If choosing from the gleaming rows of canned drinks in the chiller is too much like hard work, why not put the choice in the hands of fate? ‘Anything’ and ‘Whatever’ are two new canned drinks brands that have been launched in Singapore. Anything is fizzy and comes in six flavors (Cola with Lemon, Apple, [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Old McDonalds had a facelift
Have you looked closely at a McDonalds recently? Various restaurants in London and Birmingham have been undergoing a refit, making them look more like coffee shops or chain bars.
Dark green replaces the traditional red and yellow for the restaurant signage, while inside, it’s out with the screwed down plastic seating and primary colours and in [...]
dutch genius
Here’s a little bit of genius from dutch retail website – Producten Hema. The creative brief to design a home page featuring items from sticky tape to kettles would not have excited most creatives. However these guys created a little bit of magic and made buying a stapler a whole lot more fun.
Our model Diana wears FRESHLOOK Turquoise
Our client FRESHLOOK’s US counterparts have created the web tool we always wanted to do for them – and it works a treat. The tool allows you to upload a photo of yourself and try out the various colours of FRESHLOOK contact lenses on your own eyes. It’s a multi-stage process, to ensure the lenses [...]
One for the cooks
As every keen cook knows, the latest celebrity chef cookbook is all very exciting, but it probably won’t beat that scruffy collection of scraps of paper you’ve got tucked away in a drawer, containing the best of your family’s recipes. Now there’s a new online service to turn those handwritten recipes into a glossy, mouth-watering [...]
A mouse on each desk
A nifty little piece of software is currently being developed which may help change the way lessons are taught in classes across the world. It involves each desk in the classroom being fitted with a mouse which controls individual cursors on a large screen at the front of the class. It has been shown to [...]
A stitch in creative time
Recently I had the inexplicable urge to shoot some time lapse photography – you know, where you take a picture every minute, for example, and then create a movie from the stills. Think flowers blooming within seconds on nature programmes.
But what would I shoot? I decided to set up our trusty Nikon camera in one [...]
Art Director 2.0
Check out this guy: he’s ambidextrous and can draw or paint with both hands at a time! Surely this is the kind of art director we should be recruiting…
Foiling bike & car thieves
What a great idea! This guy has designed a set of stickers to help you keep your nice shiny car or bike from catching a thief’s eye. From the blurb: “They’re designed to make your beautiful bike/car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it’s not worth stealing due to its apparent [...]
Editing images made easy
Good news fellow bloggers…there’s a really easy to use website called picnik, which allows you to crop and resize images.
All images uploaded to our blog need to be saved at a pixel width of 490 pixels – the height can vary depending on the format of the image. Picnik has all the tools you need [...]