Thieves and marketers
Carlberg have launched a new interactive advertising campaign in Sweden, “Unbore Anything”, for their still drink “Festis”. People are invited to be a “Festis”, by using their webcameras on three different sites.
Make grandpa laugh and get a free drink at “Unbore Grandpa”, every day between 3 P.M - 6 P.M for the next two weeks.
Set up a blind date for your friends at “Unbore Relationships”.
Campaign made by ÅkestamHolst
IKEA rolled out their campaign site “Vaggvisor” today, within the theme “Bättre sömn för alla” (“Better sleep for everyone”)
Six Swedish artists have made their interpretations on Swedish lullabys, which IKEA present with six videos, through lovely HTML5 navigation. Well done Forsman & Bodenfors!
When I was a kid I was a collector. I collected tickets, comics, marbles, erasers, tamagochis and… hockey stuff. I swapped hockey cards, bought caps with my best hockey teams and so on. So when I saw these NHL headphones I had a short moment of nostalgia. Lovely team symbols! Get them here!
The hyped school “Hyper Island” is launching something called an “Intern Store” tomorrow. Good looking website with a few nice informative videos and the tag line: “The world’s first mobile grads - Available for internship in your area”.
One thing that annoys me a bit though is that the girls in the videos are described as “a woman of her word” and “an eager and fearless project assistant”. Do we really need to mention the sex of interns? The guys are described as “an awesome user experience”, “a coder who won’t let bugs live long”, “former pro-gamer” and “someone who’s been out and about”.
Hopefully there will be more girls described as “a real code monkey” and “a game designer with no tech limits” in the next video
Anyway, it’s a nice idea which I look forward to following.
The French travel company Voyages SNCF.com recently hired DDB Paris to create something out of the ordinary. The result is this “Escape Machine”, a big crazy celebration machine which creates a big celebration of red kisses, disco, colours, big travel tickets, walking hugs etc when someone presses the red button.
So Google is known for their crazy offices. Well, those offices are not crazy unless you’ve seen Inventionlab’s offices. Pittsburgh-based Inventionland turns out over 2000 inventions each year. To boost the creativity they’ve built a 70.000 squarefoot wonderland with crazy interior. Pirate ships, race courts, caves, waterfalls, castles, robots. Oh, and as an employee you will wear white lab coats since your job title is: “Creationeer”. I’ve found my dream workplace.
Race court
Tree house
Shoe house - for baby product invention
Invention castle
Cave workspace
Pirate ship
Cupcake house
Waterfall room
David Hockney has been finger-painting on his iPhone for a while and recently announced that he changed device to the iPad. His iPad experiment has been a daily basis during 2010, in the app Brushes. Hockney claims that the experiment has nothing to do with any sponsorships from Apple. He just simply likes the iPad as a drawing devide.
Hundreds of his paintings can now be seen at the exhibition “Me draw on iPad” at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark. The exhibition will be open from 8 April to 28 August.
Brooklyn-based designer and vehicle enthusiast Kevin Cyr has created something called a “Camper Bike”. It’s just what it sounds like - a bike and a camper stuck together.
Take a bike trip to Switzerland without having to pay expensive hotel fees. Just crawl back into your camper and cuddle up for a nice night sleep. It doesn’t seem like you can buy it, but if you could I think it could be a hit! No more rainy tent nights.
If you’ve missed “Isle of Tune”, you should definitely check it out. It’s a website which allows you to build a Sim City-like city. Every tree, house and flower you place out has a different sound connected to it, which you can change. By adding cars on your streets a nice beat will be played whenever the car(s) drive by your objects.
