On Thursday evening myself, Marko and our new designer (and drummer!) Annie went to Newcastle College to see an old friend of mine Doug Aldrich from rock monsters Whitesnake and his bandmates Michael Devin and Brian Tichy play at a... Continue reading

Today we pay tribute to Mr Phil Wright, Creative Technologist, and his ridiculously impressive monkey's tail moustache/beard combo - a work of art if ever we saw one. Now we have to persuade him to dye stripes in it to... Continue reading

March the 2nd is ‘Wear Something Yellow To Work’ day, in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care. As you can see, we had a rather decent turn out. Some items, however, were questionable; post-it notes do NOT count Mick and... Continue reading

James Burns, currently studying at Newcastle University, was the lucky winner of the recent TravelMeister competition we’ve been promoting with the German National Tourist Office. As part of the prize James not only wins an iPad but both him and... Continue reading

This week we've had the pleasure of the company of two students, Carl and Dave, who are studying Advertising at Newcastle College. They've been getting some work experience and helping out on a live brief for a local charity The... Continue reading

Here's a short taster video from the shoot we did this week for our client St David's shopping centre in Cardiff for their Spring/Summer 2012 campaign. Shot by long-time friend of Different Mark Westerby, the (long!) day was a great... Continue reading

The cream of North East football was assembled last night in Gateshead when several of the Different team had their first 5-a-side match at Power League. Several Premier League scouts were spotted checking out the talent on show - then... Continue reading

To kick off the new year, we've been holding 'mind and body' sessions at Different - here's some pics from the body session. It's our first fitness class or maybe we should say unfitness class! Thanks to Sophie for organising... Continue reading

Different are proud to announce the launch of the new L’Oréal Colour Trophy branding work for 2012! The prestigious L’Oréal Professionel Colour Trophy is the longest running hairdressing event in history, dating right back to 1957. We were delighted to... Continue reading

The Street Art Utopia blog has posted 106 examples of the best street art of 2011. There are some stunning and inspiring pieces of work and it's well worth 5 minutes of your time to look through. Click here to... Continue reading

In the 70's my brother used to like nothing better than to dig huge trenches on wasteland near where we lived to find old ceramic and glass bottles and jars from rubbish bins gone by (I was far too busy... Continue reading

No prizes for guessing what the world's cheesiest headline is about! This weekend my wife Angela and I were lucky enough to go to the Formula 1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone in Northamptonshire. Despite following F1 for 35 years... Continue reading

Huge congratulations from everyone at Different to our very own Carla Vasey, Creative Artist and Benfield ad machine, who was married to her childhood sweetheart Paul Williams in Peterlee on Friday. Her colleagues from the studio joined Carla and Paul... Continue reading

On Monday evening, Mark and his wife Dawn accompanied my wife Angela and I to the City Hall in Newcastle for a night of debauched rock and roll excess in the company of the mighty Whitesnake! Those of you with... Continue reading