Last week, the Ladbury team sped up to Cambridge to meet a rather remarkable feline character, who’s fast becoming the talk of Cambridgeshire county. Cinder the cat is the latest digital delight from design studio Umbrellium Spawned from the searingly brilliant mind of creator Usman Haque, founding partner of Umbrellium, Cinder the cat embodies all…
As society’s need and desire for technology continues to evolve and expand, robots will inevitably play an ever-increasing role in our lives. Being There is a four-year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which brought together five collaborative teams of researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge…
I wanted to just record a few impressions of this unusual and imaginative festival. Yes, there were the big names – Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The Early Opera Company and the magnificent Philharmonia Orchestra – all duly appreciated and received with enthusiasm. However, for me it was the unknown, untested, more obscure events featured at this…
The sun is shining brightly on Arnold Circus in Shoreditch, East London. But today there’s even more colour in the air than you’d expect from a regular Summer Sunday – and the palette is a vibrant mix of reds, blacks, greens and yellows. Beneath the elevated bandstand, the crowd filling the street are throwing some…
As workingwomen, we tend to give 100% of ourselves to our work. Maybe we want to prove that we can deliver? Or we are so passionate about our work that we cannot stop working? I guess it is a mix of both for me. And over the years, I have realised that even if my…
I remember writing for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November last year, where we highlighted the ever-shocking stat that 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. And there was a clear fact: men confuse manhood with violence and control….
At 6pm on a Tuesday evening in London, the sun finally broke through the rainclouds that had been haunting the city since dawn and illuminated the cobbled, labyrinth that is Soho. It was at this time that the country’s foremost wine ahfficiandos began to filter into the iconic Ronnie Scott’s for what turned out to…
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival 2016 is underway and the Ladbury team have been having a ball.The festival kicked off with a splendid opening ceremony event where Maori culture was at the heart of the celebrations. Whakatuwhera, was held in Salisbury Cathedral Close, which drew on the Maori welcome powhiri and the arts of…
Music is probably the most instinctive and accessible art form with its ability to resonate through our body and directly impact the soul, providing a sense of freedom and belonging. So when our client, leading Tech for Good investor Nominet Trust – who fund awe-inspiring projects to improve lives and communities through digital technologies –…
“It continues to surprise me how often, when I step onto a set, people say it’s good to have a woman directing; but it probably shouldn’t. The latest set of statistics published by Directors UK show that films are six times more likely to be directed by a man than a woman. My latest film,…
We are very proud to welcome The Saint Emilion Jazz Jestival as our new client. The Festival just unveiled its programme for 2016 set amidst the fine wine region of this ancestral city in South West France Celebrated American jazz composer and bass player Marcus Miller will open this year’s Saint-Emilion Jazz Festival at Parc Guadet,…
The Click Effect is a live-action, immersive VR experience following two renegade marine science researchers as they attempt to freedive a hundred feet below the ocean’s surface in a single breath to capture the “click” communication of dolphins and sperm whales – the world’s largest predators. It is one of the first VR films to be shot almost entirely underwater and includes…
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