Archive for April 2006

The Swedish ad awards have announced. Award winning ads can seen here (in Swedish). Check out the alternative media winners - so inspiring.

Contributed by Ozgur

Over on Squidoo, Russell has developed a ‘lens’ site with a focus on creative spaces - how, why, where, when:

“I’m fascinated by which environments make for creativity and ideas, especially for ‘business creativity’. Everywhere I’ve worked has been in the business of having creative ideas, but the spaces have been very different.”

“This lens is intended to be a round-up of my explorations of this stuff.”

Creative Spaces Lens

We’ve interviewed some fantastic interesting people over the last few weeks. Did you catch ‘em all? Here’s a list of them, just in case.

• Interview With Kevin Dulsky, Paypal Text To Buy - about the launch of the new service
• Interview With Philip Rosedale, Second Life - about opportunities for brands in the virtual world
• Interview With Richard Winkler, Curious Pictures - about the video game collaboration
• Interview with Jon Paley, DCODE - about a new structure for ad agencies
• Interview With George Murphy, Modo Group - about the importance of brand experience and his learnings from Coke/Starbucks
• Interview With Ze Frank - on creativity
• Interview With Sascha Lewis, Flavorpill - on the rise of the creative class
• Interview With Edwin Wong, Yahoo! Inc. - on a new approach to search engine marketing
• Interview With Eli Friedman, Xbox - on youth marketing
• Interview With Graham Hill, Treehugger - on green trends
• Interview With Josh Rubin, Cool Hunting - on trend spotting

Caff at Cup Of Java writes about how Norton’s Ad Blocking software stops users viewing sites that contain the term “ad” - such as ad-land or ad-rants.

Cup of Java

The University of Minnesota Design Institute’s new book ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a fundamental design process: “a powerful interdisciplinary strategy that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments.”

The book features 40 essays by writers from the U.S. and Europe, nearly 300 images, and several commissioned projects. The book’s four sections “juxtapose archival maps and experimental prototypes—opening up a new dialogue among disciplines.”

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

Scoble spots a device that surely one of you guys can use for your own campaign, trial or distribution. It’s a USB drive with a difference:

Turns out it fools my PC into thinking it’s a CD-ROM drive that auto starts.

This is a radical way to distribute test software. Why? Cause I unplug my key and any software I run disappears along with it (and any traces, including any temp files I’ve downloaded — I got the Maxthon browser on the key, for instance. As soon as I unplug it everything goes away, even registry entries).

Scobleizer Review
U3 Product Details

• Chery Swanson Trends Presentation (pdf)
• Do Companies Care About Consumer Insight?
• Saatchi & Saatchi, Now Bringing You Steaming Sh!t!
• Room 116 Gets A Little Frustrated With Samsung Campaign
• Netflix Mailer Evolution
• MAD! Crispin Controls All
• Simplicity & Selling Wine
• 7UP Curvy Campaign In India
• Piers Fawkes On Blogging

There’s a very interesting interview with Dickie B over on the Guardian. Highlights include where the exploration of the creation and sales of the various units within the Virgin brand umbrella. And check this Q&A:

How do you organise your day?

A third of my time promoting, a third on new ventures and a third on fighting fires.

What would you like your legacy to be?

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Reg over at WMMNA spots this interesting art show in Tokyo by belgian artist Eric Van Hove:

The recently installed X-CUBE© locker system will be hijacked to allow multiple users to exchange packages by using a touch screen and their cell phone numbers as digital-keys. The project simply substitutes the package with an artwork or installation

we make money not art: Locker art show