Scottish Minister for Energy opens FoundOcean’s Livingston facility
The Think Tank headed to Livingston, Scotland last week to help with the official opening ceremony of FoundOcean’s newly expanded Offshore Service Base.
The Think Tank was recently asked to comment upon the importance of the use of paper v's digital media in PR by RIBA Insight as part of the regular advice and guidance that RIBA CPD PN provides to its customers.
Shortlisted in B2B Marketing Awards 2011 for Biome Bioplastics
The Think Tank has been shortlisted for Best Brand Campaign in the B2B Marketing Awards 2011 for our brand creation and development work for Biome Technologies Plc, a leader in the provision of bioplastics.
Robert Walters Associates App hits top 10 downloads in first week
The Think Tank has recently developed a multinational Salary Survey App for global recruitment consultants, Robert Walters Associates which has reached the top spot in the Top 10 iPhone Free Business Apps chart for Singapore - the first region to launch.
The Think Tank wins Best Product Launch at B2B Marketing Awards for OKI
In stiff competition, The Think Tank has been awarded Best Product Launch at the B2B Marketing Awards 2010 for its EMEA campaign for the launch of the OKI MC860 multifunction printer.
The Think Tank appointed as Formica Group’s PR and Media Agency for Europe
Having worked with the UK business for more than six years, and managing ad hoc projects in Europe during this time, The Think Tank has been appointed as Formica Group’s PR and Media Agency for Europe.
Italian architectural firm, Massimiliano Fuksas, has designed 18 Septemberpleinin, Eindhoven, a major square in the city. It is the connection between the central station area and the main shopping district of the city and with a need for 2000 parking places for bicycles and providing an important flow through of pedestrians they designed an underground bicycle parking area. This left the square free for pedestrians. Two cone-like shapes provide the entrance to the parking area, created with ceramic tiles, fountains lights and glass elements embedded in the square floor. Lighting and a flow of light through the glass flooring from the parking area below creates an impressive sight at night.
The DMA has set out a new environmental best practice guide within its recent amendments to the DM Code. The new code sets out a series of guidelines covering the use of data hygiene, making environmental claims in marketing materials, sourcing of sustainable paper, certification in environmental standards such as PAS 2020, adhering to a corporate environmental policy and using recycling messages on printed materials. This covers all aspects of direct marketing and sets a series of best practice guidelines for marketing agencies and clients.
The Think Tank has been shortlisted in the prestigious B2B Marketing Awards 2010 for two campaigns. Firstly for our EMEA campaign work with OKI Printing Solutions for their multi-function printer the MC860, which is shortlisted in the Best Product Launch category, and secondly for the ICI Summer Scorcher promotion on behalf of AkzoNobel which is shortlisted in the Most Commercially Successful category.
New Designers is an annual London showcase for recent design graduates dedicated to product, graphic and interior design. The New Designer of the Year award has been presented to Tortie Hoare for her boiled leather furnishings which appropriated techniques from medieval France and has applied them to 21st century designs.
SoloPower has introduced a new flexible rolling solar panel that can significantly reduce production and installation costs. These easily-installed thin-film panels may be an answer for areas where traditional solar panels are difficult to install. The SoloPower device is built on a thin, flexible foil substrate in a high throughput, roll-to-roll process.
A fright of fancy or just plane scary! The world's ten most frightening airports featured on Web Urbanist. Click here to see which airports to avoid at all costs.
An exhibition entitled Zaha Hadid and Suprematism and has opened at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich. Curated by Zaha Hadid it combines her own work with early twentieth-century Russian art pieces.
Creative Review looks at LCC graduates Paul Cooke & Jemma Mackle project Mind The Gap, which includes ten pieces of advice for employers from interns...
'The Mind The Gap project saw various design and ad industry figures give advice to graduating students, but its final pages were devoted to a 10 point plan of what creative interns would like from employers. They make for interesting reading...'
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s newest Apple store opened on July 10. A fantastic glass cylinder leading down to an open expanse of store. Photographer Roy Zipstein has been documenting the opening of the store. See more of his fantastic photographs on Arch Daily.
For the business woman who has everything, Oscar de la Renta introduces the iPad Clutch embroidered leather pouch, available in limited edition from Oscar de la Renta.
The Mountains and Opening House by Eastern Design Office is one of the most stunning residential and design spaces we have seen this year. It is a design room for a Japanese sneaker brand as well as a residential house and is in the Takarazuka-city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Located in an exclusive residential district, it commands an entire view of the Osaka Plain and is built on the slope of a hill with an elevation of 330 meters, combining architecture with engineering to create a building with a level difference of more than 8 metres.
The latest installation by Arne Quinze is Camille and spans the Seine in Rouen. Stretching across the Boieldieu bridge, it divides the city and consists of an entanglement of colourful wooden beams and slats that are meant to 'provoke dialogue and bring people together'. At 120 metres long and 110 tons it is supported by eighteen concrete footings and has been erected for the summer festival Rouen Impressionnée.
The private members club Soho House has recently opened its latest club and hotel in Berline. Located on Torstraße in Berlin's hotspot Mitte district, the House has all the standard amenities, as well as a rooftop pool, a 30-seat cinema and vintage record players in most rooms. The new club is house in a building that was opened as a department store in 1928 and then became the Communist Party's archive.
Italian designer Giancarlo Zema has created a fantastic collection of stools and coffee tables combining wood and light to great effect. The Bright Woods collection for the Avanzini Group is a limited edition of 120 stools and 60 coffee tables.
The Fish House is a modern tropical bungalow designed by Guz Architects to accommodate the essence of living in the hot and humid climate of Singapore by creating open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer residents views to the ocean.
Dr Martens's celebrates 50 years of designing and manufacturing the famous AirWair shoe. To celebrate they asked 10 artists to record their version of a cult classic track which represents the spirit of the people who've worn DM's over the past 50 years. They also asked 10 directors to make videos for each of the tracks. Artists include Noisettes, The Duke Spirit, Dam-FunK, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, NASA, Buraka Som Sistema, The Cinematic Orchestra and more coming soon.
See a history of Doc Marten's with Don Letts and more below or listen to and watch all the fantastic covers and videos here.
Have a look at this great cup and saucer - spilt your coffee? Well now you can make use of that spill by working your way around the maze in the saucer. By designer Erdem Selek
Nicolas Fayad, is a recent graduate of Harvard and has been awarded the Boston Society of Architects’ James Templeton Kelley Prize. This prize recognizes the most successful graduating project. Arch Daily explains, 'Fayad’s “Brittle”, a School of Arts, is an exploration of responsive and adaptive form. Fayad’s programmatic elements have been organized and molded in response to the changing typography of Chongqing, China – making the design quite flexible as it can easily adapt to any change of land within the city.'
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Have a look at this great cup and saucer - spilt your coffee? Well now you can make use of that spill by working your way around the maze in the saucer.
Nicolas Fayad, is a recent graduate of Harvard and has been awarded the Boston Society of Architects’ James Templeton Kelley Prize. This prize recognizes the most successful graduating project. Arch Daily explains, 'Fayad’s “Brittle”, a School of Arts, is an exploration of responsive and adaptive form. Fayad’s programmatic elements have been organized and molded in response to the changing typography of Chongqing, China – making the design quite flexible as it can easily adapt to any change of land within the city.'
