Bertie & Jack: The sketchbook years, Part 2 August 2011

Time for a change
The clock is tick, tick, tickkking...
Bertie & Jack will soon be launching new branding, including a new logo and several brand spanking new products that are in the pipe line. 
Here are a few pages of the Bertie & Jack visual research books as a clue to our new products.

Can you guess what's next from Bertie & Jack? 

 

The truth is out: our real identities revealed

THE ARTISTS

Bertie & Jack: The sketchbook years, starting July 2011

Lets take a peek.....

put on your specs old thing.

and feel the love... for Bertie & Jack's first ever visual blog. 

Bertie & Jack's work always begins something like this...

a scribbly drawing here and there: sausage dogs first sketches with Bertie’s added touch

my 'tree of life', Bertie felt need more life.. and added some of the water pot too.  

…oh the joys of painting with a 2 year old who just doesn’t think your picture is good enough.

Oo   June 22^nd sunny day, drawing the lavender…first go on the watercolours since 1997... put them away for another 10 years.

If you see this pair prowling the streets of Bath do not approach, they are dangerous, they will take your sweets. 

signing off.... Bertie & Jack ages 1.5 and 2.5 

Does Sir Alan fancy hanging with Bertie & Jack?

So, I've done it. I've applied for next year's Apprentice. I have no idea whether my application will get any further than a researcher at the production company, but hey you gotta be innit to winnit (so I hear).

I now find myself asking the question - why? Why would I want to be shacked up with a bunch of  hot-headed, power hungry, crazy suits? Couple of reasons: I'd like to prove a point that to be successful in business you don't need to be all of the above. Success is actually possible by maintaining a few good old-fashioned traits. Allow me to introduce you to our good friends 'understanding', 'organised' and 'friendly'. With these three buddies in your business kit bag you won't go wrong. 

The second reason, Bertie & Jack would bloody love a £250k investment. We'd never forget our market stall roots but we'd leap at the chance of retail space with heat...toilet facilities...a kettle!

So, who knows whether I'll make it through to the next round but it's worth a crack. I'll keep you posted.

Emma 

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London Calling.

Hello. This is the very first Bertie & Jack blog post bought to you on a rather wet and grey Sunday. Still, the bad weather is a good excuse to lounge about in comfy slacks, drinking tea and dunking biscuits.

Well, where do I begin with this blogging business? How about what we've been up to? Bertie & Jack has had a busy old week. We were up at Spitalfields Market on Thursday - was great to be up in London, but the 8 hours in the car was a little frustrating  (note to selves, take train in future). On the plus side, we did see every tourist hotspot imaginable en route: Buckingham Palace,  Tower of London et al were all viewed as we drove by slower than a stoned snail.

Aside from the journey, Spitalfields was not quite all we had it cracked up to be. We'd heard echos of it 'not being like it used to be' and perhaps we should have paid more heed to the word on the street. It really isn't the buzzy, arty, trendy space of yesteryear. Perhaps it's different on a Sunday? Still, we had a giggle and my favorite saying was frequently recited throughout the day - 'You don't know 'til you try'. And hey, we're always up for trying something new with the business and spreading the Bertie & Jack love as far and wide as possible. We shall definitely be back in London soon, but are going to have a play around with locations. We're not giving up on the big smoke that easily.

Happy sleepy, soggy Sundaying.

Emma
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