5 Lessons from ad Festivals Around the World

Creativity and innovation, it’s a love story as old as humanity itself. We tend to talk about this topic a lot in ad land but I think we often get going without first stopping to define the difference between the… Continue Reading

An Instagram powered screen made of thread

Forever 21  have created a screen made of 6,400 spools of thread to display any Instagrams that are hashtagged with #F21ThreadScreen. If you fancy a go you can see your pictures turned into art at F21ThreadScreen.com. Work by New York design… Continue Reading

The best work from Cannes Lions 2015

Spending 10 days in Cannes at the Lions Advertising festival was incredible, but one thing I didn’t see enough of till I got home was all the work. I have made up a presentation with what I believe are the… Continue Reading

An annual report that’s worth getting

Habitat for Humanity, a volunteer run company that builds affordable housing,  have created an annual report that demonstrates how easy it is to get involved and lend a hand. I love these kind of simple ideas, they sent out their… Continue Reading

Fiat creates an interactive parking billboard

Fiat in Germany created an interactive video billboard that helped people park in order to highlight their park assist technology. The billboard was hooked up to sensors that controlled the video parking instructions being displayed. You can tell Cannes Lions is around… Continue Reading

This pizza box turns into a projector

Pizza Hut in Hong Kong created four differently designed pizza boxes that turned into a projector. The boxes each contained a lense, a cut out for you to place the lense, a shortcode for a free movie and a place for… Continue Reading

Volkswagen create a bus that tells you when you’re driving too close

Volkswagen created a bus that smartly told people when they were driving too close to the back. The interactive ad was made to show off VW’s adaptive cruise control system (ACC) system, a system that automatically keeps a safe distance from… Continue Reading

The world’s first workout billboards

Ogilvy Berlin and Powerade have created the world’s first workout billboards. Such a simple and brilliant idea, there were three different executions of the idea, a rolling climbing wall billboard, a weight lifting billboard and a punch bag billboard. The message on… Continue Reading

New Lifebuoy gadget eliminates bacteria from shopping trolleys

Antibacterial soap company Lifebuoy have created a gadget to eliminate the dangers of bacteria found on supermarket shopping trolleys. A refillable disk attaches to the trolley handle bar and can be swiped along it to apply a thin layer of sanitiser liquid, killing 99.9% of bacteria, making… Continue Reading

Uber breathalyser lets you take free rides when drunk

Uber Canada set up a breathalyser post for partygoers to encourage them to get home safe. All people needed to do was to blow through a disposable straw for six seconds, the unit then analysed the alcohol content in your breath. If you were… Continue Reading