A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Other stars are visible from Earth during the night (when they are not obscured by fog or smog for example), appearing as a multitude of twinkling lights due to their immense distance.

Next week we will be looking at the Sun, but not the newspaper of course

FoodBev Awards is an online award that not only looks at the best in food and beverage but also in social media with categories such as best brand redesign, best social media campaign and best website.

The Bloom London website was designed and created by our skilled designer, Jake, in late 2011. We wanted the site to represent Bloom as the credible, bright and passionate branding agency that they are.

Check out the website in it’s glory.

A video of all the awards given can be found here. Fast forward to 9 minutes 10 to see the Best Website award.

To see our original showcase of this website, it’s here

Magazine.tm is a dynamic news platform on Twitter for the creative industry. It features the biggest stories in marketing, design, technology, advertising and PR , the best campaigns and breaking news – discovered and recommended by thousands of industry experts, designers, coders, journalists and agencies.

We’ve used storify to show you the best, quickly and easily;

UBelly Ignite gives anyone the opportunity to take to the stage and talk about a topic that they are passionate about but only for 5 minutes. It was great to see how people were able to condense their talks into that time with only 20 slides.

Thin Martian were in attendance and took some photos to give you a taster:

Andrew Spooner from Microsoft talking about mobile phones in his presentation entitled “The New Shiny Shiny”:

The audience watching a presentation:

Check out the official UBelly website for more upcoming events or to leave your own comment go to their official Twitter feed @ubelly

His presentation “Are you listening? Real Time Measurement and Monitoring,” looked into how using social media can give you daily insight into your marketing wins. It also touched on the benefits of using a social presence, which can add value to a campaign, and also improve the overall Return On Investment (ROI).

If you want to see the entire presentation, check it out here. To find out more tweet @killdozer or email us at info@thinmartian.com

Profile of: Wright, S

Full name: Sarah Wright
Nickname: Don’t have one!
Job title: Studio manager
Current Project: Setting up our new project management system
Favourite Task: Looking after Martians
Favourite Childhood Cartoon: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (the 90′s one)

Check out Sarah’s brilliant photography here and find out even more on our A Team page

Next week we look into the file of Jeremy Crocker White

First up this week is a guy we’ve talked about lots due to his amazing animation for Microsoft Visio! Its Adam Crowley:

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Full Name: Adam Edward Crowley
Nickname: Crowl-dog
Job Title: Lead Designer (Click for a cool cartoon showing the relationship with developer and client)
Current Project: Site Development
Favourite Task: Creating Animations (see the awesome one he’s done recently for Microsoft Visio on our home page)
Favourite childhood Cartoon: Cities of Gold. (Watch the intro here if you don’t remember it)

Next week we look into the file of Sarah Wright.

Thin Martian’s Andrew Walker is going to be presenting “Are you listening? Real Time Measurement and Monitoring” and will, amongst other things be looking into how using social media can give you daily insight into your marketing wins and the benefits of using a social presence in order to add value throughout a campaign and to improve the overall ROI

We caught up with Andrew to find out more about his speech and to gain more detail on what to expect from him on the night.

Andrew is not the only one to look out for. This day is packed full of fascinating speeches and panels which explore all aspects of the Social Media realm. If you would like to attend, click here to go to the official Social DNA website to register for tickets.

Make sure to check out our post event blog to gain all the back stage news and pictures.

Andrew is co-founder of Tweetminster and Thin Martian.

M Bot from Thin Martian on Vimeo.

Visio 2010 gives organisations advanced diagramming tools to help them simplify complex real-time business data presenting them as easy to understand diagrams. Regardless of your position in an organisation, Visio allows you to optimise business processes and share them.

Thin Martian’s response to the brief was to tell the story of those in need of Visio, ultimately, the people that will buy the product. Blending our key approach of combining fun, creativity and technology, we sought to bring the product to life through humour, engaging design and cutting-edge animation techniques.

To create the animation we worked closely with the Visio team, storyboarding a targeted message about who needs the product, what problems they face and how Visio 2010 solves them. To ensure a unique look and feel we ran the Visio brand through, alongside the bright and bold visualisations of the product itself, and semi-illustrated real-life characters.

Blending semi-3D illustration with 3D physics-driven model animation, the result is a compelling style that drives the humour and flow of the story. We hope you enjoy the story of the Mbot corporation and it’s evolution from chaos to success, all thanks to Microsoft Visio 2010.