Childhoods have been relived in the office this week when we received a link to a faithful online recreation of the famous Speak & Spell™. I still maintain that getting the right answers is more down to understanding the old-school silicon dialect than being a competent speller, but it’s nostalgia at its finest. Thank you, Texas Instruments!

All this week soon to be graduates, Shaun & Tom are doing some shameless self promotion, displaying themselves in a shop window. Their idea is “To collaborate, to use words, to interact, not just to design but to create. To be on constant show, to prove to the world that the creative mind is always doing”. We got in touch to say hello and they’ve done their own interpretation of our ’spark’ to spruce up their window display!  Keep Us Busy

Featured in this month’s computer arts is this Keyboard Calculator. Immediately retro, yet utterly futuristic, this calculator is USB enabled so can either be used via a computer screen or as a standalone regular calculator. Get one now from the Design Museum Shop

Andrew Brooks popped into the studio last week to show us his book of very impressive photographs, he told us about his current exhibiton at the Urbis, Hidden Manchester, a series a photographs taken from deep beneth the streets of Manchester. I went down to take a look, there’s  some amazing shots and it’s well worth a look if your passing by.

Way back in May last year we were asked to document a series of festivals over the summer, we kickstarted it all at Gatecrasher Summer Sound System, with the job in the archive, it was almost forgotten about, but we  got a nice email from Sam yesterday asking for a photo we took of him and his girlfriend. We were of course happy to help out and thought we’d share the rest of the photos with you. See the pics

Yet another big brother related post, what are the chances. This time we turn to Germany, Big Brother 9 is currently running in over there and one of the housemates, Marcel, is flying the flag for Creative Spark. We designed the logo for German rap group sSUTED VIBEz, friends of Marcel, and he’s packed his case full of sSUTED VIBEz goodies to wear in the house!