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We have been running Creative&Live for five years and we wanted to bring it a bit more live! So, we decided to launch the first Creative&Drinks! No talk, no subject, Creative&Drinks is just a way to meet up people interested in the same things in the same city.
If you are related in any way to Creative&Live, creatives, readers or followers please join our first event which will take place in London.
Fancy a bit of networking to start the year!

Where&When? Wednesday the 25th of January, 7pm The Owl & Pussycat , Redchurch Street, E2 London.

Please contact us to add your name to the list!

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For one night only in London (29th of November), a special evening event featuring Aaron Draplin – founder of Portland’s Draplin Design Company and co-creator of Field Notes. Draplin will be bringing his hilarious ‘Tall Tales from a Large Man’ presentation to the UK for the first time. Using scientific proof and state-of-the-art multimedia techniques, Aaron James Draplin of the Draplin Design Co. delivers a suckerpunch of a talk that aims to provide bonafide proof of work, the highs and lows of a ferociously independent existence and a couple tall tales from his so-called career in the cutthroat world of contemporary graphic design.

More info on Keri Newman’s website and book now via Eventbrite.

Is there a lack of imagination to find titles about bicycles? Book shelves need sometimes a bit of diversity, at least in term of titles! @Foyles, London, March 2011.

Ryuji Nakamura is a designer of architecture, landscape, interior, furniture based in Tokyo. Octave shared this clever paper work yesterday so I thought it was a good way to restart posting on Playtime.
‘Midget and Giant’ explores our perception of space. It is also a wonderful idea which allow everyone to make his own product at home. I hope you’ll enjoy her work.

Deaf Poets, ‘Cold Cold Thieves’. Music Video Clip created by Mupalia

Rest in Peace Rich, you will be missed.

Print Club London’s annual exhibition BLISTERS is fast approaching! Friday 3rd December, doors open at 6pm and everything is for sale!
This year there will be 40 artists, 40 editions and each print £40 a pop, signed by the artist. All work in the exhibition will include a glow-in-the-dark element and the venue (a rather wonderful old warehouse in dalston - MC Motors, Dalston) will be plunged into darkness at various points during the opening night so the assembled can see the posters in all their glory. Street Artist Ben Eine, Jamie Reid, Mr Bingo, Stevie Gee, Jess Wilson, Pure Evil, Si Scott, RYCA and many more illustrators and artists are taking part.
Venue at 214 Brick Lane, London E1 6SA.

EveryGuyed presents Dress the Part, a collection of 10 Redesigned Movie Posters Inspired by Men’s Style.

The collection includes American Psycho, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Dumb and Dumber, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Shaun of the Dead, Superman, The Shining, The Usual Suspects, Top Gun, and Wall Street.

Each piece highlights a classic menswear piece from the movies in the series. See more at EveryGuyed.

Designed by Moxy Creative with illustration credits to James Alexander Mathers and Andrew Lau, individual prints are available for purchase at Moxy Creative.

David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.

It is funny how things are matching together sometimes. This week all what I read and talked about was for most of it about the imagination.
It is very frustrating to become repetitive in its work and it is hard to get away from it.
As Robin Friend said “My imagination is all that I had to keep me company…” explaining his process of work when he shot the Slaughterhouse series. Through our imagination we are able to find new ways, new ideas and new concepts to avoid weariness. Experimenting things is not a waste of time, it has not necessarily an immediate effect but could be useful later.
Among other, this set Fun At Work of an optometrist photographer is a perfect example of how to be imaginative at work. Keep an eye on your imagination!

Picture shot by The Light Gatherer.