Communities – Celebrating Sameness
I went to a Refugee Action charity event at the British Film Institute the other night. It was a screening ...
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Plastic Shirts
Like everyone, Nike is trying to green itself up a little. And it chose the right place to showcase its initiatives. ...
Community and Vegetables
Guy Watson, founder of Riverford Organic Vegetables, charts the perils, pitfalls and payback of building a community over the last 10 years.
Crest Fest – hardware meets art
My friends invited me to a hardware party in Brooklyn on the weekend. At first, I thought it was some ...
Communities – Tent in Town
Had lunch at Riverford’s travelling field kitchen. I travelled 40 minutes from Brockley, South East London to Islington in North ...
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No Skinny Bitches
The sheer scale of everything in NYC is pretty mind blowing. The biggest testament to this is a rice pudding ...
Er… house red please.
Saw this in my local Co-op the other day. Wine is often perceived as pretentious category and one that certainly ...
Absolut Disgrace
Every now and then, we get a harsh reminder of the importance of authenticity. I stumbled across a particularly harsh ...
Travel like a human, live like a community.
I love New York. Love it. I love the crappy coffee in the special paper cup (why doesn’t London have ...
Ok Go’s Magic Formula
A while back, Toby wrote about how cool OK GO’s film clip for This Too Shall Pass was. And it ...
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Communities – All Not Welcome
Sophie-Rose is my soon-to-be sister in-law. She’s a singer and she had a gig on the weekend as part of ...
The Big Fish Inside
Mark spends an evening with four Challenger CMOs and two CEOs.
Cocktail Crusader
I was walking through Soho on that fateful day where Australia got our asses walloped by Germany. Deep breath, moving ...
See me
There was a piece in The Sunday Times last November about Michael McIntyre, the comedian. He has an interesting metric ...
Chalk the line
As a former cycle junkie, I love bicycle innovations. Especially when they are to do with safety. So it’s no ...
Betel Bar Blackboard
Walked passed this bar last night and saw this sign. Made me want to go in much more than a ...
Do you know what you stand against?
Came across this great quote from Kele, from Bloc Party on the weekend: On Liam Gallagher: “He’s one of the ...
Blinged up water
Next stop on the ghost of camera phone past…New Zealand. I had a project out there last year with our ...
Research in the bin
Just clearing out the photos from my old phone and enjoying a mini stroll down memory lane. First stop, the ...
Beliefs: Help I need Help – I’m late
We’ve just launched our new topic for the month all about community. But I wrote this post on Friday and ...
Trash Talk
Just stumbled across this company and am very impressed by what they’re doing. It all started with a question… The ...
Pringles Ace It
Some of the best brands are shamelessly opportunistic. They constantly scan the world around them and look for ways to ...
COMMUNITIES
This month we've been talking about community. What makes it? What breaks it? What it feels like in our local neighbourhoods? What it looks like on the world-wide-web? What meaning it has in life and ...
Common Cause
Liv addresses our current brand obsession with community, explores its real world meaning and learns some lessons for the brand, business and campaign world.