Hasta La Ideas

Last night around 150 @CreativeReview Twitter followers descended on Tate Britain to join us in a bit of creative merriment. There was a fine mix of agency types, image-makers and art lovers, and all in all things seemed to go rather well.

Tate Britain provided a fantastically cultured environment for our guests, and, as well as plying everyone with drinks and nibbles, granted a private view of their new Vorticists exhibition to everyone who attended (Highly recommended. We have a review of the show in this month’s issue).

Upon exiting the exhibition attendees were greeted by a twitterstream and feed from the Blast/Bless tumblr we have been running in partnership with the Tate, before being met by the team from interactive production company Specialmoves, who pulled out all the stops with an HTML5 version of parlour game Consequences (aka Exquisite Corpse), topped off with a Vorticists-inspired twist. The app proved hugely popular with our guests and we reckon Specialmoves should release a multiplayer-friendly version for the masses. For a glimpse of how the app works, take a look at the following video:

A couple of crops of some of the efforts that were produced are shown below.

But it wasn’t all hi-tech action. Back in the reception area, Emma Taylor and some of the staff from photographers’ agents Vue Represents set our guests to work on a more traditional version of Consequences, with crayons, colouring pens and A1 sheets of paper.  (Vue also threw in a free ticket for everyone to this weekend’s National Lottery draw. So fingers crossed all round.) The results were documented by photographer Jonathan Minster and in the picture below you can see a combined effort by @stuartwitts, @GrossmaryK and @jiteshpatel.

Photograph of Stuart Witts, Rosemary Kirton and Jitesh Patel at Tate Britain by Jonathan Minster

Tomek Zarebski bring a touch of Surrealism to a night that otherwise belonged to the Vorticists (Photo by Lubna Keawpanna)

After all the fun and frolics, all that remained was for our guests to grab their swag and head en masse to the local pub to inspect it. And what a haul it was..

Photo by Chloe Kirton

Rampant Sporting provided both the bags to carry everything in, plus stylish sports socks we’re asking our guests to deface by transforming into puppets, for them to upload pictures of to a dedicated Flickr group.

Also included in the bags was a poster of the winning entries from the Blast/Bless tumblr. The Blast contribution is by illustrator Abigail Daker and the Bless is by designer and writer Daniel Gray.

Blast/Bless by Abigail Daker and Daniel Gray

A tidy haul

In addition to the socks (and Rampant pin badges), posters and lottery tickets, everyone went away with a copy of the latest Creative Review, the novel Tarr by Wyndham Lewis courtesy of Oxford University Press, Selected Poems by Ezra Pound provided by Faber & Faber, and an artists’ pencil set supplied by Derwent Pencils.

A great big thanks to all those mentioned above for helping make the evening such a memorable one, and of course thank you to our guests. We hope you all had as much fun as we did. See you at the next one!

CR in Print

Thanks for reading the CR Blog but, if you’re not also getting the printed magazine, we think you are missing out. This month’s bumper July issue contains 60 pages of great images in our Illustration Annual plus features on Chris Milk, Friends With You and the Coca-Cola archive.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine and get Monograph.

Wieden + Kennedy London has created a series of mini Honda documentaries for the brand’s sponsorship of Channel 4 Documentaries.

Two short films have been created so far, both featuring real-lfe Honda customers who use their Honda products in unusual and interesting ways. The latest film, Night Fishing, shows a group of fisherman who take their boat (which is powered by Honda marine engines, natch) out at night off the coast of Brixham to catch their fish in the dark, using luminous lures.

Night Fishing follows last month’s film Alpacas, a charming short that stars Philippa, a mildly eccentric alpaca breeder in Oxfordshire, who tends to the animals on her farm using a Honda ATV. The series is created by Hollie Newton, a creative at Wieden + Kennedy.

A ‘take part’ competition has also been launched as part of the campaign, inviting Honda owners to upload stories and photographs about the surprising ways they use their products. A favourite will be chosen by Honda and Wieden + Kennedy and turned into a final mini-documentary, which will be featured on TV as idents. More information is online at honda.co.uk/stories.

CR in Print

Thanks for reading the CR Blog but, if you’re not also getting the printed magazine, we think you are missing out. This month’s bumper July issue contains 60 pages of great images in our Illustration Annual plus features on Chris Milk, Friends With You and the Coca-Cola archive.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine and get Monograph.

Marcie Hicks of REDSTAR inkREDSTAR ink presents a take on the trend, with their “Native Summer” line of stationery. Marcie’s personal style (and red star tattoos!) gave these design an authentic quality. View more from REDSTAR and a video of Marcie at work on her website.

REDSTAR ink was part of our Letterpress Sampler in issue #8.

This week’s Workspace of the Week is Emu582′s super-mega-organized elementary school classroom:

Holy orderly, Batman! Emu582′s use of clear plastic storage bins in the classroom play area and on the resource shelves is impressive. Students and teacher can see what is inside each box, so retrieval is simple. Thank you, Emu582, for submitting these amazing images to our Flickr pool.

Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.

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