IT'S NEARLY TIME TO SHAVE

Only a day and a half left of Movember. At Palmer Hargreaves a few of us have been doing it this year (I know their moustaches put mine to shame). 

It's been a fun month, very inchy but well worth it raising £35.00 for the fantastic charity so far, here's my mo space: www.mobro.co/henrybillington. It's such a great idea that the charity has created, and I'm pleasantly surprised how many people take part (it's huge), look around and you'll see someone taking part, if you aren't.

We've also entered ourselves into a competition 'The Drum' are running, with the winners getting a £100 donation towards their Movember efforts. If you have a minute, please can you vote for us (look out for the posing picture above). There's some funny tash's from other agencies too.

I can't wait till I can shave it off now on the 1st of December.

CREATIVE OUT OF HOME AWARDS 2012

Last Thursday evening, I was at the Creative Out of Home Awards (COOH) with my Creative Director from Palmer Hargreaves (PH). It's my first piece of ad work that has been shortlisted for an award, so it was an exiciting evening. Here we are checking out Emirates stadium, where the event was held. 

It was for an ambient sticker I worked on at PH, that was put up in tough locations e.g a tattoo parlours window as a welcome sign for the brand Isuzu Motors for their new pick-up truck the
Isuzu D-Max. The copy reads 'Isuzu D-Max Drivers welcome' 'A tough truck for tough people'.

Our work was nominated alongside huge campaigns for Nike, Disney and Warner Bros. But we sadly lost out to the Grand Prix winner on the night. It was a real pleasure to be placed alongside such huge award winning campaigns. Here is a full list of the awarded work.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

Sorry, I've been reasonably quiet recently. I've been moving into a new flat in Birmingham from my shared house in Leamington Spa.

I'm currently reworking my illustration and art direction pages on my website, for a better user experience, but for now I've linked my art direction page to my Cargo Collective site. I know it's been ages in the making, but now you can finally see some of my advertising work.

MOVEMBER

In the past I've seen people grow some amazing moustaches and it's always made me envious; I never thought I'd be able to grow my own... until now. This month, I'm giving it a go for Movember. I've put my razor away for this fantastic charity, so let's see what happens. My picture is me five days in. It’s going to be a long month. 

Please can you sponsor me and share the link: http://uk.movember.com/mospace/5379257 

INSPIRING QUOTE .10

I was reading an article that was a write up, from an event put on by Creativepool called 'Speakers Corner 1 - Advertising is a Tax' yesterday, and the article ended with this interesting quote, the article is worth a read. Here's a link to it for you: http://blogs.creativepool.co.uk/blog/advertising-is-a-tax/

TWITTER ILLUSTRATION

Last week Twitter added a few new additions, including a new header. Rather than using one of my previous illustrations and repeating it in the header like a lot of other Tweeters are doing. I thought I'd do an illustration specifically for my Twitter page. I wanted to showcase my illustrations, rather than doing a collage of thumbnails, I illustrated a mixture of picture frames for my work to be showcased in. Go and have a look and let me know what you think.

DOG-EAR MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION

I was on Creative Review's (CR) blog a few months ago and stumbled across an article on CR that 'Fallon London' have created this nice little project called 'Dog Ear'. It's basically a bookmark that's created by illustrations and stories submissions. When they have enough submissions they will print the bookmark and spread them around a few selected London book shops. It's a really nice idea and it's free to submit, so send yours in and our work might be in the same bookmark.

I've always been a fan of 'Lost' posters (I've got this fantastic book with some bizarre and wonderfully Lost posters, discover it for yourself http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Found-Posters-around-World/dp/1568983379) so my illustration is the book shops looking for their bookmarks back, my piece is called 'Lost'.