House hunting… yes please
The real estate business isn’t in great shape at the moment. The market is suffering and the renting / buying ...
March 2010
The name game
I’ve started trying to read a bit more about the financial world and am really struck by the names given ...
Prawn Theatrics
Big week for me and Montreal and food. After my fishtank sushi affair, I was treated to another piece of ...
Innovation-Walla
I went to India over New Year for a friend’s wedding ‘festival’ (I think that’s the most accurate adjective to ...
A glaringly obvious blank canvas
As part of London’s 2012 Cultural Olympian project, ‘Artists Taking the Lead’ around 40 bus shelters throughout London w...
A misunderstood washing machine
This is one of my favourite stories of all time. I suppose I should be a little more specific; this ...
Saying vs. Doing
This month we’ve been making time between workshops to do a lot of talking with a lot of Doers. Liv has had breakfast with Veteran Labour ...
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Gift Media
A new way to think about choosing our media
Making the Digital Physical
Russell Davies talks about the evolving relationship between the digital and the physical world.
A New Canvas
What existing media can we borrow to find a new canvas for our message?
Bottles, Blogs & Bergerac
Dan Germain from innocent tells us what he thinks about new media.
Show The Love
Naresh Ramchandani from online environmental charity Green Thing tells us why cheap media requires costly effort.
New Media
This first month we will be exploring both the power and pitfalls of the digital communication media currently labelled as ‘New’. But we will also be pushing beyond this digital definition to see ...
It’s not the nature of the medium; it’s where you come across the message
Sushi Theatrics
In Montreal for the week, and by some fantastic coincidence, my sister was too. We trundled off to a Japanese ...
How should a Challenger behave when Big is Important?
48 years ago a group at DDB sat in a room on Madison Avenue discussing their first presentation to their ...
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Sixteen Spare Minutes?
Because this is well worth it. It’s a short animation called Logorama made up entirely of logos and mascots.  It won ...
My supermarket wants me to party
It’s true. On Monday night I was roaming around my local Waitrose and found this sign. Waitrose are offering me ...
Show me the Dinner
‘No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up’                                                                    Â...
Thorpe Park takes the piss…
No it really does. How do I put this? Thorpe Park are asking fun fare patrons for urine samples to ...
Unite the Community against the Monster
A while ago in our previous blog 2 is the new 1 Adam Morgan wrote about the potential of Monsters, ...
The Secret of Conran's Success in Restaurants
An interesting observation by AA Gill in last week’s Sunday Times Style section about why Conran was so successful as ...
The midnight knitter
I love how many wonderfully weird people there are in the world. I’m particularly enamoured by those who seem to ...
File Not Found? Phew!
We’ve all been there. You finally find that link you want. The heading’s right, the blurb’s bang on, so you ...