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Book crit of the future

We like to keep up with the clever young techno Danes of the adworld. So recently we had a skype book crit with…

How to interrogate the product

Stuck for a starting point? The super talented Thomas & Greg here at Grey have designed this helpful…

The Mani

One of the first things you might be asked to do while on placement is write a brand manifesto (mani for short).

What Mr/Mrs Creative Director is asking you to do is write a series of short, clever little sentences that portray a feeling, a tone, a mission and most importantly; an idea.

Hired: Matt & Georgia

We hired another team. In record time. Round of applause for Matt & Georgia.

The art of politely pestering

There’s no rhyme or reason when it comes to contacting creative teams. Sometimes they reply straight away…

Goodbye and hello

Emily and I have really enjoyed our time running the Grey London placement scheme and starting up this blog. Seeing a team or two a week has been a lot of work but hiring two incredible teams; Max & Charlie and Matt & Georgia made it all worth it.

Advertising Dictionary

Nothing says advertising like some rather odd sounding abbreviations and weird old-skool terms that wouldn’t go amiss on The Apprentice.

So to spare your blushes, we’ve collected some of the worst offenders and explained them for you.

Max and Charlie

Emily and I see a lot of teams. One a week at the very minimum. So we feel qualified to say that teams tend to fall into two…

Watford Week

Back in June Watford descended on Grey towers for 5 days. They were keen as hell. Totally mad in a mostly brilliant kind of way. They did a brief a day. And come the epic review on Friday, each team had an impressive pile of scribbled layout paper next to them.