Sammi's leaving to go back to Uni!

I’ve had an excellent year at The Yard Creative. My skills and knowledge have tripled due to some fantastic teaching, time and effort that has been put in to making my Placement a success. I feel the London experience at The Yard has helped me to grow as a person and inspired me to go on to produce exciting, innovative, customer focused design.

The Yard has given me some great opportunities this year and I’ve had the chance to get involved in some really exciting projects from every aspect start to finish. I’d just like to say a big thank you to Steve and all of the team and wish them all the best in the future.

A new Breed

The first Breed store has opened in Covent Garden's Thomas Neals Centre opposite its older brother Superdry. Pitched as a younger, more streetwise brand, the store has kept the urban feel of the arched space with concrete floors and a black backdrop.

All of this allows the bold, striking clothing to do its thing and battle it out against each other to grab your attention. The store has a good feel to it. With urban music setting the scene and good merchandising it is a nice experience.

But you feel that it's lacking something unique. Especially when you look at the website and see the quirky locations of the fashion shoot - you almost want that power generator bang smack in the middle of the store! At least then it would have that 'white piano' - that one thing that everyone remembers and uses to tell their friends about this fantastic new store.

Hopefully the brand continues to do well and we'll see if they start to have as much fun with their stores as they do with their clothing.

All tie'd up

At times like these its hard to open your first store. But that hasn't stopped the newest tie concept store to hit the streets of London!

Peckham Rye has been selling ties to the rich and famous for 4 years and now they have opened their new store on Newbury Street. Just off Carnaby street, the small store is simply but effective with friendly staff on-hand to help out.

Past customers include Busta Rhymes, Dizzee Rascal, Terrance Conran, Bond and now some of the staff here at The Yard Creative!

Go have a look and let us know what you think. We'll be adding it to our What's New tours for sure!

www.peckhamryelondon.com

What's this? - futuristic, driverless pods straight out of Basildon...

So what's this all about?

Fantabulous looking pods driving themselves around with their own little brains to help us get from A to B, quicker, easier and in a more environmentally-friendly manner - sounds too good to be true!

As it turns out these 'Personal rapid transport pods' are the latest innovation in the Science museum's celebration of 100 years of transport and are being installed at T5 as the new way to get from car parks to terminals. They work using a complex array of lazers, sensors and complex calculations to ensure they get you from A to B quickly and safely.


Yesterday saw the first of its 3 day appearance at the Science Museum as part of a celebration of 100 years of transport. The pod is the last of the innovations in the exhibition and demonstrates how a little bit of abstract thought can revolutionise the way we live our lives.

Congratulations to those chaps over in Basildon for creating a piece of history!