This was hip-hop for hippies, centred on good times, creative culture, humour, peace, harmony and pleasant politics, combining pop, R'n'B and even country music to get its point across.
From the moment we started to make Shirley's work available to our clients, it has proven perfect for both editorial and creative purposes, offering humour, social history and the innocence and joy of youth, set against a backdrop of a rapidly changing world.
From crispy croquetas de jamón (ham croquettes) to mini burgers with a powerful mustard kick, Estado Puro's take on 21st-century tapas is modern, creative and full of humour.
The concept was to incorporate humour and creative designs to give a glimpse of the world of microbes and their impacts in human health and disease.
Buy it for £16 at bookshop.theguardian.com Gail Parminter, creative director, Madwomen Simplicity and humour make this poster successful.
"The creative elements needed to produce humour are strikingly similar to those characterising the cognitive style of people with psychosis – both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder," said Professor Gordon Claridge from Oxford University's department of experimental psychology.
The test measures 32 criteria of creative thinking, from fantasy and humour to emotional expressiveness.
Many, however, did not understand his outrageous humour or his more creative works, and he soon earned a reputation as "the bad boy of modern dance".
The new attitude drew on a vein that was comic, poetic, and fantastic, exploring an irrational quality akin to humour inherent in the creative process itself, as well as on a reserve of ironic detachment.
So far, this looks like an interesting diversion, but Toys For Bob will need to inject a heck of a lot of humour and provide a creative palette that moves beyond interchangeable character parts to recapture the interest of consumers.
