Whether your local high street has been ransacked, your neighbour's car has been torched or your sat at home watching the news in leafy suburbia, it has been hard to escape the riots in England these past few days. Cityscape's now look like war zones and social media sites have erupted in a frenzy of activity. The destruction is deplorable, disgusting and down right stupid. But out of the ashes of adversity, rises creativity. Here is a collection of some of the best creative work to come out of all the destuction.
One creative piece that has gone viral on Twitter is a cartoon strip that pretty much sums up the events. Due to the odd naughty word, you can't see it displayed here but the link to illustrator Jamie Smart's work is here
Whilst the cartoon portrays the lunacy of the riots, this shocking image shows how good photography can really depict the severity and reality of a situation. The image found its way on to the front page of numerous newspapers and will remain synonymous with the incidents for years to come.
Whilst some some photographers captured the destruction, others along with their journalist counterparts were attacked and mugged. As anyone interested in photography will know, a camera is an expensive bit of kit, especially when it is your livelihood. Although I'm sure a broken or stolen camera was the least of their worries.
For some creative industries, the riots have added fuel to their fire, allowing artists, photographers and film makers to illustrate the nations disbelief at what is going on. Although the situation for one advertiser has meant they've had to prevent their creative work from going on television. Levi's Jean were just about to embark on a campaign that depicted riots in the spirit of their 'rebellious' jeans but decided to withdraw
the adverts. Read more here
However the most creative work has to be awarded to those who have started a movement, utilised through social media, to gather and reclaim the streets with clean up operations. Digital Media is so powerful in 2011 that "The revolution will not be televised...it will be tweeted".
Keep Aaron Cutting was developed by 3 interns at advertising agency BBH London. Barbershop owner Aaron arrived at his shop on Sunday morning to find the shop he had built up over 40 years smashed up. The campaign aims to keep Aaron in business using donations.
This is London is a website created by Digital Agency Dare. It contains images of people pulling together to clean up, like the one above. It restores a little bit of faith in humanity.
If only the riots were inspired by a particular Banksy piece...
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