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Innovative Virtual Shop

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Ocado.com has hit the high street, with an innovative new ‘virtual shop’. In a UK first, the online grocer’s integrated window display at One New Change shopping centre in London allows shoppers to purchase all their grocery essentials by scanning them with their mobile phones. The retail experience is live between August 25 and September 1.

Striking Game of Thrones Posters

 Striking Game of Thrones Posters
Thomas Gateley is a Birmingham, UK-based graphic designer who’s created some striking Game of Thrones posters based on each houses’ identity or sigil.

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Stunning Cinema-Style Street Portraits

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London, UK-based street photographer Nick Turpin has started a new series called Cineportraits where he’s experimenting with taking portraits with a super fast cinema lens.

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Sports photography by Tomoki Momozono

MOMO was born in Aomori, Japan. While attending at Sophia University in 2001, he started his career as a sports photographer. He also worked as a studio assistant and a trainee photographer to widen up his fields and the knowledge of lighting skills. After two years of training, he made a contract with a Japanese publisher known as Bungeishunju as a professional photographer covering sports, portraits and still life for five years. In June 2011, he decided to move to the UK to turn freelance based in London.

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Creative Inspiring Art by Craig Shields

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Craig Shields is currently in his final year as a degree student studying Graphic Design at the School of art and design in Lincoln, UK. In his spare time he freelances for small businesses, doing illustration work. He is an active member of the depthCORE collective. He’s also had his work published in Advanced Photoshop magazine, aswell as DigitalArts magazine, where he has written tutorials and also been featured as one of the Uk’s top 10 illustrators to look out for in 2009.

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Riots: The whites have become black

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Historian David Starkey has told BBC’s Newsnight ”the whites have become black” in a discussion on the England riots with author and broadcaster Dreda Say Mitchell and the author of Chavs, Owen Jones.

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Smoking Deterrent Concept

Cigarette packaging is attractive, sophisticated, and some might even say sexy. The red and white Marlboro cigarette box is an example of simple sophistication with its chevron design and is recognizable from a distance. Studies have shown that cigarette smokers have high brand loyalty and less than 10% of smokers change brands annually. Two design students from the UK have created conceptual cigarette packaging that might force the changing of cigarette brands among smokers with more frequency or convince them to quit entirely. Via Buzzaurus.
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Photo-Sculptures by Maurizo Anzeri

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As long as something creates a reaction it’s alive says Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian born artist from the city of Loano. Known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits,Maurizio’s work will be presented this month at the Baltic (25 June – 11 October 2011) and will mark his first solo show in a major UK institution.

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Graffiti: MEGGS x LISTER x KID-ZOOM

“When three renowned Australian street artists all independently visited the UK in June, Very Nearly Almost organised a meet up and invited us to produce a video documenting the day. Featuring Meggs, Lister and Kid Zoom.”

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