Last month we attended the Camberwell BA Illustration degree show where one of our work placement students, Hollie Theedam showed her work. The 2010 external degree show was impressive, with a diverse range of students demonstrating a wide-ranging approach to illustration. The show, Save Our Souls, challenges the boundaries between illustration, design and art and students showcased self-initiated work, from painting, drawing, typography and printmaking to film, photography and animation. Although a diverse range of work was shown the students were united by their commitment to innovation and integrity. Now it’s time for these young graduates to make their mark on the creative world, without losing their souls in the process!

Sophie from our studio and her little sis (bless!) ran the 5K Race for Life in St Albans park to raise money for cancer research at the end of July. They finished in the impressive time of 36 minutes, 7 minutes faster than last year! Even better they raised nearly £300. They have stepped up the pace and have signed up to run a half marathon in October for cancer research and Macmillan cancer support. Donations to Sophie can be made at sophie@silverchair.co.uk.

Our very own Sophie rocks the Alice in Wonderland look in the What Katie Wore project, only one of THE best fashion blogs.  “She looks a bit mischievous and we like that” tell us something we don’t know!

We had a very civilised and productive digital planning session with the Portillion team at the Soho Hotel. There is nothing better then being in a fresh environment to stimulate much needed freshness of ideas for a new website development. Soho Hotel is a nice quiet space, with a great Sunday film club to break up a west end power shop!

We managed to explore user profiling, online marketing models, interaction tools and the most amazing afternoon tea all very necessary to creating a new website strategy for Portillion. I think the sugar rush did the trick…

The talent that is Jenny in our accounts team has persuaded her racing driving dad ‘Dougie’ to advertisie our agency on the side of his car. We are loving this and the super style racing version of our logo. Dougie we salute you and good luck in the next ‘Auto Grass’ race!

We had a great session with the CIMA Publishing team at Elsevier. We explored some exciting digital marketing strategies and using social media in a range of student engagement activities.

We attended the excellent Like Minds social media conference in Exeter. There were some interesting talks by some of the leading global authors and consultants who are doing some great things within social communications. We heard some impressive strategies and case studies from the USA, Europe and Asia. Social media is helping charities, corporate business, SME’s and mums! We enjoyed the panels and Chris Brogans talk had us laughing hard.

Our ID badges at the event where our Twitter avatar’s and ID’s (Im glad I chose to use my name for my Twitter ID – I met Dark Vadar on the day!)

Sophie managed to get tickets to the BIG BROTHER LITTLE BROTHER show, purely to be in the same room as George Lamb – she assures us she is not a stalker…

Jen and her partner Craig went on a cultural mission to Berlin…

…and on coming back from a nights groovin at techno club Tresor, they were snapped by their lovely hosts for being the last guests to stay before major renovations. Jen assures us Craig isnt holding her up :-) Full story

Francesca's cat Betsy has kindly shared a tip with us on how to cope with this heavy snow – snoooooze :-)