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If it touches a nerve, makes us smile, or triggers an idea, we're putting it in here. Our portfolio might have given you a taste of what our work looks like, but our blog's where you'll find out what makes us tick.

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My new favorite thing…Instagram

Many of you have heard of Instagram (or even used it). Everyone else however may be asking “What’s Instagram?”. Before I go in to telling you why I love Instagram, I’ll explain what its’ all about. Instagram is a photo-sharing app that is on (at the time of writing this) the iPhone. Mostly this is [...]

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By Ash
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Back in the game…

Back in January I was invited by a friend to train with Solihull Town FC. This was a very exciting but nervous event for me as I haven’t played football in about 8 years! Almost 3 months in, and training is going well. Lots of banter, Messi style trickery, bruises and goals have been scored, [...]

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By Si
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Helping Morsø make an exhibition of themselves!

The Morsø stand

We’ve just got back from our latest exhibition where we designed the graphics for a stand for Morsø UK at EcoBuild, held in March at ExCel in London. It was billed as ‘the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment and the UK’s largest construction event of any type’. Wow – great to [...]

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By Cloud 9
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Sunny, retro, skate videos (with lens flare)

Sunny, retro, skate videos (with lens flare)

      Okay – The more you know us here at Cloud 9, the more you will know how much I (Mike) love all things surf & skate. Penny Skateboards recently ran a neat contest for filmmakers to create a promo video for them. Although I started writing this blog entry to highlight the [...]

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By Mike
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A design/build competition to develop the ultimate MODERN utility bike: BIKE CRAFT. DESIGN. INNOVATION

Here at Cloud 9 we just love our bikes. No matter what kind of rider you are, there’s a bike for you. Although most of us have mass produced cycles, it’s the smaller bike builders that get the heart racing (or jumping – depending on your thing). Got something for a cheeky little bike builder?Tell [...]

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By Mike
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Congratulations to Ash and Lyns

We would like to say ‘Big Congratulations’ to Ash and Lyns who got married on the 10th September. The C9 team headed for Devon for the big day and a great time was had by all. The church and reception were in a beautiful location and the bride and groom looked rather fab! It’s a [...]

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Twitter adds new image gallery feature

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What? 
So we know that Facebook allows us to easily add images to galleries and share them to our friends, but Twitter has always stayed true to it’s minimalist structure and purely been a way of telling people what we are doing via short text based updates or ‘tweets’. You could argue third party applications such as [...]

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By Si
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What are QR codes and how can I use them for my business?

example of a qr code

QR codes (or Quick Response codes) have been around for a while and arrived here via Japan, where they are very common place. It’s not been until the massive uptake of smartphones in recent years however that we have now started to see them used in the UK. Will your customers use them? Usage numbers [...]

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By Ash
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Awkward timing for new Levi’s ad

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Levi’s has released the latest ad in its Go Forth series of spots. The campaign is centred around youthful freedom, usually of the semi-naked-in-nature variety, but this spot also features kids fronting up to riot police, scenes the brand no doubt didn’t actually think would be happening when they released the spot… Titled Legacy – [...]

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By Mike
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Move, Eat, Learn

Move, Eat, Learn

I came across these three short videos. Not only are they great videos, but they also make me want to see more of the world, and all the great things in it. Their words… 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all [...]

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By Ash