The upside of a downturn

By Stuart

A couple of recessions ago I was at art college studying my graphic design and advertising course and as I prepared myself for the big wide world my tutor assured me that despite the economic situation of the past couple of years the future was bright. His argument was that companies don’t stop spending they simply postpone spending. Clients are a little more prudent, projects are put on hold but ultimately the work still needs to be done. Steve Harrison, Read More...

3 Sep 2010

The Intangible Value of Place

By Paul

The projected draconian cutbacks in UK Public Sector spending will have a dramatic impact on how the State and its operating partners will address the ongoing need for the regeneration of towns and cities throughout the land. Nowhere will the effects be more felt than the less well-off areas of the UK. And yet places in the North East and North West, Wales and Scotland are still trying to find a new identity born out of the deindustrialisation of the Read More...

5 Jun 2010

Trains, Taxis and Opportunists

By Stuart

Anyone who is familiar with the main railway line between Birmingham and Manchester will also be familiar with the black metals horse shapes that are positioned at various places along the track between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton. They were erected in 1987 at twelve locations by sculptor Kevin Atherton, and were titled ‘Iron Horse’ (a pun on the early title given to steam locomotives in the 19th century). They were commissioned by a joint group comprising of West Midlands Read More...

4 Jun 2010

Social media and the General Election UK 2010

By Caroline

There is so much I could talk about on the topic of social media use in this years General Election campaigns, but as there has been so much coverage on this topic online and offline I am keeping this entry short and sweet. 2010 is the first year that social media has been used in a General Election in the UK, we all saw how effective it was in 2008/2009 for Obama’s campaign in the States, but will it be Read More...

29 Apr 2010

Lonely Planet – from ashes to good thinking!

By Rune

The Icelandic ash cloud provoked many creative reactions – for example, I had a good laugh when I stumbled upon the facebook group named “Don’t mess with Iceland, they’ll shut your airports down”. But without a doubt Lonely Planet fostered the best idea in response to the cloud that I have come across. They decided to offer iPhone users free downloads of city guides to affected cities around Europe for a limited period. This quickly proved highly popular and the Read More...

27 Apr 2010

Found in Translation

By Mathilde

I live a great deal of my daily life in the office surrounded by dictionaries, thesauruses, and grammar books that hold all the rules and regulations of the Danish and English languages. I love those books. They are the bibles of an otherwise sceptical copywriter, who believes in little except the power of the right word – the adequate phrase that says it all. Luckily, part of my job is to translate texts from Danish to English and the other Read More...

21 Apr 2010
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