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Iliotibial Band Syndrome causes pain. Iliotibial Band Syndrome is thigh gristle running over the bony prominence on the side of the knee. Iliotibial Band Syndrome only hurts when the knee is moving. Afflicted knees hurt when you run. Running is often a pre-requisite for the Great North Run. Completing the Great North Run is often a pre-requisite for receiving the money pledged by your work colleagues. Adam got Iliotobial Band Syndrome. Adam didn’t run the Great North Run. Adam now has to do... [more]

Two posts. Two rather poor attempts to adapt song lyrics into titles. All a bit formulaic really. Must try harder. Anyway, those of you who know a place called Common in Manchester’s Northern Quarter will know they change their decoration more often than [insert name of someone who is famous for wearing lots of different ties] changes their ties. Although decoration probably isn’t the right word to use. Perhaps gallery would be more appropriate. Or exhibition. Or interior installations.... [more]

After a week of admiring the genuine hilarity of the polls, now really feels like the time to move on. And so my thanks goes out to Mr John Goddard for sending me this short film about rolls. B Rolls to be precise. Expect further posts in the coming weeks involving molls, dolls, tolls, and possibly even voles, holes and soles. And there’s also this link to a game about what to do if you’re a professional golfer with several  millions in the bank and you get caught cheating on your wife... [more]

You’ve probably all heard the story about how Santa was originally green, then Coke turned him red and he’s been that colour ever since. Well, he’s now back in green, and rallying people to do their bit for the environment. Green Santa is an idea originally created by Chief Productions, who teamed up with MAKE (LOVE’s new ‘research and development unit’ – can’t we think of a better way of saying this?) to help turn it into a new, interactive experience.... [more]

We’ve been doing some new work with Umbro. If you’ve got a particularly strong view on whether goal-line technology should be introduced in football, whether women footballers should be paid the same as men or whether fans should have the right to choose to stand up at football matches, then have your say at the new Umbro website designed and built by Swamp. The plan is to conduct the biggest ever global survey of football fans attitudes to the modern game. And if the pope is getting... [more]

I’ve never read the book Business For Dummies, nor am I 100% sure that one exists with that title. But if it does, I’m fairly certain that quite near the front, like page 1, there’ll be a passage that says “If you are attending an international design conference in China, don’t forget to take your business cards with you, otherwise you’ll look stupid.” Fortunately Alistair bought plenty with him, but now everyone thinks we’re both called Alistair Sim.... [more]

There once was an utterly pointless blog called standinaqueue, recording the nationwide queuing experiences of one William Deed. I say utterly pointless: it was also utterly brilliant. We even had William come in for a couple of weeks to work with us (we forgot to tell him about the dodgy loo flush in the gents’ toilets) and everything looked rosey in the garden of Deed. And like that *blows hand* he’s gone. Vanished into thin air like Keyser Soze. Some believed that William had caught the “50-year... [more]

Some of you may have recently read in the papers about the tragic slaughter of gorillas in Virunga National Park, in the Congo DRC. Well, this is the exact place that William (who wrote a blog about the curious incident of the log in our bog) has been doing so much work with Wildlife Direct. It’s great that they’re finally getting exposure in the national papers, but obviously terrible that it had to happen in these circumstances. The good news is that there’s plenty you can do to help: a... [more]

It took 5 years to produce, but finally we’ve published the book of LOVE creative work.  We’ve also put together a really nifty mail-pack that we’re sending to loads of clients.  As an extra sweetener they each receive some LOVE branded chocolate plus the big book plus a smaller book which explains the different ways that clients can hire us – small projects, branding projects, massive TV campaigns, consultancy, stunts, books, digital, t-shirts – hell, whatever... [more]