Billboard

Not entirely sure what this ad is all about but it caught my eye over on The Guardian online '24 hours in pictures.' The ad is in Caracas, Venezuela. I believe Maggi are specialists in instant food and have probably paid the residents a tantalizing some of money for this 're-invention' of the billboard.

In An Absolut World

I've always been a fan of Absolut Vodka's advertising, from their surreal optical illusion press ads to their 'In An Absolut World' television ads. So it's nice to see some creative digital work put behind the brand. The work by Teenage Engineering asks "In an Absolut world, would machines be creative?".  

The site, decked out in a DOS-style interface then proceeds by linking you to a real-time webcam (one in NY, one in Stockholm) where two machines wait. One is an Absolut Quartet, the other an Absolut Choir.  Through the users input of text and clicking notes, the machines react and play music. I've never seen nothing quite like this online, and found the live interaction to have potential for future digital work.

Flash-bang in Your Face

A little bit of geeky news I came across earlier. Facebook has agreed to allow business and band to use and embed flash applications into their profile pages. This is interesting of course in terms of the advertising potential.

However, even though the move is currently only being implied to the business side of Facebook, some fans of the social networking site will be concerned the move will turn to personal pages, such is the case with Myspace. Allowing users to turn their pages into agonisingly slow to open, tacky carnivals of light and sound. Great.

A Blank Piece of Paper

Peter Callesen + Paper + Concentration x Patience = Really cool (painstaking art). I love these works by the danish artist, in the way that he uses singles sheets of paper to build 3d structures, especially the works that also utilize the negative space of the paper. Well worth checking out.

Ad Season

Caught a glimpse of the trailer the other night for BBC 4's new t.v series Mad Men and immediately hit the series link on the Sky +. The show, set in 1960's follows an ad agency on New York's Madison avenue, and is from writer Matthew Weiner of Sopranos fame, which is not a bad thing at all.  Also the channel is airing a few other ad based shows to promote the season such as 'Selling the 60's' and 'The Hard Sell'.

Welcome!

At last we have a blog!  Matt & Sarah that is. Two young creatives about to graduate from Bucks Uni, with the "light at the end of the tunnel" burning holes into their big innocent baby eyes. Having already experienced a little of the world of advertising and ideas, we have decided we would like to experience a little more!  So in return we have decided to create this blog to show the world what interests us and what is on our minds. Enjoy!