TIE : The International Exchange

Last year the Brooklyn Brothers, a young, creative hot-shop who launched in London 2 years ago, offered to help TIE with our communications.  Amongst a handful of fantastic communications projects, they have developed a script and are currently working with Blinkink to make it happen, and are working with Nation to redesign our website.

For those of you that don’t know, the Brooklyn Brothers set out to create a faster, smarter more commercially savvy agency that recognises today's dynamic market.  In their first year they attracted clients such as Virgin Media, BBC Worldwide, and National Express, who all came to the agency for ideas that worked effortlessly across media and got consumers talking. They love to collaborate with creative talent everywhere and regularly seek out new directors, artists and writers to work with on client projects and on their own range of products which includes a chocolate bar, a children's book and a range of furniture.

Blinkink is a part of London's Blink Productions and they make commercials, music videos, short films and the like. They specialise in innovative mixed-media production techniques and whimsical visual stylings.  Their roster of directors includes Pleix, Noah Harris, Kristofer Strom, Simon Willows and David Wilson. Their recent highlights include Noah Harris' animated light-writing wizardry for phone provider Talk Talk's tv campaign and X-factor sponsorship; David Wilson's mesmeric mirror manipulations in his videos for Moray McLaren's "We Got Time " and We Have Band's "You Came Out" which won him the Best New Director award at this year's Music Video Awards; a selection of reassuringly lo-fi music videos created for Diesel's U-Music initiative by Tom Kingsley, Lernert & Sander and Tomas Mankovsky; and Simon Willow's all-singing, all-dancing money man created for BBH's most recent Barclays commercial.

And finally, Nation is a young digital design studio owned and run by Tom Hartshorn and Odin Church from a sunny studio in Hoxton Square. Nation was started because the guys wanted carve their niche in digital design through websites, social media initiatives and interactive installations. They're already well on their way to meeting this goal with clients such as fashion designers Alice Temperley and Shelley Fox, and brand work for W&K, Mother, BMB and Lowe.

So, you can imagine how honoured we were to have these three amazing companies offer to support TIE by agreeing to collaborate and help us out with our comms. Although still in the early stages of development, we hope to have the final film and website finished by the end of May. We will of course keep you all posted.  Watch this space.