After a three-way pitch, Stand won the project to create and apply a new brand identity for Columba 1400.

Columba 1400’s purpose is simple; to help young people from tough realities realise that they already have the inner greatness and confidence to transform their own lives.

Columba 1400 has been established for ten years, working from its headquarters in Staffin, Skye, and has recently added a second centre in a truly inspirational setting at Ardoch, Loch Lomond. They offer programmes for children and adults from the corporate world, sometimes working alongside to benefit each other.

Stand were present at the opening, along with the charities patron HRH The Princess Royaland a wealth of trustees, sponsors, supporters and graduates from the programs.

The new identity looked fantastic flying in the wind, and we look forward to rolling it outacross their website and other corporate materials in the coming months.

We thought this was a great, interactive way of engaging music lovers in a rock bar.  The concept is from Almap/BBDO in Brazil for Billboard Magazine.  The Flickr collection can be seen here:

Billboard Magazine video instalation from Marcos Kotlhar on Vimeo.

Why do Japanese DJs just make everything look instantly appealing?This engaging piece of film is to promote Nike’s new Free Run+ shoe which claims to be so flexible that it’s as close you can get to barefoot running.I’m off to Achilles Heel tomorrow to invest in a new pair of running trainers before the Women’s 10k next week.  I’ll see what they say about these bad boys.Oh, and I love how they had to put this caveat on the endframe: 

Spotted here by our in-house Japanophile, Mr Paul Lambert, check out the dedication of these Lady Gaga fans en route to her gig in Tokyo.  You gotta hand it to them, they know how to dress up for an occasion don’t they?God, I miss Tokyo, and feeling so plain and boring every day.

…whilst taking a stroll outside on this fine sunny day, we stumbled across this peculiar and mysterious place called Vestiges Park, an outdoor exhibition full of surprises, and worth a visit!

http://www.lowsalt.org.uk/vestigespark.html

 Our new designer Colin celebrated his first (31st) birthday since starting at Stand.Following Stand tradition we all helped him eat cake, and wrote mildly humorouscomments in his card…Happy Birthday Colin!

Well, Colin and I have had a whirlwind trip to Skye and back to visit the spiritual home of our newest client, the wonderful Columba 1400.   It included:

• 422 miles of driving,
• 2 (completely unnecessary) trips to McDonalds in Fort William (woops),
• a very warm welcome by the ever-enthusiastic Rhona,
• a famous Columba 1400 hot chocolate to sample on arrival,
• a fab tour around the Centre by the lovely Jackie,
• a great session sharing our ideas with the wider Columba 1400 team,
• a lovely dinner with some rather inspirational people,
• 1 bottle of red wine (no need really) while chatting to Sheena until midnight,
• an overnight stay in the beautiful Quiraing Lodge,
• Colin taking LOTS of photographs of the place

…and finally, a refreshed perspective on life and what really matters.  Happy days. View Larger Map

Time to move back to our old/new/own office.   Much as we’ve enjoyed the delights of lunch at WTMS and easy access to the shops at lunch time, we’re all looking forward getting back to normal, and to the charms of the team at Piece.

Hopefully there will be no more floods.   But given the track record, who knows.Anyway, we’re celebrating the return to our own place with a couple of exciting new client meetings on Tuesday and Thursday.   Life is good. : )

We’re like the littlest hobos these days with all these office moves.  But since our flood(s) have ruined our new office we are having to move out completely so they can take the ceiling/walls etc down so they can make sure it doesn’t happen again.Anyway, we’ve found a lovely new temporary place to ‘live’, at 126 West Regent Street, Glasgow.  It’s a serviced office in the Griffin Business Centre so it’s a nice, central location.We hope we’ll only be out of our own place for 4 weeks but watch this space for updates.The main telephone number will just be redirected to our new place so 0141 222 2999 is still the best way to get in touch.

The lovely Paul Lambert passed this round this little peach from the wonderful David Shrigley.  It’s more commercial than I would have expected from him and more edgy than I would ever have credited Pringle with.

I love it.  See what you think.

Email’s working again.  The main phone line’s been rerouted to Athene’s mobile too so you can get through to us on the usual number.

Just trying to work out what damage has been done to the rest of the office.  : (

Our lovely, new office has been flooded (AGAIN!) so for the moment our mail server is down.  If you need to get a hold of us then please use the old fashioned telephone to call us on our mobiles.

Handily, our main phone line comes through our broadband connection, so helpfully when you dial 0141 222 2999 at the moment the lovely lady from BT says ‘the number you have dialled has not been recognised, please check and try again’.

We’ll let you know as soon as we’re up and running from the office again.  In the mean time, we’re all working from home.