We were delighted to be invited to take part and run the branding sessions for the VMP young entrepreneurs. The tour also includes business case studies from Virgin Media as well as inspirational talks from seasoned entrepreneurs such as Lara Morgan: founder of Pacific Direct and Start-Up Britain.
The tour started in London and will visit Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh. The only question now is whether we will be travelling on Virgin Trains…
The Insomniax Radio Show on Nasty FM is a weekly musical journey that covers everything from Grime to Soul, Indie to Electro and Dubstep to Hip Hop.
You can catch them tonight and every Monday night from midnight til 2am, but if you have problems staying up past your bedtime, then simply pop to Mixcloud, where you can catch up on a months worth of shows.
Finally, the dish we’ve been wanting to share with you for a while is out of the oven and ready to serve.The Macaroni Cheese Mixtape has been a little labour of love, and we can’t wait for you to hear it.
We’ve been working closely with The Insomniax to develop the brand and overall marketing strategy that will help introduce the world to The INX movement.
This mixtape is just a taste of their diverse sound, but what a tasty treat it is.
This is Rebecca Black’s song, Friday, and it’s been gaining a million plus daily YouTube views this week. The song tells the story of an average Friday for Rebecca, full of fun fun fun and thirteen year olds driving convertible cars.
Justin Bieber has obviously inspired a lot of young people to try to become successful recording artists, however he’s also filled parents and record label owners eyes with pound / dollar signs who are now pushing enthusiastic children down that path regardless of their talent.
Yesterday I popped down to the Responsible Business Convention at the Business Design Centre,Islington. I was there to help spread the good word about Social Enterprise to the conference’s corporate delegates.
We also designed the poster for the Business in the Community Supporting Social Enterprise stand, which promoted the idea that the three P’s – people, planet, profit – work best together.
Empty spaces are becoming hot property at the moment. With our own Open Shop using disused spaces to hold community focused workshops and Libyan refugees occupying the empty Hampstead home of one of Qaddafi’s sons, people are finding new ways to re-invent the white washed window front.
This is what we found Middlesbrough council were doing on a recent trip there for our Green Stories workshops.
Affinity Sutton has taken an innovative and creative approach to engage their residents into green issues.
Last year we started working them to create a marketing campaign to encourage the early adopter green residents to share their Green Stories by making 6 short films, which in return will inspire other residents to recycle and make positive eco choices.
Above is the fabulous, Vee, who started modelling at the grand young age of 70. She has appeared in ads fromVogue to Harry Potter to Mickey D’s, so we were very pleased she was available for our shoot!
The train has left the station and preparations for UpRise 2011 have begun! Lots to tell you about, including words of support from Bonnie Greer (see pic), but for now check out a piece in the Evening Standard which came out today.
Our Ansel is getting to be a dab hand [or is it mouth] at this public speaking malarkey. UpRise were invited to part of the ‘Art Against Cuts’ panel at this years Progressive London. His esteemed panellists included Bonnie Greer, Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, Helen Gardener and Cllr Tulip Sidiq , who all said their bit about the recent cuts to the sector.
Ansel’s talk focussed on the need to rethink the definition and value of creativity, its outcomes and how to go about successfully engaging the wider society so they in turn become vocal advocates for the arts. Bonnie Greer was also in agreement, pointing out that the arts need to be able to measure the ‘outcomes’ in this new economy.
Other speakers throughout the day included the organisations front man, Ken Livingston, Diane Abbott and the formidable Mendi Hasan from the New Statesman.
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