Snap Happy in NYC!

Seokho, one of our designers has just returned from his first trip to the Big Apple...here's what he thought about it...

...So I decided to go on a little lone soul searching trip to NYC for the first time. After some ordeal I finally got to New York, and it did not disappoint, it was everything I imagined it to be and more.

I went to New York thinking I’m a pretty hip city sleeker from London, but it was so much bigger than what I thought physically, and culturally. I witnessed all sort of different people and culture, and it made me realise that my 'open mind’ from London was actually somewhat limited and closed minded.

With this initial shock I then proceeded to get lost in the city and explore every corner. There was a new surprised around every corner and a pretzel stand! I took my little Polaroid camera capturing the stereotypical American scenes and objects you see in movies, which was pretty fun also going old school and using paper map was rather exciting.

Overall it was a humbling and eye opening experience, it was a very different kind of holiday to a holiday with friends where you have company all the time, and have a set agenda. I feel that I’ve learnt something about the world outside the UK and myself, and most of all I discovered the joy of traveling alone.

Campaign Loves | Week Two

Campaign Loves...Tristan Eaton x Versace

To coincide with the launch of the new flagship Hawaiian store, Versace have commissioned the talented street artist Tristan Eaton to reproduce their iconic Medusa emblem.


Campaign Loves...On The Roof With Q

The Selfridges rooftop has been transformed into a contemporary restaurant by culinary
expert Des McDonald. Having visited this week, we can testify that the food which focuses
on smoking and BBQ techniques is fantastic!

Book now via the Selfridges website and escape the chaos of Oxford Street!


Campaign Loves...Piet Hein Eek

After a recent trip to Piet Hein Eek's Eindhoven workshops, we've customised our front door with his wallpaper
'Scrap wood 07'

Viva Brazil!

Today is a fine day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing 

but most importantly- The 2014 World Cup begins!

To mark the occasion the studio are playing the 'Brazilika' record by Gilles Peterson. 

Full of psychedelic bossa nova and samba tracks, It's the perfect way to get in the 

mood for kick off this evening!

Check it out for yourself on YouTube!

In With The Old...

Last week we took part in LS:N Global's Polarity Paradox Webinar, a snap-shot of future trends, from technology and fashion, to food and design.

One of the topics which stood out in particular was one of their 'Macro Trends', The Flat-Age Society, and it's something we've been intrigued to find out more about...

Image from Advanced Style

It's an interesting thought that one of the fastest growing, dynamic and socially engaging consumer groups exists in the over fifties. Society is finally putting all stereotypes to one side in a bid recognise the burden of age as an opportunity. This once geriatric generation now comfortably coexists in a world of tech savvy twenty somethings.

A lot of our design work will naturally lean towards aspirational 20-35 year olds, referred to by The Future Lab as the 'Millenials'. It's all about experiences, whether food, travel or design related, they want an element of excitement, with luxury consumables at the heart.

What was interesting about the Flat-Age society, a group of consumers over the age of 50, was the parallels that were drawn with the Millenials. Their characteristics were in fact, incredibly similar, and we've actually been designing for this group all along.

There's a quote from Matthias Hollwich, founder of New York-based architecture firm HWKN, in the LS:N article that pretty much sums it up...

"The secret of designing for an older society is actually designing the way we design for everyone else,
but make it accessible..."

Meet Moog...

This is Moog the pug, our nine month old office pup. She keeps us all in check, and wards off the milkman when she's not being papped on the streets of Shoreditch!

Campaign Loves | Week One

Campaign Loves...The Venice Biennale

Opening to the public as of tomorrow, the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale tilted 'Fundamental' has been directed by Rem Koolhass. On until late November, we're going to try and visit the city of bridges and check it out!

Campaign Loves...Summer Working Hours

As of today it's officially Summer in the Campaign studio, so finishing on Fridays at 4pm for the duration of Summer means we'll race you to the beer garden!

Campaign Loves...Studio Style

The sun is shining and the lovely Charlotte is rocking this yellow and black combo featuring t-shirt from Activia Benz...

Soup of the Day

We already use 3D printing whilst developing our designs and prototyping scale models, so using this technology to design edible creations caught our eye this week from 3D printing expert Janne Kyttanen. You can read more about on the Dezeen website...

Holy Moly...

Conceived as part of the Fragrance Lab project, our collaboration with The Future Laboratory at Selfridges, we have begun to develop the 'Holy Moly', a vaporiser that triggers memories through the power of scent.

With adaptable heads, the 'Holy Moly' creates a variety of different mist formations to suit your personal style.

It's early days, but we've been talking to the right people to take our prototype to the next stage...watch this space!

Fragrance Lab at Selfridges

We’ve been working with The Future Laboratory for a few years now, so when the opportunity arose to collaborate on Fragrance Lab, as part of The Beauty Project at Selfridges, it was the chance to lift the lid on the future of in-store retailing, taking customers on a completely immersive journey.

The idea was to create a unique personalised fragrance centred around a series of tactile sensory and information based experiences all designed to heighten the senses and understand more about who you are.

Your response to tastes, touch and smell are all analysed as you journey through the iconic Selfridges windows (a first by all accounts). The results are then used to craft a signature fragrance unique to your character all distilled into a 50ml fragrance.

Fragrance Lab is open until 30th June

 

To find out more visit our website, and to book your own immersive experience visit selfridges.com

Alexa in the House

It’s always good to have a second opinion, sometimes even a third, a fourth though is dicey ground, but not when it’s the opinion of fashion icon Alexa Chung who just happened to pop by the studio last week. 

We can’t say any more on our upcoming collaboration, you’ll just have to keep your eyes peeled for more to come! 

CAMPAIGN Introduces....

Blue Chip Jazzy Fridays.

(We are much more attractive in real life. Really.)

Shhh

(Let's all flock down to Selfridges now and visit the new wine shop and cocktail bar, which, as we heard through the grapevine, has already got queues of people longing for a seat and a naughty sip. All of this, courtesy, of yours truly...)

School Trip.

Campaign enjoys exploring new things and organises a school trip. 

What are the requirements for successful completion?

1. a long rope.

2. a bunch of dreary eyed designers that haven't been in direct daylight for at least 128 hours.

3. a deadline the same evening.

And

4. a Light Show at the Hayward Gallery.

I will leave it to your imagination to envision how the above go together. But I will make a special note that somehow, all designers actually made it, mostly on time (or possibly a little bit late.) We also succeeded in several illegal activities, such as taking pictures where it's not allowed. Subsequently, we mark this as an achievement and are hugely proud of this.

I don't plan on writing a long-winded review. There are websites for that kind of stuff. Like, the following:

Time Out - The Guardian - The Telegraph - New Statesman - Trip Advisor - Royal Academy - Big Issue - It's Nice That - River Online - Culture 24 - Londonist - Creative Review - The Standard - BBC - Mouth London - The Light Lab - Pi Media - Visit London - Heels and Wheels Online - London Culture Blog - Spectator - The Arts Desk - B-uncut - Metro - Spindle Magazine - Kunst Review - Momardi - Spoonfed - Artwednesday - And any other blog ever created on earth...

And I really don't think you need to hear me repeat the same thing again. We just don't have the time for that sort of thing.

So I will leave you with a few thoughts:

- The queue for our friend Turrell isn't worth it. We waited. We went inside. I kept hoping for a really small person to run across the screen to mark something significant, but it didn't happen. Nothing happened. Like, nada, zero. We were, dare I say it, bored. (James Turrell - Wedgework V)

- The installation in front of the queue got obscured by the queue. Nevertheless, we liked it. Then we realised how it was constructed and suddenly we were much less impressed. But that could've just been a sign of intensely jaded designers. (Jim Campbell - Exploded View)

- Stand in the red room for a while and then go back into the blue room. It changes everything. The green room, however, makes you look diseased. (Carlos Cruz-Diez - Chromosaturation)

- The light columns are cool. Simple as. (Cerith Wyn Evans - S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E)

- There is nothing behind the awkward computer installation at the start. Everyone keeps looking behind it because clearly thats where the cool impressive bit is hiding. You will be disappointed. There is no cool impressive bit. (David Batchelor - Magic Hour)

- The room with the projected ring of light was great. It freaked me out to walk through the light. In my opinion, if you manage to get people to duck down to avoid the light because they are afraid it will somehow hurt them, you have succeeded. (Anthony McCall - You and I, Horizontal)

- Please do not enter the final installation if you have epilepsy. I almost threw up and I don't have epilepsy, but clearly I have a sensitive soul, because everyone else kept going back in. Repeatedly. (That means we liked it.) (Olafur Eliasson - Model for a timeless garden)

All photographs courtesy of members of staff who have chosen to remain nameless. Campaign is not to be held liable for any illegal activities as conducted by its members of staff. The opinions expressed in this piece may or may not reflect the professional opinion of Campaign Creative. All blog posts to be read in conjunction with a whole load of salt. Do not scale from this blog post.

BOOM.

Campaign has a disproportionate sense of celebration.

How big do you like your nuts?

THIS VIDEO WILL MAKE YOU WONDER WHY KATE MOSS IS STILL CONSIDERED A STYLE ICON.

(Old) ladies with balls. This is what I want to be like when I grow up. Watch it. 

Old furniture ... new furniture ... reinvented furniture. I think this blog post is about furniture.

Right, so we’re a bit late on this one, admittedly, but we are busy people. A few years ago G-Star RAW and Vitra collaborated on reinventing Jean Prouve design classics. Apart from a questionable reasoning behind G-Star’s initiative (why?) we are liking the result. The materials used are pure and simple, the result as understated as the original designs. You were able to buy nine pieces for a limited period of 12 months, and those months have just passed. So if you’re interested like we are, you’re out of luck.

Evidently our endorsement remains limited – pictures are all we have to give.

[Images via Archpaper and Hypebeast]

Nancy Holt

One of our favourite pieces from The Light Show at the Hayward Gallery

Nancy Holt - Holes of Light

He's back!

Christo - Big Air Package - Germany

More images here

It's a pen that can draw...in the air!

Have you ever wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object? Well now you can...

3Doodler is the World’s first 3D Printing Pen that lets you draw sculptures and lift your imagination off the page!

Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks and invented by two gentlemen called Pete & Max. It is a brand new way of creating objects and artistic works. Whether you are an artist, designer, hobbyist or 3D printing fanatic you'll  want to get your hands on one of these! As 3Doodler draws, it extrudes heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies into a strong stable structure. This allows you to build an infinite variety of shapes and items with ease! Most people will instantly be able to trace objects on paper, and after only a few hours of practice you will be able to make far more intricate objects.

To see a video of the pen in action, visit 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen

Happy 3Doodling!

The search continues!

We are still on the look out for super talented middleweight and senior retail designers to join our team here at Campaign. If you are available immediately and fit the bill below, please get in touch! 

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial design and have proven experience of working on commercial interior design projects from concept to completion. You will also have the ability to take a creative lead on design proposals and be able to deliver high end, future facing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Concept generation- the candidate will need to demonstrate a strong awareness of retail design applications and be able to generate and research concept ideas.
• Schematic design, technical drawing and detailing, design development to include the design of interior layouts, lighting and custom fixtures.
• Produce specifications and material selections for construction detailing.
• Liaise with contractors, consultants and regulatory bodies depending on project requirements for construction administration.
• Ability to communicate design ideas with hand-drawn sketch visuals and photoshop is a must.
• Proves success of working on projects from concept to completion.

Technical Requirements:

•       Excellent working knowledge of Vectorworks
•       Fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
•      3D modeling skills a plus

Salaries will be discussed upon interview and assessed through level of

experience.

If this sounds like you, please send your CV and PDF portfolios for review to: jobs@campaigndesign.co.uk

PLEASE QUOTE THE RELEVANT JOB REFERENCE NUMBER ON YOUR APPLICATION AND EMAIL SUBJECT BOX:

MIDDLEWEIGHT DESIGNER- 100
SENIOR DESIGNER- 101

Calling all Middleweight and Senior Retail Designers

Calling all Middleweight and Senior Retail Designers

We at Campaign are looking for middleweight (3-4 years of experience) & senior designers (6-8 years of experience) to join our team.

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial design and have proven experience of working on commercial interior design projects from concept to completion. You will also have the ability to take a creative lead on design proposals and be able to deliver high end, future facing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Concept generation- the candidate will need to demonstrate a strong awareness of retail design applications and be able to generate and research concept ideas.
• Schematic design, technical drawing and detailing, design development to include the design of interior layouts, lighting and custom fixtures.
• Produce specifications and material selections for construction detailing.
• Liaise with contractors, consultants and regulatory bodies depending on project requirements for construction administration.
• Ability to communicate design ideas with hand-drawn sketch visuals and photoshop is a must.
• Proves success of working on projects from concept to completion.

Technical Requirements:

•       Excellent working knowledge of Vectorworks
•       Fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
•      3D modeling skills a plus

Salaries will be discussed upon interview and assessed through level of

experience.

If this sounds like you, please send your CV and PDF portfolios for review to: jobs@campaigndesign.co.uk

PLEASE QUOTE THE RELEVANT JOB REFERENCE NUMBER ON YOUR APPLICATION AND EMAIL SUBJECT BOX:

MIDDLEWEIGHT DESIGNER- 100

SENIOR DESIGNER- 101

Hello from Monaco!

A stunning picture from Tatjana out in Monaco putting the final touches to another project. Official photos of the exhibition are on their way so keep a look out!

AITOR THROUP

After 6 years in the making, the conceptual designer and artist Aitor Throup has revealed his first full ready to wear range, titled 'New Object Research'.

The launch of this long awaited menswear product line took place as part of London Collections: Men on Tuesday the 8th January.

The presentation consisted of multiple suspended life-size human sculptures each wearing different iterations of the four complete outfits, collectively made up of the unique 20 piece collection. The event also featured a live soundscape by Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian) who performed an exclusive sonic composition inspired by Throup's varied themes, with references varying from Hinduism to Mongolia.

The event represents a key moment in the path of the critically acclaimed designer. Throup has continuously challenged the cyclical structure of the fashion industry, refusing to launch a commercially available line, and has finally managed to create a unique business model which allows him to showcase his product innovation periodically, whilst being able to work on new concepts without any pre-determined time constraints or seasonal pressure. 

Currently on show in Paris

LONDON show ROOMS MEN - AW13

18 - 22 January 2013

Le Loft

Off 28, rue Saint Antoine, Impasse Guéménée

3 Cour Bérard, Paris

75004 France

By appointment only sales@aitorthroup.com 

More details on: www.aitorthroup.com

ON//

NO-NOISE at SELFRIDGES

Selfridges is introducing a new initiative that calls on shoppers to be quiet; ‘No Noise’ runs from January 7th to the end of February. A Silence Room (an idea the founder Harry Gordon Selfridge had in 1909) will feature the best of minimalist design, and meditation experts Headspace will help customers “find balance in this fast-paced world” by providing in-store meditation sessions.  Shoppers will be asked not to speak, to remove their shoes, and hand over their mobile devices.

Some of the world’s most recognisable brands have taken the admirable step of removing their logos in our exclusive collection of de-branded products, available in the Quiet Shop.

more information on the Selfridges web site: http://nonoise.selfridges.com

ON//

Campaign Hits Top 50!

We are thrilled to make the top 50 UK creative agencies list in this months design week creative survey.

We're with good company! See the full list here

Another exhibition on the to-do list.

William Klein showing at the Tate Modern

And check out the documentary here

Nice commute to work!

Nihilistic Optimistic

Tim Noble and Sue Webster showing at the Blain Southern Gallery through to the end of November.