Learning from one’s peers is good Learning from creatives in other disciplines is even better at abrahams Is a forum to make this happen Occurs four times a year Brings together thinkers, doers and makers from the arts and sciences Is about creativity in the commercial world Is informal, informative […]
Mike Abrahams
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Mike Abrahams is an artist and designer. He established his eponymous studio in 1995 following 15 years working in large design companies for blue-chip clients. Keeping Abrahams deliberately small allowed Mike the freedom to work only with clients who shared a similar passion, vision and enthusiasm for making worthwhile work. […]
The Sackler Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum played host to the 15th atabrahams event entitled Against the grain. Art critic, writer and documentary maker Ben Lewis was chair for the evening. With great wit and his own unique take on the event’s theme, Ben marshalled an evening of […]
East Gallery on Brick Lane opened its doors to host the 14th at abrahams event, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Brilliant’. Jenny Wiggins, consumer industries correspondent for the Financial Times was Chair for the evening and six speakers, including a toy designer and a Master of Wine shared their […]
With convivial hospitality, Arup hosted the 13th at abrahams event at their new London offices in the heart of Fitzrovia. An eager audience packed into the building’s slick atrium for ‘Collaborleaders’. Our chair for the evening, Sophie Howarth, director and founder of the School of Life, reflected on her on […]
What better way to escape a bitterly cold December evening than the cosy environs of the Wellcome Collection’s members’ club for the 12th at abrahams to ask the tough, topical and necessary question: When is enough, enough? Before the event there was a chance to view the Wellcome Collection’s major […]
Nokia hosted our eleventh event ‘Back to the Future’. We took over the top floor of the design studio of one of the world’s most well known brands to ask the question is true creativity achieved by standing on the shoulders of giants or by ignoring all past precedents. Mark […]
It seemed fitting to explore ‘Lost in translation’ in a church. So we were delighted when Reverend Charles Headley offered us his parish church in the heart of Piccadilly, the Sir Christopher Wren designed St James. The eager audience was hushed in reverence while our speakers took their turns at […]
The newly opened Water House restaurant on Regent’s Canal Shoreditch was the choice of venue for our ninth event. Established by the award winning charitable regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust, the restaurant aims to be the most sustainable, ethical and community driven restaurant in central London, with all profits going […]
So just how do you judge something? Functionality, relevance, uniqueness, branding or reputation? We brought together a diverse group of creatives to ponder the process of judging and being judged. The event was held in the undercroft of the Banqueting House, Whitehall – a suitably grand setting and favourite drinking […]
Know your HSP90 from your Diagrid? Or your OLED from your RFID? No we didn’t either until we gathered again for the seventh at abrahams event, an evening of creative scientific investigation and performance in the unique setting of the former Georgian Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury. The evening kicked off […]
The 9-5’s over for another day. So what happens next? Do you go home and veg in front of the tv? Or has your day just begun? For the sixth at abrahams event we ventured beyond the daily working grind, gathering at the St Aloysius Social Club to seek inspiration […]
We Are What We Do is the movement co-founded by Eugenie Harvey and David Robinson and is based on the belief that people and their simple everyday actions can change the world. Lucy Siegle, ethical living columnist of the Observer Magazine and long time admirer of We are What We […]
We are fascinated by people with unconventional CVs and for this event we invited speakers from different professions to talk about going it alone. The event took place in No 1 Perren Street, a new private house remodelled from an early 20th century organ factory, with an exclusive tour of […]
It’s all very well to have a good idea. The real hurdle is turning that idea into reality. The third at abrahams event brought together a group of individuals who have turned concepts into reality and developed quantifiable marketable products. Gary Elliott of Elliott Wood Partnership was the engineer responsible […]
In their book “Big Ideas for Ambitious Brands”, Clemmow Hornby Inge describe how they turn good ideas into enduring advertising campaigns. We all remember the campaigns for Tango, British Gas and the Carphone Warehouse. The success of such ads has ensured notoriety for their clients and firmly established CHI as […]
Hosted at the Abrahams studio in Stoke Newington, North London, Collaboration as a suitable environment for creativity launched the atabrahams series during the London Design Festival 2005. Like-minded people from all walks of life crammed into the studio to engage in a lively debate and hear how a cool anglicised […]