Pecha Kucha: An Inspiration To Us All
Inspiration comes in many forms and what inspires one person may cause another to run a mile.
“An agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention.”
How many times have you been to a presentation or gone round a friend’s house and looked at pictures […]
Is There Soma In My Coffee Or Is The 2012 Logo Doing Its Job?
Last night I was indulging in a bit of telly (misnomer, that; we should just call it “jamieolivervision” and be done with it), and during the ad breaks I found my eye regularly drawn to a small glyph, which was instantly recognisable as nothing less than the stigmatised 2012 logo, emerging now on our screens […]
NY Times Op-Ed Artwork
As seen on NotCot and referencing the New York Times best of Op-Ed 07, here are some of my highlights - I’ll add that they’re not highlights because of content or context (well, the first one is) but more for artistic value!
By Paula Scher:
By Stephen Doyle:
By Christian Northeast:
That’s Entertainment: Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Phil Collins & A Gorilla
Well, this is different!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVoc8FXhz0
It’s a new ad for Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, and features a gorilla & a Phil Collins track. It was made by Juan over at Fallon who also made the Sony Balls advert. The Cadbury’s Gorilla ad launched Saturday night and there are already 25 iterations of it on YouTube, about 90,000 views, […]
Flickr Music Video Mash Up
Here’s an interesting implementation of a mash-up tool. Create a unique music video that trawls through the lyrics and brings them to life with a relevant image taken from the Flickr pool. You can see the video for Astronaut (the song in question) here.
Music, videos, images… right up our alley. That reminds me of something: […]
We’re gonna’ build a website like it’s 1995…
Jacob Nielson, usability guru (in the estimation of some), was interviewed recently by E-consultancy.
I quote:
Is there any point in using Flash on your website?
That’s a good question - I’ve been going back and forth on that over the years.
We’ve come up with examples in our studies where it has worked well - product demos, […]
That eureka moment
A great idea for a billboard from The Economist, the light bulb is activated by a motion sensor when a passer by walks underneath.
Work for The Economist is consistently brilliant, and one of the factors in this is undoubtedly that it is done within a set of tight visual constraints.
They basically have a typeface, the […]
DC Names
Given a black page and white type how would you express your own name? Here’s how DC employees would do it.
Some excellent entries most of which, interestingly enough, did not come out of the creative dept.
A special note to Mr. Hils Jakison for providing the best entry.
Mac Nut
I like Macs. I started my working life on them and, after several years getting frustrated at a series of PC laptops, six months ago I moved back.
I still get occasionally frustrated, but at least they look good while they frustrate me.
However, whatever warm and fuzzy feeling I get when watching a Steve Jobs keynote […]
Junior/midweight freelance digital creatives needed
Want a job? Talented interactive creative? Then send your cv to careers@dcinteract.com please (no agencies - I’m already talking to you lot and it’s not going well, is it).
