Seb and I held a competition to see who could draw themselves as the best superhero. They were judged on effort, time, detail and style. Comment and let us know who you think would make the best superhero!!!!              

Being a very girly girl and loving everything pink, my curiosity grew when this morning I read that ‘priory to 1940’s boys were associated with pink and girls associated with blue’. This began my thinking in to why we insist on colour coding our babies and where these gender colour... [More]

Monday - Intro Party While every other student in town was going wild at the Intro party, I was getting a very different style of introduction. For my first solo job I was given the task of organising birthday presents for a client. I may not have been partying with rock stars, but I was bui... [More]

Hey, welcome to Fresh N Up’s new blog.   We are ‘Fresh N Up’…aka Seb N Katie. We are students spending a year in industry here at Outside the Box to learn the ropes and get an insight into the integrated marketing industry.   Each week we’ll be ... [More]

This is my fourth week as a work experience student/intern at outside the box, so far, so good. Not an ounce of photocopying in sight and yes, I’ve made cups of tea – but I’ve had them made for me too. When I first walked into the outside the box office I was warmed by its light ... [More]

So I was just reading this article on technologyreview.com about light-bending metamaterials and in amongst the amazing, wish-fulfilment, invisibility talk was this sentence: "Ultimately, Di Falco says, Metaflex could have applications such as manipulating light from an LED built into a contact len... [More]

It’s always playtime at OTB   It’s a big old fact that play allows your mind to relax and work more creatively. In the USA, on 18th September, it’s National Play-Doh Day and we couldn’t resist having a bit of creative fun ourselves! In between creating Outside the Box... [More]

Now then people... this is it!!! If you’re like the rest of us who thought the performance by the overpaid, under achieving set of ponses that are ‘England’ was a shambles, then you’ll be glad to know that more comedy is coming your way. The countdown to the OTB World Cup Pe... [More]

A technical round-up of April's shenanigans with Dan. [More]