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Tag Archives: ideas
Coke’s Happiness Machine
A really lovely experience idea from Coca-cola. Just wish they’d been having ideas like this in the days when I was at university. Coke / Coca-Cola – The Happiness machine – (2010) 2:00 (USA) Via Adland TV
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Tagged adland, Application, brand, Coca-Cola, experience, Flash, Fun, happiness, ideas, play, Tools, Video, Viral
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Creative Island II
Whilst on the subject of books (just in time for christmas you might say?), John Sorrell has compiled yet another coffee table book of the most “Inspired Design from Great Britain”, strangely enough entitled: Creative Island II. There are some quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Bangras, Books, Creative, Design, Grand Tour, ideas, the National Gallery
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Travelling to the future
At 8.30am this morning I was in the studio. In itself unremarkable, but at 7am I was having breakfast on the beach, 85 miles away, in East Sussex. Nope, I haven’t learned to fly, but I think I’ve discovered the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Bad, brand, brand experience, Business, experience, Future, high speed rail, ideas, London, St. Pancras, trains, tube
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Big TED
I was at the TED Global conference in Oxford last week. Now, I’d love to be able to summarise the experience in a short post but I’m not sure that I can achieve that. Four days of virtually back-to-back talks, each … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, experience, Free, Global, ideas, logo, neuroscience, ted, Work
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Student/Graduate Q&A
Following on from Greg’s post about how he got into design we decided to ask our two designers currently in charge of our placement scheme; Paul and Leon, about how students should go about applying for placements at design studios. … 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.
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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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Down the tube
The other day someone asked me where I’d got an obscure piece of information, about Bhutan, from. “Metro,” I said, “the source of all knowledge.” It was a tongue-in-cheek reply – I remembered later that I’d read it in Monocle … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Strategy, Branding, Brands, Business, Campaign, Innovation, Marketing, Media, News, User Experience
Tagged Advertising, brand, brand consultant, brand proposition, Brief, Campaign, Design, Free, Fun, ideas, littering, LUL, metro, monocle, News, Newspapers, People, philosophy, ted, thinking differently, tube, 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 →