If I'd have known you were coming...
Although it might look from our blog like all we ever do is work (and sometimes it feels a bit like that too), we do tend to have sporadic burst of fun while we're at it.
Here's some photos from the (ir)regular cake baking contest that went on recently.
Organising the bake-off wasn't that hard. Apart from the 6 weeks it took to decide what the rules were. Of which most of the time was spent re-visiting the old cake vs. biscuit debate.
But as we all now know:
A cake goes hard as it ages, a biscuit goes soft...
Or something like that.
More Miss Moss
A juicy new site for Topshop to present Kate Moss's latest Collection. Read about it in the portfolio, or if you've got a second visit the site.
BBC Green is the new green and sustainable living website designed by Poke in collaboration with MultiAdaptor for BBC Worldwide.
We Have a Sister
Pokenewyork.com has had a makeover. She now looks similar to Pokelondon.com. Which we hope is a good thing. They're not quite identical twins, but there is a bunch of shared DNA. Perhaps they're more like connected mutant offspring spawned from some evil gene-mangling experiment. In a nice way.
Go and see the lovely work they're doing and find out more about them.
Designs of the Year
The Design Museum are running an exhibition called Designs of the Year. It's on from 13th Feb - 27th April.
They say:
Designs of the Year presents 100 projects nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts.
These projects fall within seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.
I've got no idea who we should thank, but the Orange Unlimited site has ended up in there. Which is really exciting for us.
You should go and check it out, not to see the Never Ending webpage (you can see that here), but to see all the other great stuff that we're really proud to be sitting alongside:
- Gary Hustwit's Helvetica documentary
- Streetcar
- The Nintendo Wii
- OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
- The new Fiat 500
Find out more at the Design Museum Site.
Aussie ClubPub
We've got a new approach for promoting ClubPub. Instead of telling you when it's coming up we're going to post photos showing what a great time people had instead. That way it might encourage more people to sign-up for the ClubPub mailing list (the only reliable way to find out when the next one's going to be).
The theme was Australia day. If the photos lead you to believe something else, sorry.
There's also a second lovely set of photos from the night (all arty and black and white and stuff) over here.
A Brand New Site for Jenny Packham
Jenny Packham, designer of choice to Hollywood A-listers Keira Knightley, Eva Longoria and Beyonce, asked Poke to design a beautiful, new website showcasing both her ready-to-wear and bridal ranges.
We've already given all you creative types a nudge about remembering to enter the Webbys this year.
Now it's D&AD reminder time.
If you fancy putting your work up for winning the most important pencil based creative awards in the universe you've only got until the 16th January.
Not very long at all!
Find out everything you need to know right here: http://awards08.dandad.org/
