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!

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