Unfortunately, one of us recently had to suffer the mighty injustice of receiving a parking ticket. This, as some of you may well know, is a bit annoying, but just to make the ‘ordeal’ slightly more irritating, the council seem to rub it in just a tad more.

We’re of course referring to the wholly inapproppriate use of an e-commerce ‘shopping basket’.

Now come on, it’s not like we were going online to do a bit of internet shopping, and came across this bargain.

Oh well, if nothing else, it’s probably a good lesson in knowing what tone of voice is right for your audience.

We’ve definitely learnt our lesson.

An idea we had for a poster, if Audi ever came a knockin’. It’d be specifically aimed at creatives.

And if we were designing envelopes, we’d have to borrow a few Citroens.

Adam Morris from Manchester Met was the first out of the tombola, winning one of our D&AD Annuals. His act of Thoughtfulness was designing a set of motivational badges that take you back to the good old days of being rewarded for doing a good job with a gold, silver or smiley face sticker.

Here’s Adam collecting his Annual, today.

www.adammorrisdesign.com

Maithili Kabre won a D&AD Student Membership, and her act of Thoughtfulness was to collect scrap pieces of A4 paper to make into sketch pads. Maithili studies at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

Maithili with her sketch pads.

Rob Butcher and Caroline Paris from Loughborough University also won a Student Membership with their cool projections for the Samaritans.

www.streetlights.org.uk/

And James and Joe from the University of Leeds, won a pair of D&AD Lecture tickets. Their act of Thoughtfulness was to make a stranger merry for Christmas.

www.jamesandjoe.co.uk

We’ve just drawn out the winners for Thoughtful’s Tombola Competition. Click the link below to see the outcome. It may take a moment to load in, so bear with it.

http://www.wearethoughtful.com/movies/tombolaresults2008.mov

We‘d like to thank everyone that entered, and to D&AD for supporting our competition.

If you won, congratulations, we’ll be in touch soon to get your prize to you. If you didn’t win, better luck next time, and hey, it’s not all bad. Through all the acts of thoughtfulness you did, you probably made someone’s day.

We’ll put up the winner’s work after we’ve contacted them.

We’ll continue to be D&AD Members next year, which means we’ll again be left with some spare Annuals to give away.

Thoughtfully
Chris/James/Stu

Last December Thoughtful took part in the YCN Pinata Challenge, you can see our entry here.

Well, they’ve just announced the results of the competition, and we’ve........lost.

But we’re not bitter, we had a good laugh trying to open the pinata, and by the look of it, so did everyone else who took part. Who would have thought there would be so many ways to open a little box?

Well done to Kate Moross and Tom Merrell.

You can see all the pinata entries here.

Photo by Sarah Fotheringham and Charlie Duck.

Photo by Jeffrey Bowman.

Photo by James Jones.

We were in Liverpool on Friday night, for the ‘People’s Opening’ of their Capital of Culture year, ( People’s meaning free). Around 30,000 people congregated on St. George’s Plateau, to join in the celebrations, which included choirs, aerial performers, new Liverpool band The Wombats, and Ringo Starr, who performed a song from his new album, which was amusingly met by jeering from the crowd when it was announced he’d be doing this, and not a crowd pleaser like Yellow Submarine.

Here are a few short movie clips and shots from Friday:

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

St. George’s Hall looked really good. It took 80 tonnes of lighting to do this.

Here’s Ringo performing his single on the roof of St. George’s Hall. He’s the one with the sunglasses, the beard, and the hat.

It promises to be a good year for the city of Liverpool, and there are dates in their events calender that we are really looking forward to. So throughout the year, anything we see and like, we’ll be sure to blog it.