Archive for March, 2009

  • Kawaii - off the top of the cute scale

    Its not often enough that you let yourself get carried away by instant gratification and magnetism (although I think it happens to me more than most) but rather than post constantly about the stream of wonderfulness I’ve come across over the weekend, I’d pop my top five into one post.
    01. Ikea BARNSLIG cushion by Maria [...]

  • On the Internet, nobody knows…

    (Peter Steiner, page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20)
    The above cartoon, the oldest and most reproduced comment about online anonymity you’re likely to find, sums up another local problem we’re having with our critics. As with the phantom Tweeter (Twunt? Twit? Twat?) a few weeks ago, someone has [...]

  • LBi Swap Meet

    The weekly occurrence of the MiniMama EA Meeting proved fruitful and engaging yet again. This time credit went to Jeff for the concept and facilitation of the “LBi Swap Meet”. The idea was to bring along a piece of your work (as close to a finished design as possible) and hand it over to the [...]

  • Realtime Stream Video Gaming

    According to this article, Warner Bros. have financially backed a realtime streaming video console called OnLive.  Which is quite an interesting development.  I for one wasn’t expecting anything like this until we all moved on to super-broadband.  It seems they can avoid b-b-b-buffing by leveraging clouds.  Insert your own joke.

  • Amazing Grace

    Its Ada Lovelace Day today - a global celebration of women in technology and science. For those of you who don’t know about Ada Lovelace and what an incredibly rockin’ lady she was, check her out on Wikipedia here, or check out the twitter action today at #adalovelace.
    On top of Ada, I have a few [...]

  • Friday fun #5.5

    A few Fridays ago, the Facebook album art meme swept through the office. Here are a few of our creations. You know the rules.

  • Friday fun #5

    Long before the recent popular facebook meme we had our album art task.
    Start with a few random images from our new creds deck, a couple of markers, scissors, prit-stick and a few scraps of paper. Select a random music genre; then dream up an artist name, 4 track titles and create an album cover. 10 [...]

  • Friday fun #4

    Once upon a time…
    So what do you get when you fill lots of balloons with compressed air and interesting words? In this challenge we had a collection of balloons which need to be popped and then their wordy contents rearranged into two amusing stories.

    We’re just trying to get the resulting X-rated stories past the censor [...]

  • Friday fun #3

    Up next was our 5 minute sketch-off. The rules are simple; sit opposite a fellow member of the creative department, arm yourself with a small set of markers and one piece of paper. 1 2 3 sketch.

    And a few of the results.

  • Friday fun #2

    Next in our series of Friday frolics was the ‘always successful’ create a typeface from your own possessions in 8 minutes and no longer. Cue the normal stuff like: belts, shoes, wallets, glasses, keys, mixed in with a few more sign of the times items: lanyards, USB sticks, monitor leads and batteries (lets not ask). [...]

  • Explosive errr creativity in Dubai

    Judging Dubai Lynx has been an experience. Some great judges to spend time with and one or two really interesting pieces of work even if the standard overall is low. But one thing really did take my breath away. Anyone know what to make of this? It’s a quit smoking campaign targeting smokers at Ramadan [...]

  • Microsoft 2019

    Indeed, following on from Riaz’s post I too attended the Microsoft Truman Session. Their take on the world come 2019 caught my eye.
    I must say, their vision piece was extremely well thought out and crafted. There were of course some usual suspects: digital newspapers, an evolution of Surface and interactive mirrors (hey, we’ve already done [...]

  • The New Microsoft

    Yesterday evening at the Truman, we had the wonderful pleasure of Microsoft giving us the lowdown on the latest and greatest in the world of creative products and services coming out of Redmond. The audience, mostly from user experience, creative and client services, were treated to demo’s of Silverlight, WPF, DeepZoom, Surface, Live Mesh, Azure, [...]

  • Thru You

    Thru You is some guy’s (KUTIMAN) fantastically executed album based on you tube clip edits.  The only thing that could make this more awesome is if this ran on the fly, generating the clips based on algorithm.  Great work though.

  • Giddy ranting vision + hard sell warning

    Whilst creative judges and juries fail to admonish the jolly corruption of children in the selling chocolate to lonely women (and instead get down to late 80s freestyle electro), there are important things at hand ineligible for easy cool. 
    <insert chocolate-vomit.jpg here>
    Now that the Evil Eye of Mordor has temporarily passed from the energy companies to [...]

  • ‘Typography exists to honor content’

    Professor John Maeda’s course on Digital Typography begins on a Tuesday in the Fall of 1997 at MIT. Before getting deep into the rendering of movable type through PostScript and JavaScript, Maeda insists his 15 select students read the course’s only set text: Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style. 
    The Elements of Typographic Style
    Robert Bringhurst
    Design, [...]

  • 146 Brick Lane - Previous lives

    LBi London’s office is famous in it’s own right and has had many incarnations. Here’s our second floor creative studio space courtesy of Goldfrapp.

    Digital agency - scooters? Errr sorry about that…

  • Docs seek gag orders to stop patients’ reviews

    So here’s another site exemplifying why the internet is such a wonderfully democratizing medium that challenges authority, and exposing the difference between Brand Promise and Brand Reality.
    That being said there are a few old stalwarts refusing to embrace this ongoing powerful new force of social change desperate to cling on to Information Control and retain [...]

  • Hello Bucks!

    Tonight we had a swathe of young talent pour into the office, when 24 New Bucks University students came for an evening of book crits, exchanging of ideas and cold beer.
    Offering advice and being inspired in equal measures, the LBi creative crew left buzzing with creative energy - hopefully we had the same effect on [...]

  • Doritos Japan - building a believable brand ;-?

    This spicy pack design from Doritos in Japan (courtesy of my good friend John-Patrick) is so wrong, and yet so right… Not sure what it says about them as a snackfood, but the windmill-ee certainly looks pretty happy…

  • Twatted? Tweetjacked? Twunted?

    We got Twatted on Friday, if that’s the correct usage for being nobbled by rogue Twitterers. Tweetjacked? Twunted?
     
    Whatever, a former employee - one has to assume - created a Twitter account in the name of LBi UK and started tweeting negatively about the agency.
     
    How did we guess it was a former employee? Well, for a [...]

  • A lovely litte social experiment

    Came across this delightful documentary/wireless intervention done by an RCA student here in London. This has put more of a smile on my face than the sun coming out today! Its fantastic to hear the diverse range of opinions, conversations, and thoughts (especially about network security) from these suddenly seen neighbours!
    Thankyou Anab Jain for keeping [...]

  • Friday fun #1

    Back in November and inspired by Chris T and Clara’s trip to Hyper Island we decided to change our creative team meetings. Instead of just showing off our work; finished and in-progress, we decided to begin with a 10 minute challenges.
    Inspired by the impressive show of facial hair for Movember we decided to get everyone [...]

  • More standing & springing

    Jack’s back. Following on from the ‘All work, no play‘ book mentioned a few weeks ago, here’s a film trailer for the Shining recast as a romantic comedy. Love it.

    If you like things a little darker, how about Mary Poppins recast as a thriller Scary Mary.

    In fact YouTube is full of these recut trailers. It’s [...]