Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Fri Jul 3

Street Hero - Amazing bus jump

An attempt at launching a viral campaign for the latest HTC smartphone running Google Android - HTC Hero. This video is supposedly created by a parkour group Street Heroes whose MySpace page is a couple of days old.

To get the full point of this viral ad, make sure to watch the related video where you can see the entire commercial from point-of-view recorded with headcam, i.e. HTC Hero strapped to guys head. :-)

[via thestreetheroes and digital buyologie]

Fri May 8

Increase In Currency (Money love)

When Abe and Queen Elisabeth II get together… things happen! :-)

Note: for extra viewing pleasure hit HQ button.

Now this is one daring commercial for finance consulting firm Bontrust Finance that was made by creative team Grabarz & Partner Werbeagentur GmbH from Hamburg. Congrats to fine people at GPW!

I’m sure this will go viral.

This animation has been done in Softimage XSI and it features Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elisabeth II and Mao Zedong. Clearly, the creative team had to learn quite a bit about origami which they did.

[via Creativity Online and scaryideas]

Tue May 5

Inhale for Friends of the Earth by JWT Hong Kong, China.

[via szymon]

Tue Mar 24

$Wow! What a simple yet wonderful idea! With this type of direct marketing it has never been so easy and effective to attract people with a dire need of exercise. It gets me thinking… advertising is as versatile as design and possibilities in design are endless. Likewise, it can be as fun and fulfilling to the consumer. So when you see a boring or serious ad, ask yourself “Why so serious?” and just forget it. ;-) There’s so many fun ads, products in the world to enjoy. Ads turn our attention to a fraction of bazillion of products out there. One of them can become something we truly enjoy. A good ad is just a good beginning of an engaging relation with the customer. [via directdaily: Fitness First “Bus Stop” and szymon]$

Wow! What a simple yet wonderful idea! With this type of direct marketing it has never been so easy and effective to attract people with a dire need of exercise.

It gets me thinking… advertising is as versatile as design and possibilities in design are endless. Likewise, it can be as fun and fulfilling to the consumer. So when you see a boring or serious ad, ask yourself “Why so serious?” and just forget it. ;-) There’s so many fun ads, products in the world to enjoy. Ads turn our attention to a fraction of bazillion of products out there. One of them can become something we truly enjoy. A good ad is just a good beginning of an engaging relation with the customer.

[via directdaily: Fitness First “Bus Stop” and szymon]

Sat Mar 21

Extreme Sheep LED Art

We took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display. Of sorts.

Hilarious, isn’t it? :-)
I believe this video will do more good to eco-friendly lighting than any intentional green infomercial I have seen so far.

Props go out to Vita for digging this one out!

[via BaaaStuds]

Fri Mar 20

Great stuff that your Google Chrome browser can do… most experiements won’t look as good or as fat in other web browsers.

Have in mind that everything is implemented in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. :-)

Verdict: this is one great viral marketing campaign!

Thanks to Raša for letting me know about this and bashing Tetris within a web browser as a bleak achievement. ;-)

Sun Jan 25

I truly enjoy the unusual business cards that can be used for a purpose beyond holding some contact information.

Here’s one great business card example from no other than Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous hackers from the times when breaking into phone company networks was the way that hacking was done (actually cracking would be a more correct term). That illegal activity came to be known as phone phreaking.

Kevin Mitnick’s Business Card [via רן יניב הרטשטיין]

Wed Jan 7

Jawbone, the ~~noise eliminating~~… ahem… noise-canceling Bluetooth headset from company called Aliph.

Not sure if I want/need this one or a simple stereo Bluetooth set that less yuppie.

Anyway, for those interested it is sold at Apple, Jawbone.com, AT&T, Verizon, Best Buy.

Hm.. initially I wanted to embed one of the original demo videos which are of better quality. Since the embedding did not work I settled with this video, Aliph’s attempt at viral marketing.

Mon Jul 21

Carling iPint - iphone application - virtual pint

Talk about a good game to “play” and pass around when there’s no real beer around, or at least enought of it.