Author Archives: Tim

Samsung versus Apple

Samsung is taking a clever stab at the self-hypnotising Apple fanboy community. You know the ones, camping outside an Apple temple, turning their wait for a new iPhone into an event of massive (blogging and tweeting) proportion. I love the piss take even if the Samsung Galaxy S II owners come off slightly smug. Read more…

All we ever wanted was everything

Ned Wenlock is working in Wellington, NZ as an animator, illustrator and director. His latest work is for American alternative rockers MGMT who had covered Bauhaus ‘All we ever wanted was everything’. His piece is a beautifully animated rolling, unfolding, evolving industrial city.

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Nicest Place on the Internet

Are LOL cats not making you happy anymore? Do you sometimes feel like a hug on the web? Don’t worry, the ‘Nicest Place on the Internet’ has just been found. Read more…

Reebok creates largest 3D street art

Reebok wanted to create a backdrop of truly epic proportions for their range Cross Fit. Hopping on the 3D street art craze, they commissioned artists 3D Joe and Max to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever 3D street art piece. Read more…

Google Music launches in US

Google Music has just launched, but unfortunately only into the cloud above US territory. The service can host up to 20,000 of your songs for free and - similar to other music stores like iTunes - lets you discover and purchase new tracks. This snazzy micro site explains Google Music’s features. Read more…

Giant Hollywood Square music video

Two posts ago we highlighted Greg Jardin’s jellybeantastic work with Kina Grannis. Here’s another one of his great efforts, a giant Hollywood Square performance for the band ‘Hollerado. Read more…

2 iPads make a great costume

This brilliantly simple trick leaves a gaping hole in your stomach - provided you got sufficient WiFi. How long till we see a promotion team using this trick, possibly for a horror flick or game? Read more…

Data Visualisation. Which language do you browse?

Google Chrome’s translate feature allowed cartographer Eric Fisher to read the language used by the browser. Combining this information with Twitter’s API he created a beautiful global map of languages, emulating countries’ shapes, while at the same time showing how they fuse together at their borders.

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Censor your naughty pics with Obscura

Heaps of people like to show some skin on social media. Belgian brand La Fille d’O wants to help us stay reasonably decent when posting our raunchier shots. The brand launched an iPhone app called ‘Obscura’ that lets you pixelate, star and black-bar all your naughty bits. Read more…

Infographic: Anatomy of an Agency

At last someone had the surgical mind to dissect what all our agency bodies are made of. Contrary to the title it is no empiric study but an entertaining look at the daily ‘marketing grind’. Find your own discipline and then share this graphic with your ’91 followers on Twitter’. Read more…