Category: Communications
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Why do creative people sometimes steal?
About a year ago my wife and I spotted an independant graphic designer, Kyleigh, who was selling paper cuts through Not on The High Street. We liked her work and got in touch to commission a special piece for my wife’s sister in law’s wedding. Even though Kyleigh was just about to have a baby, she completed the work in time…
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What to blog about? Hacking? Corruption? Terrorism? Drug abuse?
A lot has happened in the last few weeks since I last wrote, and a lot has been written across the media in various forms. But put aside those stories and go to UNICEF’s website and donate some money towards their emergency famine appeal. A child is dying every six minutes and you can help.…
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Fill the gap in the market with your own newspaper
Seeing as there will be a blank space on many newsagents shelves next Sunday maybe this is the time to start you dream of creating your own newspaper? Of the designers I follow online, Ben Terret stands out and is one of the founders of Newspaper Club, a small company run by the Really Intersting…
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World-class journalism
I was intrigued in what I was missing from being blocked from visiting the News of the World website so I tried it’s parent company News International. “Each of our newspapers is a leader in its field and offers world-class journalism”. If this was in doubt before today’s revelations on phone hacking, their own website…
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News of the world branded “Tasteless”
For once our corporate firewall has got it’s filters just right.
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24 Hour experiments in Twitter
Companies are always looking for new ways to raise their profile and market themselves on twitter, but sometimes its the charity and even public sector that lead on innovative ways to raise awareness, forced to try news ways on limited budgets and powered by enthusiasm to make a difference. One example of this is the…
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Daily Mail reveals Andrew Marr silhouette
What would we do without the daily Mail? Without them we’d never know what a silhouette of Andrew Marr looks like. “Silhouette: How Marr was seen in newspapers when reports of his injunction were published” That’s one less thing to worry about. See the shocking truth yourself at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380546/Andrew-Marr-abandons-injunction-affair-fellow-journalist.html
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Using photography to promote a borough
Council websites can often be a bit bland looking; lots of text, any imagery is straight from a stock library and usually struggles to properly relate to the content. One council has taken an altogether different approach with using locally sourced photography to dominate their homepage (they use a number of images, refresh to cycle through at…
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April fools roundup
Google Motion [youtube width=”400″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0[/youtube] More at mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html Helvetica Google Helvetica search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&q=helvetica Playmobil [youtube width=”400″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSU3ijxkp8Y[/youtube] Playmobil Apple Store: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/ Richard Branson Branson buys Pluto, reinstates as planet: www.virgin.com/travel/news/branson-buys-pluto-reinstates-as-planet/ NME – Blur and Oasis Liam Gallagher is set to make an on-record reconciliation with Damon Albarn – with Beady Eye covering Blur for a new single. www.nme.com/news/various-artists/55836 Royal Wedding preparation Guardian live…
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DARE are recruiting, and I wish more did it this way
Digital agency DARE are recruiting a few roles, and have have a nice visual way of advertising: Thanks to ewarwoowar.typepad.com