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A Rough Guide to staying amused online when you should be working!

Remember all those funny emails you have received in the past? I’m talking about the ones that have been seen by millions of people, that everyone talked about! Well here they are, all in one place, already neatly compiled to forward onto your friends! The surprise, the awkwardness, the comic factor... all making for a pretty sound explanation of why this piece of work is a success! Well here’s the low down, Higher Ground were approached by Rough Guides to create a viral campaign to help with the launch of their new book, and compiled this video for them with some of the biggest and funniest clips from the world wide web guaranteed to make you LOL!

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'Fine line between Dark and Beautiful'

As always, this week we have some very exciting news to share with you. Higher Ground have had the opportunity to work with a fresh new band called 'Meisha'. You can listen to some of their songs on their MySpace page.

When we first met them, this self-proclaimed Alternative/Trip Hop/Electro band, signed by EMI Records (!!), were after a new logo. The brief was: something simple with a lot of impact - something similar to the logos of Morcheeba, Portishead and Massive Attack.

We let our design team loose and the final product is below - what do you think?

We are also going to be working with Meisha on their new music video (again !!) in the coming weeks (watch this space). The star of opportunity twinkles on the horizon....

Secret Santa time at Higher Ground HQ

The idea behind giving secret Santa gifts is good, actually its great - get together with a bunch of work mates, exchange prezzies and celebrate the festive season (rather merrily)! But the reality can be a bit more stressful when it comes to actually purchasing the gift. Our suggestion would be to approach the matter creatively like you would your work. And definitely steer away from buying those boring shortbread biscuit selections or bubble bath confetti sets, because no one wants one of those! Check out these sites for inspiration!

www.magmabooks.com
www.play.com
www.eboy.com
www.iwantoneofthose.com

All of us at HQ are also doing secret Santa so photos of what we've received from each other will be posted in the New Year!

Getty Images Freitag Promotion

It's that time of the week again - time to tell you about how brilliant we are! A few weeks ago, we wrote about a Getty Images promotion we had designed and this week we're back with more. Once again, the promotion required a banner for the main space on the general Home Page and on the Home Page of the Creative section.

This time, Getty Images are offering a free Freitag bag to anyone who spends over £1000 on Royalty-free/Right-managed/Rights-ready images or Rights-ready/Royalty-free footage. So go on, get spending and get yourself a Freitag bag!

Or, just have a look at our designs on the Getty Images HOME PAGE!

London’s back by popular demand!

The LONDON THROUGH A LENS exhibition has returned hosted by Getty Images.

HGC went along to spread some love and participate in Getty’s kind hospitality and welcome the return of this extraordinary compilation of past and present imagery. The result of this collection is ‘a portrait of London. Showing the momentous and the mundane of everyday life.’

It’s the capital like you’ve never seen it before!

Not only did we get to view some amazing photo's, but we also got to celebrate the launch of the Pump Audio's PREMIUM PLAYLIST.

Behind the Scenes

Gather round children!

It's time for another look into the amazing adventure that is the life here at Higher Ground HQ. Remember last week when I mentioned our work for the Buffalo Club? Well, today I'd like to share with you another aspect of our multimedia capabilities - this time in the form of a video.

What we lovingly call the 'Behind the Scenes' video is going onto the new and improved Buffalo Club website (have a look at the site and let us know what you think - new and improved, right?). It tells the story of the below mentioned photo-shoot, so you can see the evening unfold for yourselves! Let us know what you think.

The Behind the Scenes video will also be joined with a much more 'slick' Trailer video shortly (watch this space).....

Say Cheese!

You might remember a while back when we'd introduced The Buffalo Club - the high-rolling, luxurious, members-only poker club. Although their website was originally launched in early September, we have been involved in its redesign since and wanted to share with you some of the exciting projects this has involved!

In order to make the new website as 'slick' as possible, a professional MTV Cribs-style photoshoot was organised - models, enormous houses, fancy cars, the lot! Some of the HGC team members were lucky enough to go along and do some video filming at the event as well! Have a look at some of the photos from the event below and let us know what you think...

So, to summarise: Those who know - play at the Buffalo