Quick buy a lottery ticket!

October 26th, 2007 | Posted in This Week | 2 Comments

Not that we spend all day looking out of the window BUT today we’ve had six, yes six magpies flying around outside our windows. Now as any one from the UK in their 40’s knows that means GOLD!!!!! -even if my parents made me watch Blue Peter.

Designer Death Match

October 26th, 2007 | Posted in This Week | No Comments

wooah this is really great. Mark found this event for a head to head graphic design face-off a few weeks ago at The Old Truman Brewery. Called Cut & Paste the idea comes from New York where the first event took place in 2005. -the 2006 winners are HERE. Each designer has to go head to head in a 15 minute round of intense creation, simple knock out rules until the winner emerges blinking slightly into the spotlight. I think this is a really top idea, real shame we missed it. -next year, just you wait. -Cool Hunting did a bit on the September event in Boston HERE

Great site shame about the colour

October 24th, 2007 | Posted in This Week | 1 Comment

Came across this fascinating site for amateur photographers: Woophy. Plonking photos on maps is hardly new but this does it with such style and grace it draws you in. My only gripe being the colour while a logical choice (the world = Green) I find it not a little unsettling, all those years of colour theory coming back to haunt me either that or the Dutch collection behind it have been getting way too mellow.

Pure genius

October 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Advertising | No Comments

October 18th, 2007

This is absolutely brilliant! O2 have set up a group on Facebook called ‘The Battle for the UK’s Favourite University’. This ties in perfectly with their ‘Favourite Place’ campaign and instead of going on about how great O2 is, it is encouraging people to get together and chat about how fantastic their university is, why it’s more fun than others, what’s cool etc. The more Facebook activity a uni has, the more points it earns. The uni with the most points at the end of it will win a £50k party. Currently there are 75,814 members, with 1,203 discussion topics and 2,651 wall posts. You need to have a facebook profile to look at it but if you have one, check it out here. So simple, yet so clever. Come on Exeter!!