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Open Planet Ideas wins The Guardian's Sustainable Communications Award

Congratulations to Sony, WWF, IDEO and the Large Blue team.

"How do you get the Facebook generation to really engage with sustainability and tap into their ideas for change? Sony's solution was an exciting crowdsourcing project called Open Planet Ideas..."

• – Read the article here

Wake up to clean Dutch design with our Wim Crowel clock

We have teamed up with the Design Museum and Spin to create an iPhone / iPad clock featuring the typeface of Dutch design legend Wim Crouwel.

• – Creative Review Blog
• – iTunes download

OpenIDEO wins a Webby

Our IDEO collaboration, OpenIDEO took the official nod for Best Community Website. Pats on the back all round!

Sony TVC

We've completed another TV commercial for Sony Europe. Shown on National Geographic, this live action piece follows the story of the designer of the Open Planet Ideas crowdsourcing challenge and how he was inspired to come up with his winning idea.

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Protecting Forests in Malaysia

We worked with the Forest Stewardship Council, setting up a video production and distribution unit in Malaysia to cover the FSC's General Assembly

• – http://www.fsc.org/

Not Another Nature Film

Judging by the YouTube comments, the film we produced to launch WWF's Living Planet Report is connecting with the target audience.

• – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-NEu0FXew

Open Planet Ideas

Building on the the success of the OpenIDEO platform, Sony have launched Open Planet Ideas. This crowd-sourcing tool engages the global community, working together to find solutions to today's environmental challenges. Watch this space to see the winning ideas as they develop...

• – http://www.openplanetideas.com

OpenIDEO Launched

Large Blue are as proud as we've ever been. Working with IDEO has been an inspiration and the collaboration platform we've developed looks like it will change the web forever. As Wired said about the launch "Changing the world is tiring work when you’re going at it alone." Well done team!

• – http://www.openideo.com

Institut Français leaps to future with Culturethèque

Today sees the launch of Culturethèque, the new digital platform we've created for the Institut Français. Culturetèque brings multimedia content including rare books, audiobooks, films and documentaries, to an online community who share a passion for all things French.

• – http://www.culturetheque.com

Hello blossom

Large Blue are developing an interactive tool for The Natural History Museum that helps people classify cherry trees. It will let users identify trees from the nine species of cherry tree most common to our shores, by answering a series of simple, visually led questions. Happy spotting!

• – View Natural History Museum website
• – View cherry tree key

Documenting forest protection

We have been commissioned by the Forest Stewardship Council to film their important work managing of the world's forests (you'll no doubt have seen the FSC logo on your wood products). First stop Brazil.

• – http://www.fsc.org/

Second Year of Ashden's commissions

After a highly successful first year producing films for the Ashden awards for sustainable energy, we have been re-commissioned to film the incredibly uplifting projects that are rewiring the UK for a green energy future.

• – http://www.ashdenawards.org/

Hat trick of awards won

We're officially great x 3: we won three coveted IVCA awards for our integrated digital meets video sites. We were also pretty great on the dancefloor after the awards. Sadly, no awards were picked up for the dancing, though.

• – Winners list

Francophile commission

Large Blue has been commissioned to created the brand and digital platform for Culturethèque - a new cultural
initiative from the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni. The Institut Français is the French cultural institute in the UK, and was founded in 1910 with the aim of promoting French artists and writers in this country.

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Filming Fauna and Flora

We've just finished a major video project filming across the globe for the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), a project made up of four international conservation organisations.  We filmed in Cambodia, Brazil and Kenya to chart some of the powerful human stories of the conservationists supported by the CLP.

• – http://www.fauna-flora.org/news_CLP_workshops.php

A recipe for digital and branding success

We've just cooked up a divine digital dish consisting of a starter of a new identity, closely followed by a main course of a tasty new website, for leading food and drinks PR firm, Phipps.

• – http://www.phippspr.com/

Film charts Sony climate initiative

Sony people and Sony technologies helped make the climate change mitigation ideas of a group of Californian school kids come alive. This film tells the story of the Forest Guards.

• – http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/eco/eco-initiatives/childrens-climate-call

New for Kew

Large Blue has been commissioned by Kew Gardens to produce an interactive pre-school animation. A chance to have great fun doing great work for a great audience (and client, but that would be way too many greats in one sentence).

• – http://www.kew.org/

New for Kew

Large Blue has been commissioned by Kew Gardens to produce an interactive pre-school animation. A chance to have great fun doing great work for a great audience (and client, but that would be way too many greats in one sentence).

• – http://www.kew.org/

Large Blue wins WWF Earth Hour commission

WWF International have once again commissioned Large Blue to produce an online TV platform, this time for its annual Earth Hour campaign; a campaign which encourages us all to switch off our lights for an hour.

• – http://www.panda.org/

Large Blue nets record haul

As the first two months of 2010 draw to a close, we've totted up our inventory of commissions for the year so far. The news is, we've averaged two commissions a week and all for great clients.

Hat trick of awards nominations

Large Blue has received three awards nominations by our industry body, the IVCA. The nominations are all for our integrated digital communications work, reflecting our strength across online, video and design.

• – http://www.ivca.org

WWF and Large Blue team up to cover UN Copenhagen climate talks

Large Blue has won the commission for "Inside COP15", an integrated video, web and social media campaign for WWF in the run-up and during the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December. Some jobs are good, some jobs are creative, this job is historically important.

• – http://www.panda.org

Design Museum video

Large Blue has been commissioned by the Design Museum to produce a series of films for the forthcoming exhibition by leading UK architect, David Chipperfield. These will be shown both as part of the exhibition and online on the Design Museum website.

• – http://www.designmuseum.org

Green TV nominated for Best Website

Large Blue's sister company, Green TV, was nominated for Best Website at the IVCA's ethical awards, the Clarion Awards.

• – http://www.green.tv

IVCA digital platform

Large Blue has been commissioned by the video, events and digital industry body, the IVCA, to build it's new digital platform. The website will showcase the UK's very best corporate films, websites, digital work and live events.

• – http://www.ivca.org

Design Museum

We're as proud as punch to have been chosen as the Design Museum's web agency: a real flagship feather in our digital cap. We look forward to producing some great work with them.

• – http://www.designmuseum.org

green.tv podcasts UK's no.1

Large Blue produced online TV channel, green.tv, is currently the UK's leading environment video podcast on iTunes, for its Technologies channel. green.tv is also the UK's 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th top podcast for its other six podcast feeds.

• – http://www.green.tv

Large Blue builds field guide iPhone apps

Large Blue's digital unit is building five iPhone apps for the Field Studies Council. The apps will see the FSC's extremely popular print field guides translated into a mobile interactive format.

Large Blue wins World Class Commission

Large Blue was commissioned by NHS World Class Commissioning to produce a major event film. Our creative lake ecosystem animation delivered a complex set of ideas in a highly engaging way. The audience response was effusive.

Boris makes a splash with Large Blue client

London Mayor, Boris Johnson, made a big splash yesterday with Thames21. Large Blue recently built the new Thames21 Lea River Park website. We're not sure if he fell in the river Lea...

• – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8083056.stm

15andCounting global sexual health campaign launches

15andCounting, a global campaign of sexual health NGO, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, launches today. We worked with Trimedia PR to build a decentralised digital campaign. The 15andCounting site connects up with popular video and social networking sites. Large Blue's expertise across design, video production, website production and social media strategy were all seamlessly employed.

• – http://www.15andcounting.org/

'Collabregation' with the Design Museum

The Design Museum has invited Large Blue to design a website and interactive map to feature at their 'Super Contemporary' exhibition, alongside works by Neville Brody, Paul Smith, Wayne Hemingway and other leading London designers.

The website, called the 'Collabregator', aggregates ideas and maps the collaborative design movement that's been taking shape in London. The project will be showing at the Design Museum from June 3rd.

If you'd like to see how you connect to London's design community, or have collaborated with designers in the past, then check out www.collabregator.net.

15andCounting reaches over 60,000 signatories in first month

The decentralised social media campaign, 15andCounting, has achieved over 60,000 names on the petition in the first month. The petition calls for governments to meet their commitments on sexual and reproductive health and is a campaign of the International Planned Parenthood Federation

• – http://www.15andcounting.org

Kew celebrates Darwin's 200th birthday

In recognition of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, Large Blue has produced a series of animated films for Kew Gardens and the Wellcome Trust. The eight educational films will be shown in schools right across the country.

• – http://www.kew.org/press/great_plant_hunt.html

Welcome to the new Large Blue site

Welcome to new Large Blue site. We've built the site around our aspirations for a new digital world, a world that provides clients with a unique opportunity to engage with their audiences in a way that combines emotive media with the potential for engagement.

green.tv enters top 10 U.S. podcasts

Large Blue's flagship online TV channel, green.tv, has entered the top 10 U.S. podcasts in Apple's Science channel.

• – www.green.tv

Green light for faster broadband

The BBC reports that BT has received the green light to begin its rollout of super-fast broadband.

• – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7919904.stm

MIP TV 2009

The National Film Board of Canada have asked Large Blue's very own, Greg Timms, to be a judge for a green interactive competition they are running at MIP TV in Cannes this week.

• – MIP TV