b-uncut, the leading crowdsourcing platform for artists, today launched a revolutionary artists’ store. It takes the already popular concept of a museum shop to a whole new dimension by offering hundreds of popular consumer goods products such as clothing, housewares, gadgets, cards, posters and more each designed with original art from b-uncut’s crowd of emerging, [...]

blur Group is a leader in crowdsourcing, operating a cluster of crowds that span the creative industries including art, innovation, marketing, design and media. blur Group fuses focused crowdsourcing with social media tools and techniques to differentiate itself in the marketplace. We spent the last few years designing architectures, platforms and processes for premium ‘freelance’ crowds and crowdsourced companies. Our definition [...]

P Diddy spoke with Mashable about his perspective on artists need to develop and control their personal brands on and offline – inc social media. “Before, it was just at live shows, now you have to be able to do a great live show, you have to be able to do a great online interview, [...]

At blur Group we talk about our passion for focused crowds. When we look at other crowdsourcing initiatives such as Threadless or Wikipedia we are all impressed by the number of people participating and joining every day. But these are large, one off projects and supporting crowds. Photo by Ma1974 via Flickr Does Size matter [...]

5 videos you should watch to really get Crowdsourcing. Enjoy! 1. Overview Crowdsourcing from Aitor Bediaga on Vimeo. 2. Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing 3. Jeff Howe on the role of Incentives in Crowdsourcing Jeff Howe on the role of incentives in crowdsourcing from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. 4. Ory Okolloh on Crowdsourcing Ory Okolloh, [...]

blur Designs has started work on b-uncut’s Merchandise store. Wearable, drinkable, usable art!

Our life is crowdsourcing – but crowd learders need a home too. Here’s ours.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rMECjbAj8SE" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] blur Designs starts work on it’s next Human Brand™

blur Group’s crowdsourcing platform for the art world has just launched a programme of art tours. Initially to Italy, these tours are for artists and art lovers and set in Rome, Florence and Le Marche. blur Group has spent the last 2 years building a sizable crowd of quality, emerging artists from around the world [...]

Photo by boskizzi via Flickr Building our crowd is a fundamental daily activity of blur Marketing. Identifying a focused crowd of talented people is no easy task. Talent is sometimes present in the so called amateur, which is increasingly beating the professional. We are currently building an army of talented marketing people, regardless of their [...]

blur Group has recently launched blur Designs which is a design agency for business and human brands™. blur Designs was architected to change the old stagnant design agency approach. ‘We’re cutting out the crap’, which enables us to give you outrageous value without compromising on quality. We’re crowdsourced, so we have a focussed, hand picked [...]

Photo by victoriapeckham via Flickr At blur Group we pride ourselves in bringing together the best of breed crowds to deliver very specific projects. We reiterated it recently and the New York Times published a great article on the topic. Worth a read.

Westbourne Studios is blur Groups’s new casa. Here’s a preview of our awesome shared facilities.

blur Designs is starting to break the design agency world with it’s latest website, focusing on cutting the crap out of agencies. blur Designs are a crowdsourced design agency changing the game combining outrageous value with breakthrough vision and pace. With our latest website we focus on our innovative 1,2,3 system which takes any company [...]