Month: July 2008
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Changing The Game
I'm reading Constantinos Markides' book on Game-changing Strategies right now. Constantinos (Costas) is professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School so knows a thing or two about business strategy and if, like me, you've had the good fortune to see him present you'll know he's also a brilliantly engaging speaker. The…
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Nice View
This place is five minutes drive from where I live. It’s called ‘Temple Of The Winds’. Great name.
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BBC Journey To The East
Wow, is all I can say about this. Produced by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett (of Gorillaz), and based on the classical Chinese novel, "Journey to the West", it will be used to introduce coverage of the Olympics on BBC Sport. It debuted last night apparently (I missed it). Anyway, it’s a bit mental, but…
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When Is A Tribute Not A Tribute?
Regular readers of this blog will already know my views on campaigns which reproduce creative concepts from elsewhere without at least enhancing or building on the idea in some way. Creative Review have just posted about the new Fiat Grande Punto ad which unashamedly uses Roel Wouters’ brilliant Grip music video for zZz: And here’s…
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Financial Flocking
Wonderfully Herd-like feature in this weeks New Scientist talking about the inner workings of financial markets and theorising about the inadequacies of prevalent economic theory and the potential real causes behind the current financial malaise. Traditional economic theory posits that markets operate in 'equilibrium'. They are affected by changes in surrounding forces – good news…
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The Departures Lounge
James is running a nice little project over here to compile a collection of funny short films and virals from around the world. Their site has been resurrected after they lost a bunch of files when their hosts went bust, and they are slowly repopulating it with new content. So James is encouraging people to…
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The Art Of Media
Media – it's all about the numbers, right? Accountability, reach, frequency, coverage, weight, strike rate, ratings, spots, eyeballs, impressions, click-throughs. If you like soup, there's always a good soup of numbers surrounding media you can drown in. And digital just compounds this. Numbers are important – they show what works, they create standards, they are…
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Creature Discomforts
OK so this the second series of ads in the "Creature Discomforts" campaign for Leonard Cheshire but the work done by Aardman Animations, designed to "help change the way people think about, and respond to, disability", has been consistently strong and I just love the whole thing. So it’s worth a post. And this is…