Archive for 2012
The brand spanking new Cracking Ideas competition has just launched! Hot on the heels of the recent Wallace & Gromit innovation for sport competition comes the Cracking Ideas brand new challenge for 2012 – 2013 based around one of the creative duo’s favourite subjects … SPACE. This year the Intellectual Property Office has teamed up [...]
… next week we’ll be spilling the beans in full about the brand new Cracking Ideas venture. We just wanted to give you a little bit of advance notice so you could prepare yourselves. What’s top secret and all hush-hush at the moment won’t be under wraps for much longer. Watch this space … we [...]
To celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2012, (which is April 26) the clever boffins at the IPO have created a shortlist of some of the most well known and successful contemporary British ‘Visionary Innovators’ and they want you to vote for your favourite. Have a look at who has made it on the list and [...]
Hey Everyone Easter weekend is just around the corner and there’s just time to send our best wishes to everyone. From the Team at Cracking Ideas HQ, we sincerely wish you Happy Easter, Happy Spring, Happy Holiday or just plain and simple Happy Weekend! Whatever you get up to make sure you have a cracking time. In [...]
Today’s the first day of Spring so what a fabulous time to announce a fresh new development for Cracking Ideas. As you know the Intellectual Property Office sponsored exhibition ‘Wallace & Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas’ has just shut its doors after a very successful spell in Newcastle. However, do not despair as moves are being made to bring some of the legacy of [...]
The vital statistics for ‘Wallace & Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas’ are in … and, they’re looking good! The Intellectual Property Office sponsored exhibition closed its doors at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre for the last time on 22 January concluding its tour of three of the top UK Science venues and visitor attractions. [...]
Today, the 7 Feb, sees the bicentenary of the birth of one of the UK’s most prolific and well known novelists: Charles Dickens. You may know him because of books you read (or are reading) at school or from one of the stage adaptations his work has spawned like ‘Oliver’ but did you also know [...]
Hello Everyone and hello to February too! ‘Pinch, punch first day of the month, white rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit’ and all that! As we launch into 2012′s shortest month (although 29 days, not 28 this year as it’s a leap year) have you ever wondered what these sayings involving bunnies and encouraging us to [...]
Wow! What a lot of cracking Gromits there were, made by the creative bunch at the fabulous model making workshop hosted by Aardman‘s head modelling honcho and all round good egg Jim Parkyn on Saturday. The ‘grand day out’ took place at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre as part of the send-off for the Intellectual Property Office sponsored ‘World [...]
Hello and welcome to 2012. Wow what a year 2011 was! Hope everyone had a cracking break and is ready for a fabulous new year brimful of fresh innovations; creativity crammed with loads of making and brand-spanking new inventions. Rest assured at Cracking Ideas HQ we’ll be with you all the way! Whether you’ve resolved to [...]
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