C-Eggs

Carbon fiber Egg.The metal sphere inside will hold the C-Egg in almost any position.

CR tweetup at Tate Britain

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.

Data Design Diabetes: An Innovation Challenge

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Imagine a chronic disease, so widespread that it could affect 1 in 3 Americans by the year 2050. Currently 100 million people in the United States lives with diabetes. Sanofi-aventis U.S. believes combining Data, Diabetes, and Design will impact our nation’s wellness significantly. The global health care provider is sponsoring the first-ever open innovation challenge combating the diabetes epidemic by integrating open data with a human-centered view into diabetes epidemic.

“Innovation” has many definitions—for this Challenge, they’re not looking for the cleverest idea, the best eye-candy, the most bleeding-edge technology. They are looking for a solution that brings together the strength of insight enabled by open data sets and the empathetic connection provided through human-centered design to meaningfully help people living with diabetes in the United States.

Building on the spirit of a code-a-thon, the challenge casts the widest net for data-informed diabetes solutions, culls the best interventions and incubates the strongest ideas. This challenge is structured to drive entrepreneurship and innovation. The best and most human-centered ideas will be mentored by industry leaders, and all intellectual property and equity will remain the property of its creators. Total awards top $200k, and invaluable support will be provided for game-changing solutions.

Hurry, submissions end on July 30th but the good news is that the entry form is short! See full breakdown of the Awards after the jump and check out the schedule and jury, which includes Todd Park, the CTO of the United States Department of Health and Human Services!

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Honda Stories

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.

This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen

Introducing a new feature on Dezeen: here’s a roundup of the top stories, news, comments and movies this week.

Our most hotly debated story was about an upside-down skyscraper designed to neighbour the Hoover Dam – you can join the discussion here. Other stories that caused a stir included stools created in an explosion and an absurdly cantilevered Berlin hotel. Check out all our stories about alarming cantilevers here.

Meanwhile the RIBA revealed this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist, UK designers joined forces to promote design education in schools and Palestinian business leaders announced plans to launch a national brand.

Over on Dezeen Watch Store we’ve got the Mercury watch by Ziiiro in new colours.

Highlights from Dezeen Screen include an interview about collecting and foraging with designer Faye Toogood and a low-tech version of a laser cutter by Markus Kayser, one of our favourites from this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show.

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Renegade LA: REDSTAR Ink

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.

Kitintale Uganda Skateboard Union: Help Rebuild the Half-Pipe

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We got wind (or should we say air) on an incredible build project benefiting the Uganda Skateboard Union in Kitintale, a working-class suburb of the city of Kampala. The neighborhood is home to East Africa’s first skate park and has become the ongoing subject of photographer Yann Gross’ series, Kitintale Skates. As Gross explains:

As a skateboarder myself, I started to document the birth of this subculture since the early beginning and will follow its expansion, influenced by the Ugandan daily life context and African culture. For the last few years I have been going back to Uganda for two months every year to document the growing scene. This subculture grows every year and the idea of the project is to document the evolution in the next decade.

Two years ago the ramp collapsed from heavy rain and Gross recently started a campaign on the photojournalism crowdfunding site, emphas.is to collect funds to help rebuild the half-pipe. Members of the Union will participate in rebuilding the ramp, giving them skills for the future as well as instilling a sense of camraderie amongst the group. The funds raised will contribute to materials to rebuild the park as well as travel to document its construction. Check out Yann Gross’ series here, donate to the campaign and watch the video about the skatepark after the jump.

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Workspace of the Week: Primary perfection

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.

Like this site? Buy Erin Rooney Doland’s Unclutter Your Life in One Week from Amazon.com today.


Potato Chips in Chocolate

Chuao packs their new chocolate bar with crispy potato chip bits

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Combining milk chocolate with all-natural, kettle-cooked potato chips, Chuao Chocolatier‘s latest highbrow-meets-lowbrow goodie is the slightly crunchy Potato Chips in Chocolate bar. This latest concoction is an easy way to get that sweet-and-savory fix without immersing yourself in a messy cooking project.

Handmade in San Diego, CA, the bars are made by first crushing the lightly-salted chips by hand into bite-sized pieces. The chips are then mixed into Chuao’s custom blend of 41% milk chocolate (from Venezuelan and other Latin American beans) and then hand-scooped into molds.

While the texture resembles other wafer-filled crispy chocolate bars, the potato chips provide a surprising punch of salty flavor and crunch that crispy rice can’t deliver. Though we tend to veer for the darker end of the chocolate spectrum, we like Chuao’s not-too-rich milky blend.

Potato Chips in Chocolate is currently available at Chuao Cafés and on the Chuao website, three for $18 or 12 for $65. You’ll start seeing it at some chains, including Whole Foods and Ralph’s, in fall 2011.

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