Cherry

The latest issue of You+360, The Innovation Issue, has just hit the streets. The magazine, produced by Cherry for 360 Training, is packed full of the latest thinking from the world of training and development.

The issue was borne out of the current economic climate, and the belief that innovative approaches in business can make all the difference. The features covers issues such as breaking down the barriers to innovation, learning from the true innovators in business, and how to take calculated risks.

If you’d like to find out more about You+360 Magazine get in touch with us at Cherry. To order a copy, get in touch with 360 Training.

Cor, look! Another mention for Cherry this week, this time from Campaign Monitor, everyone’s favourite email gurus!

We use their software to create and send campaigns for many of our clients, and they’ve picked up on the redesign we recently unleashed for Lonely Planet’s weekly Seize The Days email.

It’s a design we’re really happy with, and one we feels sums up the fun, inspirational nature of the email content nicely. It’s good to see others are appreciating it too!

The world truly is a crazy place… can you imagine spending $15,000 (£9,200) on the hair of a dead person (even the King’s). Someone obviously isn’t feeling the credit crunch!

Finally, we’re famous.

This week we get a mention in top industry journal, New Media Age, for our work on a new online game that has just been launched by Lonely Planet. We have to admit, we had a lot of fun with this one.

Last week we were special guests of our friends at Lonely Planet in their London office’s first ‘Hack Day’. Inspired by the practise first used by Yahoo, the whole team at Lonely Planet was briefed to down their usual work schedule in order to ‘mass brainstorm’. The overall goal being to come up with improvements to their flagship range of Country and Regional Guidebooks.

Our job was to help the team develop and mock up their ideas for presentation to the rest of the company at the end of the 24hr session. With prizes at stake, the pressure was on!
The whole gamut of ideas came out, from the common-sense all the way through to the weird and wonderful. We made lots of new friends and got to eat pizza and drink beer, whilst doing design work. What could be better than that? At the end of it all, to paraphrase the immortal Pat Sharpe, ‘prizes were won and we had a whole lotta fun!’ Now we can’t wait to see the all new, improved Guidebooks.

One of our recent students from the LCC Mentor Scheme, Aaron Darveniza (aka Moose and Yeti), has returned to Cherry Towers with a new mission. Being on the frontline of the Secret Wars events, Aaron was briefed to bring Shoreditch into our meeting room with his own style of street art.

Have a look at several days hard painting condensed into just over two minutes! And see more Moose and Yeti right here.

Get out and about this weekend and step into famous scenes of films shot in London. The BFI and Ramblers have teamed up to provide a guided tour to celebrate London’s world-class film heritage. There are 9 walks takeingplace that visit London’s most iconic big-screen hot spots in the North, South, East and West, along with many more lesser known but equally unmissable locations. For more info head to:

http://www.ramblers.org.uk/walkthemes/FilmsonFoot.htm
Where: From Vauxhall tube/train station
When: 1.30pm
How much: Free!!! (My favoutrite price)

Here he is in a swimming pool in Costa Rica sporting what can only be described as a scraggly mess of a “Castaway-style” beard. Thankfully he’s shaved that off and is now the newest signing to the Cherry “Dream Team”. Adrian has a good few years industry experience under his belt and will be helping to keep our clients happy and smiling. He’ll also be working on our business development strategy, aka The Cherry Blueprint for Total World Domination. Hopefully you’ll get to meet him soon.

Got a free day this weekend -
Check out this 15000 square foot open air exhibition of Street Art, giant Sculpture and Installations, fully licensed for 1250 people, underneath the West Way Road Bridge next to Portobello Road, Ladbroke Grove, London. These guys no how to put on a show,so get yourself down there!! The video below should be enough to entice you!

Location: 3-6 Acklam Rd, London, W10 5YU
Entrance: £1 before 6pm – £3 thereafter
Opens: 9.10.2009 – Ends: 25.10.2009 (Fridays to Sundays only)