GE #IWantToInvent
To celebrate Inventors Day (February 11) GE is taking invention ideas from Twitter users, using the #IWantToInvent hashtag and then turning the best into quirky blueprints, in real time. Check out the...
View ArticleFacebook Emoticons by…Pixar
Love Pixar. Love Facebook. Love that the two are combining to blow out this set of sketches into a full range of emoticons. Full story over at PSFK.
View ArticleRadar DDB 10am One Thing: Nike #GiveMeTheBall
The following is this week’s Radar DDB 10am One Thing that I wrote for the DDBlog. Despite my best efforts, I couldn’t persuade the group to vote for a moonwalking shetland pony. Even if the results...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Sunset – The Outrage
Today Google announced it was sunsetting (retiring) the RSS feed reader, Google Reader, a service I use everyday. On the same day that a new pope was announced, this news overtook it as the top...
View ArticleOMD – Oh My Disney
After rapid expansion into Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the other social media, I’m definitely sensing a trend for brands, and especially media companies, to retrench by trying to own their own words...
View ArticleRadar DDB 10am One Thing: Social Money
The following is this week’s Radar DDB 10am One Thing that I wrote for the DDBlog. TV, newspapers, human resources, taxis and hotel rooms. So many industries have been and continue to be disrupted by...
View ArticleThe Most Important Lesson from Mad Men
I was a late comer to Mad Men, having actively resisted watching for years, despite what my colleagues and Twitter feed were telling me. Honestly, the opening scene and underlying anti-Semitic,...
View ArticleGetting from No to Yes
This inspiring story of getting from no to yes, by Gideon Amichay is courtesy of Matt Eastwood on the DDB blog. Gideon started his presentation by walking DDB’ers through his persistent effort to get a...
View ArticleVodafone’s The Kiss
The UK has always produced great advertising, especially what I would call brand-level work that is supposed to create an emotional connection with the consumer. I really enjoyed this piece from...
View ArticleOffice Etiquette
This, and many other wonderful posters on office etiquette can be found on Shortlist.
View ArticleLurpak Celebrates The Cook
Brilliantly framed food porn from Lurpak. And Fantastic stuff from Wieden+Kennedy.
View ArticleStatistics, Lies and Damned Lies
A few months ago an eminent Swedish Professor was on TV talking about statistics. In the interview, he casually pointed out that in Sweden, the average number of legs was 1.99 recurring. When the host...
View ArticleRemaking Classic Ads with Social Media Add-ons
Integrating social media into the traditional advertising industry has not been without it challenges but for the main, it has been embraced enthusiastically…sometimes too enthusiastically. The...
View ArticleConnectivity Holds Us in Captivity
A very smart set of ads from Brazil caught my eye and encouraged me to walk, nay run, outside. This is my favourite: Its so true that it is almost a cliche now. That the hyper-connectivity we enjoy...
View ArticleEpic and Honest Ad for Mobile Homes
The truth is stranger and more compelling than any fictional construct a creative team could have come up with.
View ArticleMartin Sorrell on the Changing Media Landscape
Buy less print, more TV, more radio and a dollop of digital/social says WPP CEO. Some interesting quotes on where Sir Martin Sorrell sees the future of media. Even more interesting that he was talking...
View ArticleThe Internet Keeps on Giving
In this case, words. Here are the top 10 words or phrases that originated from the web: Avatar Hashtag The “Scunthorpe” Problem – otherwise known as “why is this in my spam folder?” Trolling Memes Spam...
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