Twelve British artists, including Tracey Emin and Chris Ofili, have been chosen to design posters for the 2012 Olympics. Great, but couldn’t some designers have been asked as well? Alongside Emin and Ofili, Fiona Banner, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed, Anthea Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Gary Hume, Sarah Morris, Bridget Riley, Bob and Roberta Smith and Rachel […]
Artists to design 2012 Olympics posters, but no designers? Read More »
Another marker for the start of summer is the number of outdoor theatre productions that are advertised. As it’s on our doorstep, Clare and I decided to watch a production of ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’ at Packwood House, one of Warwickshire’s most popular National Trust venues. Whilst some of the audience came armed with deluxe
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There are over 3 million business pages on Facebook and over 80% have less than 100 ‘likes’ (or fans as they were known as until very recently). The fact is that everyone knows how to create a page, but making it really WORK for your business as part of your marketing strategy is whole different
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We have no strong political views one way or the other here at Cloud 9, however it does seem the Lib Dems are trying to win our votes in getting down with the kids in launching their own Manifesto iPhone app Could a queue of Lib Dem MPs be ordering their Apple iPads on
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So, you’ve got pots of money and a hot new product or service? Surely the more you spend on Google Adwords, the higher your ranking right? WRONG! Google is now combining the maximum price you’re prepared to pay per click with the quality of your website in order to determine how high up the sponsored
Why a better built website actually saves you money in Adwords Read More »
I was delighted this week to be invited to judge a creative writing contest at Oakfield Primary School in Rugby. Mrs Walsh’s class of 9 year olds had to design a poster advertising fictitious chocolate – ‘Cocoas’. Not only had everyone created great looking posters, I was amazed to discover that even at this early
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Well here it is – Christmas day 2009! At first glance it looks as though Mike has nothing better to do on Christmas day than blog , but I’m cheating (actually like most people on Christmas day, I’m probably well oiled and feeling stuffed from eating too much).For the geeks amongst you, I setup our
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Stuck for ideas on how to crank up the fun at your Windows 7 launch party?Well, luckily, Microsoft has produced a brilliant guide to throwing a bash in their honour. Sometimes it hits me hard; how unfortunate I really am being a Mac user living in the UK… Thanks to the guys at Creative Review
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