Howdy all. Just a reminder about tomorrows Creative Social kindly hosted by BBH London. Our inspirational speaker is the infamous Joey L: 'Joey Lawrence is a young Canadian photographer, based in New York, however his work often takes him all over the world leading to a somewhat nomadic existence. Joey’s main interest outside of photography is travel and he combines the two by documenting all his trips, over the past 12 months he has visited India, Romania, Moldova, Ethiopia and Indonesia often living with the local people and tribes he meets, absorbing...

The next Creative Social London will be at Lean Mean Fighting Machine at 7pm on 7th April. Steve Truglia Bond Movie Stuntman, TED Talker, SAS Soldier & Guinness World Record Holder will be joining us to talk about how technology has begun to interface with the physical skills of the stunt performer to create bigger and better stunts. Oh and to fill us in on the small matter of his plans for a parachute jump from the edge of space, 120,000 feet (36.5 kilometres) up. A big thank you to Sam & Dave...

The next Creative Social London is due so put the detox on hold and join us for a few beers over at the beautiful HQ of Designersblock before it’s knocked down to make way for Hoxton station. Piers Roberts from Designersblock will be sharing his amazing insights, stories and creativity, a sure inspirational evening. Tues 19th Jan 2010, 7PM - 9PM, Designersblock, 32 Cremer Street, London E28HD, RSVP: [email protected] Props to Hawaii Design for the invite design. Thanks, Nicky & Jon...

Last Thursday we held a UK Creative Social as part of London Digital Week showcasing great Digital Work from 3 highly acclaimed “Social” Creative Directors: Dave Bedwood, Flo Heiss and Laura Jordan-Bambach. We decided that each speaker would show one piece of work each and discuss the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in each, but for obvious reasons I can’t detail all here, but here's basically how the night went. Firstly, Flo stepped up and presented the Sony Twilight Football campaign and was remixing his powerpoint slides to an audio track in...

Due to a last minute filming schedule change, Art Malik unfortunately wasn’t available for Tuesday’s Creative Social London and after a morning of panicked phone calls and thanks to Mr Graham Fink we managed to find an alternative speaker; award winning director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Internal Affairs, Timecode). What an alternative it was. Mike kicked things off with how we all need to discipline our creativity and not let the ‘new’ blur the basics; we need to think more and not jump straight into the Adobe comfort zone, which then lead...