Cherry

Hunt Haggarty blog

Our friends over at boutique brand experience agency Hunt Haggarty always have plenty to say, show us, tell us and shout about. So they asked Cherry to design and develop their blog and all-round social media portal which went live this week.

Using a bespoke theme on the Wordpress engine, it has widgets to pull in their Flickr galleries, Tweets and Last.fm feed.

Already this week they’ve introduced us to a mini musical movement, shown us an incredible venue in Angel and made us feel hungry with their images of cheesy pizzas.

Brilliant blog, go take a bite here.

Now in its fourth year, the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards honours extraordinary women with some truly incredible stories to tell.

This year’s overall winner was Iris Billing from St Austell, Cornwell. After losing her 16-year-old daughter Tanya to a rare form of leukaemia in 2005, Iris was so inspired by Tanya’s bravery throughout her gruelling treatment that she founded Tanya’s Courage, a charity offering financial support to young adult cancer patients throughout Cornwall. Many of these young patients would lose everything they have without Iris’s help, so she really is making an incredible difference.

After hearing Iris’s story, Cherry wanted to donate a prize to the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards. So, we’re currently redesigning the visual identity for Tanya’s Courage, and will soon be launching with a new content-managed website and blog. All should make life much easier for Iris – and hopefully help raise lots more money for such a great cause.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to make it along to the awards to see Iris collect her prize, but we have it on good authority that the host – none other the great Jimmy Osmond – gave Cherry a big-up of cosmic proportions.

Well done Iris. And nice one Jimmy!

CST Advertising is home to some of the most results-driven people in the business. It’s also home to the legendary creative Dave Trott, the man responsible for some of the most memorable ads of the last 30 years, founder of the D&AD Advertising Workshops, and author of every ad grad’s favourite book, “How to get your first job in advertising”.

CST recently asked Cherry to revamp their corporate website – and with it, Dave’s blog, recently named by The Sunday Times as one of the World’s 100 best weblogs (and the only advertising one in there, to boot). If you haven’t checked it out already, do so. Pure genius.

The new site will be launching early April 2009. Keep your eyes peeled and we’ll let you know when there’s something pretty to look at.