This is very cool. A retail product installation where Augmented Reality meets Holographic Illusion to create a beautiful visual fusion in 3D. Created by a company called RealFiction, it’s being billed as the next big thing for product product demonstrations and even architecture. (via Nic)
Continue reading...20. April 2010
I’m sure a lot of you are like me, you’re building web apps week in week out, and one of the hardest things to do is realistic performance testing, identification and evaluation. The app is built, it’s working, and your loading it to see how it performs, you’ve noticed a little lag, but you can’t always see if [...]
Continue reading...19. April 2010
This presentation by Tom Scott at Ignite Week in March has to be one of the best I’ve seen from Ignite Week. This is a 5 minute video you really want to take the time to watch, make sure you are uninterrupted, complete with headphones on or speakers up, then Simply enjoy!
Continue reading...19. April 2010
The AdAge 2010 Digital conference has just been and gone, with it came a few fantastic presentations that I hope to post over the coming week, so to kick them off, here is a great pres from Ashley Ringrose who runs BannerBlog, on The 6 Foundations Of Great Digital Creative. I thought this was a [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2010
I didn’t get a chance to post this last week, so if you haven’t yet seen the keynote presentation from Steve Jobs on the new Apple iAd platform that will be brought in with iPhone OS4, then here it is! Mobile advertising has been pretty clunky from day 1, but I think this platform will finally allow mobile [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2010
Google Earth has just launched a new hi-res 3D version of New York City by utilising better textures and higher detail models to improve the quality of New York City in Google Earth. You’ll now see shop fronts, residences, sidewalks, parks and hi-rise towers in much greater detail! Google has also posted a Full HD [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2010
Here is an interesting, award winning typo-animation by a Dutch design studio called Studio Smack. It aims highlight how advertising has become almost invisible in our day to day lives, to achieve this, they’ve created every scene in black, with only advertising and attention seeking elements highlighted in white.
Continue reading...15. April 2010
If you’ve not yet tried the new Netvibes social dashboard, it’s about time you did! It’s a great app that lets you dashboard just about anything on any topic, blogs, twitter, feeds, websites, news, keywords, photos, and just about anything you can think of. It lets you choose to pull content from almost all the [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2010
This is a very cheeky and very well executed guerrilla marketing campaign from Ogilvy Brazil. It’s called The $73,000 Bar Tab, and what Ogilvy Brazil did (with Bar Aurora & Boteco Ferraz) was to add itemised emergency service elements to each bar tab, generating some serious instant impact before people left the bar to go [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2010
This video of the Alice In Wonderland eBook for iPad is visual proof of how apple will kill the kindle and probably all paper based books over the coming years. Yes, it’s a big call from someone who reads 99% non-paper material, but I’m sure after you watch this video you’ll see the very start [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2010
I thought I’d feature this new campaign by Unicef Australia to raise some awareness (and hopefully donations) for Malaria prevention. It kills a child every 30 seconds. One of UNICEF’s major contributions in helping combat malaria is the provision and distribution of insecticide treated nets, the most effective protection against malaria. The best part is, that these nets are [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2010
Fancy a weekend at the Cannes Film Festival? Well if you’re the 5th cousin of Jacques d’Azur you might be in for an all expenses paid trip, or, more likely if your lucky enough to win the major prize in this new Stella Artois competition, created by Mother London + Unit9. The King Of Cannes [...]
Continue reading...11. April 2010
Ogilvy have launched this fantastic campaign for themselves that doubles as a recruitment drive and social competition. It’s called the Search For The Worlds Greatest Salesperson, and it’s running exclusively on their YouTube channel. All you have to do is sell a brick. Yep, the top few people who can upload the best video of how to [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2010
This is a great demonstration of how technology in interactive billboards is pushing further ahead as big brands realise the potential to improve communication through digital. This billboard is part of IBM’s “smarter planet” campaign that aims to highlight the importance of smarter technology systems in business. In this instance, it’s the perfect demonstration of how colour [...]
Continue reading...9. April 2010
This is a very cool short film from By Patrick Jean called Invasion Pixels. It’s new world meets retro pixel game in an invasion of earth, a great piece of eye candy in under 3mins! (thanks Mitch)
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20. April 2010
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