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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.
Tag Archives: Creative
Canned gold
This week saw the welcome return of our Creative Partner Greg Quinton. Whilst we’ve all been sitting gazing longingly at the sun through the studio window, Greg has been sunning it up in Cannes at the Cannes Design Lion awards … 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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Will you be there?
It’s that time of year when thousands of young efferfescent design students leap out of the colleges and universities, eager and hungry to show their off their potential to become the next Aziz Cami’s and Alan Fletcher‘s. What better a … Continue reading
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
Big Book of Self Promotion
This week we were contacted by the publishers of the forthcoming book: the Big Book of Self Promotion to inform us that two pieces of design by The Partners are to be featured within it. They have chosen our Client … Continue reading
Preston Profiles – Robert Ball
Our Design director from t’north Robert Ball has been featured as part of the Preston Profiles feature on design blog The Disciples of Design.
Posted in Portfolio, The Partners
Tagged 2008, 2009, Advertising, Advice, Art, Black, Blog, Books, brand, Branding, Campaign, cards, Comment, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Digital, Education, experience, Flash, Flickr, Free, Fun, Global, Graduate, Graffiti, Grand Tour, ideas, logo, London, New York, Paint, People, Portfolio, Poster, Robert Ball, Sculpture, Student, Students, ted, the National Gallery, The Partners, Thrislington, Work
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Little Yellow Book in the Big Yellow Book
Our relationship with Thrislington cubicles goes nearly as far back as The Partners itself. It’s a testament to them that they still commission creative work after all this time. Our latest project – Thrislington Education – is introduced by this … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Portfolio
Tagged 2009, Art, Awards, Brochures, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Education, New York, The Partners, Thrislington, Toilets, Work
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The learning curve
This week’s Design Week Magazine, includes a insightful article about ex-TP designer Dana Robertson and about his new start up design business Neon. After graduating from Norwich School of Art and Design (now known as Norwich University College of the … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Graphic Design
Tagged Agency, Art, Brief, Business, Creative, Dana, Design, Design Week, Friends, Identity, Neon, Norwich School, Start up, ted, The Partners
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D&AD Student Awards
This week saw D&AD announcing the Student Award nominees. With over 3,000 entries this year the judges really had their work cut out for them. As this years D&AD Education Chairman, our own Greg Quinton was there to assist in … Continue reading
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 →