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we love - Ditto.
Ditto has taken internet shopping to the next level with the ability to try before you buy! Have you ever shopped online and wondered what an item will look like on only to buy it, have it shipped and realise that it looks hideous? With Ditto these are problems of the past. Ditto is a video of your face taken from your webcam that lets you virtually try on glasses and sunglasses in 3D to see which pair looks best on you. It allows you to wear multiple styles, link to Facebook to ge...
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email marketing and images. see the big picture.
Over the last few years Social Media has evolved to be driven by imagery. If we look at Facebook’s Timeline and its acquisition of Instagram, or other examples such as Pinterest or even Google Plus posts, we can see that there has been a major shift towards visual communication. One of the most effective and cost-efficient solutions for lowering customer acquisition and retaining customer loyalty is email marketing. What's the best way to get that visual communication in this medium?
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we love - semi-permanent 2013.
Last Friday our team attended Semi-Permanent 2013. In it's 11th year Semi Permanent claims to 'be bringing a large dose of inspiration to these sunny shores!' We'd agree with that! Below is a quick taste of some of the highlights. The hours. A trio of three individual artists have come together to form a group which projects a wide range of art based creative exhibitions and ideas to the public. Marty, Numskull and Beastman wow and amaze with their fresh thinking and clever skills...
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Have you found your balance in the social media scene?
We are endlessly being told we must engage our brands in social media. Brands of all types and sizes are seizing the opportunity to be in the mix of conversations that are globally consuming us – and our time. We have the tools to communicate with audiences we once only dreamt of, in the simplest of ways, and via mediums that are preferential to each individual. Yet getting your brand involved in social media comes with many questions...
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we love - beertone.
Beertone is a pantone-style guide for true beer enthusiasts and colour lovers alike. Created by Alexander Michelbach and Daniel Eugster the guide references 202 Swiss beers, sorted from lightest to darkest. It captures everything you could ever want to know about the featured beer from alcohol volume to the colour information breakdowns (CMYK, RGB, SRM and HTML) and everything in between. To create the edition the duo travelled around Switzerland collecting their samples (can we app...
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We love – the 3rd dimension.
It is fascinating to think about the speed of the evolution of computers and the internet. Just a few decades ago computers were solitary creatures, not connected to each other, only able to communicate to the world through a rudimentary phosphor-monochrome monitor.
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we love - google glass.
Google has entered the realm of sci-fi with their new product 'Glass'. Project Glass is a wearable computer with head mounted display that lets you interact with what you are looking at in a hands-free format, controlled simply by your voice. Step into a world of augmented reality to take snaps or video of what you actually see, use google maps to get directions, access real time translator services and scroll through messages with your eyes. While the first versions of the glasses...
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we love - mod men.
The clever people at Shutterstock have come up with this quirky series of images comparing symbols from the TV show Mad Men to it's 21st century counterpart. Each image portrays to the left an iconic item from Mad Men, and on the right a match to it's modern day equivalent. The result is entertaining and an interesting reflection on the differences between now and then. Instead of lunchtime liquor we are opting for an organic smoothie, and the daily grind is made infinitely easier ...
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we love - playing with food.
Artist Hong Yi, nicknamed 'Red' is an artist who loves to play with her food. She creates inventive art pieces by slicing, dicing and arranging pieces of food on plates to make simplified artworks made entirely of edible ingredients. She has recently created a series entitled '31 days of creativity with food' where she has challenged herself to make a food-art scene every day with a white plate as her canvas. Some of her creations include rearranging the seeds of a dragon fruit to p...
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Retail Leaders Forum review - part 2.
My last blog listed my key takeaways from the Retail Leaders Forum. What I didn't touch on was the keynote speaker Sir Stuart Rose, former Marks and Spencer executive chairman and current Ocado chairman. An inspiring and insightful presentation Sir Stuart Rose said that sustainability is the next big topic for large retailers and if businesses fail to take notice they must prepare to fail.
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