We're excited to announce that Suwappu has been nominated in the digital category of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year. Our Suwappu toys will be on display in the exhibition from 8th February until 15th July.

Visit our blog post for behind the scenes information.

Beeker‘s speaking this Friday 2nd December at Creative Mornings. You can get a seat here.

Greg, Margot and Simon Alexander joined more than 650 other Londoners in a sponsored SleepOut for Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity. Currently, about 80,000 young people are homeless in the UK – and Centrepoint provides support and accommodation to 825 every day from 33 centres across London. Between them, our intrepid ‘rough’ sleepers raised £1,200 and the whole event £140,000. There is also still time to donate to their Just Giving page.

Our brand new work for Tetley has launched in France this week. The new campaign introduces ‘tea wishes’, the idea that every time you pull the drawstrings on your teabag, you can also make a wish for someone special.

It’s based on the insight that there is much more to tea drinking than a hot beverage.  Making a cup of tea for someone shows that you care, and the unique Tetley drawstrings provides an opportunity to create a little ritual every time you make a cup.

Please take a look, and don’t forget to make a tea wish next time you squeeze the last drop from your teabag!

We're running two events as part of Internet Week 2011. 

A making workshop on Tuesday November 8th at 4pm here at the spaceship involving drawing amongst other things.

And a combined talk and workshop called the Electric City involving lego, also here.

All welcome, you can RSVP at the links above for each.

Beeker will be speaking at The Design of Understanding this January at St Bride Library.

We've just finished a new Suwappu demo. Beeker writes about it here. 

We're delighted to welcome Chris and Carol to the spaceship, recently joining the creative team from Leo Burnett. They're a lovely pair of people with lots of good qualities (for example, Chris can draw the Queen in jeans and Carol makes jewellery which sometimes involves mini traffic cones).

They're proper nice. Welcome.

Oliver and Ciaran have recently joined us. They're a young creative team, working on a bit of everything, and we're happy to have them. 

Oliver takes some nice photos (and he draws too).

Ciaran writes. He also likes music, wine, cocktail bars in the East End and smoking cuban cigars. And he's writing his first novel.

Welcome!

Suwappu and our Media Surfaces films will feature in MoMA's Talk To Me exhibition in New York from July 24th.

Our films Incidental Media and The Journey will be shown as part of the London Transport Museum's good looking Sense and the City exhibition, open this Friday 1 July.

So we’ve had great news from our Straight 8 entries! Out of the 115 submissions, 3 of our films have been shortlisted for screening at the ICA in July, and two (Stiff and Living with Barry) have even made it to Cannes! We haven’t seen them yet – because they went straight into a Super 8 cartridge with no editing – so we can’t wait to see how they all turned out.

Sarah joins today as our new business director. 

For people who don't follow the blog and who enjoy Suwappu news, we've started a series of Swuappu comics with the talented Matt Sheret, which you can find here in full.

(Bigger version here.)

We’re excited to announce that Paul and Angus will soon be joining Dentsu London from Wieden+Kennedy as our new Executive Creative Directors. The duo have worked together for 12 years and have a formidable reel, encompassing work for Guinness, Nike, Nokia, the COI and Yahoo! Their creative awards include gold at the British Arrows,four D&AD Pencils and three Cannes Gold.

Robbie joins this week as business director for our Canon and Starwood Hotels Aloft clients.

We're delighted to announce that our iPad Light Painting film has been nominated for a prestigious People's Voice Webby Award in two categories. Voting is open now and runs until 28th April 2011. Please vote for us (if you want!) in the Experimental & Weird category and in the Animation category by registering here on the Webby site. Winners will be announced 3rd May 2011.

The Dentsu London shop opens for business today, selling tote bags, stickers, badges and more!

As part of our collaboration with Urbanscale, we're asking for imagery of urban screens for our flickr group. There's some great stuff going up already, so it's worth a look. 

Beeker will be presenting at the El Sol Festival in Spain which runs between 26th and 28th May.

Our resident Creative Technologist will be speaking at Game Camp on 14th May at London South Bank University. Game Camp is a conference for 'the designers, coders, artists, writers, thinkers and, above all, the players who are making the 21st century the century of the game'.

Terry O'Mahoney joins us today as a Print Producer and Workflow Manager.

Today we set Suwappu loose in the world with this film. Deer, Badger and friends are a range of characters, and a new augmented reality toy concept. You can read more here.

We've been holding a bake sale at Dentsu London in aid of the Red Cross's Japan appeal. We like to call it Baking Future Magic.

Who started this week as our new producer. She joins us from BBH.

Donations for the relief effort can be made directly to the Red Cross. A Voices from Japan website has also been developed as a way to connect the rest of the world to what the people of Japan are seeing, hearing and feeling in the wake of this disaster, and to offer all of us tangible, immediate ways to help. 

We're excited to announce that we will be working with Urbanscale to produce a series of white papers that will identify, establish and promote best practices in urban interaction design. Urbanscale was founded in 2010 by Adam Greenfield to bring a user-centred approach to urban interfaces.

Chris will be hosting a molecular gastronomy session at Interesting on 18th June 2011 at the Conway Hall in London.

Beeker will be talking about Making Future Magic at the APA, Contagious and IPA conference, The Future of Advertising … in one afternoon on 17th March.