Rachel is an illustrator, designer, blogger and trend hunter. This is her online portfolio and blog, with musings on illustration, design, fashion, advertising, branding, marketing, music, cakey-bakey goodness, culture and all things cool.
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Coveting: Everything by Lanvin for H&M

Designer/High Street collaborations are quite rife these days, so much so that it’s not as big a deal as it used to be. H&M often lead the way (Sonia Rykiel for H&M was my most recent favourite) but of course you’ve got Debenhams with their Henry Holland and Julien McDonald collabs, among others. So when...

ActionAid targets ASDA in secret message campaign

Just spotted this via @ActionaidUK‘s twitter feed and I love the concept. Guerilla marketing/advertising + charity campaigning = thumbs up in my book. If you follow Actionaid’s campaigns and efforts then you’ll know they’re waging a bit of a war on Asda at the moment because of their alleged pay level for their foreign workers...

Ads I love: Wrigleys Extra ‘Banish Smelly Followers’

Now. This isn’t a clever viral marketing campaign, or guerilla gardening, or anything of that jazz. This is a plain, straight-up TV advert. And generally, most of them are bad. Not this one. It made me laugh and go ‘aw’ and feel fuzzy all at the same time. Possibly just a girly reaction, but my...

Ads I love: Marmite ‘That May Be Too Far’ Campaign

I’m starting a new post subtitle – Ads I love. There are many. Considering I want to work in advertising and I’m quite adept at thinking up concepts (apparently), and I have tonnes of opinions about advertising, I don’t actually post enough about it. I think it’s because I have too many thoughts on the...

Co-Creation Hub: Logo and Branding Co-Creation Day

Back on the 15th January of this year, I took part in a Co-Creation day at the Co-Creation Hub, London. We couldn’t post about the day until after the Co-Creation Hub had gone live – now it has and I’ve got some time to post about it. A group of abut 15(ish?) of us got...