This has been such a busy summer for us! We are right in the middle of planning our new campaign that will be launched in the autumn. We have been getting together as much as possible and have now got our new logo ready to go, have been working on some radio activity and have been writing our campaign literature. As part of the new campaign we carried out some vox pops in Liverpool City Centre last week to ask people about the new campaign subject matter (that will be revealed soon) and it was great to see that most people have an opinion that is similar ours!

On Friday we are going to take a trip to Manchester to deliver the postcards that we collected in support of our Smokeoff Campaign. We have 10,000 postcards signed by the public in favour of Coronation Street and Eastenders removing smoking images before the watershed. We shall be taking these, along with a letter explaining why we chose to collect the postcards and what the campaign is about, to Granada in the hope that Coronation Street and Granada TV will think about what the impact that smoking imagery can have on young people.

We had a great meeting together yesterday and have so much going on over the summer! We have chosen the launch date for our new campaign which will be at the end of September so we will be spending the summer writing copy for our campaign material, working with local radio to write, produce and record our own infomercial, working with designers to make sure our new campaign logo is perfect and organising the actual launch that will take place in Liverpool City Centre!

Keep your eyes peeled on Tueday 19th August when we will be taking to the streets to chat to the public and get some vox pops about their opinions or our new campaign... All will be revealed soon!

After spending the past couple of months revising and sitting exams D-MYST had our first meeting of the summer yesterday to discuss our new campaign that we will be launching in Liverpool City Centre in September! The next few weeks are going to be really busy for us as we plan our campaign strategy, design our new campaign logo, discuss how to promote it and organise the launch!

As well as this D-MYST will also be sharing the impact that our SmokeOff campaign had with the public in regards to television shows that show smoking before the watershed. We had over 10,000 postcards signed in favour of no smoking on television shows before the watershed, especially in prime time viewing shows such as Coronation Street and Eastenders. Keep a look out for what D-MYST did next regarding this issue...!

D-MYST are off to New Zealand!!

Congratulations to our lovely member Katie who has been selected to visit New Zealand on behalf of D-MYST and demonstrate how successful we are!! Katie is so excited to head off on her travels and the rest of the group have some fun ideas for videos to send with her so we can all be there in spirit! Katie has already had a Skype conversation with a couple of the students that will be hosting her trip and they have already shared some interesting ideas for their programme! Watch this space for updates on her trip - Katie will be keeping a diary of her adventures and sharing them with us all!!

The official launch of our Smokeoff campaign went really well on Saturday! We teamed up with a fantastic entertainment act - 'faces of dicso' who helped to promote our campaign and remove smoking from TV shows such as Coronation Street and Eastenders. We also had a face in the hole attraction which was hugely popular with you people and children alike. Look out for photos on Twitter, facebook and our new instagram account @d_myst_uk - the best photo will win a £50 shopping voucher!! The day was a huge success and to add to all the fun we collected a further 1,000 signatures in support of our campaign!

We had an exciting meeting this evening! We spent our time going over the final plans for the official launch of our Smoke-off campaign! We have an exciting day planned on Saturday 19th March and we are hoping to get as many members of the public involved! Keep an eye out for us and all the special surprises we have planned and if you see us please come over to say hello and help us in our task to take smoking out of coronation street and eastenders!

Today we had a fun meeting storyboarding some ideas for videos. We have come up with some exciting ideas for an animation style video based on the members of D-MYST the agency. Watch this space for the next You Tube sensation! We then moved on to talk about the launch of the Smoke Off campaign! We have some very exciting plans that we hope to put in place! The launch of the Smoke-Off campaign will be on Saturday 19th October in Liverpool City Centre! Make sure you come and say hello!