Inspiring work from 2011

It’s been such a busy year that I’ve found it impossible to post regularly, so here’s a round-up of just some of the business/brand/communications/design ideas that caught my eye in 2011.
1. O2 Academy TV
Having recently become a Dad, it’s been difficult to get out to see many gigs in 2011. O2 Academy TV has been [...]

More interactive music videos please

Talk of the town in the past couple of weeks has been Arcade Fire and Google’s inspired interactive music experience - The Wilderness Downtown.

Set to the band’s track “We Used to Wait”, the project is not only a showcase for Google Chrome, Streetview, Maps (and HTML5), but is also a very nice example of how [...]

Sketch2Photo

Not sure I totally agree with Devin Coldewey’s albeit “tentative” comment that this new technology from students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore appears “to be the greatest thing of all time” but it is undoubtedly very cool.

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
It will be interesting to see how this technology develops [...]

Creating Value from Nothing: Diamond Shreddies

Here’s a nice example of the use of marketing to create value out of nothing:

A brilliant way to create reconsideration for a 68-year-old brand.  Apparently the ‘fake news’ idea of turning squares into diamonds was originally a response by an intern to a client brief to redesign the back of the cereal box. The agency and Kraft realised [...]

The Next Wave of Social Networking from Google

Looking forward to having a play with this new communications platform from Google. Even at beta stage, it’s already massively hyped as the rival to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and possibly also Webex in the business community.
Put very simply, the platform is a type of live chatroom with a facility to share/amend/display documents to participants in real [...]