The Christmas Card Making Machine film

I thought I would put up the Christmas Card Making Machine film we made for this years D&AD entry. Unfotunately we didn't get anything through but I really like the film so here it is.

Christmas Card Making Machine

We've just recently completed the Wieden and Kennedy London's Christmas card. David and I had a chat with Joel Gethin Lewis in the summer and decided to collaborate on proposing a Christmas Installation that in return could work as Wieden and Kennedy's Christmas card. So we had a brainstorm and 4 months later we've completed it. The result is an interactive installation that works by taking a picture of your face and placing it randomly on one of 12 characters (Thanks to Johnny Lighthands for the illustrations), creating a never-ending Christmas chain. You then log on to the site, find your face and email your very own personalised christmas card to all your friend and family... all for free!. Here's a little video of how it works


The windows been getting lots of attention on the weekend.

The technology behind the window.

Here's what the website looks like.

And a final personalised card.

Visit the window at 16 Hanbury St and visit http://www.christmascardmakingmachine.com.

Grapple

Our new window installation went up this week. We have worked with a young artist called James Capper. After going to his graduation show at the Chelsea College of Art we were so impressed that we invited him to do a piece for our agency window on Hanbury Street.


James has a fascination for industrial and construction devices, designing and building interactive machines with a life of their own. And since this year’s window theme is interaction, we thought it would be a good idea to let people try out one of James’s machines. If you're passing, feel free to have a go. No hard hat needed.

If you want to see more of James’s work, visit the Hannah Barry Gallery

Grapple grab times: Monday – Friday 6 -7, Saturday - Sunday 10 - 4. It's a bit noisy for the people whose desks are nearby, so we've had to limit hours of operation.

Outside/Inside by Susanna Hertrich

Since this year’s theme for Wieden + Kennedy's window displays is ‘interaction’ we thought it would be a good idea to approach the interactive design course at the prestigious Royal College of Art and ask the students to submit some ideas.We spoke to Brendan Walker (www.aerial.fm), course leader and interactive specialist, who put forward a very simple brief to his students, ‘engage the passers-by’. As you would expect the entries were top class but Susanna Hertrich was by far our favourite and walked away with the prize money that we provided to make it happen. Susannah's simple and charming Installation consists of a garden of windmills that magically come to life when people walk by. Nice.

Thank You for Your Socks

We have been working on quite a few projects recently (hence the reason for the lack of posts). This is one project we have been working on for a few weeks now.

Its for the a London based charity called Broadway who help the homeless. They told us that if its one thing that the homeless need its a fresh pair of socks. In a bid to collect as many socks as possible for the charity we have hung a magic washing line which grows every time a pair of socks are donated.





Here's a little video of us going out the window and across the road.

Rat Race

David and I are have been working with the new WK Side team on their idea for the window display at Wieden and Kennedy. Its called the Rat Race. The window display consists of three dimensional tubes which represent a localised area of the tube map. Inside the tubes are eight rats who are running around the tubes. This idea took a while to come off the ground but we're really happy with the result. And by the look of things the rats are enjoying it as well. Here are some snaps of the installation.

This is Sir Alan checking out his new pad.






Here's one of the rats in their little home. We have one big cage attached to the window where they play. If you want to find out what they have been up to visit them on www.ratbook.co.uk.

Wieden's Wood

For this years Christmas card at W+K they have decided to go down the environmental route and have produced a website where everyone is welcome to grow their own tree and decorate it as they want. You have to water it every day (bit like a tamagotchi) and all the trees live in Wieden's Wood. Here's what it looks like.

And here's what my tree look like

We've also designed the window in line with the website to promote it using recycled internal waste. One side is painted like to look like the site the other is honest showing what the set is made from.




To create your own Christmas tree click here