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Never let it be said that TCC don’t know how to turn a work trip into a jolly! Our beloved overlord Dave Stansbie has just returned from a 2-week ‘business’ trip to the tropical climes of the USA’s West Coast. Judging by his photos, the journey quickly turned into a misadventure of musical discovery. He managed to make time to go to the Mojave Desert to try (but fail) at catching a glimpse of Dave Grohl banging the skins at Queens of the Stone Age’s recording studio [top left]. Make an awkward plea (and succeed) at sleeping in Bono’s bed at the famous Harmony Motel - where U2 lodged whilst they recorded Joshua Tree [top right]. AND pay a visit to an old friend at the iconic Capitol Records Building in Hollywood [bottom left]. Sadly, due to reeeeeeeeeeediculous airline luggage rules he wasn’t able to bring us back a v. cool original Rolling Stones pinball machine [bottom right]. To be fair, it was his first holiday of the year. Welcome back rrr kid!
The interactive Facebook app we developed for @willymoon has just gone LIVE! Our cool Blues Name Generator app does just that, it works out your ‘blues name’ - simply pop in your initials to find out yours. From now on, call The Creative Corporation ‘Steel-eye Legs Jackson’, uh-huh-huh!’,
Find out yours here.
After 3 days of hard graft (we even have one minor paper cut to prove it) team TCC have folded the last of our awesomely designed promos for Cave Painting’s upcoming single. Titled ‘Leaf’, the below promos are now heading off to the movers & shakers in the music industry (radio, TV, press etc) with an official release date stated for January ‘13. And not a piece of sticky back plastic in sight!
We’re very pleased to announce that The Creative Corporation has been nominated for the best Art Vinyl Sleeve of the Year 2012. The prestigious nom is for our 12″ of Cave Painting’s album Votive Life and was Art Directed by our very own Scott Jones. So if you’re partial to a spot of simply form filling you can cast your all important vote at the Art Vinyl website. The voting is open for the next 2 months and the winner is announced in January 2013.
Vote here.
Target have used an innovative Facebook web cam-app to interview prospective students. 16 scholarships were up for grabs and all potential pupils had to do was take a webcam interview with the scholarship panel and people would vote on the videos. Great idea, unless you’re rubbish at interviews, natch.
Watch the best and the worst here.
To create one giant tribute to the late Neil Armstrong, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum used Twitter to repeat his epic 238,900mile journey to the moon. If you tagged an emotive Tweet with #onesmalltweet, we moved 100 miles closer to Luna. It’s a really inventive use of new technology to experience old achievements. Maybe we could use SPACEbook to get back?
We recently went on a company outing to the D&AD President’s Lectures ‘The Digital revolution 2.0’ in London. Guest speakers included graphic design & digital typography legend Neville Brody. The BIG question asked (and attempted to be answered) was What Is OUR Digital Future? Looking past the usual ‘we’re all doomed’ fodder were some interesting subjects including a lot of love for digi forefather Ray Bradbury - you name it; internet, iPod, eBook he thought of it first. Because the philosophical answer to the lecture was “to find the future, look in the past”, here’s 10 great facts you did/didn’t know about Mr. Bradbury.
List of D&AD FuuuuUUUTTTRRrrrreee events.
Thank you to Gavin Lucas for making our Cave Painting album Record Sleeve Of The Month in Creative Review.
Check out our latest video of the Interactive Digital Artwork we produced for Cave Painting!
Check out our latest video of the Interactive Digital Artwork we produced for Cave Painting!
