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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: Environment
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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World Anamorphic Branding
Last week a couple of The Partners were in Davos, Switzerland to take part in the World Economic Forum’s 2011 annual meeting. Surprisingly we weren’t there to share our opinions on the conference agenda ‘Shared norms for the new reality’ … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Environment, Exhibition
Tagged 2011, Anamorphic, Davos, Deloitte, World Economic Forum
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Following the herd
We were amused to read, in the Evening Standard the other day, that Selfridges has recently come under attack from a flock of bright yellow sheep. As part of a campaign to celebrate British Wool Week, the landmark store was … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign, Environment, Fashion, Interiors, Marketing, Photography
Tagged cashmere, goats, Saks, sheep
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“Don’t take no as an answer, take it as a question”
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited along to the latest TEDx event in London. As we’re arranging our own TEDx event in October – TEDxNewSt – I was interested to see, first hand and up close, how they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaign, Charity, Environment, Innovation, Media, Technology, Video
Tagged change, conferences, ted, TEDx, TedxNewSt
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Globe-surfing
If you’re anything like me then you’re likely to spend an inordinate amount of your life plugged into a day-dream playing inside your (cavernous) head where you’re living out an
Posted in Environment, Experience Design, Media, Resources, Uncategorized, User Experience
Tagged #traveling, countries, exploring, Globe Genie, maps, Street View
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Safer cars = more dangerous drivers and other paradoxes
If you’ve ever wondered why you can spend an aeon in a traffic jam on a motorway with no apparent cause, why we’re so intolerant of each other when we’re driving and why we think it’s ok to speed but … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Design, Environment, Experience Design, Uncategorized, User Experience
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We are here
Alongside the part of my phone that actually makes calls (the old fashioned bit), my Google Maps app is probably one of my most used. It’s become indispensable in the same way that being able to text once was. What … Continue reading
Urban Interventions
This week we had a very gorgeous design book delivered to our studio. Published by Gestalten, their Urban Interventions book is the homage of brilliant pieces of art and design in the great urban outdoors.
Posted in Art, Books, Design, Environment, Graphic Design, Innovation
Tagged Art, Design, Gestalten, Grand Tour, street art, Urban Interventions
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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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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 →