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Louise Mensch Tells us Why-ne Not...

Ed O'Meara | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Irvine Welsh, Samantha Brick, Add, Ace Ventura, Thatcher, Alcohol, Vicodin, Binge Drinking, Unfashionista, Louise Mensch, Ritalin, Creative, UK Comedy News
Ed O'Meara

Pro-Fox Hunting, Pro-Censorship, Ex-Tory MP Louise Mensch featured heavily in the papers last week. Why was that? Has she solved world hunger? Slashed the deficit? Invented self-removing socks? Nope, she's come to the stunning realisation, in her blog, that not drinking is better for you than drinking a little bit.

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Five Ways to Make a Great Music Video

Adam Hamdy | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Hip Hop, Filmmaking, Music Video, Tips, Hip Hop Culture, Music Videos, Hip Hop Music, Music, Hip-Hop, Music-Video-Production, Creative, UK Music, Video, UK Entertainment News
Adam Hamdy

The music video is alive and kicking. There are few art forms that can reach that many people that quickly, and while MTV may no longer be broadcasting wall-to-wall music videos, YouTube has taken its place. The combination of a good track combined with great visuals seems to resonate globally, and the great thing about YouTube is that it's totally democratic.

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Kit Kat Make Chocolate Art Down-Under

Jonathan Heath | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Ads, Kit Kat, Art, Artwork, Advertising, Video Marketing, Chocolate, Vimeo, Chunky, Kitkat, Creative, Viral Video, Video, UK Tech News
Jonathan Heath

KitKat Australia have taken a very different approach recently, taken a break perhaps? [pause for laugh] They have produced an ad which looks like it belongs on the Staff Picks selection of Vimeo. Illustrator Mike Watt was drafted in to create artwork to celebrate the finale of the white chocolate incarnation of everyone's favourite four fingered treat.

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Sometimes You Need to Be #naughtytobenoticed

Myke Hamilton | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK
Read More: Creativity, Jobs, Campaign, Naughty, Creative, Jobseekers, UK Business, Online Promotion, UK Media, UK News
Myke Hamilton

All of this hype and the dynamic nature of the media industry means that it attracts thousands of creative minds each year. In fact, the UK's creative industries are a real success story; they employ around 1.5million people and according to the official stats, generate £70,000 every minute for the UK economy.

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We Don't Need No 'Classroom' Education

Rachel Argyle | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Education, School, Steiner, Creative, Learning Styles, Classroom, UK Universities & Education News
Rachel Argyle

The thing that makes humans pretty incredible is how different we all are from each other. We all have different likes and dislikes, behaviour, opinions and learning styles. So, surely sticking us all in a box (the classroom) does more harm than good to today's youngsters?

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How to Get a Job in a Creative Industry Without Leaving the House

Emily Buchanan | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: University, Creativity, Social Media, Employment, Job, Jobs, Job Hunting, Creative Writing, Students, Advice, Creative, UK Universities & Education News
Emily Buchanan

When you graduate, you open a door. That door leads into a grey room and when you are inside that grey room, there is no turning back. This isn't adulthood, this is that limbolic period in between. You cannot see the walls past the hazy weariness inside your brain and you cannot make out the exit.

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Did a French Kitchen Brand Make the Ultimate Flash Viral?

Jonathan Heath | Posted 17.03.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Ads, France, Internet, Banned Film, Kitchens, Agencies, Viral Videos, Banned, Quentin Tarantino, Funny Ads, UK Viral Videos, Creative, Video Production, Advertising, Video, UK Tech News
Jonathan Heath

Is there any merit to this kind of shock viral advertising? This rather disturbingly titled viral - 'ça sent le sapin' (Smells Like Pine) was removed by Cuisinella themselves who branded it as 'Sick' - not before racking up a few hundred-thousand views and gaining the attention of viral ad fans everywhere though.

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A Taste of Montreal

Akeela Bhattay | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Plateau Mont-Royal, Restaurant Week, Culinary, Mile End, Dante, Review, Toque, Food, Quebec, Travel, Indie, Canada, Montreal, Journal, Normand Laprise, La Fabrique, Flavours, Vintage, Hipster, Phonopolis, Gastronomy, North America, Fairmont, Adventurous, Bagels, Foodie, Arterie, Marché Jean-Talon, Creative, UK Lifestyle News
Akeela Bhattay

As you might expect, Mile End presents a far more interesting and eclectic shopping experience than Montreal's central shopping area in Downtown. L'Arterie on Bernard W. houses vintage apparel, shoes and accessories as well as creations from local designers in this neat little shop.

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Celebrating Ten Years of Visual Effects in the UK

Dominic Davenport | Posted 28.11.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Dark Knight Rises, Escape Studios, Dominic Davenport, Vfx, Film, Eduction, Visual Effects, Inception, Employment, Creative, Harry Potter, Industry, UK Entertainment News
Dominic Davenport

I've been working in the VFX (Visual Effects) industry for many years now and I've seen it grow from a world of a few mad scientists, working with rooms of computers and pushing a few pixels around, to legions of artists, animators and programmers all around the world working on the latest blockbusters.

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Head in the #Workcloud

Martin Brooks | Posted 14.10.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Social Media, Digital Agency, London, Olympics, Creative, Virtual, Google, UK Tech News
Martin Brooks

When Boris bamboozled us over the tannoy with predictions of Olympic meltdown at London Bridge (our local tube station), we thought this could be a time to find out the answers. It was time to go off-piste, but stay on-grid.

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Do We Face the Apocalypse: Or are We in It?

Hugh Salmon | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Corruption, Greed, Nicholas Mosley, Second World War, Politicians, Police, Judges, Bob Diamond, Glaxo Smith Kline, War, Rioting, Military Cross, Integrity, Austerity, Establishment, Politics, Social Structure, Apocalypse, Treasury Select Committee, FInancial Markets, Broken Society, Banks, Judiciary, Respect, Arson, First World War, Looting, Creative, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

Nearly a million British soldiers were killed in the First World War. Is this what they died for?

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A Job That's Forever Not Just For Life

Hugh Salmon | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Grand Prix, Advertising, Human Insight, Lion D'Or, Graham Greene, Careers, Cannes, International of Creativity, International Festival of Advertising, Creative, UK News
Hugh Salmon

This week, anyone who's anyone in advertising has been basking in sunny Cannes at the International Advertising Festival.

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Breeding Innovation

Chris Brauer | Posted 14.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Digital Media, Technological Innovation, Innovation, Higher Education, Social Innovation, Creative, UK Universities & Education News
Chris Brauer

Innovation is a concept that just won't quit. Suitable really, as it is broadly intended as a means for solving problems and the world has plenty of those at the moment.

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The Affliction of Intellectuals Who See All Sides of an Argument

Hugh Salmon | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Considerate, Dove, Social Policy, Brand, Child Benefit, David Ogilvy, Edward Heat, Bigots, Sir Timothy Raison, Immigration, Intellectuals, Campaign a List, Upstream Thinking, Conservative, Tory, Tv Commercial, Advertising, Kind, Margaret Thatcher, Teachers, Refugees, Truth, Creative, Box-Busters, UK News
Hugh Salmon

Late last year, I read the obituary of former Cabinet Minister, Sir Timothy Raison. He served under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, apparently 'ga...

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Catch-22 of a Rotten Political System

Hugh Salmon | Posted 16.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Emily Pankhurst, Political Parties, Marketing Services, Economy, Liberal Democrat, Something Happened, Human Behaviour, Upstream Thinking, Conservative, Innovation, Mad Men, Catch-22, Tories, Change, Connectivity, Joseph Heller, Coalition, Middle East, Labour, Criminal, X-Factor, Marketing, General Election, David Cameron, Prime Minister, Creative, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

At the Leveson Enquiry this week, Richard Desmond told the barrister cross-examining him that he didn't know the meaning of the word 'ethical'.

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A Creative Insight Into the Banking Crisis

Hugh Salmon | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Upstream Creative, Innovation, Politics, Debt, National Debt, Economics, Financial Services, Banking, Financial Crisis, Brutal Simplicity, Simplicity of Thought, Capitalism, Creative, UK Business, UK Media, UK Politics News
Hugh Salmon

If, as discussed last week, the eurozone is a mish-mash of politics and economics, then the banking crisis is even more of a hot potato. On the one ...

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Why Loving Jigsaws as a Child Helped Me Write Others' Autobiographies

John Fleming | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: 1984, Creativity, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Structure, Style, Technique, George Orwell, Writing, Creative, UK Culture, UK Comedy, UK Entertainment News
John Fleming

Last night, I was on a panel at the third Storywarp erm eh meeting, erm...conference?...shindig? - Whatever it was/is. People talk to an invited audi...

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London Calling... Introducing Emeli Sandé (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: UK, Frank, Talent, Professor Green, Wiley, Music, Amy Winehouse, London, Musician, Urban, Emeli Sande, Singer, crane.tv, Artist, Scottish, Emi, Jay-Z, Medical Student, Heaven, Creative, Video, UK Entertainment News
Crane.tv

A couple of years ago medical student Emeli Sandé was just like any other student, spending her days writing essays, cramming for exams and dissecting the odd body part.

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