-10-01T08:41:00.000-07:00

...The old blog had been much neglected of late, we apologise for anyone wanting to see what we've been up to, in truth we've been v busy being dareschoolers, lots of work, lots of parties, we're nearing the end of our time but we will be updating the site over the next week or so telling you what we've been up to...

South west is best....

2008-07-30T03:51:00.001-07:00

I know graves-morris will agree with me when I say the south west produces the finest students in all the land* (hope your enjoying the summer falmouth).

(Ps:*And Bucks uni obviously)

"The greatest Mistry of them all?"

2008-07-24T02:50:00.000-07:00

So with a new Mistry (Rohit) alongside are own dareschool Dip joining dare it was down to captain Green and dare fc to answer the question on everyones lips...'Who is the greatest Mistry of them all?'. After a tense game pitting Fooks against his old foe Dip. Im afraid to say Dip is not the greatest Mistry of them all. 9-5 at the final whistle.

The big move...

2008-06-30T07:21:00.000-07:00

So Dare continues to grow and that means we need more space (and our own bar in house)Friday was the big move which resulted in a bit of a party, games and the quiz at regents park got ruined by the great British summer time, but a local bar was the next big thing. Fooks, Mistry and Graves-morris helped with the quizand various other plans with others and it twas a lovely day all round...messy but good...

D&AD New Blood Exhibition 2008...

2008-06-30T07:13:00.000-07:00

was held at Earls Court in the Brompton Hall last week and the kind folk of dare gave us dareschoolers the Tuesday off to go and check out the latest influx of graduates (inc. some of our very own guys)from across the country. Was a really good day of seeing old and new teachers, some really good and exciting work and the odd seminar or two. Photos from Mr Mistry will be uploaded soon...

This is an ad...

2008-06-30T04:49:00.000-07:00

Nick and Toby our joint planning directors at dare have just finished an article for campaigns annual essays entitled 'Advertising Found Dead'. To accompany the essay there is also a blog at the link below. I helped in the design of the blog layout, based on magrittes 'c'est n'est pas une pipe. Take a look and contribute!

www.thisisanad.com

Vodafone e-mail..

2008-06-17T01:50:00.001-07:00

Working for Mr Kuti himself, vodafone are making some interactive emails and I helped in the design. These illustrations were part of the project, click on to view them larger....fooks:)

Ranidaphobia...

2008-06-17T01:43:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I had to take on the responsibilty of dares infamous 'knowing me, knowing you' a brief history of yourself presented to everyone at the company at our first thursday meetings. I shall endevour to upload the whole presentation but for the time being here are some quick illustrations on one thing you may not know about me...my ranidaphobia, a fear of frogs. Fooks:)

Sony mobile widgets...

2008-06-04T07:48:00.001-07:00

Have been working with the mighty midfield maestro John Reidy to design the screens for some new sony ericsson widgets. One is a gps tracking device enabling you to track journeys, and the other is the 'choose it' widget which uses the shake function on the new phones to randomly select photos...see more of this and other exciting projects at... www.darelabs.co.uk
fooks:)

Becks fusions....

2008-06-04T07:35:00.000-07:00

Some experimental photos taken for the development of the becks fusion festival logo which celebrates art and music. This years event is in Manchester this summer with some awesome bands....look out for the new identity coming soon designed by big Dennis C amongst others...fooks:)

Schoolers @ PK

2008-04-24T04:49:00.001-07:00

Pecha Kucha Night is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003. Each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each. The night was really useful and although it lacked the detail into certian areas, the format of presentation was fast, punchy and amusing. In which no one was falling asleep and the atmosphere was roudy. The 20 seconds proved hard for some of the people presenting but this way you were able to see them act under pressure and laugh at their mistakes!

UK YOUNG CREATIVES

2008-04-24T04:48:00.001-07:00

The pressure was on as us schoolers went to represent the holy alliance that is 'Dare' in a young creative comp. We had the extent of a day to come up with a fully fledged campaign that embraced local media based around the vodafone line 'Make the most of now'. The event was set by the Newspaper society and a record number of 24 creative pairs entred the competition from far and wide representing other big agencies as we all battled it out. You will be happy to know that the winner was a ex Dare creative which you can see on the link above! We thoroughly enjoyed the day and took alot from it and are all looking forward for the next one.

We should have done a before and after! But for prides sake we didn't! Rob and Dip ready for the storm!

Anna and Summer deep in thought.

A snippet of D&AD (cross fingers, results coming soon)

2008-04-24T04:06:00.000-07:00

Royal Opera house. Pulling the some what exclusive opera back to things the general public (who are not so educated) can relate to. Drawing our influence from soaps, and reality TV and framing the poster adverts asthough they are for a service or helpline for the issues. The stories are all taken from current productions. You may say we are dumbing it down but we want to remove the stigma thats its only for the rolling classes! Brap!

A kitchen solution for Lakeland taking influence from the Chinese 'lazy susan' but implementing it plus the slight changes for the fridge.

Ogilvy brief to promote Listening over just hearing. We thought we would tie it to a current issue and try to raise awareness.

Lastminute.com - our two executions...

Fashionably lastminute. This poster shows a man rushing to the airport. When you look carefully you realise he has done his buttons up the wrong way. Being spontaneous is cool, people look up to free souls because that is what they truly desire to be themselves. These people’s lives involve enjoying every-minute, without boundaries or complexes. The line fashionably lastminute states this. The mandatory line ‘live every lastminute.com’ will encourage people to embrace this kind of spontaneous. This ad can also be displayed in fashion magazines. On the second execution of this poster campaign we see a girl carrying a suitcase whilst rushing on her way to the airport. As you look down you realise she is wearing tights with different patterns. As before this slight imperfection looked voluntary and stylist.

To see this movie please click here.

To see this banner in situ please click here.

Online Banner on Kelkoo.co.uk and Yahoo.com Homepage
On this banner campaign, we want to encourage viewers to be more spontaneous. We are showing an over-exaggeration of people who use any excuse to go travelling or putting their spare time to good use. Essentially to live and leave spontaneously, using a post-it as a quick farewell note.

Advertising Brief for Breastfeeding sponsored by Best Beginnings:

Through postcard advertising, sell the idea that breastfeeding is a positive choice that young people will want to make when they become parents. Our aim was to show a comparison of Breast milk and Bottle milk ingredient.

Vodafone small business banners

2008-04-24T03:47:00.000-07:00

Free the blog !

2008-04-04T03:08:00.000-07:00

Free the blog is about and inspired by Free the Word!a world literature festival at venues around London's Southbank, 11-13 April 2008. I was asked to give the blog an identity and here it is....

fooks:)

The power of Sure (D&AD2008)

2008-03-14T09:53:00.000-07:00

The people at Dare.

2008-02-13T07:49:00.000-08:00

Since the start of Dare School 2 (all of 3 days ago), we all feel so welcome and that we are now apart of the growing family. Will this stay like this or will the whips come out after a month? Only time will tell.

Thank you all again and keep an eye on the blog for regular updates to see what Dare School 2 have all been getting up to.

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