Volkswagen are pushing hard into China, but it’s not always easy to be creative over there, and this comes close… The Augmented Reality based “Electric Café” from Volkswagen, setup to educate and inspire people in China / Hong Kong about how energy efficient the Volkswagen Electric cars actually are in comparison to their every day [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 21, 2012
Coca-Cola Columbia recently set out to promote their new online radio station Coke FM. So Coca-Cola took a popular local band and hosted a live convert on a stage that was suspended over 50m from the ground. To get the band down to ground level, the crowd had to download songs from the band’s latest [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 21, 2012
At the Shell Eco-marathon Europe 2012 event in Rotterdam, a drawing lab was created where kids and parents could collaborate together in a mural that was being pieced together live on a huge digital wall, powered by their individual drawings which were sent to you at swipe of your RFID tag. With a number of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lynx produce some seriously innovative digital work the world over (AXE in other countries) and probably none more so than this campaign that’s just launched in Australia, with the world’s first invisible ad installation using special LCD screens that can only been seen with polarised lenses. People passing by a street in Sydney were handed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 30, 2012
ING sponsors the Basketball league in Germany and wanted to connect their offering to a younger audience at Basketball events across the country… So they aimed to leverage smart phones to create an interactive experience anyone could play, and “Free Throw Billboards” were born. Users could connect their phone directly to the billboard, essentially turning [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 28, 2012
Unilever’s “Paddle Pop” ice cream brand in Turkey recently turned the hero “Lion” mascot into a super hero that appeared in Cinema’s across the country as part of an interactive Augmented Reality Experience that saw a battle played out inside the audience of each cinema. As the characters duelled in front of the screen, the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 26, 2012
Here is a nice idea from Puma in Mexico. To showcase their super fast running shoes they encouraged customers to shop as quickly as possible by incentivising speedy shoppers with a discount in a campaign named “The World’s Fastest Purchase”. As shoppers entered the store they were prompted to push a big red button that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 23, 2012
Rumour has it that Parisian drivers really don’t care about the cars around them and they’ll drive or park where ever and how ever they like… And sometimes… Sorry, most times, that means if they need to squeeze into a car space, they will, anyway they can, complete with bumps, scratches and dints on every [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 22, 2012
Chevy Sonic. Tick. Famous Street Artist. Tick. James Bond style transformer spray-paint weaponry setup inside the Chevy Sonic. Tick. What the?! Ok well, this is the Chevy Sonic Street Art Robot Car, created in partnership with Jeff Soto, a renown street artist, to create a world first paint-spraying robot car that can be controlled via [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 10, 2012
This might look a little like DrawSomething, actually it looks exactly like DrawSomething, but that’s where the similarities end. Doodlr is an interaction experiment by the guys at LOVE Labs, who’ve been playing with ways to bring the Physical and Digital worlds together via smart phones. Using Socket.IO and node.js to build the framework for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Summer attracts all sorts of promotional installations and events, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen one that rolled out a matrix-style 360 degree photo booth before! Well, Unilever’s “Streets Ice Cream” has done just that, with their “Share Happy Booth” that has been travelling across Australia as a sampling installation meets photo booth, allowing [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 11, 2011
Keep an eye out for the Heineken Super Social Christmas Tree in Clarke Quay, Singapore, from the 17th-26th of December. It’s a huge digital art installation that’s over 11 meters tall and stacked with 48 huge LCD screens, that will become perhaps the most social Christmas tree ever created! If you head to the Facebook [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 28, 2011
One of the newest challenges in digital is the potential to pull real life emotion and feelings into our campaigns. But how do you really do that? How is it represented? You’ll probably remember seeing the Kraft Smile Tagging App, or the Prigat real time smile stations and Unilever’s Smile Activated Ice Cream from Cannes… [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Here is a really cool and innovative way to evoke our sensitive, giving side this Christmas, with eBay’s amazing Give-A-Toy Store window installation in New York (at 35th and Broadway) and San Francisco (at 117 Post St), or if you can’t get there, you can get the same experience right here. The interactive store windows [...]
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 [...]
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