Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin... Once upon a time back in the 1990's, I worked at an advertising agency named after its founder Jim Faulds. It was my first job in advertising. In fact it was my first ever salaried job.
I knew nothing about the business other than that I enjoyed doing voiceovers, admired the good stuff that occasionally graced the screen and fancied a shot at it. My ignorance was blissful and complete but in the two and a half years that I spent at Faulds before they fired me, I was lucky to work with some very gifted people. One of them was Adrian Jeffery, who's just set up a new agency called Mighty Small. He and his art director Lindsay Redding came up with this campaign for BBC Radio Scotland, which was directed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Tomato.
I learned recently that - more than ten years later - it is still the most awarded campaign in the history of Scottish Advertising. this is Foggie Bummer, one of the three by Jon Barnbrook.
If I remember correctly, each of the six spots cost £8,000, which wasn't much money then either.
I think they stand the test of time - but I would say that wouldn't I?
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