What’s the most “creative” website you’ve seen recently?  Did it realise an innovative idea?   Or perhaps it had particularly impressive graphic design?  Maybe it had an innovative approach to user experience?  Or was it technically creative?  Chances are you’ll get a different answer if you ask say a strategist, a designer, a user experience consultant or a developer; essentially whether or not you think something is creative depends o ...read full story

For the past few months, we’ve had a major project underway that’s taken a huge amount of our resources. We’ve totally redesigned and rebuilt the National Curriculum website and it finally went live on Monday. The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Authority (QCDA) set the curriculum in schools. Part of the brief was to include a whole new primary curriculum section, to help prepare teachers, before it comes into force next year. This new content had to sit alongside the ...read full story

Unless you’ve lived in a cave over the last couple of weeks you may have noticed that Apple have launched a new product, the iPad. Never has a product got the online community so hot under the collar, people have tweeted, blogged, emailed and socially networked themselves into a cyber frenzy. At the peak of its launch there were over 7400 tweets a minute about iPad, only Obama’s first state of the union address achieved more (9000 tweets/min if you want the stats for the pub).Many of ...read full story

Yay! Great news - we’ve found out that Kia’s website has been named best in class by the Energy Saving Trust. The Energy Saving Trust commissioned a report about ‘How accessible is CO2 information on car manufacturers’ websites?’ Our site http://www.kia.co.uk was deemed to have consistently high user experience ratings, low lookup times, high CO2 accuracy, good interpretation of CO2 data and a low number of ‘clicks’ to access CO2 information. That’ ...read full story

We woke up this morning to a very snowy Bristol and London today, as the rest of the UK did by the sounds of things! Luckily (?!) we all (apart from two who live in the country somewhere who are working from home) managed to make it to work, and even to a pitch in Cardiff. Some of us trudged in through the snow and fell over on the way (oww), some were a wee bit late and some maverickly drove over slushy roads and black ice to make it in on time.Which of course meant, Snowman competition time!!! ...read full story

Last year’s Christmas do was a roaring success of outdoor activities, so this year the party organisers decided paintballing would be a good way to spend a Wintery December day. To be honest, we were all dreading it a bit and it was freeeezing cold as we made our way to work on the last Friday before Christmas, but what a brilliant day we had. Here are the pics:http://www.flickr.com/photos/e3media/sets/72157623011615071/ It kicked off with bacon and sausages sarnies to provide some much ne ...read full story

Being a digital agency, we’re very modern, finger-on-the-pulse and up-to-the-minute types (especially Neil) so for our Christmas theme this year, we decided to go back in time and look at a traditional Victorian Christmas. That was the overarching creative idea anyway, it was really an excuse for us all to get dressed up in fancy frocks and suits. And because all the blokes were sporting lovely taches cultivated throughout the month of Movember. One special, wintery day in December we all ...read full story

It's official, following the Marketing Industry Network awards results last night, E3 is Digital Agency of the Year 2009! Woo hoo! Tom and Ant went to Manchester for the awards ceremony: a formal three course dinner, comedy from the very offensive but outrageously funny Phil Nicol and the wedding disco afterwards, complete with wooden, shiny floor. Ant and Tom collected the award together, posed for an official photo (luckily no speeches allowed) and after a small amount of wine and ch ...read full story

Ben has been dying to get his legs waxed for months and has finally happened on a viable opportunity. He’s done it for charity! Children in Need to be exact, surely the charity that raises the most money from wacky ideas. To make the joyous event even more memorable, he decided to stage the waxing at E3 Bristol, in full view of us all... after work on Friday 20 November. The Veet wax strips had been sitting on the kitchen table all week (for some unknown reason, perhaps he was hoping it wo ...read full story

Having a serious conversation at E3 has become a lot more tricky lately. Mostly because the boys are all sporting slightly ridiculous facial hair at different stages of growth. Yes, Movember is here and looking acceptable in public has been sacrificed for charity. After much deliberation about the type of moustache to cultivate, the 'men' in the office arrived clean shaven and beaming for their week 1 photo opp.Following 7 days of careful grooming, week 2 arrived and some comedy moustaches were ...read full story

Happy Halloween from everyone at E3!We arrived to a rather spooky reception this morning - the management team came in early to decorate the Bristol studio with spiders, cobwebs and various other Halloween additions. We're not sure if we're in for any other creepy surprises, but hoping for some pumpkin pie later and lots of sweets!Trick or treat? ...read full story

We waved a sad goodbye today to Neil Symester, one of our developers based in the London studio, who decided to leave e3 after 18 months in the tech team. We don’t feel too bad about him leaving us though, as he’s made a life-changing decision to study to become a missionary and teach the Bible, and we’re downright jealous that he’s chosen to do so on the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica.Neil is a devout Christian and has decided to take the plunge and do something h ...read full story

Ok, it sounds a bit like we’re blowing our own trumpet now, but hey, what are blogs for...?! We’re absolutely ecstatic to have made the shortlist for the BIMAs 2009 for our fabulous, and now famous kia.co.uk site which has been winning awards left, right and centre recently.We’re up against tough competition though in the ‘best website’ category – with BBC iPlayer and WWF UK to contend with. Fingers and toes are crossed across the agency, as we eagerly await t ...read full story

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Another of our clients, Catnic, has won the marketing effectiveness and return on investment award from The Chartered Institute of Marketing for the relaunch of their lintel literature and website lintel product selector (and breathe!). All that sounds super-complicated and very impressive, I’m sure you’ll agree.Even more impressively, it was the highest scoring entry and is now nominated for yet more awards from the CIM! For their win, Catnic received a trophy, proudly displayed on ...read full story

And yet more awards! Our http://kia.co.uk site has won ‘best homepage’ and ‘most improved manufacturer site’ at the recent Autotrader awards. We’d better install a mantelpiece so we can proudly display all of our trophies. ...read full story

Hurrah! E3 and Kia Motors have won ‘Best Manufacturing, Automotive and Technology Site’ at the Sitecore Site of the Year, UK Awards. So you can share in our delight, we thought we’d share a few stats about the new site, which we’re very proud of.Kia Motors has been the UK’s fastest-growing car brand for the last three years, growth largely fuelled (pardon the pun) by a value positioning.In order to do that, Kia needed a stunning new website that embodied their brand ...read full story

We’re delighted to announce that e3 have been nominated not once but twice in the Marketing Industry Network awards (ooh get us!)We’ve been nominated for both ‘digital agency of the year’ and ‘South West agency of the year’. For digital agency, we’re up against Northern favourites Code, Computerlove and Coolpink. Winners will be announced at a gala event in Manchester in November, we’re already looking forward to dinner, drinking and dancing, but n ...read full story

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We're now fully iPhone 3GS'd up - well apart from Mike who for some reason opted to go with the Blackberry Curve instead (and may be regretting that decision). Neil's already spent over £90 in the Apple store on "groovy" accessories and most of us spent the entire bank holiday playing with the voice control, making videos and downloading apps. So, we thought we'd share our favourite apps (so far), which we've whittled down from 253 to 11 (in no particular order):E3 ...read full story

A very warm e3 welcome (don’t worry, nothing too touchy-feely) to our new London-based Account Director Fiona. We never pick any wallflowers and Fiona certainly ain’t one of those; she’s a breath of fresh air, hungry for a new challenge and a fraction eccentric, just the way we like them.Fiona joins us from Joshua G2, where she also held an Account Director position. She was keen to be a shiny, happy E3er as (in her words) she wanted to work with people who are as passionate ab ...read full story

Bristol is storming the Panel Picker for the SXSW Interactive Festival in March 2010, with four people from the digital industries of Bristol shortlisted from thousands of submissions.I-Shed's Clare Reddington, Team Rubber's Matt Golding, CS MD Giles Colborne and E3's very own Mike Bennet all have two subjects shortlisted in the initial selection round. Not only that, but one of Mike's talks also appears in the Top 60 Hot Ideas!The SXSW Interactive Festival is the world's leading digital and int ...read full story

Wedding season is well and truly underway, with E3ers off left, right and centre (well France, York and Edinburgh) for friend's and family weddings. Congratulations are overdue to our favourite Welshman who got married in June and is still sporting a rather glowing tan. David married Rachael in a cermony at Eastwood Park followed by an incredible three-week honeymoon to Cuba. Our favourite Scotsman is also getting married soon. Nairn jets off to France just after the bank holiday to marry the lo ...read full story

Happy birthday to Vanina, our London Flash Designer. And thanks to Jo for staying up late and baking cakes. As Vanina says "Thanks Jo, it's delicious! How do you get rid of chocolate bits on the keyboard?" ...read full story

E3 and some special guests stormed the Banksy exhibition at Bristol City Museum on Thursday night. Once we'd torn people away from the rather mesmerising rocking Metropolitan Peaceman, everyone had a fantastic time, with opportunity to see Banksy's work up close and without the crowds. We sipped wine, nibbled nibbles and played spot the Banksy in amongst some of the museum's older pieces, with plenty of time to go back and peruse the ones missed first time round. Like the mouse with the backpack ...read full story

Busy times! Three big pitches this week, two next week and a couple the week after. Plus sites going live, proposals being written, strategies being planned, brainstorms being... stormed... Stu was looking a bit worse for wear as he went straight from all day pitch Thursday to RFP out Friday morning.All in all, not enough time to blog! But just enough time to tweet - if you aren't following us on Twitter already, check out @e3_media  for our micro-musings, stuff we like (and don't like) and ...read full story

If you've not visited our Bristol studio before, you may not know that there's a bit of a fondness for green. We have beautiful lime green chairs and matching dividers on our desks, interspersed with a few red swan chairs, red sofas and the odd egg to keep things interesting. But this week, the green has gone a bit further, and some plants have started sprouting up, pretty much all over the place, they're everywhere! Possibly due to all this rain we've been having? Or part of Mike's plan to ...read full story

There were a few red faces in the Bristol studio last Monday, partly due to the glorious sunshine that resulted in Gary and Tom B having a bit of a lobster tinge (Stu must have slapped on some Factor 50 to avoid it!) following the Bristol Media five-a-side football tournament. The boys were in a group with Block, Complete Control, Wildscreen and True Clarity. We fancied our chances (as ever) of qualifying and had even got a new kit for the occasion.The opening game was very close against Complet ...read full story

Huge congratulations to Gary and Angela, proud parents to beautiful Summer who is six weeks old today. Summer was born on 10 June 2009 - when it was sunny and it did feel like summer!Gary was E3's first employee in 1997, when the office environment wasn't quite as glamorous as our Paintworks studio - back then, the team operated out of a cramped, old basement flat. Despite that, Gary's still with us and is now our Senior Developer and Phil's 'number two', although of course now he has a much mor ...read full story

When a model for the new TG01 handset from Toshiba landed on our desks, we all got pretty excited by its enormous 4.1” screen on a super-slim 9.9mm body. Add to that image processing technology used in the REGZA LCD TVs, 1GHz processor for super-fast performance, stunning movie playback and rich internet browsing, and Toshiba were lucky it was just a model or we may never have given it back. The new handset is targeted at young, sophisticated, mobile-savvy early-adopters (i.e. us) who are ...read full story

Pictures tell a thousand words...Deb W and Marilla came up with the genius idea and actually got a death star cake made! The birthday boyWhat a masterpiece.. Ooh, it looks real! Oh dear!Chris couldn't resist ...read full story

This year’s season of the BBC’s ‘The Restaurant’ - devised by Michelin starred chef Raymond Blanc, is being held in our lovely Bristol. Teresa, Marilla, Linsey, James and Amy went to ‘The Summer House’ on the site of the former Deasons on Whiteladies Road. It was a swelteringly hot evening and we were all well up for a delicious meal and a fun night out. We’d been promised that we would enjoy a good meal ‘for little to no money’ by the prod ...read full story

‘What’s an epidiascope?’ and other such questions made up the first Thursday night E3 pub quiz, organised by resident social sec Amy,  hosted by quiz master extraordinaire Mike B and held at nearby pub the Star & Dove.We started off with a music round, specifically aimed at those with particularly good 80’s cheese knowledge. Inevitably Stu’s team ‘The Shandy Drinkers’ ran away with a whopping 20 out of 40 whilst the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja T ...read full story

We’ve won lots of lovely new work recently which means we’re pretty busy at the moment, so we’re on the lookout for some extra hands in our Bristol office on the project management side.If you’re an experienced freelance digital project manager (or know one) who can hit the ground running with some significant website projects get in touch. Agencies – We get soooo many emails and calls from you guys and you all have the most amazing, outstanding person we&rs ...read full story

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Whilst many of us at E3 don’t actually hail from these ‘ere parts, we all love it here. The South West is a pretty great place to be with and we’re surrounded by creative inspiration in various forms, from graffiti to plasticine, bridge to bore, Massive Attack to Portishead, and that’s just around Bristol. Ok, gushing a bit, but when the sun comes out, the South West sparkles.So back in March, we leapt at the chance to be part of the inaugural League Table of Creative com ...read full story

Every so often, we get a brief that allows us to behave like children without getting in trouble. The most recent of these was from the National Osteoporosis Society, asking us to design and build their new educational website Bones4life.org to promote bone health to children in a fun format, using a game, quizzes and picture galleries. We also had to get a bit grown up about it with a teachers’ section hosting a variety of resources such as lesson plans and video. After a thumb war to det ...read full story

A couple of Thursdays ago, Lee and Marilla had an early night (not together!), setting their alarms for 4.30am in anticipation of heading to Wimbledon the following morning. No they weren’t getting ready to queue up for some tickets to see British favourite Andy Murray (Linsey’s sort of cousin), they were off to a rather glamorous photoshoot for the new Kia Magentis. They arrived on the last day of shooting – the rest of the week had been dedicated to promo shots of the Soul an ...read full story

Believe it or not, one of our designers Chris R has successfully made it to the grand old age of 23 without ever eating a Pot Noodle. Don’t ask how or why this came up in conversation but after the revelation, Lee took it upon himself to set up Pot Friday. We’re not sure whether Pot Friday will be a regular fixture but it involved the whole creative team hogging the kettle for half an hour whilst they prepared their nutritious and delicious lunch and indulged in a bit of noodle bondi ...read full story

Over the last couple of weeks, Tom has become a white van man, merrily driving up and down the M4 taking all manner of exciting gifts to our London studio and bringing back boring old stuff. Yes, the team in Clerkenwell are revamping their space and turning it into a rather sophisticated and inspiring place to work. The bare white walls now proudly display funky art, beautiful design prints and great work we’ve done. The creative and technical teams sit together to embrace collaborative wo ...read full story

Here at E3 we regularly get together for an agency update: a review of what everyone’s been up to, another excuse to drink some beers and a chance to vote for our favourite E3er employee of the month. The idea is to reward someone for doing something that improves E3, their colleagues or themselves in some way. Obviously we all work really hard all the time (hint, hint), but the prize goes to someone who has done something above and beyond their regular job description. Unfortunately ...read full story

No more must we listen to Stu's tunes on repeat or suffer Neil moaning about how whiny the Kings of Leon are! The E3 Bristol office now has Spotify and a compiled playlist, so we can all add our own songs and experience each other's unique musical taste from the office speakers. And hope that they don't get played once then deleted by the Spotify master. Luckily, you can't see who's added what, so bring on a bit of Britney and Madonna. Although this does mean we have Lady Ga Ga played about five ...read full story

The E3 tech team finally got a day away from their desks last week: we piled into a minivan to Earl’s Court for Internet World, “Europe’s biggest event for digital marketing and online business”, not a jolly (honest!) but a chance to see what’s new in our industry. We met up with some of our suppliers, checked out new technologies, and got a bit over-excited about all the interesting products to explore, particularly the new CMS platforms.First stop was the exhibiti ...read full story

Deal or no DealAs you may or may not know, we have some pretty cool and creative neighbours at the Paintworks. One of those resides in a rather mysterious building, where a torrent of people flow in and out in various states of emotion… Yes, it’s Endemol West where Noel (as we like to affectionately call him) and crew film Deal or No Deal.Being the friendly, neighbourly types that we are, we managed to bag ourselves some VIP audience tickets for a live filming, and, one gloomy Monda ...read full story

This week, we have been mostly driving the brand new Kia Soul – both the Burner and the Soul 2. Actually it's been for the last couple of weeks, and everyone's been fighting for the chance to cruise around Bristol in her (him?), especially over the bank holiday weekend. That lucky spot goes to DJ, and was much deserved after all his Flash magic (or hard work as he calls it) on the new Kia site. It's being picked up next week and everyone's a bit gutted - we've got quite used ...read full story

The Easter break coincided nicely with the end of the financial year, so before we all scarpered for four days we had an agency catch up. Our London office joined us via webcam as we reviewed the past year and looked at what’s coming up. It’s been a pretty good year by all accounts, particularly in the current climate, and a fairly groundbreaking one with Mike and Stu’s buy-out too. A few new faces have arrived and we’ve been sad to see a few go on to different pastures. ...read full story

Earlier on today we pulled the big red lever and the world was finally allowed to gasp in wonder at the new Kia site.The new Kia site is big news for us. We first pitched our thoughts for the new site back in June, since then we have been battling to tame this beast, but we got there and ultimately, with some style.We’ve been through about 21 versions of the project plan, deployed a new Sitecore CMS in double quick time, created mega navs and mega crumbs and the designers coloured in every ...read full story

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London’s been badly affected by the snow. Neil’s working from home, Chris walked in and Vanina was left holding the fort. There are no buses…London has become a standstill. 5 inches and counting. Vanina's garden - impressive. Now the weather has worked its way across the country and snow’s hit Bristol. Time to have fun! ...read full story

This year we wanted to make more of a day of it. So we all headed out into the beautiful countryside, just south of Bristol, for an adrenalin fuelled day of leisure pursuits. Part 1There were three activities to learn (or excel at) – rally driving, clay pigeon shooting and quad biking. Everyone dressed in regulation overalls and was sent off into the arctic conditions. Theresa did a great impression of Driving Miss Daisy, she took the phrase ‘off road’ to a new level by taking ...read full story

We’ve launched phase 1 of the mighty project dubbed the Facebook for Civil Servants. In essence, we are building a hub to connect all the geographically disparate folk who work for different departments of the Government. There’s a lot of knowledge out there, but due to different working practices and IT systems, most of this information is rarely shared. The Civil Servants are keen to share their skills and ideas, but they don’t have an easy way to do it. So we’ve built ...read full story

November 2008. We’ll remember it as the month we were flat out and alongside our usual work we launched 3 big projects – AXA’s My Budget Day, Base London’s new e-commerce site, High School Musical 3 – Design a Prom Dress microsite.We also launched Stage Electrics, the first phase of E.ON’s FA cup and National Archives, but more about those later.In chronological order then. HSM3 first. We’ve developed a ‘design a prom dress competition’ in li ...read full story

Despite a really busy few weeks at E3 (more later on that), Lee managed to take some time out to pass on his great wisdom as guest lecturer for a (larger than expected) group of 80, 2nd year UWE design students. Luckily though Lee had Benji, Creative Director from our friends at Beef (www.wearebeef.co.uk) to hold is hand so it was all good.The undergrad graphic design course doesn’t focus on digital design and tutor Adrienne Noonan thought that Lee and Benji would be the perfect pair to gi ...read full story

Everything in life should be easy. It’s so frustrating when you splash out on a high tech new mobile and you can’t even decipher how to text. Well, without reading a 48 page of manual and practising late into the night for 2 weeks first.  We are passionate about making things easy to understand and use – simply speaking intuitive.  The first World Usability Day was in 2005 and its goal was to ensure that everyday services and products important to human life are easie ...read full story

Halloweeeeeen is finally here. And in true US commercial styley, we strung orange and black banners around the office, ate tons of sweets and chocs and held a ..wait for it..pimp your pumpkin competition.Everyone was tasked to bring in a decent pumpkin, dress it up (there were no rules) and we held a prize giving for the very best one!The guys and gals were sooo creative – check out a selection of the best.Cinders would jump at the chance to drive around in thisThe Ol’ billThat's jus ...read full story

‘Twas a dark and somber morning when I arrived at the studio. I slowly opened the door, peered in and scanned the large open plan office. Then it struck me – the sheer scale and the brightness of the aquamarine, pink and lime green splattered on the far wall. It was, not at all surprisingly,  just next to the creative desks. What the hell was going on??? There it was in all its glory… the massive mural… no more white space. LOVE IT.Here’s the vandal, Yakahead ...read full story

Our design teams, (yes we have two, one in Bristol and one in London) were chuffed to bits at the prospect of taking the fast train out of Bristol and London (respectively) and heading ‘Up North’ to meet on neutral ground so to speak. The main intention was to be inspired by Matt Pyke, the renowned installation and digital artist. They all trooped off to attend the Liverpool Design Symposium at the spectacular St Georges Hall in Liverpool. Just take a look at this place. Huge chandel ...read full story

Well, last week was fairly full on to say the least.  But in a good way.We won 2 new pitches, which we’ll tell you about when the client gives us the green light.  So, off the back of this we need to get our hands on a couple of very special account managers.So, yes in spite of economic Armageddon, the imminent downfall of capitalism and the implosion of the free world as we know it, we’re actually recruiting!Don’t worry, we’ve thought long and hard about these ...read full story

The relaunch of the brand new Fish4 site kicked off this week after keeping a group of the guys busy since April.We’re really pleased with the final results and we’ve got the early thumbs up from the client too.The challenge was to bring all the Fish elements together in one big, comprehensive, easy to use site, incorporating their cool new brand identity.  So users can now log on, search for homes, jobs cars and travel without batting an eyelid.The last few months have seen us ...read full story

We came across this film over the weekend and it made us smile.Maybe that's why there seems to be lots of really good account directors around at the moment... ...read full story

So the ladies from the WI came, tasted, and judged the inaugural E3 cake-off.Competition was tough and any local village fete would have been proud to display these offerings."Edna" and "Gloria" looked genuinely shocked at the spread in front of them and couldn't wait to get tasting.They commented on several occassions that they were "honestly suprised by the creative and innovative flare shown to traditional cake making" and  that we had &q ...read full story

We've been waiting for this day for months, the very first E3 bake-off!!!And what a truely wonderful array of delights turned up this morning!Cakes of all shapes, textures and sizes from lemon brizzle to death by quad-druple chocolate (and everything in between).The idea -  everyone went home last night and baked a cake to bring into the office to share.  There's prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd and we have two very distinguished judges from the local Womens Institute popping in to pick the ...read full story

The London crew turned up to work yesterday only to find what appeared to be 'a Banksy' directly outside the door step to the studio.   On closer inspection however the guys weren't convinced and went inside to get on with some work.  A few minutes later they heard a bit of excitement on the street below and noticed a group of guys from the Guardian newspaper (our next door neighbours) huddled around it getting very animated.The guys arrived at work bright and ...read full story

The creative team's from Bristol and London got together to meet and rub shoulders with some of the industry's leading digital peeps and partake in a bit of creative 'chit chat'.Digital Pecha Kucha is a relatively new format where people take to the stage to present 20 slides with just 20 seconds to talk about each one.  The event was chaired by the D&AD’s president, Simon Waterfall (the first chap to take the seat with a digital background).There wer ...read full story

We received this today.Dear Sir/madam,I am looking for an expert abroad that will help in purchasing AIRCRAFTS and also run the airline company for me.I am contacting you because I do not have any idea in running an airline company and this is my first airline company. If you are an expert in this field or know any expert that is interested I will be very grateful to hear from you sooner.Regards,Alhaji Kabo Dan HafizWe don't know, maybe it was the Bristol and Aerospace connection??  ...read full story

Silly boy Tristan made a wager with Stu, that Arsenal would knock Liverpool out of the European Cup on a drunken company night out a few weeks back.  They didn't and he lost.  As a result Tristan has been wearing Stu's Liverpool scarf and shirt all day.He said at lunch time he was coming down with a really bad rash, but Stu wasn't having any of it.Poor Tristan.  But we all agreed, he 'took it like a man'. ...read full story

We've just found out that we've been appointed by fish4, the online jobs, homes and cars specialists to overhaul all 3 of its sites!This is great news and the start of what could be a really important account for us. We'll initially be tasked with updating the look and feel of all the sites to bring them in line with fish4’s new brand identity (above) and work to reposition fish4 from being a ‘search focused site’ to one which provides help and advice to users th ...read full story

We're waiting to hear on a few big decisions next week.We've been pitching for 4 projects over the last 4/5 weeks including a major redesign for an online cars, jobs and homes specialist, a big project for a certain 'yellow directory', an ecommerce project for an exciting fashion/retail brand (really up our street and simiar brief to the work we did for Toni & Guy and French Connection) and another fantastic ecommerce site for a very high profile travel company who's unde ...read full story

We've just launched crackerjack, the Evening Post newspaper's ultimate online entertainment guide.We pitched for this against 6 other agencies back in September last year and, after 5 months, it's just gone live!The site holds everything from restaurant reviews and club nights to film listings, gigs and events across Bristol.  It's got a truely massive amount of content and is aimed at anyone in the city who wants an up to date view of what they can do and what's kicking ...read full story

Today we will mostly be eating our own body weight in chocolate.FIRSTPLUS have just sent us a MASSIVE box of chocolates to say thanks to the team for all of the hard work over the last couple of weeks.  How very lovely...If any other clients just happen to stumble across this blog, may we also point out that we've been working very hard for Triumph, Kia, QCA, HSA and Toshiba too and we love champagne, trips away and new gadgets...(in case you're stuck for ideas). ...read full story

We told you last week about this new online tool we launched for farmers.Well, the Environment Agency have just been on the phone to say they've  had the first  bit of feedback and those farmers bloody luv it, they do.Quick run down - 99.6% say they’d recommend it to other farmers, 69% said they'd come back and use it again and the easy of navigation, finding content and general usability of the site scored a wapping 6 out of 7! ...read full story

Sister company Wildfire Communications have just announced they've received a bit of funding to help grow and expand the company.  All very exiciting - some big plans for the future.  See more info at Bristol Media.  ...read full story

Great news today.  We've just been told we've been successful in our pitch to redesign the V&A search tool we told you about last week.That's a search tool for their entire collection!!!  Feedback from the client was: "It was unanimous and you stood head and shoulders above the competition" Which, from the V&A is fairly pretty good feedback.  Needless to say we're all as pleased as punch. It's a biggy, it's exciting and we can't wait to get started ...read full story

We've just put a nice little site live for the Environment Agency and NetRegs about farm waste farmwaste.netregs.gov.uk/Okay, it wasn't the most glam job in the world, but this was actually a very interesting project for us as it had some pretty specific requirements due to being a government site and because of the type of audience it's aimed at. The site focuses on providing information on agricultural waste regulations to farmers - our challenge was to make this informatio ...read full story

We've been mostly spending this weekend putting together the final touches to the gigantic Environment Agency roster RFI.  It was mammoth to say the least, but we just about made it.We're going for the design roster, the IA and UE roster and the marketing roster, so in essence - 3 separate pitches and responses.We've been working as one of just two agencies on the web roster over the last 3 years so fingers crossed our previous work will speak for itself and put us in good position for the ...read full story

We decided to go for one of these 'meet the marketing director days' organised by Richmond Events.  Basically you pay a wedge of cash (£8k) to be put infront of a preselected group of bluechip senior marketing peeps who are responsible for hiring agencies and buying digital services.It sounds expensive (well, we though so) but after working out what we've actually spent on 'prospecting' (getting the team together, in a car to do a new business meeting in Colchester!) it actually ...read full story

We've won a few lovely bits of work recently (tell you about them later) and need an extra pair of hands to help.  So we're on the hunt for a great account director to come and join our existing team in Bristol on a full time basis.  It's been a while since we've recruited an AD so are really looking forward to see who's out there.If you fancy a chat about it, check out the jobs page and get in touch! ...read full story

We've been invited along to the V&A to pitch for a major job to design the interface for the tool that searches the V&A's entire collection!!!Wow, now this is bloody exciting.  We've been lucky to work alongside these guys a lot over the last 2 years on exhibition sites and campaigns but this would enable us to develop some new relationships and work with the V&A in a whole new area.If successful we'd be asked to create a prototype interface th ...read full story

Mike and a small team of ditial wiseguys headed off to Austin, Texas last week to attend the South by South West Interactive FestivalIt was 'flippin amazin' by all accounts.They were asked to go to conduct a bit of a fact finding mission to see if we could launch something similar in Bristol over the next few years as well as report back on what was 'kicking off' in the interactive and digital space that could be of value to other local digital agencies.  The guys all co ...read full story

We sat and had a conversation last night about new business and whether we needed to go out a recruit someone to look after it and drive it forward.  The consensus was - yes we do but maybe not yet.The nice problem is that at the moment we can't cope with the level of new business and pitches knocking on the door, there's just too much to do.  We've had to turn quite a lot down, which, as we've said before - no one likes doing.Conversley, we know that this probably will not last!& ...read full story

Goodness, was it really October since we posted our last entry?Yes, we know we've been rubbish.  We promised ourselves when we started our blog that we'd keep it updated on a weekly basis (at least).  That is, after all the point of one.  So, we've given a Chinese burn to the people responsible and told them that 'clients' and 'too much work' are weak and feeble excuses.Looking at what's been kicking off over the last two months they probably have a point.  In ...read full story

The Tech and IT guys got all excited today when Google Mini was delivered to the studio.  Some of the account girls heard that it had arrived, got very excited and rushed outside thinking it was BMW's latest offering...So the blue box arrived complete with free T-Shirt!  We're going to be using the Google Mini for the new search functionality on one of our client’s websites.  It will enable their site to have the simplicity and power of Google's ...read full story

It's alive!!!Our very first major through-the-line project goes live.  It's been a great project (hard work and very stressful at times) but we all feel well worth it. It was also the first time Peugeot had appointed a pure play digital agency, like E3 to work on a project of this kind, so it was a massice coupe for us!In a nutshell we developed the advertising proposition, created the microsite and all the rich media advertising to help relaunch the 407 models ...read full story

The villa account we've been holding our breath for recently has come in this week which is great news!These guys have been thinking long and hard about which digital agency to appoint, so, as ever we're all very happy bunnies that they picked us.We’re getting stuck into several projects that will take us into the New Year including a lot of IA work and a design refresh.  We’ll also be locking ourselves away over the next few weeks to write a series of specification do ...read full story

It was our annual inter company rounders battle last night against sister company, Wildfire.After the loud mouthed Bennett gave away 10 free runs last year, E3 had a score to settle (and made sure Bennett was well out of the way at some Bristol Media board meeting thing). Prematch team meeting to discuss strategy, wasn't really needed this yearNeedless to say we 'mullered’ them.  We won by sooo many rounders we actually lost count.  Wildfire's diversion tactics was to b ...read full story

The Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) project has received some widespread PR today in our main trade publications.It was New Media Age's lead front cover story.  Result!It also appeared as one of the lead news items in Design Week and was top story on both Brand Republic and Digital Bulletin.New Media Age also featured another E3 project on page 2, the recently launched BBC Memoryshare web site.Not bad, eh? ...read full story

At last we can tell you about this great newspaper job we've been twittering on about for ages.  We've been chosen to redesign over 40 sites for Associated Northcliffe Digital (part of the Daily Mail group).The brief includes us to carry out an extensive review of site architecture and to develop a strategy around maximising user generated content across the whole network.Northcliffe has a very loyal and active user base with over 50 million page views monthly and  ...read full story

The Memoryshare project we've been working on over the last year will start to get a big PR push over the next few days on Horizon, BBC Radio 1 online and Radio 4's Today programme.It was a fantastic UGC project for us to pick up and really adds to our list of strong UGC case studies that we've been building up over the last 2 years. A similar project was the BBC's new Comedy portal, Comedy Soup which we launched last year.The BBC soft launched the project a few weeks back but use ...read full story

We got a call on Friday from the BBC to go and chat to them about a rather exciting and extremely high profile project.  In fact, it is soooooo exciting we couldn't quite believe it.  We were told we have 45 minutes to do a creds presentation and demonstrate how we'd approach the project highlighting our innovation.  45 minutes!!! It takes Stu at least that to get through his first PowerPoint slide.They're inviting 6 agencies to chat about the project and will commi ...read full story

Another great bit of news, the very cool property developers, Urban Splash have appointed us to work with them on the design of a web site for a major development down in Plymouth.It's a massive project, Royal William Yard covers an eighteen-acre peninsula in Plymouth's Stonehouse/Mount Wise area.  They're converting two buildings, Brewhouse and Clarence at Royal William Yard to create 133 apartments and three commercial spaces.Urban Splash are the developers behind some of the UK's mo ...read full story

Hey, we just got the call about the big newspaper job and guess what?We won it!This is great news.  It's a fantastic project for us.  Lots of IA, usability and some major head scratching over some exciting UGC challenges.Can't give too much away as yet, but as soon as we can, we'll shout!Pub anyone?   ...read full story

Well, our amazing run of winning new business came to a rather abrupt end this week in fairly spectacular style (if we do say so ourselves).We'd been waiting for a couple of weeks to hear about four projects.  Two legal firm web sites, a major redesign for a magazine's site and a the redevelopment of a technology company's site.And guess what.  We didn't get any of them.  What's even worst, they all called us to tell us within an hour of each other.  So af ...read full story

The guys from Triumph head down every now and then to have a bit of an account status update.  We all really enjoy these 'session' because, well actually, they're one of our favorite clients.  We often try to do them on a Friday afternoon so they guys can stay down to sample the delights of Bristol nightlife.  They've been pretty messy affairs in the past, so not surprising this time Lisa headed down just for a fleeting visit.Andrea didn’t come as she’s ...read full story

Only days after being appointed, the guys had to immediately jump into action and hit the ground running.  We'd already done a lot of pre planning on the off chance we won the project.  Just as well really.  We'd short listed 2 film crews which meant we could give one of them the green light almost straight away and we'd teed up the film studios too.  Peugeot had a fleet on cars on standby to ship into Bristol, so it was all go!!!So yesterda ...read full story

The guys hung around a little later last night to put the finishing touches to the 'villa' pitch presentation.  They wanted to make sure everything looked consistent, tone of voice was right and that it hung together as a nice little package.  They also decided to have a quick run through of the actual pitch presentation to make sure everyone was comfortable with what they had to do. "Okay everything looks good, we should be out of here by 7pm at the latest&quo ...read full story

We found out yesterday, that we'd won that very exciting automotive job we've been crossing everything for over the past month.  Bloody amazing! We had some really strong and exceptionally good competition from all the other rostered agencies, so we're very, very pleased to win this one.In the words of the client:"E3 really impressed us with the solidity of their strategy and how they brought the car to life with real creative flair and sophistication”.That's nice.The projec ...read full story

You've probably picked up that we've been pitching for quite a lot of work lately (no, really).  Although we have been pushing it at little harder than usual, we've also been very selective in relation to what projects and pitches to go for.There have been times where we've literally just thrown everything at whatever has come through the door, but we found that approach doesn't really work.  People get miffed off internally and your 'hit rate' goes down.  Ultimately we ...read full story

The guys got together in the sun to discuss this Friday's pitch with a rather exciting holiday villa company.We've been working on the pitch for the last 2 weeks. It's a big IA and design project and to be honest, we'd love to win it.  Travel, holidays, property, sun, luxury locations and beautiful people are, at the end of the day, all very 'nice things'.Several of the team have spent a long time getting to grips with their business.  We had a functionali ...read full story

After 6 months of travelling around the World with her boyfriend, Jinny's come back this week, and it's damn fine to see her!She's already got stuck into the mountain of work which has been piling up on her desk since she left in January, so the delights of Vladivostock and Libya already seem a distant memory...Seriously, she's jumped back into action working with the rest of the guys on First Plus and (rather bizarrely) the Border and Immigration Agency job which has just come in. Wec ...read full story

We agreed when we moved that we wait to decide what to put on the walls of the studio; thinking that we'd 'live in it' for a while.  Anyway, two months on, we think it's about time we worked out what we did with these very big white walls.We're getting together next week to think how we want to approach it.  The creative guys (as usual) have shed loads of great ideas re style, illustration and colours.  We've been ripping bits out of magazines and pho ...read full story

In what has to be one of the quickets pitch decisions ever, we've been told today that the Home Office would like to work with us on the web site for the Border and Immigration Agency.Great news.  Another little Governement job under our belts.The guys are heading down there next week to meet the client team.  It's a really quick turnaround, the whole project completed in just over 5 weeks.  So, we'd better get on with it!!! ...read full story

The KIA team had literally  just left the building, (after a 7 hour meeting, which went really well by the way - more later) and we got a call to ask if we were interested in pitching for a job with the Home Office.We said 'Yes' ofcourse.  We've been working hard to build our public sector and governement creds, so picking up another job straight off the back of our QCA work would be great. We got to win it first, obviously...The project is for the Border and Immigration Agency web sit ...read full story

Paul, Mike and Chris (below) are pitching in London this afternoon, for a very sexy job with a big modeling agency.  We finished the creative concepts last week, but when we all reviewed the presentation yesterday we thought it needed a little 'something extra'.  So, right at the last minute we decided to shoot some video and embed it into one of the creative routes.  Yep, a whole world of pain just as we thought we'd nailed it all, but it works and we're all r ...read full story

Our two lovely receptionists have been away on holiday this week, so we've had a temp called Marilla manning reception and keeping us all in check.  She's been great and even though she's just been with us a week, we'll miss her. ...read full story

Okay, so we've seen more rain in July than in the last 6 years put together, but we've just watched 5 men install 4 huge blocks along the river bank (and directly outside of the studio) we guess, to prevent the paintworks from flooding. We thought the Avon, which by the way hasn't broke it banks in decades, was actually starting to go down, but maybe the paintworks management team knows something we don't.  Mike and Stu looked quite pale with the thought.  What about our love ...read full story

After a year of going totally schitzo whenever she came into the office (after 8 years of being totally fine with it all) it appears that Molly has finally found solace in our new pad.  She still has her 'moments' but she's stopped trying to bite clients (you know that wasn't good for business...) and she doesn't go ballistic whenever someone shakes anyone's hand.  Go figure...anyway the Paintworks seems to be agreeable with the hound. Justa chillin ...read full story

The two V&A projects have kicked off this week and the guys are really pushing ahead with them both.  They’re two flippin interesting projects, one for the American fashion and fine art photographer, Lee Miller and the other is a site for V&A’s exhibition celebrating ‘the golden age of couture’. Can it get much better? We’re working on projects that include icons like Picasso, Givenchy, and Dior. So it’s surrealism, shoes and handbags all the ...read full story

It was Bristol Media's first footy tournament yesterday.  22 competing media teams from Bristol in an all day knock out competition.It was a great day and even the sun even came out.We we're up against 2 teams in the first round called 7 Gigs (still didn't find out who they were or what they did) and BBC Radio Bristol.  We got thumped well and truly, going down 2-1 and 2-0 (Neil scored an tremendous own goal 2 minutes from time which put an end to any chance of clawing our wa ...read full story

We got a call on Friday to invite us to pitch to a major national newspaper group about a redesign, IA & user experience project involving over 20 of their websites.  Sounds very, very interesting, but they're meeting 12 agencies including most of the top 10 so they've got the 'great and the good' lining up for it.We're taking the team up tomorrow.  There are 12 people in the meeting and we have 40 minutes to 'do our stuff' and they'll make a decision as soon as.  If ...read full story

Flippin heck, we've just found out that we have actually won both the V&A projects we pitched for last week, which is fantastic news.The guys are as pleased as punch, they're 2 amazing sites and we'll have loads of fun putting them together.  It  will also help us build our little arts/gallery/museum portfolio that we've been working hard to develop over the last year or so. These will actually be our 4th and 5th consecutive projects for the V&A in ...read full story

The last of our new studio furniture arrived today.  Our big, brand red, leather reception sofas.They looked very, very red in the brochure, we thought maybe 'too' red, but when they arrived they looked perfect.  Dead comfy too. ...read full story

Okay, okay, it has taken 3 years to finally get round and update, but our new who we are section of the E3 site is live.We love it!Click here to take a look.    ...read full story

We are pitching at the moment for jobs with a big utilities company, a fashion and modeling agency, a major law firm, a international electronics company and a big overseas property and villa company. We’ve also just heard we've been short listed from four agencies down to just two on ‘that big automotive advertising brief’.  We’ve had some client feedback on our initial creative concepts so we need to tweak them a bit. On the whole the feedback was very positiv ...read full story

We’ve just found out today we’ve won a great project for a new client called, CheckFree. We went head to head against 3 US agencies to pitch for the account, so we're pretty pleased we've managed to bag it.It's a major IA project, combining 4 websites into one, which after our 12 month COI project for QCA, will be a perfect segue and will keep the guys busy for a while.You’ve probably never heard of them, but CheckFree is a fairly big US financial compa ...read full story

Some would call us crazy maybe even stupid, but a day after we pushed the button on QCA we also launch the BBC’s Memoryshare site.The project is an online service where visitors can post memories of events and add comments to other people's memories and contributions. We’ve also developed a flash memory timeline that displays everybody’s memories by date.Not quite as vast in size, but a strategically important initiative that was instigated by the director g ...read full story

It’s been our biggest project in the history of E3, but our very first COI project for QCA has just left the building. QCA are a public body that are supported by the DfES. They regulate exams and qualifications, like the National Curriculum, GCSEs, A’Levels and so on.  It’s been a mammoth web project, all 20,000 pages of it and it’s taken nearly a year of planning and development with a full time team working on it from the start.  The ...read full story

Design Week's top 100 league table is out again  E3 features at 5th postion in the digital table (for the third year running) and we've climbed a few places to No 27 in the overall UK design table.We got to be happy with that! ...read full story

A few months ago we managed to talk Triumph into commissioning their first ever viral film (actually it didn't take much talking them into it - they loved the idea).  So we put the team together and joined forces with local guys Rubberductions to create the viral around the Triumph Rocket III, a bike featuring the largest engine of any bike on sale in the world ever, in the history of man.  Having rejected the idea of getting Steve McQueen to recreate the famou ...read full story

Some (many) would call us stupid, but at the end of this week - we're also moving our London team into a much bigger studio space from Chancery Lane to Farringdon. It will give us lots of room to grow and it's also a great location for both clients and the Bristol team who are now heading up there on a weekly basis for meetings and pitches.Needless to say the guys can't wait. ...read full story

It's our first proper Friday in our new studio and Friday afternoon is always a chance to start welcoming in the weekend. As usual, the Friday 5's (cheesey tunes - anything goes) are on the jukebox and the beers are out of the fridge.  The plan is to hold our monthly agency meeting at 4pm and then (just to make this one that little bit special) we've decided to throw a BBQ on the terrace just outside.  A studio warming to say thanks for everyone's hard work in ...read full story

It's all starting to look like a studio.  At last.  We plan to unpack the rest of the boxes and load all our lovely new white cupboards with piles of papers, job bags and all the important stuff we couldn't really throw out.The rest of the furniture and seating has arrived too, the Dali lips, swan chairs and our rather daft ball and egg chairs for our new brainstorm room.  ...read full story

We knew this Bank holiday was pretty much going to be a write off.  The whole idea of moving over the long weekend, was to ensure that down time was kept to an absolute minimum for clients, servers and work.  So it's Monday and tomorrow morning we need everything set up, working and all running to enable us to stand any chance of being able to hit the ground running.  Looking at how things are now, that might be easier said than done.  There still loa ...read full story

10 weeks ago we decided to get a bespoke reception desk designed for the front of the studio.  We spent weeks thinking about materials, lights, colours and how it would fit into the overall vision of the white, clean and fresh environment we wanted to create in the studio and communal areas.We came up with a few scribbles and drawings of what we wanted it to look like (after falling in love with a similar desk in the reception of the 2012 Olympic offices in Canary Wharf a few years bac ...read full story

After nearly 2 years of thinking about it and 8 months worth of building work (which still isn't finished), we finally arrive at the Paintworks.The thought of what actually needs to be done over the bank holiday gives us all the shivers. ...read full story

So today is our last day in the Tobacco factory.  We'll be spending it  packing boxes and clearing away 7 years of Tobacco Factory life.  We've hired 3 skips, 170 green boxes and we have an army of people ready to get stuck in.In all the 'Paintworks excitement' we haven't really stopped to think about the fact that this is actually the end of an era.  We've been at the Tobacco Factory for 7 years and today we'll finally say goodbye.  It's been a great ...read full story

Like there's ever going to be a good time to close down the business and move 2 companies (74 people) across to the otherside of town and still, as much as you can, keep things running and ticking over.But to really make things that little more interesting we've just had 3 great opportunities hit the mat, which will now throw all our plans out of the window. A massive pitch for an automotive brand and 2 potential projects for the V&A.We all really want to go for the 3 (gr ...read full story

We've just launched this years Orange Travel campaign. The concept was 'far but never distant'.  So we got the guys together and came up with developing ideas around the keepsakes that people take on holiday with them to bring them closer to home whilst they are away. Like it.  Orange loved it, so they told us to crack on.  Was a great little project, we had a lot of fun producing the charming and quintessentially European illustrations which, Orange said& ...read full story

A few months back we were invited to pitch to a new contact at Kia for the development of the accessories section of their web site, which we won.We got the creatives together with some of the technical team and produced a selection of creative routes to show Kia.  We went armed with concepts ranging from the more standard and simple 'sub section' route right up to a rather brave 'all flash' route, which they went for!So we ended developing a rather sexy f ...read full story

It's only 4 weeks away until we move E3 and Wildfire across to the Paintworks.  We checked out progress today and there's still lots to do.  The builders are confident it will all come together, but we're not holding our breath.  The challenge is that we need to be out of the Tobacco Factory by Friday 30th May.  The network is coming down, phonelines transferred across, removal men standing by and Aardman Animations (who are taking our old space) are actually moving into the ...read full story

The design boys took to the road, met up with the London crew and headed off to the 'The Future of Web Design' conference.  The day was full of speeches and seminars from web gurus from some of Europe's biggest web agencies.Clearly, it wasn't all work and no play... ...read full story

We've just set the new orange.com site live.We were asked to redesign the Orange.com website at the end of last summer and it’s been an exciting and (at times) 'interesting' journey over the last few months.  But never dull or boring.The task – “to create a rich and engaging brand experience”.We thought, ‘cool what a fantastic opportunity’. Lets admit it, ones like this don’t come around that often, so we got to work straightaway. We&rsquo ...read full story

2007 really has started with a bang!  We've had some very exciting client news (details to  follow, just dotting i's and crossing t's) therefore we're on the hunt for some new E3 peeps to join our team.3 x Producers (London and Bristol)2 x Account Directors (London and Bristol)1 x Office Manager (London)So, if you think you might fit the bill, we'd love to hear from you.  Give Vicky or Jane a call on 0117 9021333.     ...read full story

Just look what 'fair-weather' fans got their faces in the paper as they picked up their tickets for the mighty FA Cup 4th round clash between Bristol City and Middlesbrough.Okay, that's a little unfair as JT has been a lifelong City supporter and okay, Gary has been on the odd occassion but 'Liverpool James' and 'Liverpool Pete' are nothing but glory hunters...They had to get a map to find out where Ashton Gate was!"Real fan's aren't happy" - E3 boys ...read full story

The guys at AP have just called to talk to us about some lovely little  projects they've got coming up over the next few months.  Don't know too much about it but we're going to be heading to their offices at the end of the week to find out more.  It's quite funny as we benchmarked the AP site extensively last year whilst working with Toni & Guy.  Funny how these things crop up.  Exciting though - soooo up our street. ...read full story

Hello again!  Happy New Year and all that.Christmas was great.  Two lovely weeks off filled with the usual festive fun and frolics.  But hey, it's January and a new year - so we're back to it with a vengeance (well easing our way back with a forceful nudge).We got the guys together before we broke up to discuss the plans for this year.  It's going to be an exciting one for us that's for sure.  We discussed expanding E3's London operation, as ...read full story

Well we started at 11am and finished at 2am the following morning.  The E3 Christmas party was, as usual, legendary.  We all had a blast and it was great to wind down and kick back after a very long December.A select group of pics (the one's we can show you...) nuff said... ...read full story

So tonight was our final night of the Light Up Bristol gig.  And it went without a hitch which wasn't bad to say we'd never done this projector thing before.The designs looked stunning on the backdrop of the council building and the team behind it put on an amazing show.It was rounded off with a Bristol Media party at a pub across the road.Feedback has been great and we're talking to the council about many more exciting events in 2007.We even got pic of the day in the Daily Mail&n ...read full story

E3 is one of 8 companies that's part of a festive-light-spectacular being organised by Mike and the guys at Bristol Media next Monday and Tuesday night.The gang are projecting eight 400ft designs full of light, colours and splendid Christmas images across the Council House building on College Green.It's part of an exciting new strategy developed by the board of Bristol Media (of which Mike is the chair) to raise Bristol's creative profile and help support and evolve the creative i ...read full story

Check this out, very addictive,festive and very cute.  Our top score was 2100.Click on the door   ...read full story

The tree's gone up, the Christmas card is back from the printers and Debs has got her jugs and pies out.  It can only mean one thing, Christmas is here (well it's close).  What a pleasant way to spend a Friday afternoon munching mince pies and sipping mulled wine (and mulled cider for the yokles).  "Drink up yee ciderrr" Be careful guys that scrumpy is a bit strong. ...read full story

The latest E3 Christmas card will be winging it's way to clients, friends and suppliers early next week, so we thought we'd give you a sneak preview of this year's theme and what we've all been up to.  We all asked for forgiveness at the end of it all... "For what we're about to receive..." The Archdeacon and the Pope. Mike and Stu looking all too comfortable as the religious hierarchy. This is actually the third time Mike has dressed up in religious attire this year... ...read full story

Thursday see's our launch of Greenpeace's Christmas viral campaign. It's hit the press today, so our client was happy for us to tell you about it before it goes live.http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/queensspeech Cheers me babber.The guys are literally just putting the finishing touches to it before final client sign off in the morning.The concept of the campaign is based around an alternative Queen's Christmas message in the form of a viral e-card.  The card will be sent by Greenpeace ...read full story

We can finally tell you our exciting automotive news that we've had to keep schtum until all the t's were crossed and i's were dotted.We heard last week that E3 are one of just four agencies to be retained over the next 3 years by Peugeot!!!We're fairly chuffed to say the least, nay, in fact we're ecstatic.  The previous roster put together over 2 years ago had 11 digital agencies on it, so it's great news that we'll be working much more closely with Peugeot over th ...read full story

Probably the less said about this one, the better but it certainly did make us all laugh though.  Brilliant!click here ...read full story

BBC have phoned to say that they want to retain some E3 peeps to work alongside their internal digital team on the development of a major site for Radio 5 Live.  Bloody great.Can we go down the pub now please boss????No - still need to get the financial pitch out the door.  45 minutes and counting...when's the weekend?  ...read full story

I don't think it's too early, well maybe just a little bit but our festive E3 homepage is now live.  Click on the image below.And by jove, we've just hit the send key on the financial pitch.  So there's no going back, no last minute fiddling, it's well and truely outta here!!!The team will now have to reacclimitise to life in the studio after spending the last 2 weeks in solitary.  How will they cope?Now, it really is down the pub.   ...read full story

We looooove this cute little animation.  It's brilliantly done and a very funny take on the traditional 12 days of Christmas.  So we just had to share it with ya'll.So just click the door.There's a huge community around Boymongoose and he's even released a CD of alternative India Christmas tracks which you can buy from Virgin or HMV.  The guys behind him is a group of Asian animators that are going to be massive over the next few years.  There's even ...read full story

The guys rose a little dazed and confused to be in the studio for about 05.45 this morning, after getting around 4 hours sleep.   So, today see's us email the final version of our pitch document.  It's a beast, with Pete working out last night (at about 1 am) that we've written around 40,000 words.  Yikes.  Although it has been a marathon getting it finished, everybody has really pulled together over the last 2 weeks and as always it's been quite a l ...read full story

We've got a real blast from the past for you behind Door 3.  A  trip down memory lane guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart and to bring a little smile to your face...well if you're old enough to remember them in the first place that is.Just click on the door.   ...read full story

As suspected this weekend will be mostly spent in the studio working on the financial pitch.  The guys rose bright and early to get a bit of a headstart on the writing of the final pitch document.  All seems to be going well, but there's still lots to do. Stu, Phil, Robin and Pete tuck into lunch.At lunch time the guys called out for some carbs and got a pasta feast delivered.  By the sounds of it they will need all the carbs they can get because they'll be locked in that little r ...read full story

A cautionary tale for all young Jedi's this Christmas. Just click on the door. ...read full story

Triumph has been really busy lately.  We decided a few months back to get the guys together to hold Friday afternoon Triumph status meetings to keep on top of things and to keep the machine well oiled.This meeting sits alongside fortnightly internal account reviews and is to make sure all the day to day stuff is going okay.  So it's things like status reports, retainers, resource planning of any new projects, overview of existing projects, CMS and Red ...read full story

Robin, Pete, Stu and an army of others have locked themselves away for the majority of this week to put the finishing touches (yeah likely) to the big, big financial pitch that's taking place next week.  Chances are they'll be in all over the weekend too.They're so 'in the zone' they've totally forgot that beers are being served in the studio as we speak.  Missing beers on a Friday is virtually unheard of.  This must be big!The guys have broken the back of the strategy peice, Phil ...read full story

Flippin heck, it's already the 1st of December! Just where did November go?  In fact where did the WHOLE year go?  Anyways, throughout December , well at least until we all break up on the 19th we're going to post random Christmas treats to get us all in the festive mood for the holidays.  Yes we know it's a lame excuse for an adhoc virtual advent calendar but what the hell.just click on the door and you'll need to turn your sound up for this one.We hear t ...read full story

We've just had word on 3 of the 4 pitches we told you about last week and it's brilliant news.  We've only gone and won all of em!  That's a fantastic major new digital project for the BBC, a great web site for the V&A and some very exciting news on the automotive front (mums the word on this at the mo, but tell you more on that later this week).  So all in all some great news which helps set next year up nicely.Still beavering away on the financial pitch.   ...read full story

The London crew got together over the weekend to shoot the video for the Greenpeace project.  We can't say too much at the mo, other that to say it involves a very, very important person.  Here are some of the pics. ...read full story

This made us laugh (really hard) this week.  The guru of web usability himself is also one of E3's joint managing directors, apparently.  Does Stu and Mike know???dot net magazine ran a feature on Jakob Nielsen and by mistake left Stu's details in under Jakob's profile.  The bit about him starting E3 after leaving university really tickled us.  Not suprisingly we've had a lot of very interesting emails this week.      ...read full story

The University of Bristol asked Mike along to launch this years Enterprise Competition to all of its entrepreneurial students.  As part of a national campaign called Enterprise Week, Mike was asked to give the opening speech to inspire would-be business men and women into developing business ideas and business plans.  The winner of the competition could win up to £30k, so it’s quite a major gig.  Previous years have seen winners develop their ideas into multimillion po ...read full story

We've just had two of the four pitches we told you about.  The automotive pitch went well. We had an hour allocated and we were in there for nearly 3, which is always a positive sign.  We're 50/50 at the moment - there's incredibly strong competition for this one but we gave it our best, so we'll just have to wait and see.  We'll hopefully hear whether we've got through to the next stage mid next week.The other for the arts and culture project, which as we said was a bit ...read full story

2 new bods joined us recently to kick start our startegy department as you may have read today in New Media Age.  Robin and Neil have a wealth of experience in the financial and automotive sectors respectively.Robin comes from Principality Building Society and Neil from digital agency, Good Technology in London.They're both working closely with the pitch teams for the two very big opportunities we told you about (in our recent post) which just happens to be in the financial and automotive s ...read full story

The team got together today to discuss work, pitches and the run up to Christmas.December has always been a busy month for us.  This year isn’t going to be any different with projects for Kia, BBC, Triumph, COI, First Plus and Orange already in full swing.  We'll also get the last minute flurry of Christmas campaign activity that we'll have to squeeze in too.  On top of that there’s the 14 Christmas parties we’ll be throwing for clients from 1st – 16th Dec ...read full story

It's Gary's birthday today.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY G-MAN!!!!!!!!!!E3's first every employee who knocked on our door as a little 17 year old is now a big 28 year old.  Although he still looks 17!!! On your knees Debs... Exploding chocolate cake The 'Triumph King' ...read full story

The fogs gone the suns out, and we've just this second heard we've won some work with Greenpeace.  Been trying to work with those guys for years, so it's flippin magic!!!!!!!So, well done London.We'll tell you more later, we're all off down the pub. ...read full story

3 brand spanking new guys have joined the team in the last 10 days.  Our very first workflow manager (hey - that might be why we're working on our Christmas homepage 6 weeks before Christmas!!!), a new account exec to join our every expanding account and client services team and a new technical team leader - at last!!!We're also on the look out for another account manager and another, maybe 2 producers to join us at Bristol and London is growing soooo quickly we're on th ...read full story

Like everything else, when it comes to sorting out your own web site or marketing, it's always the last thing on the list, after proper paid up client work (obviously).  So every year without fail about 3 days before we break up for our Christmas break we usually get round to thinking about what we do with our web site and someone poses the question "shouldn't we look at making it a bit festive, like?"But NO, this year we're planning it and doing it properly and hav ...read full story

It's been pedal to the metal and working hard on the Kia front over the last 3 weeks, with a load of projects on the go.  All good though and keeps us out of trouble.Two of them went live today: Kia Ceed  and Kia Testdrive  ...read full story

When's summer? We could be somewhere like Ulaanbaatar.This is the view out of our windows on this dull, horrible November Monday afternoon.  And it now gets dark at 3 o'clock.  But at least we have sherbert flying sauces.They're so 'sherberty' and full of 'E' numbers 1 little blue saucers gives you enough energy to run round the studio 48 times apparently (it says so on the tub). ...read full story

As we've said in previous posts there's a big Orange project on the go at the moment.  Orange love fresh, beautifully crafted illustration and one of the concepts we have created was based around a striking, new illustrative style that could be animated across the site in question.So we hunted high and low for the best illustrator we could find and we found Chris.Chris is probably best known for his great and very famous designs for James Blunt's hugely success ...read full story

It was Wes's Birthday this week and Talia baked him a lovely big chocolate cake.It was lovely!And the design guys did it again, by making another cracking birhday card.  There's a bit of a tradition at E3 that if anyone celebrates their birthday during the week the creative guys spend hours secretly crafting a touchng tribute in the form of a personalised birthday card.  Sometimes they can be a bit close to the mark or contain a private little joke but they're alway ...read full story

Friday afternoon means - It's Friday 5's on the E3 jukebox!Everyone highlights their chosen tracks and throws their play lists over to the captain, who spins the wheels of steel.The rules are - anything goes - no music prejudice and no one's allowed to complain.  So far this afternoon we've already had the delights of Madonna, Shaking Stevens, Nickelback and Cyprus Hill with Bucks Fizz's 'A Piece Of The Action' next in line! Rack em up Captain! ...read full story

We don't quite know how or who they paid, but our very own Ant and Dec of the new media world won the Business Person of the Year Award at a star studded gala dinner last night.  The guys went up against 10 other successful business owners to win the accolade.Mike and Stu were joined by all of the 'E3 old guard' who helped start the business nearly 10 years ago, Gary, Dan B, and Vicky.  Wes, Simon and a few family members were also there to give their support.W ...read full story

We found out yesterday we had won the BBC project we mentioned we’d pitched for last week (you know one of the three projects that hit us all at the same time).We are all really, really pleased as punch.Not only is it an exciting project (based around the environment and the decisions we make as individuals) but it's also been commissioned by the BBC’s Science and Nature department – who we’ve never worked for before.  It also looks like it&r ...read full story

At last, after sitting in a box behind Mike's desk for the last 6 months, Gary (the handyman) appeared with drill in one hand and drill bits in the other.  We're going to organise a departmental darts championship showdown just after we've all had a few weeks of practice. ...read full story

23.56 and counting.  As thought, we're buring the midnight oil tonight.  Mind you it's been a while since we've done a big pitch like this and at least it's not 4am...yet.  We're just literally putting the finishing touches to the creative concepts, mounting the boards and the tweeking the presentation.  We only have to be on the road by 7:30am tomorrow morning.  "Happy smiley faces ya'll" ...read full story

The guys got together this afternoon to review the final round of creative for our pitch tomorrow with 'the large government agency' we can't say too much about.  We've been working on the strategy over the last week and the document has finally gone off to print.  But, it's likely to be a late night.All looks good.  We're up against some very stiff competition from some of the London big-boys so we'll see how it all goes.  We're certainly happy with how it's all come to ...read full story

Ben came in this morning sporting a pair of new, very white trainers he'd bought over the weekend.  In fact they're so wonderfully white, we had to take a photo of them and put them on the blog.  Maybe we'll post regular updates on how Ben is getting on with his new trainers and how white he can keep them over the next few weeks.  We love Ben's new trainers.  So white they glow.Makes a change from those beautiful blue Primark flip-flops he's been wearing since ...read full story

We were soooooo  pleased to be invited as special guests to the opening night of the Hobbs Fashion Show on Friday.  Hobbs is a Bristol based hair salon that every year organises a massive fashion extravaganza!E3 were invited along with Aardman Animations as guests of Bristol City Council, which was very nice of them.  We started the evening learning about the plans for Bristol's major new museum which will open on the docks in 2009.  After a quick tour and some food ...read full story

We got another call last week from the BBC asking us to go and talk to them about the development of a site for a 'popular radio programme'.  'Cool, how exciting' - we thought so we jumped on the train and headed across town to see them. The meeting, which was to be honest more of an informal chat about the scope and opportunity of a particular high traffic site, went really well.  The BBC team are going to give the project some further thought and give us a call early this w ...read full story

Like flippin buses we came back to the office after the weekend only to find we'd been short listed to pitch for 3 different projects over the next fortnight.  Brilliant - but why oh why does this always happen?!  It doesn't matter how hard you plan, coordinate resource or try to manage clients expectations when responding to RFI's but they always seem to coincidentally decide to organise pitches within a day of each other.So, after a bit of internal head scratching ...read full story

We've got a massive Orange project on the go at the moment.  We've set up a war room for the creative guys so they can focus on developing several concepts, keeping them out of the studio and away from other distractions.  It's likely to be a flash heavy project that will take around 3 months to complete, launching before Christmas.Gonna be a biggy this one and we're all 'lovin the Orange!' ...read full story

Well it's that time of year again, time to hold our annual E3 Love-In, and we did last Thursday.  We headed off with our flip chart and colour pens to the beautiful and quiet country surroundings of the Manor House at Castle Coombe.What the hell is a Love-In, I hear you say?  Well, it's a full day away from the studio, ringing phones and emails where the whole agency can all get together to talk openly about the future plans of E3, the aspirations we ...read full story

The completion date is fast approaching on our new studios at the Paintworks.  We'll hopefully be in by early next year.  It's a vast space and will give us the flexibility to grow and expand for at least the next couple of years (we hope a bit longer).We've got architects working up final plans and we're meeting our designers down there in the next week to discuss the finishing touches.  With mezzanine floors, 6 meeting rooms, a usability lab, quiet rooms and brainstorming spaces ...read full story

We found out this morning that two of our projects have been shortlisted for BIMA awards. And needless we're bloomin pleased! Orange Media has been shortlisted in the B2B category and our very first BBC project, Comedy Soup has been recognised in the best Community category.The last BIMA we won was 2 years ago, picking up the best charity and non for profit award for our interactive parenting CD ROM for The National Deaf Chidren's Society.Competition is always very tough as t ...read full story

Following our recently launched site for Sony's Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection, we have now launched the psp only version of the site to sit alongside it. Using the same design and concept from main site, the psp version features information about the game, new characters, the obligatory downloads and some exclusive Girls of Tekken behind the scenes wallpapers and a quite raunchy little video. It's our first psp site to be launched to date, so we've been learning what you can and ...read full story

E3 featured highly again in the annual round up of the UK's best digital agencies in the 2006 New Media Age Top 100.  We came 19th in the UK (up 12 positions on last year) under the section of 'design and build' (as there's no full service category this year).  Our acquisition of Butterfly Effect was also mentioned in the main opening feature.  This positions us comforatbly as one of the countries leading independant digital agencies - which we're fairly happy ...read full story

We had a fab night going to see Superman in 3D at the IMAX.  Thanks to our buddies at At Bristol for sorting out all the comp tickets! ...read full story

We went to pitch for a new piece of work with Kia last week, to redesign their accessories section of the Kia UK site.  It's been on the cards for a while so we were pretty chuffed it was back on the radar.  Wes and Stu were adamant that really wanted to 'do the biz' on this one and show the Kia guys something new and different.  The E3 team had been sitting mulling this one over for ages and had researched the market quite a lot, benchmarking what wo ...read full story

Well we all made it back in one piece at least.  Okay there were a few bruises and causalities but all minor and non life threatening.We headed to Hamburger Hill (no really), got camoed up, split into 2 teams of 25, picked up our guns, hundreds of paintballs and blew seven bells out of each other.Flipping eck it hurts.  During the first game Mike got a point blank shot to the left nipple - and screamed like a six year old girl, only to give his cover away (duh) to the enemy team w ...read full story

We're closing the office down on Thursday, to go off on a bit of a jolly.  It's been 3 months since Mauritius so we really, really need it a bit of TLC. Come on, do you know how hard it is to sit in front of a computer and be creative all day?  Seriously, it’s been a record 5 months business wise so we want to take the chaps away to say thanks for all their hard work and to share the love.So, what better way to ‘share the love’ than by kicking each ...read full story

Sunday saw Stu, Chudders, Karen and Justin and surrogate E3'ers James and Mozza run the Reebok Bristol half marathon.  And run it they did, like little troopers.  They all raised a wedge of cash for cancer charaties in the process, so their pain, blisters and worn out knees were all well worth it.Next year we're gonna try and get at least 10 of us to do it.  Bring it on!!!We're all very proud of them, so well done guys!Stu, James and Mozza before ...read full story

Downstairs at the Tobacco Factory, a few pints to say goodbye to what's been quite a hectic week, but all good, which is always a nice way to kick start the weekend.  Helen had just come back from a day with the COI, which went very well by the sounds of it.  The project is progressing well and looks like it might be getting even bigger.'The Ridge' or is it Kevin 'Footlose' Bacon (who knows?) comes down sporting a lovely 1989 Fosters suit jacket, holding an 'attractive' blue ...read full story

Your pints are getting warm downstairs guys.  Come on - move away from the computer. And yet another week has gone by without the dartboard being fixed to the wall.  It's still sitting behind Mike's desk (which is a worry) as  we all know that things have a habit of going missing if they're left within 2 feet of Mike for anything longer than a hour.   But then again it would be going some for him to lose a dartboard.  HR records, job offer letters and appr ...read full story

To say we agreed about a year ago never to launch a site on a Friday afternoon - this Friday saw 2 sites go live.Friday afternoons were never good for us.  Whenever we agreed to launch anything on a Friday five minutes before we were all due to clock off and go for a pint we'd always get a call from the client asking for "a few tiny changes".  "A few tiny changes" usually meant we'd all still be in the studio at 4am on Saturda ...read full story

No, not an undiscovered Roald Dahl book, but Julian's evolving body art.  It's official his body is now covered in 70% tattoos, okay slight exaggeration, maybe 3% covered, but it's big and black and covers most of his shoulder/s and head.Looks lovely though.  Flowers, birds and the odd axe and skull.What if he gets bored of it?Ouch! ...read full story

New boy Rupert passed his driving test today.  Dunno what's with the green today boys...He joined E3 from London a few weeks back, so he's never really needed a car until recently ("all these bloody hills").The examiner said he has a tendency to be a bit nippy, so he needs to watch his speed.  Ironic really ,as that's why he lost his license in the first place.Take it easy tiger! ...read full story

Monday is usually a day full  of internal meetings.  Workflow, billings, client services, team and day to day operational meetings.  Talia and Stu get together to talk about how many freelances we might need to get our hands on.  This is usually a meeting that can take anything from 5 minutes to 5 hours.  This week only took 5 minutes as everything looks okay, but next week we might need to ramp it up a bit more.  The main topic of conversation this m ...read full story

We lost the rounders game.But only because big mouth Bennett gave Wildfire a 10 rounder head start last week. Even with that incredible advantage E3 only lost by 2 rounders – really highlighting just how bad Wildfire performed on the night. The word cheat – also takes on a new meaning with Wildfire MD, Ashley openly admitting on Friday that “it wasn’t a pretty sight and I feel quite ashamed”. Seeing his staff try to rugby tackle the E3 team to the gro ...read full story

Some of the E3 team went to Goldbrick House last night for the re launch of Bristol Media.  It was a great night, over 250 media and creative types - so lots of networking and discussion around how to get Bristol on the map and how all our companies can work more closely and explore opportunities together.From a digital perspective it means that over 20 directors from the leading agencies are going to meet on a regular Thursday over a pint to have a natter and chew the cud.&n ...read full story

If so - we decided this morning that we need our very first traffic manager to work with us to manage the agency's workflow.  Not suprisingly all these projects have meant that our producer and account team have virtually doubled in size - so we need someone to help crack the whip!We're looking for a natural mulit-tasker with great organisation and communication skills who enjoys facilitating the work of others (ah bliss).The ideal person would have the following skills: ...read full story

Gordon Bennett, we've just been ranked 11th best in the country by an annual client satisfaction survey conducted by top industry magazine, Revolution. The mag secretly interviewed 15 of our major clients. Over 395 agencies were evaluated and took part in the survey with a shortlist of 30 published.We also came 5th best for website build, joint 10th for the quality of our account management and industry knowledge, 8th for understanding of our clients' business, and a fab 7th in the UK for our cr ...read full story

It's that time of year again when E3 and sister company Wildfire have their annual rounders match on the downs. It's a tradition that E3 religiously and unrelentingly whips Wildfire into next week and we believe that this year will be no different.However, the psychological games and pre-match preparation has reached new heights this year with Wildfire practicing in a local park 'at every available opportunity'.Just how hard is it to hit a ball with a big bat, asks E3?We'll find out next week. I ...read full story

After a rather long recruitment drive, we've just taken on an army of new E3'ers including a new Group Account Director, 2 new senior Acount Directors, 1 account exec, 3 producers, 1 Art Director, 1 Design Manager, a Flash Designer and 2 junior developers! AND if all that's not enough we're also keeping our eyes peeled for another producer, a traffic manager and an account exec.This all takes E3's head count to just over 50.  Scary.  Needless to say we're rapidly ou ...read full story

We were really pleased to win the redesign and development of the Manx Telecom B2C and B2C sites. Basically, off the back of the Orange, O2 and Vodafone work we've done over the years we got a call to say "look guys, we like the look of E3, so come on over."Neil makes an impression...So we did. Neil, Chudders, Bren and Lee jumped on the plane at Birmingham and spent the day at a kick off meeting with the Manx team. Judging by their photos it does seem however that they spent the m ...read full story

We heard yesterday that we've won a major new project for the COI. We're pretty chuffed as it's one of the first projects to be commissioned by the COI since their new digital roster was announced last month. We went up against 6 agencies for the piece and were short listed down to the final 3. We had a 3 hour pitch in London on Wednesday and heard that we'd been successful on Thursday. They're also coming to Bristol for a kick off meeting on Tuesday (these guys don't hang around).We can't ...read full story

We also found out this week that we're down to the final 3 agencies to pitch for the redevelopment of the Jumeirah hotel chain websites.Fantastic news and we're all very excited BUT resource is a major issue. We're stacked out until the end of October after a mad rush of new projects from existing clients which of course always takes priority. So finding the time and headspace to do this over the next week is going to be near on impossible. We agreed months ago that if we go for it - we go for i ...read full story

Wesley's first issue of "Build your own Transformer" Magazines arrives with a free part, special price of £1.99, usual price £6.99 ...read full story

After a big, big final push, we get FirstPlus live.  Its taken lots of long hours over the last few weeks but we’re all really happy with the final result and more importantly so are FirstPlus!  And so far so good, the results we’re getting back from Equimedia are all very encouraging.  ...read full story

It's only taken our managing directors a short 3 years to open their bar and restaurant, Goldbrick House on Park Street! For a blow by blow account see the Goldbrick blog http://www.goldbrickhouse.co.uk/blog/.Stu, Dougal and Mike look a little less stressed on opening night.We thought it would never arrive and were convinced it was some sort of money laundering scam. Anyway, it's here and we all went down there last week to give it a right old E3 christening.Everybody had a great night, although ...read full story

The last 3 months we've mainly been pitching.  It's been bloomin hard, lots of late nights, lots of RFP's and lots of well STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!But, he says touching every bit of wood, for the first time in flippin ages, we've actually won loads of it too.  In fact a damn sight more that we had planned for which I guess is a nice problem to have(?).  Major new accounts with E:on, First Plus, Manx Telecom and a raft of new projects for Check My File, Remind 4 U, Sony ...read full story

Our E3 trip this year took place in Mauritius. We headed off for a full week with the intention of having lots of fun in the sun and that's exactly what we did. We stayed at the luxury 5 star Beachcomber resort, on the south of the island. We arrived after a rather long 13 hour flight, a little tired and jet-lagged, but seconds after stepping out of the airport we all stood open mouthed, gawping at this amazing island paradise. We had a flippin amazing time. We ate lots of marvellous food, drank ...read full story