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The Crossed Cow is The Partners blog. A collection of views, opinions and inspirations gathered from the team behind the UK's most highly awarded brand consultancy.
Category Archives: Agency
A Big Apple: New York Earth Room
If you’re ever in New York and missing the smell of the countryside, check out the ‘Earth Room’ – a room filled with 127,300 kg of earth.
Posted in Agency, Art, Environment, Exhibition, Just for Fun
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What a lovely bunch
As you may have seen from a blog post on here last week, we entered a competition run by Metro newspaper and D&AD to design a cover wrap for the Metro newspaper. The winner was announced last Wednesday evening at … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Art, Design, Graphic Design, Innovation, Marketing, Media, News, Photography, The Partners, Uncategorized
Tagged Competition, coverwrap, D&AD, Design, metro, Metrowrap, newspaper, UK
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All’s fare in love and transport
I recently had the pleasure of traveling North, and escaping the grime and congestion of London in favour of the…..errrr….grime and congestion of Manchester , in order to go and conduct a client presentation. When considering my journey, I flirted … Continue reading
The Best Job In the World?
To encourage young designers from schools and colleges, our Creative Partner Greg Quinton was recently asked by D&AD to provide some pearls of wisdom in a personal take on having a career in design: You may have seen all the … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Architecture, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Portfolio, The Partners
Tagged 2009, Advice, Art, Business, careers, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Education, experience, Free, Graduate, Greg Quinton, People, play, Quinton, Shops, ted, The Partners, Work
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Creativity is not an option
The Partners recently conducted research into how much value UK businesses place on ‘creativity’ as part of their strategy. As a result of this our Managing Partner, Jim Prior, has written an opinion piece for The Times today based on … Continue reading
St. Aziz’s day
On Friday we paid homage to the creative lifeblood of The Partners (TP). For the second year running we have recognised the feast of St. Aziz‘s Day with an internal awards ceremony to celebrate the wonderful efforts people within The … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Awards, The Partners
Tagged Agency, Art, Awards, Creative, Design, People, saving, St. Aziz, ted, The Partners, Work
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Everyone starts somewhere
Last Thursday saw the final Presidents lecture and, for me, it was a pretty good way to end. The talk was an opportunity to hear the stories from those of various creative sectors and how they got to where they … Continue reading
Missed opportunity
So I love these new ads for Intel, having worked for them in the past agency side, these ads are certainly a move on from where they were, and I love the human ‘bong’ at the end, but why oh … Continue reading
Agent J
Last night, with brain cells pumped, we took part in the second McNaughton’s Paper Pub Quiz, held this time at Ball Brothers in the City of London. Twelve design agencies took part to see who had the best nerdy glasses, … Continue reading
A Big Apple…
Over the coming months I’m going to try and give you a flavo(u)r of what it’s like to live and work as a young designer in New York. I’ve moved here for a year to work in our New York … Continue reading →