Hasta La Ideas

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Design Museum last night for the first ever CR Tweetup. Free drink, a free Moleskine and LEGO® – what more could you want?

Some of CR’s 179,000 Twitter followers took over the Design Museum last night as we staged our first ever Tweetup. On arrival, everyone received a CR Moleskine notebook like this:

After a free drink (thanks to the support of istockphoto) we soon set guests to work at the ‘activity table’ on the ground floor where they were asked to respond to a frequently updated brief on an ‘endless’ roll of paper.

We asked everyone coming to bring a piece of work which would then be taped up to make and impromptu exhibition upstairs. Here’s some of the work going up

Here’s our designer Tom Gaffan witha friend.

In the exhibition space we also had screens streaming the latest Tweets about the event – thanks very much to Nice for the app. Here it is next to Neil Ayres, our Twittermeister-in-chief

While we were busy getting the work up, our guests were invited to get their creativity going in the John Pawson exhibition. Each one was given a bag of LEGO® (thanks Andrew and Camilla) and asked to build a house.

Pretty soon, the room was full of CR readers deep in concentration as they applied themselves to this challenging task

Whoever did the LEGO® CR shown top, please let us know in the comments.

Afterwards there was a prize draw for an array of fantastic LEGO® sets including this monster, a metre long model of Tower Bridge worth £200 (as modelled by CR’s Sarah Davies) which isn’t even in the shops yet.

Thanks to the Design Museum, LEGO®, Nice, istockphoto, Moleskine and everyone who came along last night. It was great fun and definitely something we want to do again – we’re already talking about doing it again, maybe taking it out of London, possibly Manchester?

You can see lots more pictures of last night on Flickr here and follow us on Twitter here