According to the records, Leroy Smith was the kid that took the last spot for the varsity basketball team at Emsley A. Laney High School, leaving Michael Jordan out and being this the fact always said as the beginning of the Michael Jordan's basketball legend from then on. Taken this as the core idea, this website called "Leroy Smith" tries to honor the name of Leroy as Jordan's first motivator.
The website itself is really simple, as it uses an idea from Droga 5 based on the main attribute of the shoe, its minimum weight, so you can test the weights of different things compared to the shoe and you quickly get the idea on how light it is.
We were at NYC last week voting One Show Interactive (I still havel to update that post!) when Iain Tait came up with one of the most funny and memorable quotes of the event: "i like this piece very much, it's not about being so-well crafted or being a great production at all, i just like it simply because it is so fucking awesome"... which prompted us into a big laugh.
Then we saw the work, and I think that this is one of the most remarkable uses of Facebook I've found out this year. Done by Daddy to promote Telia, an online music store in Sweden, it uses the platform in such a naive way.
Barack Obama's campaign was so huge and had so many actions that even two months after the election day passed i'm still finding out about curious things that were done. This is from the day i forgot going to vote and the whole country outraged at me, LOL.
Though i'm originally from Spain i've spent the last three years of my life living in Mexico, so the first time I asked Martina about writing for Adverblog she told me that it would be nice reviewing a lot of digital cases coming from Central and South America, as to have a global vision of digital advertising in Adverblog.
Not that I haven't tried but besides a few things coming from Brazil, I haven't found anybody in this region consistently generating first-class digital work (but maybe there is! if you think you or your company is doing it and you work in Central/SouthAmerica please drop me a line to dani.granatta AT gmail DOT com !)
Well, the thing is that last week I was part of the jury for the first IAB Conecta Awards organized by Mexican IAB and I went to Mexico City for the voting, kind of prejudiced about what we were about to see. But once there, and in really good company, we found a few works worth to be noticed. I specially liked this one called "Rockea duro / construye tu futuro", done by Substance for UVM, one of the universities of fastest growth here in Mexico.
Marketers and account planners out there, have a look at the Leo Burnett predictions in marketing for 2009. A few things might not sound new, and on a few things you might disagree. But it's a good set of inspirations for the new year.
I especially appreciated the idea of New Realism when they say "we will be forced to become much more realistic over the coming years" but I also think it's important that agencies will align with brands on this subject. For this reason I also recommend (both agencies and clients) to read also the latest Future Lab report called "Bridging the Brand-Agency Divide" that offers a few tips to understand and reconnect the client-agency relationship in an era of economic (but not creative) recession.
From Japan, a very good project that mixes branding and e-commerce in a smart and creative way. The PlayMuji calendar displays everyday a different product, with a video that either shows its characteristics, how to use it or simply provides you with a closer look into its shapes.
You can only discover a product per day, but of course the archive is always available to browse. A nice goodie is also offered: you can download the screensavers that replicates the website.
Sorry for the self-promotion post but this is a project that we were eager to talk about since October, when we started to work on it here at Grupo W. "Detective Stripes" is the main website in our new global campaign for the Rexona brand of Unilever, telling a day in the life of Stripes, a detective who could be the coolest of his neighborhood but he isn't because of a really particular problem that makes him living in frustration.
Although the "upload-your-photo" thing is everywhere these days i found really funny this site called "I am 60" that Puma has just released to celebrate their 60th anniversary. So upload your photo once again and then you'll be able to play with 60 years of hairstyles, tops and accessories; i decided to go kind of grunge today, ha!
After stunning cases such as "Big shadow" or "Rec You", japanese agency GT Tokyo can be considered as having one of the most original approaches on digital ways of communication.
I think this campaign called Love Distance that they created last November for Sagami Original is fantastic too. Sagami produces the thinnest condom in the world (0.02mm thin) and to promote this they created a story about two lovers living in Fukuoka and Tokyo respectively, separated 1000 kilometers from each other. To prove their love, they run to meet on Christmas Eve.
I found very interesting this way of getting information in this site done by Your Majesty for the New York Times called NY Times Conversations.
A nice and simple navigation to see interesting videos of people like John Leguizamo or Isaac Mizrahi talking about their passions and relationship with NY Times while a news feed is fed by real time news related to the subject of the video being played (i suppose based on tags).
Christmas is coming, and you might want to offer something special to your relatives or friends, but of course going shopping in the crowded shops is a chore. Why not getting the limited edition of the Fiat 500 by Diesel ?
Only 10,000 units of this car designed by Fiat and the fashion label Diesel, are being made available worldwide.
You can configure and order it exclusively on the English website here.
This cool e-marketing association would have certainly deserved more content and online materials.
Nevertheless, I suggest we launch a subscription to offer one to Martina !
Corteo is the new show from the Cirque du Soleil, done to commemorate their 25th anniversary. Seizing that, Uniqlo and Cirque du Soleil have teamed up to release this wonderful site called Uniqlo meets Corteo.
