Weapon7

  • Escape the Map

    Escape the Map
  • Alfred At Your Service

    Alfred At Your Service
  • Engagement – What's next?

    Engagement – What's next?

Work

Work / smart

Rockin' smart poster

Here's a cute little POS poster that flags up how much fun it is to go exploring in a smart car. We're sure the fact that copywriter Ross comes from Norfolk has nothing to do with the high proportion of East Anglian seaside destinations that feature...

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Work / Mercedes-Benz

Escape the Map

Our brief was to help launch and amplify Mercedes-Benz’s latest brand campaign ‘Escape the Map’, created by our partners AMV. ‘Escape the Map’ is an interactive film set in Google Streetview maps.

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work/xbox-alfred-at-your-service
Work / Xbox

Alfred At Your Service

To launch Batman: Arkham City on the Xbox 360, Bruce Wayne’s faithful butler is offering his services on the internet in our latest campaign. Alfred At Your Service is a fully working search engine powered by Bing!

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Culture

Fancy dress extravaganza

Tom Wrigley, fancy dress extraordinaire, gave the agency a talk yesterday all about the history and application dressing up in eye-catching theatrical clothes. Usually combining home-made nous with creative savvy, Tom's repoitoire of costumes contains classic after classic, including sweets super-glued to skin (which people could eat off during the evening), pink tights and braces and Thomas the Tank Engine. The talk was jam-packed full of information such as the history of fancy dress since the 1400s, and why you should always take some spare clothes for the Walk of Shame home in the morning.

Adam Dovey interview

Just as we have two Jeremys, we also have two Adams at Weapon7. Here is one of them, Adam Dovey, chatting about his role as a management accountant to CIMA.

Something from Wrigley to chew over

Weapon7 grad Tom Wrigley was interviewed by the IPA for his thoughts on the whole shebang on gradvertising. Topics covered in the chat included tips for new graduates, the best experience of the job so far and what it takes to get noticed. Read the whole article here

 

Agency

Alternative names

People often ask us what our name means. Well, we're not willing to give away the secret here. But we will say that this mosaic (drawn entirely from felt pen) we have in our office has something to do with it. This is 'Quake Guy' from the classic video game from yesteryear, Quake. Why not join in and suggest an alternative name for this fella here.

Meldrum on Mapping

Projection mapping has been a hot topic in creative technology for the past 18 months - but which are the best examples? Join our Innovation Director Rob Meldrum, as he examines the ins and outs of projection mapping, with the help of loads of interesting cases-in-point. Read the full article here.

Windows 8 - a love affair

Our Head of Creative Technology, Jeremy Willmott, is smitten with Windows 8. Discover why it's got his pulse racing by reading his in-depth article here.

"we are excited by"