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Proportioned

April 20, 2018

Connected Living, Design, Fashion, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Shopping

The great British summer arrived today and at Proportion’s Emporia event–an exciting collaboration with Blacks Visual –it was Pimm’s o’clock! The installation reappraises what physical retail means now and explores new possibilities in VM presentations–beyond window dressing–returning to curated vignettes that draw us in and encourage us to explore, wander and linger. “I’m really excited to…

Creative Futures: The Convergence of Technology

September 19, 2017

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Fashion, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking, Retail

Sanj Suran of Tiger Heart knows what it takes to pull together an interesting conversation. What an honour to join Amalia Agathou of 18 Havas UK, Sel-Vin Kuik of Smack Digital, and Marija Butkovic of Women of Wearables in conversation about the ever-evolving relationship between Humans and Technology. Our conclusions: …

Future Retail Strategy Conference: Data is Your Friend

September 8, 2017

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Fashion, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Shopping

What a day, what a conference! Delighted to have had the opportunity to share insights on BioMetrics, Big Data, and IOT from Hitachi’s arsenal of global tech, now aimed at improving Retail Operations and Customer Experience. Maureen Hinton provided GlobalData’s insights. Shell Oil delivered an illuminating insight…

Changing the world-One App at a time

June 20, 2016

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Design, Joined Up Thinking, Social, User adoption

I can’t help it. I get teary eyed with pride every year when the finalists compete in the apps for good marketplace and pitch their app concepts Look at these 8 – 18year olds who as teams identified a problem that they felt could be solved with technology, researched the market, conceived and designed the…

AR Week

June 17, 2016

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Design, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking, User adoption

I didn’t try to find Augmented Reality; it just found me! This week’s theme has been Augmented Reality–All randomly Which means to me, AR is coming of age and increasingly important It started Monday at charity:water’s UK launch. I love this American based charity. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking…

The Big Bang Data exhibition

January 7, 2016

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Design, Joined Up Thinking

Big Bang Data Exhibition Let’s face it; we hear a lot about the power of Big Data. But who’s really harnessing it? The Big Bang Data exhibition at London’s Somerset House (Dec 2015-March 2016) brings together science and art in a thought provoking display of what we currently give away: lots of personal data. …

Fashion Tech Meet Up

November 11, 2015

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Design, Fashion, Good UI, Joined Up Thinking, Retail

Which look is right for me? From Blippar to Oculus Rift to Make up Genius, the future of Augmented Reality in Fashion and Retail was explored in a fun, relevant and engaging way. Left to right: Matthew Drinkwater, LCF Fashion Innovation Agency Jonathan Chippendale, Holition Mikela Eskenazi, Blippar moderator Lynne Murray Mária Rakušanová, Samsung

Adpreneurs Product Hunt Hackathon

November 9, 2015

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Design, Entertainment, Good UI, Joined Up Thinking

Me judging at the hackathon! Loved being a judge at Adpreneurs & Product Hunt hackathon which urged young entrepreneurs into becoming real founders! As the Adpreneurs tagline goes: “Make shit happen”! Kick off shot with Nicole and Richard Second place winners Sign with trophy printed by 3D company My mini factory Click here for The…

Salesforce World Tour London

May 21, 2015

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking

For this zone 1 tech savvy Londoner, getting to the London ExCel center seemed to be the hardest part of this day long event: honestly San Francisco seemed closer! But for many of the attendees, I suspect that the concepts the SalesForce teams and clients presented were more challenging. Customer centric retail was the…

Synthetic humans

May 19, 2015

Craig Crawford

Connected Living, Entertainment

Interacting with the new synthetic humans on Regent Street London. The billboard advertised the opening of Persona Synthetics “new store” where you can get your own synthetic human, an innovative digital promotion for Channel 4’s upcoming drama, ‘Humans’. To see more of the new persona synths, check out their website: http://www.personasynthetics.com/