You hear a lot about ad agency rosters and design rosters, but rather less about copywriting rosters. So it's nice to see a company on the scale of Land Securities taking writing seriously enough to create a specific roster of preferred suppliers.
And it's even nicer to be on it. Which, after a brief selection process, I am.
I have actually been working on Land Securities projects for a little while, with designers Radford Wallis. (They're on the corresponding design roster, which includes other great design names like The Chase, Hat-trick, Williams Murray Hamm and GBH.) So I'm really chuffed that this relatively casual relationship has now blossomed into something more official. They've made an honest writer of me.
Geenee, a completely new online brand for home exchange holidays, has just launched its website. And I wrote all the words.
PlayStation's online Keyboard Guitar game, for which I wrote the copy, has been Highly Commended at the Campaign Digital Awards. Good news for me, for Inferno, and for digital agency 10:00AM, who asked me in on the words side. Interminable rock solos all round, I think.
Last night saw the launch of the new D&AD Annual for 2006, with a very civilised party at Mother. It turns out to have been a bit of a bumper year for D&AD, with 24,000 entries from 59 countries. So although I didn't secure a pencil this time round, the fact that my poster got in the book at all is pretty pleasing.
You hear a lot about ad agency rosters and design rosters, but rather less about copywriting rosters. So it's nice to see a company on the scale of Land Securities taking writing seriously enough to create a specific roster of preferred suppliers.