Stephen Talbot Advertising

Stephen Talbot Advertising was launched in 1979. In that year,
Ian Dury was hitting us with
his rhythm stick, the Austin Allegro
was the fifth best selling car in Britain and Trevor Francis became the first million pound signing.

Thirty years ago, creating adverts and design for print was a laborious affair involving, visualizing, typesetting, paste up and camera ready artwork. Turn around time was measured in days sometimes weeks and often dependent on the ability of the agency to queue jump at the typesetters, the availability of a motorbike courier and a good relationship with the local chapter of the NGA (National Graphical Association) printers union.

Thirty years have passed and typesetting machines are museum pieces, motorbike couriers are delivering pizzas and footballers
are earning a million a week
but Stephen Talbot is going from strength to strength.

A new management team and fresh creative impetus ensures STA is still creating hard hitting, results driven advertising but this time we’re using the latest state of the art graphic design tools and turn around time is counted in hours.

Up Snowdon on a Chopper

Copy writer Dean Brindley will be doing his bit for St Luke’s by travelling to the summit of Snowdon on a 30 year old Raleigh Chopper bike.

Dean said: “At the end of July 2009 I’ll be riding / carrying my 30 year old Raleigh Chopper to the top of Snowdon via the Miners track and zig zags to the summit then descend following the railway to Llanberis, then riding up the Llanberis pass to the Youth Hostel at Pen y Pass.

I did this a number of years ago but forgot to take my camera. I was so tired at the end I couldn’t drive my car to the camp site and had to sleep in it.