Cool interactive mobile app - Wi Fireworks

Unit 9 have this really cool technology to link smart phones with digital outdoor sites, this looks interesting;

'Wi-Fireworks – How it works: we are beaming free wi-fi from our windows. Open a browser on your smart phone. The phone automatically detects our wi-fi as the strongest signal and we redirect the phone to an html5 page optimized for multitouch devices running our game. Whatever you draw on the screen, appears on the windows. Click explode, and watch your doodle explode as a firework. Its not an app. It’s a wi-firework experience in HTML5'

Your very own website oilspill

Thanks to Mashable.
'A Cleaner Future' — which is a joint project between marketing company Mark & Phil and Post Production house Greener Media that wants to raise Clean Energy.
Visit www.instantoilspill.com and paste the wesbite you want to slick.

Incentives & Promotional Marketing Event 21/22 Sept 2010

You may be interested in going and book out your calendar, if you are into that sort of thing.

Cannes Lions 2010

Some really great work again this year, unfortunately not too many UK awards. You can see all the winners here.

Everyone is talking about the Old Spice ads by W&K Portland, getitng loads of attention on youtube and they through facebook.:

See the Old Spice ad here

Also the great 'Music. See what it's made of' ads by Billboard (US music chart)from ALMAPBBDO São Paulo
Brazil:

Marketing Week Live on today

The Marketing Week Life conference is on today at Olympia. I just popped down there and there are loads of stalls - it is split into 4 sections:

1. In-store Show
What is says on the tin, all different mechanisms, ideas, shelving systems, presentation ideas for all you retail kids.

2. Data Marketing Show
Didn't bother with this one, all about marketing data I suppose.

3. Insight Show
stuck my head in but again a bit irrelevant to me.

4. Online Marketing Show
I really thought this was going to be exciting but it seemed to be more aimed to clients looking for individual inline marketing solutions.

All in all an ok event but probably not as relevant for creative services people.

That said, if you still want to go, details are on their website

IRN-BRU 2034 World Cup ad

I was up in Scotland last week with my wife's family, and not a big football fan myself the family up there are nuts about it (even though Scotland are not in the world cup)
Anyway during one of the fre commercial breaks this came on. Brilliant! It is part of a campaign of other ads produced by the Leith agency in Scotland. The other ads are on youtube too.

Twitter London Lanscape Map

Just a bit of something I find more interesting that useful to us. I saw this when Stephen Fry posted a link to this on his Twitter today, amazing what people do with their time. This work was crafted by CASA's Fabian Neuhaus for his Urban Tick blog

Marketing Week Live - 29 & 30 June 2010

Had some bumf (love that word) through for this exhibition in June. Looks interesting. Register on their site if you want to go.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

12 February - 17 April 2010

Sorry to copy and paste from the Photographers Gallery site, but I am one armed at the moment (following a minor surgery):

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography over the previous year.

Coca Cola Argentina special build

Coca Cola Argentina have done created a living billboard for it's campain "Lo increible es possible" (the amazing possible) with 9 performers suspended from the site. The agency is Department of Innovation MPG Havas Media.
Quite a cool idea for a special build.
thanks to leblog

If print is dead then this is a very long goodbye - the johnson banks thought for the week

If print is dead then this is a very long goodbye - the johnson banks thought for the week

Clever countdown

This is really sweet, it's probably been going on all month but I only saw it today on Twitter. It's Adam&Eve and they have a Christmas Countdown.
Happy Christmas everyone!

It's been quiet

It's been a bit quiet on the news front for me, the agency I work for won Marketing Week's Agency of the Year and I have been working steadily on pitches for the past few months.
I've been looking into asset management systems, nothing new, just the usuals for an interesting set up I am working on in Europe. Stay tuned...

Space Chair - Toshiba

A bit of using the product to sell the product advertising. It is filmed using Toshiba IK-HR1S camera/s.

Social Media 'Event'

There is an interesting Social Media 'event' taking place next week. there is a introduction post here on the feedingthepuppy blog. Have a look, get involved if you want to. Why should it just be planners and creatives who have all the ideas?!

A very interesting find

I was working on a pitch recently for a company I will not name. It was a very 'interesting' system structure in their brief, and we came up with a very good (we thought) solution to the problem. BrandMaster. This small but mighty Norweigan outfit are a very good find indeed and even though we did not win the pitch, no doubt partly due to a client's fear of technology, I really want to work with them.
Their solution is simple: automated production and integrated project management all on a web-based, very user-friendly system. Ah I hear sighs as I write that, but this system is very impressive indeed. It is created by software developers, not repro houses so at the base of the system is flexible technology.
I probably should keep them to myself, but you are going to hear about them sooner or later.

Irn Bru Can-Can

A fun for 10 minutes site, you can build your own character and they Can-Can along the bottom of the screen. I made my own little Aussie one. Irn Bru are looking to break the world record for the worlds largest Can-Can, the site was built by the Leith Agency.

IPA training

Not sure how many of you saw this post about the IPA Creative services training but if you are interested get in touch with the kids at the IPA so you don't miss out.

Bottled Water Causes Blindness in Puppies

This is quite basic and entertaining for a few seconds. It is a site built to get the message over that bottled water is very bad for the environment and the idea is based on 'all bottled water companies lie so why can't we?'
Check out the actual What's tappening site. Unfortunately it looks like you can only order their multi-use bottles if you are in the US.

Russ Berrie - Merchandise

Sally Elliott from Russ Berrie came in to have a chat with us today about what they do; everything from stocked stuffed toys to bespoke items. They are also branching out to printing - Mugs and hard surface items, quite good print samples.
The soft toys were the business though, really good quality and cute. The girls were all grabbing at them.
Check out their site, it is a bit dated though. Call them on 0203 8062 2129

Photographers Gallery - New exhibitions

This Friday two new exhibitions are opening at the Photographers Gallery:
When You're A Boy: Men's Fashion Styled by Simon Foxton, July 17 - October 4th
and
André Kertész: On Reading, Jult 17 - October 4th

Copy C*nts

This site is interesting to say the least. It is blogged by people who are quite clearly angry about they fact that creative teams 'borrow' ideas from other sources, or sometimes each other.

Cannes 2009 Winners

click here to go to the site.

D&AD 2009 Winners

winners here

Creative Review - Portfolios

9-10th June at Central Hall, Westminster.
This is a free event where photographers and illustrators - the best in the business come and exhibit their work, you can meet their agents (and sometimes the photographers themselves) and maybe discover someone you have never seen before.

Retouchers will also be exhibiting there, and there are several seminars you can sign up for.

Register here and print your ebadge before you go.