The Church of London - Creative Agency

Ministry of Stories ‘Hoxton AM’ Vol 3

TCOLondon HQ — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:45:46 +0000

HUCK deputy editor Shelley Jones recently volunteered at the Ministry of Stories, a creative writing centre inspired by Dave Eggers′ 826 Valencia, to create the third edition of Hoxton AM – a Hackney newspaper created and produced by over twenty local eleven-thirteen-year-olds.

The paper, which features stories on Circus Space, local Olympics employees, community orchards, Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend 2012 and a drama group for adults with learning disabilities All Access Areas as well as café and games reviews, think pieces and jokes and games, was created over five days in the April school holidays.

The front page kicks off with a letter from the editors of the four sections (Hackney Happenings, Olympics Madness, Ministry of Reviews and Funny Business) and states: “We have tried our absolute hardest to make sure this issue is a success. Hackney is our home and we should be proud of it. The editorial team has made sure that everybody gets noticed and has something for their family and friends to be proud of.”

Think Quarterly – The Creativity Issue

TCOLondon HQ — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:11:25 +0000

With both a beautiful, limited edition print version and comprehensive online offering, it brings together cutting-edge insights on digital business and marketing from some of the industries’ most respected voices.

As the internet comes of age, it is expanding the limits of human imagination and unleashing a wealth of new creative possibilities. The Creativity issue of Think Quarterly documents this far-reaching transformation, cutting through the noise to focus on the fundamental questions.

Access #03

TCOLondon HQ — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:01:14 +0000

These days everyone’s a gamer, so we dedicated the third issue of Access magazine to the phenomenon of gaming taking over the world. We travelled to Tokyo, LA and Vancouver to catch up with some of the games industry’s most innovative professionals, we traced the most popular games of the last 10 years, and we caught up with the world’s foremost gamification experts to hear how games could make us fitter, smarter and more productive.

But we also wanted to know how the Access community felt about modern gaming, so we asked them to design their own covers to fit the theme of gaming taking over the world. We had hundreds of entries, and just a few of them are included on the cover and inside the magazine.

Access #03 is available now from select locations across the UK, or if you can’t wait to get your copy have a flick through the digital version above.

Take The Stage – Stories of Hip Hop: Vol 3

Shelley Jones — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:45:01 +0000

Ed Andrews, associate editor of HUCK magazine, recently released the third edition of his UK hip hop title Take The Stage.

The sixteen-page online magazine features interviews with legendary hip hop musician Fatlip (an original member of The Pharcyde), Ed Skrein (star of Plan B‘s soon-to-be-released Ill Manors film) and South London emcee Rewd Adams.

Says Andrews: “Take the Stage is the deejays, emcees, promoters, producers, record-label owners, beatboxers and more who help make the diverse world of beats and rhymes what it is. Times change and faces may come and go. In the end, all we can take are momentary snapshots of these different people united by one music.”

‘LWL70: LWLies x colette’ hits Paris

Shelley Jones — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:25:58 +0000

LWLies has teamed up with colette Paris for a new installment of the LWL70 exhibition, May 7 – June 2, marking the Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Alongside fourteen prints from the original LWL70 exhibition, where selected artists were invited by LWLies creative director Paul Willoughby to design a film poster for the movie of their choice, LWLies and colette have selected thirteen new artists and films to add to the collection including Anthony Burrill, Paul X Johnson, Kuntzel + Deygas, Emily Forgot, André and Jean Jullien.

The twenty-seven limited-edition LWL70 prints are on display at their flagship store in the heart of Paris and a limited run of seventy giclée prints are available online and in the colette store now.

For more info and to check out the full collection visit the colette website and check out the full list of artists at the official LWL70 website.

André - Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie

Anthony Burrill - Silent Running

Paul X Johnson - Don't Look Now

TCOLondon launches ‘71a’ in June

Shelley Jones — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:46:02 +0000

Our exciting new creative space, 71a, is well on the way to completion and will be launching with a jam-packed series of events in early June.

At the site of our ground-floor studio, home of Little White Lies, Huck, Stack and a variety of other projects, we will also be launching a 71a shop, a collection of the world’s best magazines curated by magCulture (plus cards, posters and all manner of quality goods) and the 71a basement space, a combined gallery, screening room, workshop, bar and lounge.

The first couple of weeks are already filling up with films, including an exclusive screening of Plan B‘s new drama Ill Manors, art exhibitions, like the D&AD Student Awards 2012: LWLies Cover Illustration Brief ‘Best of Year’ and workshops, including one with Andrew Diprose, the creative director of UK Wired and The Ride.

For more info and listings, please join the TCOLondon mailing list.

HUCK x Thomas Campbell ‘Flowers’ comp

Shelley Jones — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:16:01 +0000

To celebrate HUCK #32, featuring Bonny-Doon based artist, filmmaker and photographer Thomas Campbell on the cover, TCOLondon has collaborated with the cover star to create an exciting competition for readers and fans.

Campbell has handmade, framed and signed two of his beautiful, trademark flowers to award to two lucky winners.

To be in with a chance of winning one, entrants must send a postcard* from their hometown to:

ATT: Ummm…
TCOLondon
71A Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4QS

*All bad and boring postcards will be accepted. Especially those that feature cats. And don’t forget to include your email address, postal address and phone number on the back. Closing date is June 1.

For more information and full terms and conditions, visit
huckmagazine.com/blog/thomas-campbell-magazine

D&AD Student Awards 2012 x LWLies Brief

Shelley Jones — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:46:46 +0000

The winning entries to the LWLies illustration brief in collaboration with the D&AD Student Awards 2012 were announced at the beginning of this week.

The shortlist of twenty-one, which include ‘best of year’ and yellow pencil nominees, all responded to our challenge of creating an original illustrated LWLies cover portrait, inspired by one of our favourite films from 2012 – Black Swan, Super 8, Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, Tree of Life and Drive.

LWLies creative director Paul Willoughby and TCOLondon art director Victoria Talbot headed down to Kensington Olympia on April 19 with top illustration talents including Adrian Johnson, Vic Lee, Mr Bingo and jury foreman Bob Gill to help pick the best from an overwhelming number of entries.

The yellow pencil winners will be announced on June 26 as part of the D&AD New Blood festival. An exhibition of all the winning works will also be unveiled at the TCOLondon gallery 71A from June 26.

Tree Of Life by Ann Khokhlova, British Higher School of Art & Design, Russian Federation

Super 8 by Imogen Woolley, Kingston University, UK

Drive by Matthew Oldfield, Vega The Brand Communications School, South Africa

Black Swan by Rupert Smissen, Norwich University College of the Arts, UK

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by Stacey Knights, Norwich University College of the Arts, UK