Coca-Cola

Of all the advertising work I have done this is the only one to make it onto the website. Why? Honestly it is about the only one I like. I can’t think of another avertising job where I did something as simple and straightforward as this and they went for it. (To be clear, the two bottle ‘love’ thing is not my idea. I did the illustrated elements and the layouts.)
I was working at Airside at the time and my boss at the time and now friend Alex Maclean was also involved in the creative process.

These photos make me feel really nostalgic and a bit sad. It was the summer of 2005. We had just moved into a flat in Crystal Palace, our first home with a garden and it was a really hot London summer that seemed to go on forever. I remember buying a BBQ. I remember loving my new long, hilly cycle- commute. England winning The Ashes. These posters were everywhere you looked in London and I was a bit spun-out by that. It’s weird seeing something you drew everywhere, plus I don’t really like coke. Then on the morning of July the 7th a bomb blew up a bus with my coke ad on the side of it, killing thirteen people. It’s irrational but It made me feel closer to what happened in a way that I can’t articulate. I haven’t really looked at this work since.