Music festivals. 10′s of thousands of young people. All there to listen to great music and meet new people. So at the Heineken Open’er Music Festival in Poland, they created a new way for people to create a conversation and connect with complete strangers… Introducing U-Codes, personalised QR codes that promote your desired message to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 26, 2011
This is another beautiful ad from Google. This time, it’s from Google India extending the “The Web is What You Make of It” campaign with a spot about Tanjore, an ancient Indian art form that seems to be fading away from the modern every day world. The ad tells the story of a Tanjore artist [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 20, 2011
It seems Augmented Reality projects are running hot this Christmas, and here is another example, this time for American Express, who’ve launched “Talking Tags”, a DM campaign where every American Express card holder was sent a “Talking Tag” that drove them to an Augmented Reality experience online. (created by the guys at Ogilvy Sydney) There [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Canal+ Borgia TV series is the world’s first 360 degree narrative that works seamlessly across your desktop, iPad and iPhone to provide a complete experience. The campaign has already picked up a number of awards, and aims to pull new viewers into the brand new show about a family worse than the Mafia, and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 27, 2011
It seems more and more brands are looking to create richer print ads. But I still find the innovation examples around it few and far between. So here is a great example of a brand trying something new in the Jewellery sector. This Interactive Print Ad is designed for a smartphone to be placed into [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 13, 2011
Well it looks like it’s going to be an Augmented Reality Xmas in 2011…With Macy’s the latest brand to release an AR app for the festive season. This time, it’s an Augmented Reality Xmas Card App, where you can turn up at any of the Macy’s “Believe Stations” to post your kid’s letters to Santa, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 7, 2011
Following on from a whole bunch of Augmented Reality posts this week, it seemed fitting to include this, the Parrot Carrot Safari, a very cool digital extension to a new Australian Kids book, in the form of an Augmented Reality iPhone app that lets kids interact and extend book’s content. The physical book tells the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 7, 2011
I think most of us have seen the “last standing” promotional challenge mechanic… Well, PlayStation and Uncharted have teamed up to create something a little more interesting for the launch the Uncharted3 game, using Augmented Reality for a who can last the longest campaign! It’s called Grab The Ring, first you activate your webcam and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 6, 2011
There is a pretty cool National Geographic road show touring shopping centres in Hungary right now, an augmented reality installation that lets the thousands of people passing by interact with the type of content they would find on the National Geographic channel, from dolphins and dinosaurs to leopards, spacemen and lots more. It works by [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 24, 2011
I love Uniqlo digital work. And here is their latest piece for the new functional range of clothing. It’s a visual feast as usual, created through a series of various video catwalk demonstrations that slide past you. The demonstrations are quite litteral for every feature, from the “stretch pants” to the robust zippers and everything [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 10, 2011
Audi is claiming to have launched the world’s first interactive YouTube driving experience for the new Audi A6. The interactive YouTube experience uses the indexing feature so you can control the video with your keypad numbers, allowing you to jump from section to section to provide the illusion that you are actually controlling the car. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Here is a nice, simple yet creative Vimeo takeover that doesn’t try too hard to pull you into the experience like many of the standard YouTube template takeovers seem to do. It’s for the Beck’s Green Box Project, a global fund established to inspire, celebrate and financially support talent in art, design, music and fashion. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 30, 2011
An Echo Temple? Yep, Kyocera teamed up with Virgin to create this amazing installation at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest, allowing users to play virtual instruments and create music by moving their body in front of motion-tracking cameras. But it wasn’t just about body movement, you could use fans that had special (rather weird) symbols printed [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 16, 2011
IKEA do some very cool social work around the world and here is one of their simpler, but just as innovative ideas, this time around the social shopping phenomenon, created by two young advertising students Jeena and John from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. It takes a simple notion of utilising Facebook “Like” [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 15, 2011
This new advergame from Frijj utilises an interesting mashup of funny, weird and seriously bad YouTube videos with webcams and facial recognition to create the “You LOL You Lose” app. The advergame pits you against friends from your social networks, in a challenge of who can keep a straight face for the longest period of [...]
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