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IACDE Nordic Chapter Summit – Screw Trousers!

March 25, 2018

Design, Fashion, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Shopping, Social, Sustainability, User adoption

I was honoured to present at the The International Association of Clothing Designers and Executives (IACDE) Nordic summit (member brands include H&M, Arket, Tommy Hilfiger, and Fillipa K), on 3D innovation and its future impact on brands and retail. But when I arrived in Gothenburg Sweden to discover it was being held at atacac‘s uber cool…

2017 AATCC C2C Student Merchandising Competition

May 12, 2017

Craig Crawford

Design, Fashion, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Social

What an honour to be asked to judge this years textile competition. Students were challenged to showcase their skills in business, marketing, and merchandising by creating a business concept of a hypothetical new apparel line that redesigns apparel items (leggings, t-shirts, etc.) for children (ages 2-10) with special needs and/or a disability. See the full…

Rediscovering Sustainability @cfe_london #FTmeetup9

January 26, 2017

Craig Crawford

Fashion, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Social, Sustainability

It was standing room only in Camden tonight at the swell Tom Dixon designed Interchange Triangle for UAL and Centre for Fashion Enterprise‘s 9th Fashion Tech meet up All of us glamour nerds mingled before and after some thought provoking presentations that included: Matthew Drinkwater, Head of LCF’s Fashion Innovation Agency: The Impossible Cheeseburger…

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…

Apps for Good

February 4, 2016

Craig Crawford

Design, Joined Up Thinking, Social

It’s hard for me to believe that Apps for Good turns 5 this year! 50,000 students have developed 10,000 apps in just 5 years through this amazing nonprofit programme that puts app development curriculum into high school classrooms. “I’d like to use technology to make day to day life better for everybody,” one of the…

A British citizen today!

January 8, 2016

Craig Crawford

Entertainment, Social

Delighted to receive British Citizenship today! Still pinching myself that I’ve been having so much fun working here in London!

Drapers Awards

November 26, 2015

Craig Crawford

Retail, Social

What a fun night! Host Joanna Lumley celebrating 25 years of Absolutely Fabulous at the Drapers 25th awards ceremony We didn’t win the glow stick challenge but my host table K3 technologies dubbed me Mayor of London Drapers with this Ab Fab necklace: Congratulations to all the winners but I am especially pleased that…

A cup of tea with Ted Baker

November 20, 2015

Craig Crawford

Good UI, Infrastructure, Joined Up Thinking, Retail, Social

It seemed like the church of PLM at the swell and quirky Sanderson hotel on November 20th as I evangelised about mobile PLM and interviewed Flis Leverton on Ted Baker’s recent PLM journey! So inspiring to talk to brands Jimmy Choo, LK Bennet, Tesco and Superdry about their PLM endeavours We are truly changing the…

Hanging with my homies

May 14, 2015

Craig Crawford

Entertainment, Social

I’ve always wanted to be a page 6 girl. See photo 6: http://www.businessinsider.com/fabulous-life-of-angela-ahrendts-2015-5?op=1

TunePics

May 24, 2014

Craig Crawford

Finance, Good UI, Joined Up Thinking, Music, Shopping, Social

My buddy Justin Cooke and his amazing team have launched a genius social mobile site: TunePics. Select or take a photo, match with a tune and post. Just like that you’re created an audio visual emotion. And the best part–click through and buy that tune from iTunes. I posted a pic of my new sparkly…

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