The Escape Machine
Brilliant piece of interactive media by SNCF. Picture a large black box outside the Royal Palace in Paris. The only thing on ...
Experience
The Lighthouse bulb is flickering
On a recent trip to Cape Town for a great client project, I ended up staying a night at the ...
They have a different word for everything
There’s a great gag by Steve Martin. He has just come back from France, he tells the audience. And he ...
I’m Bored. I’m Hungry.
There’s been a lot written about Groupon of late. Their rejection of Google’s generous $6BN bid, their botched Tibetan superowl ...
Beach Shack
Corona = Beach. They’ve been pretty relentless about this for the past decade and unwaveringly hammer home this positioning. Being ....
Fortum Energy — from ‘boring energy’ to ‘active engagement’
The peoples Supermarket
A new supermarket community in London. As a member of the supermarket, you pledge to work a few hours a ...
Heart Shaker
Salt’s bad for you. We all know it. But still we love it. I am particularly partial to a generous ...
challenger lighthouse big ad
A Circus inside a Theatre…
So I am here in Vegas for CES and wanted to share this story about Vegas legend Jay Sarno, who ...
The Power of Gaming
Whilst on a plane over the new year break I decided not listen to the safety instructions and instead made ...
Tickets Please
Read this really inspiring story recently about the visionary chef Grant Achatz. His personal story is incredible. He overcame tongue ...
The Hans Brinker Eco Philosophy
In my days as an art student, rightly or wrongly, my tutors decided to do a ‘educational’ trip to Amsterdam. ...
Game On!
Love this app from Mini in Sweden. It’s a real-time game and a really clever way for Mini to create ...
The Magic of Television
So, this is my first week at eatbigfish and my first post on the blog. No pressure, huh? It would ...
BERS (that’s the Baggage Emergency Response Squad of course)
Believe in tweed, martini’s and panache
All the talk about the London 2012 Olympics has seemed to overshadow another very important sporting event that was held ...
Midnight Caller
Liv chats to late show presenter Ian Coliins about the power of his People's Parliament and celebrates the day radio rescued a snow bound bloke in need of a pint.
Communities – Tent in Town
Had lunch at Riverford’s travelling field kitchen. I travelled 40 minutes from Brockley, South East London to Islington in North ...
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Common Cause
Liv addresses our current brand obsession with community, explores its real world meaning and learns some lessons for the brand, business and campaign world.
Delivering Happiness. A simple idea seems almost radical
Tony Hsieh handed me an advance reading copy of his book a couple months back after I’d interviewed him for ...
Getting it right…and so very wrong
I am in the middle of a very heated, painful debate with HSBC at the moment, so writing something positive ...
Sex, Money, Power and Death
I was once in a workshop with Steve Hayden of Ogilvy. Brilliant man. It was the height of the dotcom ...
Thorpe Park takes the piss…
No it really does. How do I put this? Thorpe Park are asking fun fare patrons for urine samples to ...
Avatar Too Far?
I’ve just read about this service where you can pay for your own simulated kidnapping. The whole ordeal can happen any time ...