rehabstudio – An obligatory blog
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- Belfast BT7 2JA
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- 77 East Road
- N1 6AH
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And the world presents…. @ The Hospital Club 19/08/10
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rehabstudio Mini-moto GP (Round 1, Belfast)
@adammcpeake dusted off the cobwebs to get the rehabstudio Mini-racer back on the road!
Here’s the course for Round1, Belfast – a grueling 0.096 Miles complete with chicanes, speed bumps & barriers.
And here’s her first run…. Away.
This run had @Papahurley at the wheel, good job he’s great at flash cause he’s crap at following the course… You were supposed to take a right not a left…
rehabstudio presents… Summer Doggin’
Our latest playlist, Summer Doggin is now online, celebrating the HOT summer that has been and hopefully continues well into August… Bring it on.
Featuring:
- Phoenix
- Rubies
- Beach Fossils
- Anoraak
- Caribou
- Delorean
- Classixx
- Crystal Castles
- Barretso
- Futurecop!
- Holy Ghost!
- New Young Pony Club
- Junior Boys
- LCD Soundsystem
- Nightwaves
- Maximum Balloon
- The Little Ones vs Crystal Castles
- YACHT
- The Outrunners
If you havent caught the rest of the series then check them out here:
A hot July at rehabstudio in pictures
Roundup of the past couple of weeks, great summer times with the rehab crew at Wireless (Complete with Missy Miming, Snoop Dog wrapping, LCD boo’ing… ), The Erasmus World Cup Win Dough final and our photoshoot with Christoffer Rudquist for Fisher Clinical services in Allentown, PA.
Wireless Festival
The infamous 2nd flag to the left…
Burles getting her pre-festival warm-up on…
Matt, our RB creative – obviously the first time he has been let out in years
Welcoming Emma (Producer) to the team!
Mr Fisher. Damage. Feck.
Martin & Fisher. It really was only this small.
Erasmus World Cup Win-Dough Final
Tom getting the beers on at the final
The Winner, crazy skills
Fisher Clinical Shoot, Allentown
Christoffer & Yas – “Heeeere’s Johnny!”
The -20° freezer and glasses dont mix.
Post-shoot beers and Tequila…
Trying to shoot the big ass fan
The big ass fan
Truckin’
Christoffer on the New Jersey Turnpike… “You woke up this morning, Got yourself a gun…”
Just Like Selling Ice to the Eskimos… rehabstudio on Getting Your Foot in the Door
It’s that time of year again. The hats have been flung, the diplomas collected, and you can barely hear for the sound of several thousand creative hearts beating up a nervous cacophany… the new wave of graduates is here.
Competition for work is hotter than ever, and experience is everything. But how to get your foot in the door?
Tim Rodgers- founding partner of rehabstudio has some words of wisdom to set you on your way…
We are an agency of around 25 people, so the people we bring in need to be fairly awesome and have lots of super skills.
Every day we get a bunch of portfolios and CVs into the studio. Some of them for jobs we’ve listed; others looking for the chance to come and do a show and tell or asking for a work placement. The majority of these don’t get through, including many of the talented ones – so we’ve decided to give you guys some pointers on how to get noticed…
1. Always wear a nice shirt (AKA write a good covering note.)
Bad moves include:
- Covering emails written in shorthand / slang speak or no speak at all (“Here’s my c.V. thx Fred”).
- Covering notes with no passion for us as a studio and emails clearly sent in bulk ‘cause they forgot to send it via BCC
- CVs full of spelling mistakes & links that don’t work- Over-familiarity and the assumption that if you’re applying to a creative urban company politeness doesn’t apply. That being said we love personality – but just hit the right level. If it doesn’t feel right saying it to your mother then it’s probably not going to work for us.
- And the classic “Hello XXX” (where XXX is one of our competitors; or worse, an agency we don’t even rate…)
So the sloppy crew get short shrift. But we do give time to anyone who’s gone to the trouble of getting the tone right, presenting a respectable portfolio and making us feel they really want to work for us.
2. Only land great punches (AKA Edit your work, a lot.)
There’s no taking away from the fact that you guys are genuinely talented. You’ve aced college and produced some great work. But many don’t seem to understand the kind of experience they need to be interesting to us.
In reality, too many portfolios rest on their laurels. And less really is more. Only the best should be included. Weak work distracts from the best and makes us think the best was a one-off or they had help with it.
3. ALWAYS have a bit on the side AKA Build and create your own projects.
The people who really stand out are the ones with a side project, something they concepted, built and then pushed out into the world – sometimes outside their course or day-job. You have to remember that Facebook was a college project, Google Sketch Up was cooked up in a developer’s bedroom; Twitter was created in 2 weeks by a bunch of developers & the One Million Dollar Homepage kid proved the point by raising cash to pay for his studies.
Our studio is right in the middle of the digital creative space – which is a lawless place. There are no rules and everything’s constantly shifting. Add that with our evolving behavioural changes and the fragmented world of business and ANY idea can become the next big thing.
In the face of that, it’s impossible for colleges to keep pace with every new trend. But what they can equip their students with is the knowledge that they need to get out there, to bank some real-world experience from the moment they start studying, not after they’ve graduated.
Hopefully that’s helped point you in the right direction to a totally different level from the rest.
Words by Tim Rodgers
As published by D&AD 12th July 2010
The Hospital Club 100 – Cast your vote
The Hospital Club (in association with The Independent) has launched The Hospital Club 100 – a national search for the most influential people in the British creative and media industries, with emphasis on current contribution and importance, highlighting not only those who will be influencing Creative Britain’s immediate future, but also in the longer term.
The guys at the hospital have put together the shortlist which includes Hector Proud from Idea Generation, our PR company (Under Established Advertising, Marketing & PR ) & myself, Tim Rodgers, Creative Partner at rehab (Under Emerging Digital).
We’d all appreciate your votes, so get on over there before the 25th of June to cast your vote!
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Update – #4 in Emerging digital for Tim and #5 in PR for Hector, nice one 
- Introducing the rising stars of uk’s creative industries – The Independent
Doritos – iD3 – Finalist in the New York Festivals Awards
We’re delighted to announce that Doritos iD3 was a finalist at this year’s New York Festivals awards held in… Shanghai.
The site is on a demo link for anyone who missed it, email us for access information.
Congrats to the team & Doritos – View the award
Talent Credits:
Interactive Creative Director- Tim Rodgers / rehabstudio
Interactive Technical Director – Jurgen Prause / rehabstudio
Interactive Producer- Michael Veitch / rehabstudio
Interactive Designer- Kirill Sudosa / rehabstudio
Creative Director – Allan Guy / Initials
Script Writing & Video Production – Matt Cook / Toby Cook / Upset Media
Script Writing & Video Director - Lucas Howe / Upset Media
Digital Planner / Digital Producer – Nicola Davies / Greg Marshall / AMV BBDO
Marketing Director – Pete Charles / Doritos
Brand Manager – Adam Warner / Doritos
Promotion Director – Hannah Morris / Initials
Account Manager – Laura Forster / Initials
Last.fm’s gone to rehab
We’re loving the Last.fm work at the moment, the guys briefed us to rebrand their Last.fm presents night and it’s come out super nice so we thought we’d share it with you kids.
Presents is the Last.fm brand name for their live events currently that the Bar Fly and Big Chill house in London as well as travelling around the country at various festivals this summer. Get it on, Oink oink!
For more goto http://www.last.fm/presents
For Last.fm:
Hannah Donovan (Creative Director)
Katy Adair (Producer)
For rehabstudio:
Tim Rodgers (Creative Director)
Jordan Fisher (Art director)
Moving pixels like…
The unsung hero from web 0.0 – the animated gif is making a come back!
Check out these babies!
Andrew Hamilton
We had the pleasure of working with Andrew towards the end of last year, his God Visions project is wicked.
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We’re not sure where this one came from but it’s a beauty.
I Am not an Artist
This is a super simple but fun project from Soon in Tokyo, Commissioned by Elisava School of Design – check it out!
Gif Anime
Cool selection of madness here, some NSFW
Laura Brothers
Super duper.
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Boom boom.
DVDP
Lovin’ it.
And that leads me nicely onto our latest project for Last.fm – Last.fm Presents, we went right in for the early 80’s lazer machine for the art direction on their monthly club nights in London, check it out here.
As you were.
Dear Mr McDonald’s, please can we get 25 Cheeseburgers?
Jurgen and I hooked up with Blood-type A productions to do an inaugural photoshoot at Wonderland’s new home.
Classic hecklling senario in McDonalds as we purchased said 25 Cheeseburgers, Mr ‘May I Help you clerk’ said “You know, it’s not the biggest order we’ve ever had”
Class.
Enjoy.
Photographer : Blood-type A productions