Year: 2009
November
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Block winter '09 update
Yes, it’s been a while, but we’ve been busy godammit. Read more
September
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Block and Penguin Books announce the launch of 6of3.com
The pan-galactic, pan-publisher website promoting the autumn publication of ‘And Another Thing …’, by Eoin Colfer, the sixth book in the ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy, is launched. Read more
August
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Hitchhiker's global site causing a buzz
Our new collaboration with Penguin Books is causing a stir online – building up anticipation for the launch of the global site in September. Read more
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Penguin join forces with Block Interactive
Block Interactive has beaten leading digital agencies to secure a contract with Penguin to create a pan-galactic, pan-publisher website which will promote the autumn publication of ?And Another Thing ?’, the sixth book in the increasingly inaccurately named ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy. Read more
June
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Tennishead add another string to their bow / racket
See what we’ve done there… Tennishead have expanded their range of products by releasing the first issue of the Tennishead Magbook, bursting with brilliant photos of the nation’s favourite players and stuffed full of great features to read. It’s another result of the burgeoning relationship with us here at Block. Chuffed. Read more
May
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Block Interactive featured in Computer Arts
Block Interactive have been featured in this month’s issue of prestigious creative showcase magazine Computer Arts. Read more
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Quantic commissions Block to design website
Block have been asked by one of the most talented and prolific artists in the world of alternative dance music to produce a media-rich site enabling him to communicate with fans worldwide from the comfort of his tour bus. Read more
April
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The Block Les Awards
Every so often during our travels on the interweb we come across work of such magnificent wrongness that we are struck down with awe. Work of such wrongness has come to be know as ‘Les’ round these parts, after the legendarily wrong comedian Les Dawson. Read more
March
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Google Street View hits Bristol
Well-implemented technology never ceases to impress me, usually regardless of what it is, and I’ve just been delighted to discovered that our knackered old camper van is on display in Google Maps Street View. Read more
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Creating a cult Dummy
Bristol-based creative digital agency Block Interactive have launched a new online magazine for Dummy, the cult music quarterly from the founders of Jockey Slut. Read more
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The Broadsheet vs Broadband Debate
It’s official – more and more people are choosing to get their news and journalism fix online. This trend has major repercussions for traditional publications, so much so that the London School of Economics have recently held round table debates featuring eminent figures from the media world to debate the question ‘is digital journalism the new black (and white)?’. Read more
January
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Viral head replacement trend
Sleeveface, is, it has to be said, well, awesome. Carl Morris was merely bored when he held the cover of an old vinyl copy of “McCartney II” up to his face while playing records at a club in Cardiff, England, making it appear as if the former Beatle’s heavily mulleted head had briefly replaced his own. Read more
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New Tobacco Factory studio
We?ve just moved into our brand spanking office in the wonderful Tobacco Factory. Its a lovely building to be in, and we?re surrounded by a wide range of talented creative bods we look forward to working with on future projects. Read more
