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First rule of Flight Club

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We first learned about Flight Club — the brainchild of creatives Billy Worthington and Will Wells — when themed posters mysteriously started lining the halls of our agency last week. Each had fold lines which transformed the poster into a flying machine ripe for launching off the rooftop of our East London office.

Yesterday afternoon, a group went head-to-head to see whose plane would fly furthest, with creative Juan Sevilla emerging victorious during the Flight Club face-off. His paper plane creation travelled an impressive distance across Hanbury Street heading toward the Truman Brewery. We’re secretly told a sneaky Google search for “best paper plane design” may have led to his victory, but the feat was notable nonetheless.

Stay tuned for the next instalment of the group’s high-flying antics. First rule of Flight Club: always talk about Flight Club.

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Spore Fund: Art and Architecture in Hackney

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The Spore
Fund is £1,000 grant we award to someone in the building to pursue a personal creative project.
Thanks to the initiative, our own Alex Allcott has been able to work with a local Hackney School, the Skinners’ Academy, to offer an Architecture, Art and Design workshop in collaboration with STORE. These workshops are designed to challenge and inspire pupils to consider a creative further education or career.

This project entails that the students work together to create a modular seating unit for the school grounds, made of concrete nodes that slot together.
The pupils made the nodes from silicone moulds cast during the workshop, followed by assembling the seating. We’ll be sharing the final results of the project soon.
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Designing the nodes
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Preparing the concrete
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