Here are two rather pleasant things that have been launched into the world wide web from Poke towers recently;

1.Orange Unlimited is a never ending page of interactive flash fun that brings to life the Unlimited campaign tag line ‘Good things should never end’. The characters you will meet were illustrated by the awesomely talented Rex, my favorite bit is the beat juggling musical characters on a washing line - it’s abit like a simpleton’s version of the incredible tenori-on.

2. Spinvox is a clever little thing with a tidy new website…’SpinVox is a service that can be accessed from any phone. Speak Freely and SpinVox will convert your words into text and send them wherever you decide: mobile, inbox, TV screen, blog and more. Give it a try now’

£5000 in £10 and £20 notes were individually dropped around the streets of London with a removable sticker that read, Carlsberg don’t do litter. But if they did it would probably be the best litter in the world’.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, London, UK

via : http://www.adverbox.com/ 

Obviously not the all singing all dancing millionaire version otherwise I probably wouldn’t be here writing this now, but I did win the iTunes Festival Lottery.

‘This July a completely new festival is coming to town. Introducing the first ever iTunes Festival — a radical new concept that brings together world-class bands, intimate live performances and the best in digital technology. Spread over 31 consecutive nights, more than 60 of the world’s hottest acts will perform at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in the heart of London.

The mechanic in which tickets were distributed was simply a lottery, you registered on the ICA website for a ticket draw (there were 2) and from this you were in with a chance to win one of the 20 pairs available for each night. There are competitions with media partners still on for you to win tickets.

For me Saturday night didn’t feel like winning the jackpot, it was more like getting three numbers up as the performing artists were the very ‘nice’, non offensive, ‘not my cup of tea’ Paolo Nutini supported by The Ghosts, despite this we still had a great time though. To help aid further positive word of mouth for the festival each pass on the night had a promo code on which enables you to redeem ‘10 free songs’ from the iTunes Store, now thats what I call a healthy Saturday night take away!

Just so you know…

BBC World’s launch has been promoted in North America with interactive billboards, where interaction is offered by a live SMS poll. Visually, the constuction reminds me of the HSBC Your point of view campaign.

On the other hand Brazil’s São Paulo has become a No Logo zone of sorts after Mayor Gilberto Kassab decided to strip the city of all it’s advertising. Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne’s article for BusinessWeek provides a commentary of how events unfolded which led to the clearout, the initial public reaction plus some thoughts to the future. Visual documentation of the ‘billboard cemetery’ can be seen in Brazilian photographer Tony de Marco’s flickr set here.

This is not a post about me positioning Wieden + Kennedy as the No.1 Advertising agency in the world, afterall what do I know about advertising?

This is a post when I tell you I went to my first D&AD presidents lecture on Monday night. ‘Dial up the Crazy’ saw the founding partners of W+K, David Kennedy and Dan Wieden interviewed by an old colleague. The interview led us through the W+K story, 25 years in the making. If you’re not familiar with their work, they have been creating advertising for the likes of Nike, Honda and more recently Coke and The Guardian. My favorite piece they presented to us was a spot for Nike running from 1988, featuring ‘Walt Stack’.

So for the ‘rules’, a piece of W+K history presented on the night, with this story attached to them…

‘According to Mr. David Kennedy, These rules were found in a desk drawer a long time ago. A six year old kid had come into the office one day with his parents and wrote these out to keep himself occupied while Mom and Dad worked. David found these and adopted them. “This was highly evolved way of thinking and we could learn from it.”

I think its healthy for everyone to read the ‘rules’ once in a while.

I need to work on No.4 most

From a far (gazing at billboards) I have been liking most of the artwork for the current low cost flights campaign for BA. Today I found out that ad agency BBH created them and National Telelvision brought them to life, there is a small animation sequence of the type transisitions here.

Children of Men was one of my favorite films of 2006, so I was pretty happy to see that animation studio Foreign Office have compiled a showreel of the ad’s, films, displays screens etc. they produced for the film.

Link via the ideas blog at Veer.

Mother are guest editing the February issue of CR and have decided to sell off a page via ebay. If you would like to express yourself without the use of logo’s, adverts or danish cartoons go bid here.

When I mentioned this to some folk this morning it was greeted with mixed feelings - personally I’m interested to see how much the page goes for, currrently £205.00 at 10.05, 07/12/06. 9 days to go…

I don’t know too much about this project so I’ll let Iain introduce the Yahoo! Mail Championships to you, but what I do know is we want to direct traffic to it!

Perhaps you can lay down the gauntlet to your students Iman!?