Brighten Up The Office
If your lucky you have an office instead of a cubical. If your really lucky you have an office that is well looked after and painted in some subtle tones to inspire a relaxing working environment.
If your me you end up in a studio with a bright yellow wall behind you and a bright blue to your right.
This does not provide a perfect environment for the Creative Services crack team that is Jim Brown and myself. So in a Friday afternoon moment it was decided that we should spark the place up a bit, but rather than just obtain artwork or posters from the nearest shop we should think about it.
What better excuse than to make some South Park avatars of ourselves and post up with something that matched.
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What a busy few months
Wow looking back at my site the last article I wrote was nearly 4 months ago.
Damn the time flies when your on the cross roads of life and life changing decisions mean you have to take a break and access where your going.
So if you know me or have followed this blog you will no doubt know that I work as a sales development manager for Oscar Products; a small local packaging wholesaler.
Unfortunately thanks to this sudden movement in the “save the environment and don’t use a carrier bag” inspired by the Daily Mail and green movements.
Now I’m not going to start the whole debate of should you do this or that with your packaging, but what I will say is that this sort of information damages.
The damage this time around was the downturn in business for Oscar Products; so much so that there had to be some serious cost reductions to keep the company afloat. One of those costs was me.
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Lazy Sunday Afternoons
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Something Must Be Wrong?
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