Siggraph, as always, presented a number of gems within the cathedral-like show floor. The event, dedicated to the great and good of innovative digital visualisation, revealed a number of innovators, lurking around the corner of all the graphics card companies. One such company is Gamecaster. Read the rest of this entry »
With the promised 2nd quarter MarkMonitor report due imminently it is worth reading the Brandjacking index first published at the end of April. The report is the first effort to study the threats that online channels can pose to brands.One never knows where one’s brand may be unintentionally found.
kameraflageTM is the latest technique to augment our reality using technology rather than the ages-old pharmaceutical method. With the camera’s eye being more sensitive to certain aspects of the light and colour spectrum it means that hidden meaning can be applied to all forms of promotional materials.For some reason Brad Pitt’s character splicing blip porn into key frames at his job as projectionist in Fight Club comes to mind.
I wake up and decide to put on some music that will throw me into my wide awake state, something that will work like a aural jolt of caffeine. Bio-medical engineer by day Gregg Gillis slips into his alter-ego, Girl Talk, and creates the quintessential mash up album of the year, Night ripper.My next challenge is find myself a new running circuit around the unfamiliar downtown, I pull up the mapmyrun.com site and figure out a route that some much more geographically informed jogger has already explored. A friend asks me to help her find a place to live in the US and with the public facing stigma of searching directly within craigslist (sitting in Starbucks looking at a site that sells both used kitchen appliances and teenage sex services seems to make me feel embarrassed) I call up a google map/craigslist housing site and bookmark it to review on my way to my client meeting. Read the rest of this entry »
Last year Gilberto Kassab, Mayor of Sao Paulo had grown tired of the visual pollution generated by the 8000 or so advertising hoardings ‘littering’ the cityscape. The Clean City Laws were introduced at the start of 2007 and its biggest impact is the removal of any external branding, city-wide.
Movie launch rewrites the creative rule book on retail promotional tie-ins
With the opening of the 7 years in the making Simpsons movie (release date in the US is 27th July) the creative types working with the Simpson brand have taken an experiential concept, in this case pop-ups, and cleverly applied it to maximum effect.
Our first exposure to a multitouch world, Panasonic Innovation Center visit 2005
The release of the iphone has had a greater impact than just the consumer mobile phone market. The first publicly accesssible multitouch device also brings with it an operating system that bases itself on the advantages of multitouch. The next six months will establish multitouch as a viable haptic data experience. Read the rest of this entry »
For a lovely development on from all those photo-sharing sites, aol provides a way to have ‘the time of your life’
Clever strapline!
Reward offered for whereabouts of lost dog as featured in the window of a Hollywood fortune teller, obviously pets cannot be clients.
We have a current project that has meant a great deal of prediction and consideration to what the future holds. Project Mx, as we will call it for now, demands a solution that works in the present and can adapt to the future. But why is this process so important? Well, when the client operates as the driving force for where technology and interaction will go in the future, it is vital that how their story is told today can factor in the vision and intention that the experience is meant to promote.A week of thought has taken place between the design team whilst we explore and unearth where interaction will go towards next, multitouch, new graphical processing systems, application development platforms, all these aspects of the experience are now as important as aesthetics and narrative.Technology is now an experiential component as important as sight, sound or any other of the senses. The technology platform is now the sixth sense, but not something that communicates with our understanding of now, it is a sense that exists in the future as well as the present.Project Mx will form a series of posts as we identify new challenges (how does one design a user experience for a client who defines user experiences?) and highlight solutions. Revisit this thread to see what else the future has in store for us.
The term describing the collecting of sets of memorabilia generated as both brand building and revenue maximisation, ergo…..”The latest decepticon is the coolest yet, I have to HAVE it”