Purple Circle had another good night at the Cream Awards last night with another Gold for Nottingham Community Housing Association Annual report, NCHA United.
NCHA Annual report, built around the design of a 70’s football programme
We also got a bronze for the work for Nottingham Hoods. They are the new basketball team for Nottingham, where the client liked the design so much, he had it tattooed onto his arm.
Matt, modelling his shiny new Hoods kit
You can see more of that work here. and their Manager Lee English getting his tattoo here.
Overall, that is our 11th and 12th awards of the year, so a pretty good year.
The very lovely Laura from Aura PR in Scotland presenter of the first award
John Lyle with Drum Marketing Award Grand Prix for BeWILDerwood
John Lyle with Richard Draycott Editor of the Drum and all round good manAngela Lawrence of Itero Marketing - Emerging marketeer of the year - Who was my fellow Whooper at the awards as neither of us knew many people there!Keith Vernege of the COI Publications - Chairman of the judges and obviously a very wise man
As promised, here are the pictures from the awards the other night.
Firstly I have to explain the unshaven look. Its a lucky beard. We had an amazing few weeks, winning new business and both my daughter and son winning major football matches. It couldn’t have been anything else but the lucky beard, so it had to stay for these awards.
And the reason I have no dress shirt on is not because I’m trying to be cool, its because I forgot my cufflinks and had to wear the scruffy linen shirt i’d had on all day!
Considering I went to the dinner on my own, not really knowing many people, I ended up chatting to loads of people and having a thoroughly good night out. I guess it’s always better when you win stuff.
When I was standing around in the bar, nursing a beer on my own, Angela Lawrence from Itero came over and just started gabbing away to me. We agreed that if either of us was lucky enough to win an award, we would whoop and holler for each other.
I was up at the Midland Hotel in Manchester last night for the Drum marketing Awards, which had a brilliant judging panel headed by Keith Vernege, Creative Director of the COI, Simon Pestridge – Marketing Director, Nike Uk Ltd, Mark Hardy – Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (PlayStation) and Martine Ainsworth-Wells – Marketing Director for Visit London.
Our shortlist was for BeWILDerwood – Marketing a swamp – in the New product/service strategy. As we’ve never entered a marketing award before (we normally do the design ones) it was a bit of a surprise to actually win the section. Its a nice trophy too.
But then to top it all, we went on to win the overall Grand Prix.
Have a look at the work and the other winners here
But here are the trophies with a poor pic taken on my phone.
Two Drum Marketing Awards – Grand Prix and best new product launch
I’m sure there’ll be some pictures to follow of the Kate Winslet Moments, which I’ll post when I get them.
But it was great to meet some friendly folks from other agencies. All the nice people from Hemisphere, True North, MCMNet, Laura at Aura, Rosie from Oxford Marketing College and Richard and Victoria from the Drum.
Thanks for a great evening and a fuzzy head today.
Johnny Lyle's new brand thinking 