Blue Stag

We’re proud to bring one of these to Wales 🏆

Launched in 2021 by , honour purposeful & mission-driven work of people and organisations worldwide.

In collaboration with and the , has been recognised from a pool of over 2,000 submissions by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Introducing Holly, the latest member of our herd!

As marketing manager, she’s involved with everything from writing copy and video production to speaking at events.

Read our blog (link in bio ➡️ Journal) to find out more about her – including why she loves knitting and Bridget Jones’s Diary 🧶

Our knife crime prevention campaign has been selected as The Anthem Awards finalist 🏆

It’s been a privilege to work on this with our partners in South Wales Police and the Wales Violence Prevention Unit. We set out to take a fresh approach to knife crime prevention, grounded in evidence and insight from young people. It gives us huge pride to see it making a difference in our communities. And there’s more to come in the new year…

As a finalist, we’re automatically up for a Community Voice award, too. If you fancy throwing a vote our way, head to https://shorturl.at/cgRV0 🫶

We’re so happy to share that we’re now officially a B Corp! 🥳

This means that our strong positive impact on our workers, community, customers and planet has been independently assessed and verified by B Corp UK.

This is something we’ve been working towards for a while, and represents an important step forward for our company. It’s a reflection of the values held by our staff and our clients, and their commitment to making a positive difference in the world around us.

It’s also a statement about what our company is for, and our belief in the power of creativity to make life better.

A big thank-you to our wonderful clients and staff for making it all possible 🤜🤛

We're hiring!

📇 Marketing Manager
💵 30 - 35k
📍 Cardiff Bay (with remote working)
⏳ 18 Dec

Marketing Manager - Job Opportunity - Blue Stag Are you hands-on, with strong organisational skills? We are looking for an exceptional Project Manager to take a new position at Blue Stag.

Big congratulations to Jake Neale, who has been promoted to Middleweight Designer.

Jake started with us in 2021 and has grown so much as a creative.

We're looking forward to seeing what he achieves in the future! Da iawn, Jake.

We’re really excited to tell you all about the newest member of our team 🎉

Kieran Traas joins us, boasting all-round design talent, solid experience, and a penchant for creating things that bring joy.

Welcome to the herd, Kieran!

It can often be difficult for our young creatives to know what they want to do with their career. To help them out, we've established a programme called 'The Takeaway' - designed to give them a chance to experience a real life commercial project, gaining life long skills to move forward into their career journey.

Check out our latest blog to learn more about the first-ever Takeaway project with Pride Cymru and students from MAC Media Academy Cymru. ⬇️

The Takeaway – A new initiative for our young creatives - Blue Stag We’ve been cooking up a new initiative called ‘The Takeaway’. Its aim is to bridge the gap between young creatives and the creative sector.

Six students. Two teams. One creative brief.

Blue Stag recently launched The Takeaway, a project bridging the gap between education and the creative sector. It offers a platform for students to develop professional skills on real commercial projects, all under the watchful eyes of industry pros.

Each team had three weeks to create a video showreel to celebrate and commemorate last month's Pride Cymru Festival 2023 at Cardiff Castle.

Yesterday, we held our first-ever Takeaway Awards, where our gourmet judges celebrated and acknowledged the students' incredible achievements, creativity, and hard work.

We're so proud of these young creatives for rising to the challenge and thankful to our partners, friends, and staff who have made The Takeaway possible.

🚀 Young creatives: Noah Bakour, Tailan de Morais, Rose Leask, Sienna Taylor, Bethan Young, Penny Weir
🛟 Team mentors: Kendra Eden Photography, Jake Neale
✏️ Judges: Dan Walsh, Rhi Leedam, Joe Sullivam
⭐ Client partner: Pride Cymru
🤝 Education partner: MAC Media Academy Cymru

The Takeaway will return soon! If you're interested in learning more, please get in touch.

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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨

We're on the hunt for a new Graphic and Motion Designer to join the herd.

💵 25 - 30k
📍 Cardiff Bay (with remote working)
⏳21 July

Check it out and apply 👇

Graphic and Motion Designer - Job Opportunity - Blue Stag Are you bursting with creative talent? We are looking for an exceptional Graphic and Motion Designer to take a new position at Blue Stag.

We have loved working on the Wales Without Violence campaign with Wales Violence Prevention Unit and Media Academy Cymru (MAC) over the past 12 months.

The insights and input of young people from across Wales were vital to the campaign's success, and we also saw this as an opportunity to have young people work alongside the Blue Stag team on various components of the campaign.

Together, we have created a compelling showreel that encapsulates the most memorable moments from the launch event at Tramshed.

Thanks to MAC and their students for bringing creativity and energy to the project. We couldn't have created this showreel without them.

Read about our collaboration with the creative students and watch the final showreel below...

Collaborating with Cardiff film students for a Wales without violence - Blue Stag We’ve been working alongside the Wales Violence Prevention Unit and Media Academy Cymru to end violence among young people in Wales.

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming some exceptionally talented creative students from MAC Media Academy Cymru to our office.

Together, we worked on producing a showreel video that showcases the launch event.

It was important for us to involve young people in the creative process, as the campaign represents a collective hope for a violence-free Wales and a bold ambition from young people.

The students played a pivotal role in this project by helping with filming, conducting interviews, and providing their creative perspectives on the final product. Yesterday, we presented the first draft of the video to them, and we were blown away by the fresh and innovative ideas they brought to the table.

We're excited to launch the final video soon, so stay tuned!

Kudos to Kendra Stone and Jake Neale for leading the session.

Sending our best wishes to Alex as he begins his paternity leave.

We hope you enjoy this special time with Lowri, and we can't wait to have you back with us in three months 🫶

Sending our best wishes to Alex Jenkins as he begins his paternity leave.

We hope you enjoy this special time with Lowri, and we can't wait to have you back with us in three months 🫶

Introducing Kenni the Kiwi - our newest member of the Blue Stag team! She's joined us as Marketing Manager, providing all the laughs with her funny accent. Read our blog to find out more about her journey all the way from New Zealand to sunny Wales! 🐑 ✈️

Meet Kendra, the newest member of our herd. - Blue Stag Our new(ish) Marketing Manager, Kendra Stone, joins us from Tauranga, New Zealand. Here, she talks about the experience she brings to the team, her connection to Wales, and how her Kiwi linguistics are catching on.

That’s a wrap! We’ll soon be shutting up shop and saying farewell to 2022. As we look back at this rollercoaster of a year, we want to thank you for being a part of ours. To all our clients, partners and friends, you made every day an adventure and we couldn’t do it without you. Here are some stand-out moments from the team:

👋 Welcoming Dan, Kendra, Steve and Jake to the herd.

✊ Submitting our B-Corp application, which will measure our social and environmental impact.

👑 Working with the Royal Comms Team to pay tribute to the Queen’s legacy, achieving more than 15 million views across social.

✌️Launching a pop-up shop in Cardiff to help end youth violence in Wales.

🌏 Launching Taith, Wales’ new international learning exchange programme.

✨ Working with Youth Business International to deliver their Global Youth Entrepreneurship Summit.

📍 Running a consultation to reimagine a community-led future for Cardiff’s iconic shopping centre, The Capitol.

🏆 Making it onto Creative Boom's list of ‘15 great places for graphic designers to work in 2022’.

As we wind down the year, we want you to know it’s been a joy to have you be a part of it! 2023 is sure to be even better — we can’t wait for you all to see what we have planned. Until then... smile and stay safe out there, friends. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. See you in 2023!

Violence ruins lives. It comes in many forms and affects us all in some way or another. To address this, we’ve been working with MAC Media Academy Cymru and Wales Violence Prevention Unit on a pop-up shop in Cardiff’s City Centre. The space was created for young people to come in and share their views on how we can work together to end youth violence in Wales.

Read more about the campaign. ⬇️

Imagine a Wales Without Violence - Blue Stag Check out our latest collaboration with the Violence Prevention Unit and Media Academy, on a youth-led initiative to end violence in Wales.

Last Friday our Marketing Manager Kendra went along to CreativeMornings/Cardiff at Yellow The Social Enterprise. The boys from Storm & Shelter were there sharing their story about capturing truth through storytelling and story construction in film and documentaries.

We're thankful for these kind of events, as they challenge us to think about how we approach our own creative work; about how we share our clients' stories. 🙌

Something new is coming to The Capitol, and we’d love to hear from more businesses in Cardiff about how we can make this a better space for them.

Register here for tomorrow's virtual workshop at 2pm! - http://bit.ly/3tPW751

Our favourite part of a creative shoot is getting to eat what we're shooting afterwards. In this case, it was two big delicious Marks and Spencer pies, packaged by one of our clients. 🥧

We've thoroughly enjoyed working with Keep Wales Tidy - Cadwch Gymru'n Daclus and Marine Conservation Society on Marine Clean Cymru. Keep Wales Tidy are an awesome organisation who are committed to working with local communities to keep our natural environment safe and clean for our generations to come.

The aim of this campaign was to encourage people to go to their local water area, and to sign up to pledge to keep their area clean. Here's what we did! 🐬

We've been talking to different young people in our collaborative pop-up space, to ask about their thoughts on youth violence, and how we can work together for a safer Wales. 🙌🏽

MAC Media Academy Cymru
Wales Violence Prevention Unit

Teammates Ernie and Kendra discussing very important strategic things over this morning's Google Meet.

We've been tasked with gathering peoples' views on what they want to see at The Capitol, so help us out! ⭐️

What do you want to see? Let us know by completing the survey and you’ll go in the draw to win a £200 FOR Cardiff voucher in time for Christmas.👇

The Capitol Survey Win a £200 FOR Cardiff voucher in time for Christmas!

We've been collaborating with MAC Media Academy Cymru and Wales Violence Prevention Unit on a pretty cool pop-up space! It was created as a space for young people to come in and share their views on how we can work together to end youth violence in Wales.

In less than one week, we've all worked together to turn a vacant shop in Cardiff's Duke Arcade into a bright and interactive space. We love being involved with meaningful work like this, and look forward to hearing what kind of inspiring conversations come from this space.

A huge thanks to Matt Joyce and Sophie Potter for the amazing window illustrations, as well as Shaun Jones and Jonny Hughes from Emerge Outdoor for their involvement. It takes a team and we couldn't have done it without you!

Something cool is coming to Cardiff these school holidays, and we've been tasked to scope out the perfect space for it. Can you tell we're experts with the ol' arm span measurement trick? Stay tuned with what's to come! 😁

Beaut day down here in the Bay, and you bet we're holding onto these last warm rays of summery sun! Who's ready for Winter? ⛄