Principles
A powerful, 40-year-old internal memo by its first marketing head Rob Strasser.
#inspiration
#advertising, Tesla would keep regulators up all night
Why don't we do it on the road?
This would keep the regulators up all night.
Not from Tesla*.
#esoteric, Happy New Year and my resolution …
Happy New Year! And a wish for everyone ...
The full #typed note is here …
#esoteric, probably the best present you can give this Christmas
What’s the best present you can give this year?
This is thought provoking – and faces the train that is approaching us all.
#esoteric, Kuler, bringing colour pallets together
An Adobe platform for designers
This is really simple and the reason I really like it. Selecting colour pallets that work within the visual environment can be really assisted using Kuler.
#esoteric, how can you predict success?
This is very interesting, a snippet from a Ted Talk by University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, Angela Lee Duckworth, on the intangible concepts of self-control and grit that determine how we can predict both academic and professional success.
#advertising, the world’s first television ad
The first television ad (commercial) was on US TV.
Created in 1941 for Bulova watches in 1941, and production costs were a startling US$9.00. Creative, planning and media planning costs unknown.
#insight paper, Xliftpitch, Saatch & Saatchi X, Graduate Recruitment
Xliftpitch Saatch & Saatchi X Graduate Recruitment
This Saatchi & Saatchi X Graduate Recruitment Lift Pitch Day.
#advertising, Audi halloween ad
The Audi Halloween advert – scary stuff.
#futurology, Microsoft on our view of the future
Inspiration
A look at how Microsoft views the future for the consumer.
#inspiration, what the future holds
What the future holds
OmniTouch technology
Apart from the contraption on your shoulder, this looks really cool.
#esoteric, now even whiter
Festival celebrating excellence of Britain’s creative advertising industry
One for the diary …
The full #typed note is here …
#inspiration, Ogilvy pop-up shop for ideas
Ogilvy pop-up shop for ideas
Love this.
Ogilvy has opened a pop-up shop in Central London offering free marketing ideas.
Passing by at lunch, the tables, each manned by an Ogilvy executive, were filled with those undoubtedly seeking input into their new ideas whilst dreaming about the imminent sale price of Twitter.
#advertising, happy, whatever, from Droga5
#inspiration, 101010 a global day of doing
101010 a global day of doing
Today is a global day of going .. 10.10.10.
And it’s up to all of us to get involved.
#inspiration, ideation, taking another view …
#inspiration ~ Ideation – taking another view …
#advertising, Virgin Atlantic ad by RKCR/Y&R #Fantastic
Created for Virgin Atlantic by RKCR/Y&R, this is the new TV spot – and at 1′ 30″, is proves TV ad have not lost their creativity.
#ugc, the sound of the UK
The Sound of the UK
Occasionally a really good idea emerges. And this is one.
#inspiration, run this up the flagpole and see who salutes …
Run this up the flagpole and see who salutes …
As an avid fan of bu||$hit bingo, finally an online dictionary that translates verbiage …
#Inspiration, inspiration pad
Inspiration pad
Using a pen, paper and having thinking time is how I develop my ideas.
#social media, where will we be in 2012?
Where will we be in 2012?
18036720 has written a piece where social media will be in 2010.
#experiential, Rapha pop-up store, London
The Rapha pop-up store, London
I’d a meeting earlier today with a client and we grabbed a coffee at Rapha, the performance racewear brand, which has opened a pop-up store in Clerkenwell:
The full #typed note is here …
#inspiration, convenience, Japanese style
Convenience, Japanese style
The Toni & Guy salon in Harajuku Japan take convenience to a new level.
Clever for a premium brand.
#advertising, a flake, beelzebub and the cutting room floor …
A flake, beelzebub and the cutting room floor …
It is pretty self-evident why this 01:48 minutes of a Flake ad by Saatchi / Jonathan Glazer has been consigned to the cutting room floor. Cadbury deemed it too polarising following research – but then again, the 30′ spot has now to be targeted.
#inspiration, an artist and a thief
An artist and a thief
The designer, Timo Arnell, has created a simple way of visualizing the pervasiveness of wifi in our environment by overlaying hotspots as transparent circles into urban spaces across Brussels and its airport.