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Tag Archives: play
Coke’s Happiness Machine
A really lovely experience idea from Coca-cola. Just wish they’d been having ideas like this in the days when I was at university. Coke / Coca-Cola – The Happiness machine – (2010) 2:00 (USA) Via Adland TV
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Tagged adland, Application, brand, Coca-Cola, experience, Flash, Fun, happiness, ideas, play, Tools, Video, Viral
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All’s fare in love and transport
I recently had the pleasure of traveling North, and escaping the grime and congestion of London in favour of the…..errrr….grime and congestion of Manchester , in order to go and conduct a client presentation. When considering my journey, I flirted … Continue reading
Intangible value?
This week we were delighted to have Ogilvy supremo Rory Sutherland come in and share his recent TED talk discussing advertising and intangible value. Rather than me spending the next couple of lines wax lyrical about the things he had … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Video
Tagged 2009, Advertising, Application, Creative, Flash, Global, Ogilvy, play, Poster, Rory Sutherland, ted, TED talks, Twitter, Video, Work
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Is this the worst film ever made?
We all love great films; Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Toy Story and of course the Star Wars trilogy to name just a few. There are also terrible films, you know, the ones that scrape the barrel for plot, like Catwoman and … Continue reading
London: (anti) social media capital?
I was intrigued to read last week on The Telegraph website how London has been confirmed as being the ‘top city’ when it comes to social media. Twitter, Facebook and Digg have all confirmed that London has the highest level … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Blog, Conversation, Digital, facebook, London, Music, People, play, Social Media, ted, Twitter
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Laboratory
After the success of our make-it-yourself catalogue for last year’s Jerwood show ‘an experiment in collaboration’ (featured in the Creative Review annual, Design Week Awards runner up and winner of a Platinum award at Graphis) we were asked to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Design, User Experience
Tagged 2009, Application, Art, Awards, Blog, Catalogue, Collaboration, Comment, Creative, Design, Design Week, Designers, Flash, Flickr, Jerwood, Laboratory, play, ted, Twitter, Work
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Come rain or shine
There are somethings that you can guarantee about a British summer; Glastonbury will turn into a mud bath, there will be a hose-pipe band and Wimbledon will run into a third week. So far, none of these have come true. … Continue reading
Posted in Posters
Tagged Application, Art, facebook, Flash, GLA, People, play, Poster, Summer Party, ted, Work
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Student/Graduate Q&A
Following on from Greg’s post about how he got into design we decided to ask our two designers currently in charge of our placement scheme; Paul and Leon, about how students should go about applying for placements at design studios. … Continue reading
The Best Job In the World?
To encourage young designers from schools and colleges, our Creative Partner Greg Quinton was recently asked by D&AD to provide some pearls of wisdom in a personal take on having a career in design: You may have seen all the … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Architecture, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Portfolio, The Partners
Tagged 2009, Advice, Art, Business, careers, Creative, D&AD, DandAD, Design, Designers, Education, experience, Free, Graduate, Greg Quinton, People, play, Quinton, Shops, ted, The Partners, Work
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Raging bull
I just wondered, in the wonderland of Twitter, if there was something deep and meaningful to be said about so many of the 19 million people that watched the X-Factor final last weekend now buying the RATM track. I was … Continue reading →