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Daily Diary - It's a Family Affair
What do you do when you're a creative agency and you want to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support? You throw your doors open to an art exhibition with some of London's top illustrators and designers of course.
Diary: Christie gets a facial
Neil Christie is one Scot you wouldn't want to cross. Just look at this photo.
Diary: Royal seal of approval
The Thirty Club's chairman, Bill Muirhead, drafted in the big guns at its event last week.
Diary: At sixes and sevens
OK, so who's nicked the silver? The original advertising Rugby 7s trophies have gone missing and, in these straitened times, everyone's a suspect.
Diary: Playing the name game
Hometown, Corner, 101, Gravity Road. How do the start-ups come up with their names?
Diary: More than you can chew
You might know that feeling when a lunch goes bad. But one Canadian creative director may have been put off lunching for life after his recent experience.
Diary: Kindred hustle to title
In the glamorous confines of the Hurricane Room in London's King's Cross last Wednesday, adlanders hit the baize for one of the biggest events in the industry's social calendar, the Campaign Pool Tournament 2012.
Diary: Roses growing on him
It's hard to impress Trevor Beattie. Or so we thought. Diary has discovered the charms of his hood, Canonbury, are having a deep effect on him.
Diary: The height of success
Sir Martin Sorrell has finally got his revenge on his maker, who, possibly in an effort to keep the universe balanced, gave him great wealth and power but was extraordinarily stingy when it came to height.
Diary: A digital downsizing
Struggling to spot the WCRS chief digital officer, Toby Gunton, at industry events?
Diary: Planning her time well
Juggling that work-life balance is a problem for many in adland, but CST The Gate's media planner Louise Wood takes this to extremes.
Diary: Alien stitch-up for Olly
The Argos aliens are doing a fine impression of a dreary suburban family, right down to the mother alien developing a crush on the housewives' favourite cheeky chappie Olly Murs.
Diary: Unlikely Folk heroes
Bravely, M&C Saatchi is looking outside London for its latest business venture and will be startling the locals down in Folkestone this summer with a pop-up ad agency.
Pick of the Week
Pick of the Week - Fold7/Carlsberg
Sara Kimberley likes the fact that she discovers something new every time she watches Carlsberg's "fan academy" ad by Fold7:
Turkey of the Week
Turkey of the Week - In-house agency Spark 44/Jaguar
Jaguar's Homeland-themed ad "how alive are you?" by its in-house agency Spark 44 was a damp squib, in Anne Cassidy's view:
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PICTURE GALLERY
Daily Diary - Picture Gallery: Nabs Big Bash Last night's Nabs Big Bash at Battersea Evolution was aptly themed Heaven and Hell as for many it was just that.
Daily Diary - Picture Gallery: British Arrows Awards Agency creatives were out in force to celebrate the British Arrows Awards 2012.
Daily Diary - Picture Gallery: Creative Circle Awards Creatives from all agencies gathered together for last night's Creative Circle Awards at London's Roundhouse in Chalk Farm.
Daily Diary - Picture Gallery: Best Awards Revellers were out in force at last night's Marketing Agencies Association (MAA) Best Awards held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street.
Picture Gallery: VCCP Clay Pigeon Shooting With VCCP turning 10 this year it seemed fitting for the big guns to come out and celebrate at the West London Shooting School.
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Making the most of mobile
Welcome to the first incarnation of a new element in Campaign in which we invite experts to burrow beneath the surface of the catch-all that is "digital". Google, Isobar Mobile, JWT London, LBI and MBA share their insights on mobile.
