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Shadows of the past

August 3, 2011by laurajb Leave a comment

Many moons ago at glue, we had a great idea to augment passers by’s shadows in Oxford St shop windows for Camper (think Selfridges). Like so many projects, budgets and […]

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campaign, general brilliantness, glue, nostalgia, technology
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Glug! London launches its Xmas exhibition with a bang!

December 18, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

The Glug! London event last night was brilliant. Even better, Paul Rayment (wonderful glue illustrator) won with his neon video: more about “All I Want For Christmas Is … on […]

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art, design, general brilliantness, glue, London, mates, my press life
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All I want for Xmas, Glug! London style

December 17, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

“More Notworking than Networking”, Glug! is a brilliant organisation set up by old glue compatriot Nick Clemant (he of the inexhaustable font collection). I helped judge the inaugral Xmas competition, […]

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design, general brilliantness, glue, my press life
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Christmas bakefest #1 – Cannelés Bordelais

December 14, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

I first had these incredible little chewy cakes at Borough Market over a year ago, and after extensive research tracked down the silicone moulds from a cake suppliers in Paris […]

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general brilliantness, glue, life outside work, London, Uncategorized
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Goodbye glue!

November 14, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

After over 3 1/2 years of great times, great people and great work (and only once in Photoshop Friday!), I’m off to LBi in January. Feels like leaving home…

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glue, London
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Football 24-7 goes live for NGM

August 19, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Just finished this site for NGM – turning a complicated offering (and old site) into something hopefully much more sticky!

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design, glue
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Run cactus kid, run!

August 10, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Are you for or against the cactus kid? We’ve been busy at glue putting together a great campaign to work with Mother’s TV ads. And the best thing is that […]

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Fab talk today: Matt Jones from Dopplr

August 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Matt Jones from Dopplr came to speak today at one of our glue lunchtime sessions. It was so great that I ended up with a hand covered in thought-provoking scribble: […]

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general brilliantness, glue, interweb, mobile + location aware, Uncategorized, UX/IA

Google gonads

August 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Google Street View launched in Australia today. Making me über homesick – I’ve already visited my flat, my favourite cafe and Tamarama… The most spectacular view (courtesy of Hamish) has […]

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Australia, glue

Beautiful data

August 6, 2008by laurajb 2 Comments

Here’s a list from Beeker and myself of visual data, collected by all of us here at glue: radiohead-first-ever-bitcast Healthmap Presidential Watch ’08 Biomapping The brilliant book, “Mapping” Napoleon’s march […]

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design, general brilliantness, glue, interweb, theory, Uncategorized

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  • 2008: One Show Interactive
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  • 2010: Judged BIMAs
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  • 2011: Speaking at Adobe MAX
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  • 2012: Art Directors' Club of Europe Digital Jury
  • 2012: D&AD Integrated Jury
  • 2012: One Show Interactive
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  • book: Digital Advertising (Past, Present and Future)
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  • recently judged: International Festival of Media Awards
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