JCPR

Another year at the Sabre awards, another win for the JCPR team.  Following on from last year’s Wonderbra win, the Shell team picked up the award for best Multi-Country Programme for the 2009 FuelSave campaign.

21st May 1990. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was struggling to retain her leadership of the Conservative Party, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, Deirdre Barlow risked losing her house to become an extension of the Rovers Return and most importantly, England were preparing to depart for Italia 90, where they would ultimately suffer the heartbreak of elimination [...]

A giant mechanical octopus is to be installed in Trafalgar Square for the London Design Festival. Custom-made software developed by German designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kramand will let members of the public take control of the robotic tentacles to draw with light tracers, as in this computer image, or write text messages which will [...]

News just in for all you Twitter lover and haters. The US TV station, CBS has picked up a Twitter-inspired sitcom @sh&*mydadsays starring William Shatner. The Twitter feed, which became a massive sensation this year has over a million followers and describes itself as, “I’m 29. I live with my 74-year-old dad. He is awesome. [...]

Incredible discussion between Business of Fashion’s editor-in-chief Imran Amed and founder and editorial director of Dazed Group, Jefferson Hack on everything from teaming up with Rankin back in ’92, the history of Dazed & Confused, how DazedDigital came about to the digital revolution and how luxury brands are late to the game. It even features [...]