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Merry Christmas from Splinter

Christmas is a time for thinking about loved ones who are missing and those digital fields that are forever Splinter.

Christmas by Colour

Woo hoo I made the final twelve colours for my ‘After Eights’ submission!

Last year Raw Design thought up the brilliant Christmas by Colour project which would donate all profits to the charity C.A.L.M. (Campaign Against Living Miserably). I like many others made a submission based on a colour that shaped my Christmas and was fortunate enough to be shortlisted.

This year Raw have evolved the award-winning campaign by taking 40 of their favourite colour submissions and asking the online community to vote for their favourites. This was then whittled down to the top 12 and produced into two sets of greetings cards. I received mine this morning and must say they are great and the perfect Christmas card to create a talking point on Christmas day.

The top twelve colours are as follows:

Quality Street (Guy Moorhouse)
Sprouts (John Dowling)
Yellow snow (Nick Greenwood)
Mulled wine (Tash Willcocks)
End of the Sellotape (Pete Clarke)
Park Lane & Mayfair (Jez Burrows)
Bank balance (Tom Heaton)
Granny’s whiskers (Jordan Nelson)
After Eights (Shane Phillips)
Bucks Fizz (Gil Cocker)
Pigs in blankets (Sean Rees)
Walking in the Air (Kelly Mackenzie)

You can get your packs of cards in the Christmas by Colour shop.

You can also find this project and more creative seasonal offerings on the Creative Review blog.

Culture24 and NML like my Mummy!

Thanks to Culture24 and National Museums Liverpool for recommending ‘Escape from the Mummy’s tomb!’ as a fun distraction for the little ‘uns this Christmas.

Splinter’s, and other online games, are reviewed at: Culture24

‘Escape from the Mummy’s tomb!’ can be seen all year round on the National Museums Liverpool site and Culture24’s schools site.

If you want to find out more about the game then check out the project page in our portfolio.

Splinter gets all festive

This year we’ve gone all out here at Splinter and treated ourselves to a studio tree! We have the lights, we have the tinsel… what else do you need? Well we discovered it’s possible to hole-punch a mini-card and make a decoration very quickly!!

So if there’s any illustrators out there who would like to have their work on Splinter tree then just post us one of your mini-cards (FAO Jon) and we’ll add it to the tree and post photos up here! The more the merrier! The first card features the work of the brilliant Project Detonate.

Keep Reading…

Liverpool’s Challenge scoops 4 awards!

Congratulations to Liverpool Primary Care Trust for winning 4 awards for their ‘Liverpool’s Challenge’ campaign (which we’ve been helping with!) The awards were:

• Chartered Institute of Public Relations – Best Public Sector Campaign
• Department of Health – North West Public Health Award
• NHS Communicate09 – Best Campaign
• Corp Comms – Best Public Sector Communication

What great recognition for their campaign which is helping so many of us across Liverpool. For more information please visit www.liverpoolchallenge.nhs.uk