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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]