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Operation Alphabet
28. SEP 2011
New book published by Mother London and beautifully illustrated by Barcelona-based Luciano Lozano.
BY: Sarah
Nice Lights
27. SEP 2011
So many nice lights around, I’d like them all…
1. Rainbow coloured light candy shop via Oh Happy Day
2. Simple but cool Dog lamp from Howkapow
3. Stunning DIY Romantic Star Projector by Infmetry
BY: Sarah
The Poundshop
27. SEP 2011
I love a good poundshop, always coming in handy for organising a hen do or fancy dress. Here’s the third edition of the pop up shop: The Poundshop and it only has 6 days left to run. Each item above is only £1 but there are some items at £5 and some at £10. I do love a bargain.
BY: Sarah
New Site Launch: Lynchpin
27. SEP 2011
A few months back now we worked with Lynchpin, a web analytics company for the first time on refreshing their existing site. They were keen to keep using Drupal which they were comfortable using and were able to alter code here and there. So what we ended up doing for them was a completely new home page and footer and a couple of basic templates to use elsewhere in the site that they could tweak themselves. We also worked on making the home page ‘timeline’ interactive.
Andrew Hood of Lynchpin said, “ILCK were the perfect partner for our website relaunch project. They translated our marketing strategy into an end result that we are delighted with, and more importantly is directly driving new business for us. Friendly and pragmatic, ILCK were a great sounding board throughout the process and really helped us refine how we present ourselves in the market. The build itself was high quality, on time and on budget – testament to their design, technical and project management credentials.”
BY: Sarah
Francois and the Atlas Mountains
13. SEP 2011
I saw Francois and the Atlas Mountains play live last week, supporting Kenny Anderson and Jon Hopkins the night after they missed out on the Mercury Music Prize. It was a great gig and great to hear the Diamond Mine material played live. I’d never heard any of Francois and the Atlas Mountains before but I absolutely loved it. They all move about so much and every bit was so enjoyable and I can’t wait for their new album that comes out next month.
The story goes though that a few years back, Francois was going to pack the whole music thing in for his watercolour paintings and they are really very good but personally I’m very glad that he didn’t, I’m sure he can manage both!
The percussionist was just the most fun to watch – no shoes, bells attached to his knees and so energetic. Brilliant surreal backdrop too from the Grand Ole Opry, a line dancing venue, which gave the band an excuse to showcase a co-ordinated set of dance moves. Anyways, looking forward to seeing the album artwork too!
BY: Sarah
Bottle Designs from Absolut Vis10ns
8. SEP 2011
I’d pick these as my favourite designs from the Absolut Vis10ns exhibition as a part of Absolut Fringe in Dublin.
1. Dalek 2. Linda Brownlee 3. Rilla Alexander 4. Niels Shoe Meulman
via Creative Review
BY: Sarah
Swan attire
8. SEP 2011
On my last afternoon in this week, I’m liking the thought this reversible cygnet to swan bag by Mimipong with a Donna Wilson Swan scarf combo. Perhaps only for serious swan fanatics mind you.
BY: Sarah
Cycle Scottish Borders
8. SEP 2011
So we launched the Cycle Scottish Borders a few weeks back. It has over 40 cycle routes throughout the Borders complete with profiles, the local attractions and businesses en route, gpx files to download and stats to help you choose a suitable route.
On the page above, you can refine your search by town, level of difficulty, altitude gain and distance.
And users can leave reviews of an individual route so you can judge based on other’s experiences if that route will be exactly what you’re looking for.
There are other sections on the site such as Stay Eat Shop which gives you listings for each whether or not you are there to cycle primarily, you can plan in some of those things too. The News Offers & Events section features local cycling events and more. The launch of the site was to also run along side the build up to the Tour of Britain departing from Peebles this weekend, which is a great event for the Borders to be hosting. We really enjoyed getting our heads into what cyclists would need from this site and we hope that it will be useful from the outset even though there is lots more that could be developed.
BY: Sarah
