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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: Comment
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
Posted in Agency, Comment, Design, Exhibition, Just for Fun, The Partners, Uncategorized
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My first year – Till death do us part.
So, earlier this month I went back to university in Hertfordshire for the day to talk to next summer’s up and coming talent.
Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)
The renowned British artist and ‘father of pop art’ has died at the age of 89.
Posted in Art, Comment, Design, News, The Partners
Tagged artist, Inspiration, Richard Hamilton, Swingeing London
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Don’t forget your thesaurus
Went to listen to the satirist Will Self talk about his relationship with London last night at the Museum of London (a short walk from our London office). As one would expect, Will’s erudition was such that it made me … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, Comment, Environment, Green
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Women on board
If you live in the UK, then for the past couple of weeks you would have seen the news media abuzz with debate and commentary around the issue of how few women there are on the exec boards of large … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Business, Charity, Comment, Information Graphics, News, The Partners
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Kicking off
Some weeks before the World Cup kicked off I read that Powerade were the Official Hydration Partner of the World Cup. It was at that point that I knew this was going to be a bad World Cup for England. … Continue reading
Oh, ok, go!
So I’m going to have a little rant — don’t you just hate it when you see ads that blatantly copy something from Youtube? Fine. Okay, sometimes it’s hard for everyone to come up with good ideas so you inevitably end … Continue reading
My WEF diary
At the end of January, I took a little trip from the (relative) warmth and comfort of my studio desk in Albion Courtyard, to the bleak wilderness of Davos, high up a mountain in the Swiss alps. A spot of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Branding, Comment, Environment, User Experience, Video
Tagged Animation, Branding, Diary
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Raging bull
I just wondered, in the wonderland of Twitter, if there was something deep and meaningful to be said about so many of the 19 million people that watched the X-Factor final last weekend now buying the RATM track. I was … Continue reading
New’ish year. New inspiration.
I set off before the Christmas break this year with high aspirations of gallery visits, an intellectual reading list and a general full-on immersion into everything cultural. The reality, as so often happens was a heady mixture of family reunions, … Continue reading →