Just found this when I logged out of Hotmail. Great little flash game to coincide with the Barclays Water Slide adverts posted below.

So….you’re at work and your mate says, “Hey duuuuuuuude!  You like AC/DC don’t you?”

Of course you immediately respond with, “Right on duuuuuuuude.  They are truly righteous!  I heard their new video is out but due to ’The Man’ I can’t get on YouTube.”

To your amazement, you’re soon to be better friend replies with, “Worry not fellow righteous one.  For AC/DC may be old but they sure know their way around web 2.0 and office computer security. Check this mother out.” The friend sends you a link to this.

You start to get a cold sweat at the thought of something so “RIGHT ON!!” You download the Excel spreadsheet and then press play. It’s time to rock out in IT’s face!!!

This is a truly wonderful creation that manages to bypass all of those internet blocks so many people face in their place of work, enabling AC/DC to get their latest CD and video out to the masses in the most simplest viral form, an email and attachment. Top bombing I say.

The new TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in Printer is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK™ printer. The xiao™ is a first of its kind integrated digital camera and printer that allows consumers to capture, view, and immediately print their digital images without ink, anywhere. Photos can now be viewed and shared right away - anywhere and all from one device. The xiao™ produces borderless, full-color, 2×3″ prints in less than 60 seconds.

The xiao™ features a “retro” design and innovative built-in software to enable a variety of entertaining printing options from templates to borders. It also features an IrDA receiver so that you can print images sent to the xiao™ wirelessly from other IrDA devices.

The TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in ZINK Printer will be available in Japan on November 28, 2008.

tomy-xiao link

It’s here… we have launched it.

Keep an eye open for the new packaging launching, first in the UK in November, and then the rest of the 118 countries around the world soon after. McDonald’s serve 58 million people a day around the world, that’s alot of people enjoying McDonald’s food and hopefully the new packaging.

The new design engages in an honest conversation with consumers about the quality of McDonald’s food. We have created a global packaging design system that embraces a consistent framework but also allows for customisation to create local market relevance.

Its bold and simple design celebrates all that’s good about McDonald’s, whilst reassuring consumers about the origins of the food they are about to eat.

Quite simply it’s about brand storytelling that’s told through design.

Visit our site here.

Or send us an email, we would love to hear your thoughts.

Here’s the new Pepsi logo that was unveiled last week and I saw on PSFK. The new designs were based on the following thought process say PepsiCo; Diet Pepsi has a ’slight grin’, Pepsi has a ‘full smile’ and Pepsi Max expresses laughter.

Reaction in the office is not a good one and I totally agree. Pepsi have committed a cardinal sin in my book. Brands should by all means appeal to people’s emotions, but they should never tell you what emotions you should be feeling; it’s just rude in my book. Let me feel how I want when I drink Pepsi, whether it be happy or sad, I’m still using your product, so don’t force a smile on me.

Hers is a behind the scenes look at the making of the new Barclay’s water slide advert, filmed in Sao Paulo staring Robert Wilfort. Done by Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s. See a few posts down to see the advert.

Ok this is a month or two old, but I forgot to upload it. It’s another great advert (along with the barclays advert) from Hovis, the bread people. Cost a small fortune but looks awesome.

Our Chicago office has launched a new blog called In No Particular Order, showcasing innovations and technology. Go check it out.

innoparticularorder

Pick you colours and get flickr images that match you selection…

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How brilliant… I want to go home that way, beats sitting on the M6 / M5 everynight! Not sure who made it but its a great piece of work.

(Update… It’s done by Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s to promote Barclaycard’s contactless payment technology.)

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