What’s that bus doing in Reception?
The Chinese papers were full of Google finally deciding to pull out. A difficult decision, and one with considerable long ...
April 2010
The pursuit of professionalism
I’ve been reading some interesting stuff about professionals and amateurs and how our society today unashamedly favours the former. I...
Size matters — or does it?
Recently the Boston Brewing Company, a.k.a. Sam Adams Beer, debuted a new TV advertising campaign celebrating their size, or in ...
Redefining the Talkshow
An interesting interview with Jonathan Ross, the talk show host, in The Guardian over the weekend. Ross, who has received ...
challenger lighthouse big ad
Build a Bridge. Get over it.
I loooooooooove this. Love it! Only 2 minis long and well worth the view. This speaks volumes for the power ...
Sticky Situation? Problem Fixed
I love this design by Gonglue Jiang. It’s a chewing gum packet with an in-built wrapping and binning system. Genius. ...
Fast Food Stanislavsky
Rob Poynton from On Your Feet teaches us a method from improvisational theatre to help us to find ways to be what we say.
Be Seen, Be Heard
We meet the Manchester United Supporters Trust President Richard Hytner to hear how the supporters are finally getting their message across ...
Fit for a King
We hear how King Louis XVI helped the humble potato overcome centuries of fear and loathing in Europe to make its journey safely onto our pl...
Nike — Leaning into Risk
If you’re a big brand wondering how to harness the power of new (and old) media, here’s a great example and ...
Turning Japanese
Kit Kat did…19 times over. There’s a real knack to meeting the needs of a local market. There’s nothing more ...
Transparent Strippers
That sounds odd. And it is. Chad’s post about transparency reminded me of this – spied by one of our ...
new-ad-4
UTweet from Uniqlo
Nice little twitter visualisation from Uniqlo, just enter a word in the box and you’re away. Here’s one for eatbigfish, ...
Step it up
Because Dr. Scholl did. In a big way. They affixed one of their insoles (for the right foot only) into ...
The power of conflict
On the walk home the other week, I walked past a well known North London site… Banksy’s Tesco Flag on ...
Radical Tranparency — being honest 'until it hurts'
Fat Perception
I’ve read some pretty funny statistics recently; all to do with weight and size and in part, stupidity. Coupled with what ...
Innovation-Walla
I went to India over New Year for a friend’s wedding ‘festival’ (I think that’s the most accurate adjective to ...
The Banished Beautiful People
I find this quite funny. Very funny in fact. BeautifulPeople.com is a dating website for beautiful people only. Pretty/handsome? Check. ...