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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.
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Ice-cold truth
Hot (or should that be icy cold?) on the heels of the World Economic Forum in Davos, my latest piece for The Huffington Post is published here (click to link through). It’s a discussion on the inextricable relationship between business … Continue reading
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TP on the HP
I’m pleased to have been invited by the editors to post regular points of view on the Huffington Post. Rather then reproduce it all here on The Crossed Cow (in large part because it lacks the requisite stunning visuals to … Continue reading
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A Big Apple: December
There’s been no snow to play in, so here’s a roundup of what I got up to in December…
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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
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Terrifyingly Good Times
Too old for trick-or-treating? This Halloween weekend go see some of London’s scariest sights.
The future of digital photography?
I saw a really interesting technological development recently on the BBC news website. A camera that allows refocusing of a shot after shooting.
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World of wonders…
Gone are the days when curating was reserved for those academic art experts. Thanks to the web, there’s now endless websites dedicated to collecting the weird and wonderful.
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To verb
If using brand names as nouns – as in “leave my post-its alone”, and “you’re wearing my speedos” wasn’t enough, we’ve now got ‘verbing’ to deal with.
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Gold, Silver, Brands
The London 2012 Olympic medal design was launched yesterday and most news reports I saw made heavy mention of the figure of the Greek goddess of victory, Nike, on the reverse of the medal. Straightaway, that feels instinctively wrong. I … 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 →