Sony World Photography Awards 2012 For the fifth consecutive year our Sony team has been hard at work delivering the clients consumer experience at the Sony World Photography Awards (on until Somerset House until 20th May). What struck us this year was how far the project has evolved year on year in its ambition to...
SheSays is the only global creative network for women and as a female creative director here at Crown I’ve been involved in some of their recent events. It’s an award winning organization that runs free mentorship and networking events with the aim of helping to get more women to the top of their industry. Basically...
On Friday 3rd February, I was tasked with one of the biggest jobs known to Crown – ‘Wine Club.’ For those who are not familiar with this exercise, it is practiced every Friday around 4:00pm by colleagues, directors and even Crown clients, who stuff their face with some of the best low-budget food and wine Morrison’s...
We challenged one of our Mobile Developer’s Jonathan to channel his inner mysticism and give us his industry related predictions for 2012. Across the studio candles were lit, incense wafted throughout while a request to be fired out of a canon unfortunately had to be rejected on health and safety grounds. Let’s see what Jonathan...
You can’t seem to open a paper or read the news online today without there being the ubiquitous article on happiness. It’s been a slow burner this one but the topic of ‘happiness’ seems to have reached fever pitch. Can the Tories take credit for it with their early Big Society mantra and subsequent happiness...
The votes have been counted and verified by an independent adjudicator. A staggering 220,693 votes were cast. But before we announce the winner let’s take a look at some of the fashion highs and lows of the Christmas Jumper competition. At the launch things took off at great pace and on the first day alone...
And we’re back….! Due to some rather unexpected technical hiccups Always Curious has been down for nearly two weeks but some serious investigations and digital genius finally sees us back up and running. Our review of 2011 blog that was poised to be posted now seems a little out of date. As does our 2012...
Meeting new and interesting people is one of life’s simple pleasures and last week we were fortunate enough to spend a couple of days with revered graphic designer Aaron Draplin. Over from Portland, Oregon for a whistlestop lecture tour of the UK our Creative Director Casey became his unofficial chaperone from London to Manchester. Always...
At the weekend I went to watch the brilliant Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Brontë’s arresting classic had never seemed so bleak as nature enveloped each and every scene. Dialogue was sparse but it reinforced a truth that it’s sometimes what’s not said that can say so much more. After two hours...
It’s getting to that time of year again. Time to unearth, dust off and roll out the festive spirit. This year we asked our receptionist, Kay, to design our official Christmas Card. It wasn’t a blind challenge – she has done this before. It was a labour of love. As the photographs chronicle, Kay spent...
