By Joe Wood, Strategy Director, Spark Foundry
Since late March, lockdown has prompted people into a state of domestic introspection. We have each, to one degree or another, been forced to take a good hard look at our own homes. Indeed, according to YouGov, after groceries, DIY is the category in which most people have spent more on since lockdown. With this […]
By Lloyd Moffat, Creative Director at PB Creative
The World has been turned Upside-Down! Chemicals we once demonised for killing the environment are now heralded for helping to keep us safe. Covid is forcing us to make some tough choices between looking after our families today and protecting their futures tomorrow. Over the last four months, we’ve become almost obsessive in our cleaning rituals. Is […]
By Uttara Masting who as Group Strategy Director has spent 20 years in the industry working in Marketing and Advertising. The views expressed here are her own.
Discrimination based on the colour of one’s skin has been prevalent in India for thousands of years. Its evil roots buried deep in the ancient Caste system, an abhorrent (and banned) practise that enables some to live a life of privilege and others to live out their days on the poverty line. The name for […]
By Freddie Sheridan who is Director at Sheridan&Co.
Following the murder of George Floyd at the end of May by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck, and ignored his pleas that he could not breathe, protests around the world have erupted against police violence towards black citizens. Millions of people have come together in marches to show support for the […]
With non-essential stores in England opening, much has been written on the immediate changes that shoppers will experience on the High Street or in town centres. As with supermarkets, Perspex screens, floor markings, hand sanitisers and restrictions on numbers will become the norm. But what are the longer-term changes in property design that could be […]
Why is it that, on average, we are unhealthier than we have ever been yet the healthiest amongst us are the fittest of any previous generation? How can a whopping 13% of the world’s adult population be obese at a time when we are spending over $4.2 trillion on the global wellness category? In fact, the wellness […]
Since lockdown began there has been much media speculation about the long-term impact of Covid-19: how the world, and everything in it, will change. The commentary covers the increasing political unrest, the influence on mental health and the depth and breadth of the inevitable global recession to follow. However, few have talked about the lasting impact of […]
The importance of long-term brand building and consumer trust in strange times by Vaughan Edmonds, Planner, Sense
We find ourselves in incredible times. On 1st January 2020, no one could have predicted where we’d collectively be three months into the new decade. A global health crisis appearing from nowhere, costing lives and straining the world’s already stretched health services. A terrible economic cost, with many jobs lost and businesses folding. There have been […]
BY Katie Maritz – Senior Structural Designer at PB Creative
ERA OF THE GREAT UNWASHED Covid-19 has made all of us wash our hands until they bleed and wash our clothes every time we return from the shops. If that doesn’t chime with your reality, then you may be putting yourself at risk. What seems strange is that, for at least the last year, we have been […]
FEAR has two interpretations: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise
When threatened with adversity and scarcity, unlike we have ever experienced before, we all deal with fear in different ways. No matter what our fears are, human nature takes its course. Scientifically speaking, fear is an emotional response to a ‘perceived’ threat that may or may not happen. In our case, Covid-19 has happened, it’s […]