Just launched the new Acme Climate Action holding page.

This is just a taste of what the Acme Climate Action website will look like. If you thought the book was an ambitious little project, wait for the website! Lots of feisty tricks and treats and, as the name promises, plenty to get people active.

Visit the site at www.acmeclimateaction.com.

Hope you like!

Here’s a sneak preview of the work we’re doing for a new ethical jewellery brand. Danaya provides conflict-free diamonds, environmentally friendly gold and ethical jewellery. As a start up, Provokateur came up with the name Danaya, created their brand and are working on everything from their website to their packaging. We’re also working closely with them on their marketing and communications strategy, helping get Danaya out into the world and into our lives.

It’s just the kind of client we love. Creative. Innovative. Different. And it’s great to create an ethical brand that’s high end rather than hair shirt.

We’ll post more updates about our work for Danaya since our work in the ethical consumer sector is becoming a big part of Provokateur’s mission. And if you want to find out more, drop us a line.

Great news! The Government wants to extend rules around detention without charge to a magnificent 56 days. That’s 56 days you can be held, subjected to repeated police questioning, while facing no official charge.

That’s why Provokateur is proud to be working with Liberty to develop their campaign advertising on this important issue, bringing home the reality of what 56 days detention means. Our advertising can be found in today’s Guardian and there’s much more to come. Watch this space. And watch out for your civil liberties too. It’s a crazy world out there – particularly when politicians get involved.

Why, you might ask, are we going to the lengths of putting this on our blog? Well, the sad, calculating truth is that now, at least, a search for Provocateur, charity, branding (or should that be Provocateur, ethical, design?) might at least register us somewhere in your results. In which case, you’ll be wanting to visit us at:

www.provokateur.com

Neat, eh?

If, of course, you’re after some saucy knickers – well, you know where to go.

Sir Montgomery Cecil, the aviation legend and iconoclastic hero of the anti-aviation lobby, is back – this time, on the front page of The Daily Telegraph. The advertisement originally conceived for billboard hoardings has now been put into print. And he looks ace, exhorting readers to ‘Stuff global warming’. Good old Sir Monty. Where have you been, for goodness sake?

You can see the ad here:

www.unlimited-spurt.org

Provokateur Towers was pleasantly surprised to discover that Joshua Blackburn, chief mischief maker at Provokateur, ended up on the Evening Standard’s Top 1,000 Most Influential People 2007, ‘Up and Coming’ in the environment category. We were especially surprised since Joshua is not so much ‘influential’ as ‘mithersome’, and he is scarcely able to influence his cat. Still, his name did feature just above HRH Prince of Wales (also ‘up and coming’ apparently!), so it’s not a story without its mirth-factor.

We are thrilled to announce that Fourth Estate, part of Harper Collins, will be publishing Provokateur’s Acme Climate Action in Spring 2008. This is a uniquely Provokateur enterprise that, as the name suggests, is all about *action*. Doing something. Getting jiggy. The idea was to produce a book that gets people stuck in. In fact, we want people so stuck in, that by the time they finish the book, nothing is left. That’s why it’s full of posters, postcards, DIY ideas, notebooks, stickers, actions, ideas and inventiveness. It’s a sumptuous little affair and we’re tickled pink that it’s going to be getting out into the Big Wide World. Watch this space for further updates.

Vive Acme Climate Action!

This year’s Party Conference season will now be enlivened by Liberty campaigning on the issue of detention without charge. Provokateur’s been getting busy with Liberty for some time now and this is just the latest campaign we’ve done for them. If you make it to Blackpool or Bournemouth or wherever these parties hang out, look out for the ad vans and posters that will be popping up. And be sure to visit the Liberty website, http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/, to find out more about this important issue.

Now, we aren’t the kind of agency that likes to widdle on another agency’s work. But when we were sent this, well, we couldn’t resist posting it here.

Other than that, we reserve the right to keep schtum on what we think about the whole 2012 hoo-hah.