Feb 16/10

The Lego Table.

Posted by boysandgirls

At Boys and Girls, we like to do things a little differently. So when it came to making a boardroom table, we eschewed the traditional mahogany and went straight for Lego. It seemed like the “Daringly Simple” thing to do.

Here’s how Andrew and Gearoid from Android took 28,000 pieces of

Feb 16/10

Believe the hype.

Posted by Patrick

You’ve got to love the Superbowl.

It’s probably the only sporting occasion that lives up to the hype around it.

This year was no exception. The New Orleans Saints beating the heavy favorites the Indianapolis Colts in an emotional tribute to a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

You couldn’t script it!

Actually they

Feb 16/10

Live Pancake update – the queue forms

Posted by Patrick
Feb 16/10

Practice what you preach – Live pancake update!

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Resident pastry chef, Chris Upton, of Chez Boys and Girls prepares a feast of crepes for the hard working staff.

Feb 15/10

It’s a load of crepe.

Posted by Patrick

We asked ourselves – what is our favourite pancake of all time? The votes ranged from the traditional lemon and sugar crepes to the more adventurous highland raspberry and clotted cream scotch pancakes.

But in true Cowell style, I’m going to ignore everyone elses vote and select two of my own

Feb 15/10

Logorama

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Logorama from www.club-construct.com on Vimeo.

This is brilliant.

Oscar nominated short film by H5 group. The level of detail is phenomenal.

by Patrick

Feb 11/10

Down pixels boys. We're on virtual strike.

Posted by boysandgirls

In Belgium this week almost 20 agencies have closed their websites and replaced them with an open letter to clients that runs across their home pages, from one agency’s site to the next (http://www.famous.be).

The letter is going to stay up for one week to express their unhappiness with how the

Feb 11/10

The Halifax of life.

Posted by boysandgirls

It is sad, but none too surprising, to see the announcement that Halifax are too pull out of retail banking in Ireland. Given the state of the general economy, the banking sector and the previously key property sector they would have been reliant upon they probably saw the cost of

Feb 02/10

Social minded media

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There is a deeply interesting point made in Rory Sutherland’s blog this week which talks about the real potential for social media

http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/rory_sutherlands_blog/archive/2010/01/31/an-entirely-new-role-for-brands-in-social-media.aspx

“ it will become possible once we learn to use the internet to enable large groups of people to get together and collectively microfund public goods. This development would

Feb 02/10

If this blog was called “ABC, you know me” you would read it

Posted by boysandgirls

Encouraging research to support the choice of ‘Boys and Girls’ as a name. Yes people, cognitive fluency is the psychology topic de jour. And “psychologists have determined, for example, that shares in companies with easy-to-pronounce names do indeed significantly outperform those with hard-to-pronounce names” .

More seriously, some interesting thoughts for