Creative Boom Magazine

Digital agency helps reality star go global

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A Stoke-based digital firm has been enlisted by one of the nation’s rising reality TV stars to ensure that the ‘desperate scousewife’ gets more than her fifteen minutes of fame. The latest regio...

Photography students go underground

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ South East ⁄ Exit nine of Charing Cross underground station will be the unusual home to the photography work of students from Middlesex University for the next two weeks.

Photographs taken by students on the p...

Bloc announces 2012 lineup

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ Bloc resumes its position at the forefront of the national consciousness with the world-shattering first announcements of the programme for the sixth annual Bloc festival. Titans of electronic music c...

Prince William Arrives in Falklands

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

North West is the ‘write’ place for inspiration

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ North West ⁄ From Beryl Bainbridge to Anthony Burgess and William Wordsworth to Jeanette Winterson, the North West of England has been home to some of the country’s greatest novelists, screenwriters and poets...

Parallax Art Fair 16-18 February 2012

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ A French artist who mixed his own blood with water in a vase of flowers to create an artwork of delicate, pink tinged blooms is just one of over 200 artists exhibiting at Parallax art fair, which runs...

Creative agency designs its year ahead

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ North East ⁄ A Teesside-based graphic and web design company has appointed a new director after merging with an international web firm as part of a recruitment drive to kick off its expansion in 2012. Jamie Arthur...

Cecilia Paredes

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ Peru-born artist Cecilia Paredes creates photo performance-based works that have her seamlessly blended into backgrounds. Acting as both the photographer and the subject, she uses make-up, body paint ...

Creative England seeks regional experts to join its Board

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ Creative England is inviting applications from entrepreneurs and professionals working in the digital and games sectors in any part of the English regions, to join its non-executive Board. The Creativ...

Readers' Studios: Jane French

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we're taking a peek at the stud...

Gwyneth Paltrow Tells Mums to Stay at Home

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

White Space & Itineris go into partnership

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ East of England ⁄ A new partnership between two Ipswich-based creative agencies has resulted in five new national and international contracts. Full-service agency White Space Design and digital marketing firm Itineris ...

First international Student Film Festival London

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ London College of Communication is proud to host the first International Student Film Festival in London (SFFL) with over 80 films showing from 38 countries. Three of the films have already won or bee...

Cambridge design innovation showcased at major Design Council event

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

2nd Feb 2012 ⁄ East of England ⁄ Cambridge’s position as an international hub for product design will be highlighted by a major Design Council-backed exhibition in February 2012. The Design Icons: Cambridge Innovation Festival demo...

Readers' Studios: PhotoRed

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ South East ⁄ Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we're taking a peek at the stud...

Global Children’s Charity Plan UK Hires BEcause for Event Campaign

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ Plan UK, the global children’s charity, has teamed up with brand experience agency BEcause to launch a year-long programme of consumer-facing events, aimed at boosting sponsorship and awareness leve...

Creative England awards almost £470,000 in Lottery support

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ Creative England has awarded almost £470,000 in its first round of Film Culture Fund Lottery awards, investing in an exciting and diverse range of film culture projects across the English regions...

No Place Like Home - Photographs by Judah Passow

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ February 2012 will see the Jewish Museum, London, host its first contemporary black & white photography show. Curated by the Jewish Museum and in partnership with Pears Foundation, No Place Like Home ...

British Designer Leads International Fashion Trend – Introducing Rope

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ After seeing huge success with The Next Pashmina-Wood, British designer Jianhui London once again leads a new fashion trend with the introduction of his rope collection. He has just returned from Prem...

Manifest Communications appoints Artworker in Leeds

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ Yorkshire/Humber ⁄ Another new face has joined Manifest Communications in Leeds due to a flurry of new business wins, leading the agency to appoint Bob Lynch as an Artworker in its Creative department. Bob joins the ful...

Fred Goodwin Stripped of Knighthood

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

1st Feb 2012 ⁄ James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

Five minutes with….Timothy Bird

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ Timothy Bird is an award-winning designer and director, who combines moving image design and digital technology with theatrical storytelling. As co-founder and Creative Director of eclectic London-bas...

Suffolk-based Marketing Company is a Family Affair

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ East of England ⁄ Less than six months after leaving her career in the City behind to start The Bridge, a hands-on marketing consultancy, Hana Ballard has recruited both her parents to help with her rapidly expanding c...

Councils Can't Afford Flood Defences

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

Music lover turns entrepreneur

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ North East ⁄ Music collector and promoter Mark Elliott is set to make a full time career out of his hobby thanks to a music business course at Gateshead College. Mr Elliott, 48, completed the part-time Managing a ...

Secret Cinema launch The Other Cinema

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ The organisation behind Secret Cinema has launched The Other Cinema – a global network of pop up cinemas looking to bring back a sense of community, passion and a social experience to cinema-going.....

aka and Eyetease Media develop iTaxitops as a media first for Billy Elliot The Musical

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

31st Jan 2012 ⁄ London ⁄ Entertainment marketing agency, aka, has secured a media first with Billy Elliot The Musical and the iTaxitop™ – a new digital rooftop advertising solution for taxis in London...

RBS Boss Rejects Bonus