There’s nothing us creative’s enjoy more than a glass of wine and a solid natter about what we’ve been up to and what direction we are heading. That’s exactly what the annual digital Podge lunch is all about. It’s about sharing ideas, experiences and finding some common ground to help the industry work better together in the future.

With the theme for the year just past being the Olympics, there was a strong focus on all fronts to give the nod to the games. London based agency, Precedent turned their hand for all the branding and online communications while a select group of creatives were tasked with spoofing the 12 Official London Olympics 2012 posters which were unveiled early November 2012. The side project for Podge was supported by The Drum who set out to see if digital agencies really understood graphic design.

With all that said, yours truly had the opportunity to put together one of the spoof posters. The poster I was given was that of Sarah Morris, an artist best known for her abstract paintings based on cityscapes and architecture. Sarah’s Paralympic tribute poster was an abstract representation of one of London’s most famous landmarks, Big Ben. My take ...

Our online social lives have moved in leaps and bounds over the past few years, some have savoured the opportunity to express themselves via social networks while others still struggle to understand it.  Whichever basket you fall into you’ll be sure to have an opinion about Facebook’s introduction of ‘Timeline’.  No doubt fuelled by the pressure of Google+, the first serious contender to its crown since it steamrollered over MySpace, Facebook is in the process of rolling out a huge suite of updates. The majority being centred around this new Timeline functionality, which is set to replace users traditional profile as soon as Zuckerberg can chat his way out of a tricky legal battle with timelines.com (another story all together).

Once we get past the expected frustration regarding our pure dislike for the way things look or the fact we can’t find that button we once overused, we’ll start to get closer to the core of what will run through the minds of Facebookers and we’ll realise very quickly that any sort of exodus from the network is going to require a much greater change than simply the way Facebook presents your data.

‘I’ll close my account’ is what you will say.  ...

I recently went to see Black Swan in a packed Camden Odeon.

It blew my homespun woolly socks off.

At one point a girl in the audience screamed, leapt up and tore out of the cinema.

That made it all the more of an experience for me.

Brilliant posters, too.

I haven’t liked a film this much since Casper The Friendly Ghost…

This year, we’re giving the gift of giving.

Our resident elf has filled his sack with twelve pleasurable prezzies to bring some Yuletide cheer to the streets of W1, putting smiles on the faces of humbugs and revelers alike.

With a helping hand from his glamorous opera-singing sidekick, the people of London could hardly believe their luck…

Enjoy!